Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-4821842-20150315181338/@comment-25602483-20150405203104

Explorer Rowan wrote: I can accept that Cruella is originally from Enchanted Forest, given her magical "persuasion" power, and in the OUAT multiverse, magic potential tends to be a thing people are born with. But I'm going to have a hard time with the story of "101 Dalmatians" happening in the EF. They make reference to her exploits in that story even before the mess with Maleficent's egg where she falls in the portal to the LWM. And her 20th century fashions and her giant, noisy car are integral to the "101 Dalmatians" story. While her fashions can be hand-waved, since Regina's fashions are similarly from many eras, the car showing up in EF would be a lot harder to explain, and replacing it with a horse-drawn carriage or something would just feel weird. My personal theory is that she was born in EF, ended up in LWM for some reason, had her "101 Dalmatians" adventure, and then came back to EF for similarly unknown reasons before all the QOD stuff happened. She wasn't able to come back to EF because she was in LWM. It was very clear in the "best laid plans" that they were suck into the vortex. I mean if Ursula, who has to ability to open portal couldn't even go back to EF, what makes u think that Cruella can. That is why she marries rich men in LWM so she doesn't have to worry about her life in LWM.