Cruella and the ink explosion

[Media Critic]

There’s been talk about the pointlessness of the ink exploding in Cruella’s face and the only result being her hair changed and she got weird eyebrows.

However, I think what the creators were trying to convey is that the ink AGED Cruella. She went from a spunky teen/20 something to an old hunched over crackly voiced hag (watch the scene again and listen to how her voice changes). This is important because it shows us that present-day Cruella doesn’t look that way due to age, but due to a specific event that sped up her aging.

Could this be an allusion to the 101 Dalmations film in which Cruella, while supposedly a former classmate of the much younger-looking Anita, comes across 3 times Anita’s age?

Could this also be a clue as to the power of the ink?

[RumplesGirl]

1. I would not call her hunched over in the present day.

2. She was a “spunky” 20 yr old because she was manipulating the author like sociopaths are wont to do. Also because she was actually 20 years old (and Victoria was trying her hardest to portray a 20 yr old sociopath being kept in an attic)

3. Her voice breaks into the “real” Cruella before the ink ever hits her. It’s at the dance hall. It’s supposed to your first clue that there’s something else going on with Cruella. For a second, the sociopath slips in.

If the ink matters anymore, it’s that Rumple and Team Villain will try to extract it to use it to force their happy endings somehow.

 

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[Media Critic]

I think you should watch the scene over again. As soon as the ink spills, her voice changes and it is nothing like the Dance hall voice. Also, if the dance hall voice was an allusion to her sociopathy, why didn’t she use the same voice during her evil, maniacle monologue right before the ink spilled and the author caught her sewing after killing her mother?

Nevertheless, it’s still true that the ink transformed her into the the present-day Cruella, even though this supposedly happened when she was a 20-something. Present day Cruella is definitely not a 20-something, but is definitely the same as the transformed Cruella.

[Media Critic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMYiKWHyFlI

[PriceofMagic]

There is a change in voice.

Perhaps, because in stories, events and characters are often exaggerated to make them more exciting (something which ties to how the author manipulated Snowing and the egg events to make the story more interesting), the ink caused certain qualities in Cruella to become more exaggerated?

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[obisgirl]

I like that theory, Price.

[Media Critic]

How does that explain her lack of aging between then and present day?

[PriceofMagic]

We don’t know how long passed between the 1920s events and the EF stuff. Cruella wouldn’t look dramatically different if it was only a couple of years. Cruella said herself that the dragon egg magic kept her and Ursula young.

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Keeper of Felix

[Media Critic]

That would mean the EF Cruella was in or near her 20s. That isn’t right.

[PriceofMagic]

Where are you getting the 20s age from?

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Keeper of Felix

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