Theory: Cruella is a Vampire

[SirMedraut]

Well, Dracula can actually walk in sunlight in Bram Stoker’s novel. No problem at all. It’s just that he’s powerless (or not as powerful, at least, it’s been awhile). Though it’s become an integral part of the modern mythos, it pretty much originates from the Nosferatu film in 1922 as far as I can tell. Any of literature’s oldest, classic vampires -Varney, Dracula, Carmilla? They all go out in the sun.

I never thought of Cruella as a vampire, but I like the idea and could be on board with it, I think.

[MatthewPaul]

I don’t want Cruella to be a werewolf because we already have a werewolf on the show and it wouldn’t make sense to have another werewolf on the show and not have some form of interaction between the two. Basically, the writers have dropped Red for whatever reason so they shouldn’t introduce someone who is basically an evil replacement Red.

Agreed, already been done. Plus, werewolves appear to strictly transform between humans and wolves. While with Cruella, we think she may be able to shapeshift into a dog. Vampires can actually shapeshift into multiple things in fiction, not just bats.

http://dracula.cc/vampires/

Shape-shifting – vampires have the ability to control several animals such as the wolf, the rat, the fox, the owl, the bat and the moth and they are also capable taking the form of a wolf or a bat and possibly any of the other animals subject to his command. Vampires can also transform themselves into a mist or dust cloud drifting in the air, they can modify their sizes in certain limits, becoming either larger or smaller, and they can climb walls (normally, like a large insect with his head toward the ground much like a spider).

And yeah, the whole death by sunlight thing isn’t something that all vampire lore sticks to, nor was it even around until the film Nosferatu used it. In fact, there are a bunch of ways of killing a vampire that aren’t always used.

[Slurpeez]

Agreed, already been done. Plus, werewolves appear to strictly transform between humans and wolves. While with Cruella, we think she may be able to shapeshift into a dog. Vampires can actually shapeshift into multiple things in fiction, not just bats.

Werewolf, shape-shifter, same difference. I didn’t mean that Cruella is a wolf the same way Ruby is. The point is, she is a human-animal hybrid, like a warg.

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