Neither fat nor skinny, She's the horse's whinny

Once upon a time, there was a land where women were only good for their beauty and obedience, and the best a woman could hope to be was the wife of someone important. The women in one village did their best to focus on this, and not on the terrible war ravaging their land. One such girl was named Mulan, but because of her out-going spirit and creativity, matchmakers thought she was a failure of a female. She tried to keep a smile on, for the sake of her grandmother, mother, and father, who she loved very dearly. She wanted to keep her family's honor by marrying well. But one day, a messenger from the army arrived. He was there to take all the men in the village to the army, including Mulan's father... who was so old, and had a bad back! Surely he would be killed!