The thing about Animals with a Cruella/Elphaba would be quite Once-ish. What if she slaughters human-animals for fashion, that is kind of up there with ultra-creepy-evil–and really the original Cruela did kind of, though the humans were not really aware the animals were THAT capable of complex thought. If it could bring back Ruby and Ariel as human-animal hybrids that they need to save from WWW–even better. I still want WWW to be annoyed bout the curse Regina cast, ready to seek revenge. As for relatives–I also want more of Charming’s family tree. James could have easily left behind a little daughter somewhere, because he did not seem a one woman guy (or more like one womn a night) in a land not stopped by time putting her at say mid 30′s (28 + few years before curse). .
Actually – I had another thought. Since WWW is a mirror of Regina, what if her mother was Cruella? That’s where she gets her fashion sense from. But when she found out where she was getting the material from she got so creeped out she went crazy and basically tried to undo everything her mother did, but since she was such a busy body she had her fingers in a lot of pies. She may well have had something to do with the Curse/Storybrooke(like some sort of really horrible animal blood magic).
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