Convinced that this means she needs to mend a tapestry she tore during the earlier fight with Elinor, Merida returns to the castle with her still ursine mother, only narrowly escaping a run-in with her bear-hating father through the assistance of Merida’s triplet brothers-also turned into bears by the curse.

Merida, horrified by her mother’s transformation and the role she played in it, seeks out the witch again, only to find the cryptic warning that “Fate be changed, look inside, mend the bond torn by pride,” but it will only work if the bond is healed by the second sunrise.

Merida runs away and meets a witch who grants her wish for independence by turning Merida’s mother into a bear. She, in turn, argues with Merida over her duty to wed for the good of her family. This rebellion angers the other lords who express their frustration to Elinor, Merida’s mother. When Merida’s father announces that she must marry the heir of one of his allies-with each eldest son competing for the honor-she rebels. All her life, Merida has been headstrong and independent, traits encouraged by her father and discouraged by her mother. Here are some of the things that happened in Brave that you may have forgotten about.In the Pixar film Brave, Merida is a Scottish princess who becomes involved in an intragroup conflict within her family. There's also a demon bear prince, but we'll get to that. Merida then runs into some complications after a spell she buys to change her fate backfires, and has to mend some family ties in the process. While this is happened, the princess' strained relationship with her mother Queen Elinor comes to a head. This attempt to defy a sexist tradition starts a major argument in the kingdom of DunBroch and threatens a war between clans.

What happened in Brave? If all you remember from the movie is an archery contest worthy of Katniss Everdeen and a lot of talk about 'fate' said in thick Scottish accents, let me remind you.īesides being Pixar's first princess movie, and first film with a female lead and a female director, the movie is about a young Scottish girl who bends the rules and 'shoots for her own hand' in order to avoid getting betrothed to a stranger. That's right, Merida from Brave is joining the show now in Season 5. Just when you thought Once Upon A Time was out of Disney princesses to introduce, they up and started pulling from Pixar.

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