de Vil, Cruella Betty

[Ella de Vil]

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Cruella Betty de Vil

* tell us a little about yourself.

Tell you about myself? Well, of course you'd want to know about me.

My name is Cruella, Ella for short, de Vil and I was born in Suffolk, England on the second of April, 1990. That would make me twenty years old. I lived there until I was thirteen, when my family decided in be in our best interest to move across the pond to North Carolina. In their best interest, maybe but hardly mine. We needn't dwell on that, however, so let us just move on, yes?

I am an only child, but that's never bothered me much. Just one less person to clutter up the house. After we moved, we downgraded on the housing situation. We went from a 8,000 square foot mansion to a 2,750 square foot house in middle of a street with houses on either side. I miss the seclusion, to be honest with you.

I wish I could tell you why my parents named me Cruella, but I haven't the faintest clue why they did so. I think it might have been because if you put our last name together, it spells devil. My parents would be the kind to play that sick of a joke, so that is most likely why and I hate my name. I go by Ella, simply because Cruella seems so very...cruel. I got my middle name, Betty, from my grandmother on my father's side. Never met the woman, but she died around the time I was born so it was in honor of her.

I wasn't the most well liked person during my schooling years, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I had friends. Backstabbing, talking behind your back, shallow friends but I wasn't exactly unlike them in too many ways, I suppose. I did to them what they did to me. It was only fitting, right? Back in Suffolk, I went to one of the best private schools in all of England but in Walten City? As far as I knew, there was no private school worth going to, so I attended a public school. There, it was such primitive learning, I could almost feel my IQ drop in classes.

After I graduated, I decided I'd attend fashion school. Fashion had always been something that interested me, but in the earlier years of my schooling, I didn't really get to pursue it because I was required to wear a school uniform. That was probably the one good thing about moving and going to public school: getting to wear what I wanted. I finally got to live in those alligator boots that I had always wanted and wear all the snake skin skirts my heart desired.

My stint at college was short lived. I dropped out after my first semester. It wasn't that I wasn't cut out to be doing the work there, I completely was, but I didn't have to. I had a trust fund, a house that was nearly vacant most of the year, minus me, what did I need college for? My life was already set without it!

Now, I just spend my time in Walten City, where my parents' house is, but never my parents, and just do what I want. As I said, I'm pretty much set with my life. I've got a sizable chunk of change in my bank account, and all the time in the world, life is pretty good as far as I'm concerned.

* what are some of your positive traits?

I don't mean to toot my own horn when I talk about myself, let me preface all I'm about to say by that.

Well, one good thing about me is I'm smart. I always did relatively well in school. Nothing that would earn me loads of awards or anything, but I never had to worry about failing out either. That's just not the only kind of smart I'm talking about, however. I'm resourceful, you see. You could stick me in a new place with a budget and a cell phone, and I'd be completely fine. Stick me in the woods with another person, and I'll have shelter, food and fire without lifting a single finger. Some could call it a smooth talker, but I just call it smart. All I had to do is outsmart another person, and I'm completely set.

Something else, you ask? I'm pretty good at lying. How is that a positive trait, might you ask? Well, let me tell you. Say you're getting accused of doing something that you actually did do, but you can't afford to get caught. If you're good at lying, you can talk your way out of it all. It might seem like a bit of an evil thing to you, but I think it's positive. It's come in handy for me quite a bit, which is why I consider it to be a positive. Not my problem if you don't. Who are you to judge me, anyway?

Lastly, I'm confident in myself and my decisions. So many people could be great. However, if they have no confidence, they won't get anywhere in their lives. I owe most of my success to my confidence. I know without it, I wouldn't have gotten into fashion school, been able to tell my parents, over the phone of course, that I had dropped out of fashion school or other things that you needn't worry your pretty little heads about.

* what are some things that you can improve on?

Negative traits, you say? Well, I personally think I don't have many, but there's a few things I've been told I need to work on by other people. Like what, you ask?

Well, I'm apparently a girl who's hot tempered. Seriously though, how is it my fault that I have to tell people what they're doing wrong when they didn't listen the first time? It's not my fault they screwed up, it's theirs for not listening to what it is I wanted in the first place! I shouldn't be held accountable for the yelling that I do simply because it wasn't my fault.

Now, I'll admit to this fault. I am rather manipulative. I guess that I don't have the best way to go about reaching my goals, but I reach them and that's all that really matters in the end. There's just so much work involved in getting what I can't just...buy, why should I have to do all of it? I mean, really, what difference does it make how it got there if I have it in the end?

I guess I can be kind of shallow. In this day and age, however, who isn't? I mean, look at the ads and tv and magazines....it's a shallow world, who am I to go against the grain? Plus, it's never hurt anyone to be particularly attractive. You'll go a lot further in life if you're attractive than if you're ugly. Who really wants to talk to an ugly person? I like nice things, shiny things, and big houses and expensive fur coats, but that's never been a real problem for me.

* what's your biggest secret? we won't tell.

It's no secret that I despise most animals, if not all of them, but when I was little, I had wanted a dalmatian. Ever since I could remember, I would sit around the tree on Christmas morning and hope my parents would be there and that there would be a little dalmatian with them. Every year, however all I ever got was a new nanny I could never really understand a single word she said and a new toy or six or a new electronic as I got older. Never once did I get what I wanted for Christmas.

These days, all I want is a dalmatian fur coat, spots and all. Why don't I own one if I want one, you ask? Better question yet, why is this a secret? Well, little do you know about dog fur, but the older the dog gets, the coarser their fur gets and I don't know about you, but I for one would not enjoy a coarse fur jacket. In most people's eyes, taking mink fur is one thing, but taking fur from a puppy is something unholy. Honestly, I don't see the difference and the whining about animal cruelty is rather annoying. Fur was fur wherever you got it from and all animals were good for was their skin and their meat.

* what does your heart want?

What does my heart want? Besides that coat? Well...let me think about that for a moment here. Well, probably someone that wouldn't mind me taking the lead on pretty much everything. I want...need to be the brains of the relationship, or else it's just not going to work out. Someone who thinks they can control me is a definite turn off. I don't need someone to buy me stuff, I can do that all by myself, thanks, but if they wanted to....that would be pretty swell. Someone who wouldn't get in my way, but would be willing to do the work I won't. Oh, and an insane amount of facial hair is a definite turn off. If I wanted to kiss a goat, I'd kiss the one mounted on my wall. Now, I doubt I'll ever find a guy like this, so I'm not going to hold my breath for one. I've got bigger fish to fry, anyway.

* what do you do in your spare time?

What I do in my spare time? Well, I shop of course! It might seem very stereotypical of me but it's what I do. There's no feeling like going into a store and finding something you know you'll look good in before you even try it on. Then, you try it on and it fits perfectly. Nothing like a new pair of leather pants and rabbit's fur vest and a turquoise tank top and a pair of snake skin boots to match to make a person feel good.

Call me what you want, but I like animal pelts as clothes. Doesn't matter what kind of animal it is or what type of clothing it is: If it looks good, I'll wear it. All elephants were really here for was so that humans could use their tusks and make my favorite ivory necklace.

And shopping doesn't even have to be in person! Oh, don't get me wrong, I love to shop online just as much as I love to shop in person. Sure, you don't get that trying on moment but you get the next best thing: the unpacking of the clothes. Getting to take the things I bought out of the plastic bag makes me a little tingly, I must admit.

* so what does your family life look like?

My family life? Heh, that insinuates I have a family. I have parents, yes. Out of my twenty years of being alive, however I've only seen them maybe...two years out of my life if you add all the time up together. As far as I remember, anyway. I'd like to think my parents spent all their time with me when I was a baby but there's no actual proof that they did. Then again, there is no proof that they didn't. Call it wishful thinking but I'd like to think they did spend the first couple years of my life with me.

As I got older, I started remembering the people I grew up around. They weren't my parents, who always seem to be jet-setting some place or another. Sometimes they'd be in the Bahamas, sometimes they'd be in Japan and sometimes they'd be in places that I had never heard of before in my life and had to look up. As long as I could remember, they would leave me with a nanny, but it was almost never the same one. None of them stayed very long and the more there seemed to be, the less words that they spoke I understood. It was like they were bringing these women back from the exotic places they traveled to as a present for me.

Eventually, I gave up on expecting my parents to be around. Every so often, I'd get a phone call from them, like on my birthday and Christmas and such, and we'd share an idle conversation before hanging up. Then, a couple weeks later, there would be a package on the doorstep to the house and inside would be something new for me, along with a note that almost seemed to be written by my mother, but I had a feeling it never was, explaining how sorry they couldn't be with me and hopefully I would like the present they got me and how they hope to see me soon.

I hardly call that a family, so I guess you could call me an orphan.

* what are the memorable moments in your life?

Memorable moments? Oooh, well, that's a tough one. I don't do much thinking about things that happened in the past, you know? Please excuse me if these seem lame to you.

Well, firstly, the day we moved across the pond. I was taken out of a home I was comfortable in, a country I was born in and shoved into a new place where I knew no one. I really knew nothing about the American culture and the house was smaller. For a while, I was in shock. I felt like a fish out of water! Slowly though, I became accustomed to this place and now I rather enjoy it here. There are times I consider going back to Suffolk, but I just don't have the drive to move. Walten City isn't all of that bad of a place.

Secondly, I'm going to have to say my sixteenth birthday. It might seem rather cliche to say my birthday but this was the first and only birthday, that I remember, that I spent with my parents. They took me to the Bahamas, I believe it was, and we spent time together at the beach and the fun little restaurants and shops. For a while there...we almost felt like a family. An honest to god family.

Lastly, I'm going to have to say the day I seriously considered a dalmatian coat for the first time. It set a spark within me, so to speak. It gave me something to work towards in my life. It made me want something I couldn't just go out and buy, wear it once or twice and then never wear it again. It gave me a goal, which I suppose would be a defining moment in my life.

* so we've heard that you're a lot like cruella

name: Well, her name in the movie and TV series (and the book!) was Cruella De Vil, and in the sequel, she went by Ella for a while. I got the middle name, Betty, from the woman who voiced her in the original movie.
play by: My play by has hair similiar to that of Cruella's. Also, she's more on the...not pale, but light skinned side and she has a more realistic version of Cruella's chin. She's average looking, minus the hair, at best, rather like Cruella herself.
positive traits: Well, Cruella is seemingly smart. Maybe not in the ways Ella makes herself out to be, but Cruella knows her fur, meaning she's knowledgeable about something. I'm simply giving the character a little more depth. As for the lying, it might not seem like a positive trait to you, but to a character such as Cruella who's the type of person who would see being a good liar as a negative trait. She seemingly thrives on getting what she wants, and it might take some lying to do so. And as for her confidence? Have you seen any version of this movie? Cruella de Vil just oozes confidence!
negative traits: Ella's hot headed-ness is something straight out of the movie. After the puppies were born, if you remember, Cruella comes over to buy them from Anita and Rodger, becomes rather frustrated with the pen easily and then leaves shouting when they don't accept her offer to buy the puppies from them. Her manipulative-ness comes from when in the movie, she pays Jasper and Horace to take the dogs. Technically, she's paying them to do so, which is bribery in a way, which is in turn, manipulative. Her shallowness comes from the fact that Cruella is seemingly very very rich and stereotypically, rich people are shallow.
orientation: Well, the movie doesn't really address the matter, as far as I'm aware, but I'm assuming she's straight. Also, I'm thinking she'd be rather picky about who she'd date or just so hard to deal with that she wouldn't really have anyone and make excuses as to why she doesn't.
turn ons: Just a guesstimate.
turn offs: Again, just a guesstimate!
spare time: Well, mostly in the live action movie, Cruella is a fashionista. She runs a couture fashion house, which would make her into fashion. She also focuses specifically on animal by-product clothing because in the movie, she wore a fur coat pretty much the whole time and she wanted a puppy fur coat. Since it's North Carolina, I don't think she'd be wearing a fur coat all the time.
family life: Well, this is actually based on the Cruella in the TV series. They gave the character a little more of a back story, family wise. It also, I think anyway, gave more of a reason why her hair is the way it is and why she hates animals/loves to wear them so much.
memorable moments: Well, the third moment gave a little light as to why Cruella was so set on getting a dalmatian coat (as did the dream), the second moment sort of explained why she's bitter seeming and the first moment is more of just character related than to movie/book/tv series Cruella.

this application was written by Em, who also plays no one.

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