Scream street hyperfixation came back full force when I found out that the illustrations of the books changes with the language.. Like- LOOK AT THE JAPANESE VERSION!:
And then you got the French version:
So much emotion and detail! They low-key put the English illustrations to shame /hj
(I'm currently trying to think of how the fuck I can het my hands on these, because WOW 😭)
A lot of experimenting happened with this design. I was going for a very fanfictiony, future, older Cleo who's be kind of necromanced but still has magic mummy powers. The gold markings on her arm and leg are meant to resemble the lines of bandages, but then she also has bandages. Idk, I had a train of thought, where it went, idk. XD
I made the sketch of this awhile ago, so my art's improved a fair bit since then, but it was nice enough I thought I'd go ahead and finish it XD the fandom has so little as is is.
Even as a kid, I thought vampirism as depicted in the SS books doesn't make sense. Every creature, human or animal, living or undead bitten by a vampire turns into one. If vampires need blood regularly and have existed for centuries the entire world population would've turned into vampires, or they would need to kill every person they feed from which wouldn't be sustainable in the long run.
In the books, vampires that live in GHOUL communities have special pipes alongside water for blood but GHOUL hasn't always existed.
I suppose that hunting animals would solve the problem, but it never made sense to me that even zombies could turn into vampires since they're already undead and don't even have any blood to drink.
yeah, admittedly vampirisms being transmitted by just a bite was never my favorite trope. It can certainly make sense in some stories/plots, like when vampirism is treated like an illness. But when Vampires are treated as a species it doesn't make much sense in my opinion. Same logic with werewolves. The only story I've seen that treats werewolf's like a species, and still gets away with the bite thing, is Wolfwalkers. and that's because it does such a great job of showing that the lycanthropy of that film, is a gift to be bestowed, or a curse to enemies. So it works.
That all being said, I can also appreciate the silliness of vampirisms being transmitted to any creature via just a bite. In the case of the Scream Street books, it creates a situation that is just absurd. But, like, in an enjoyable way? Like it's over the top, camp, chaotic, ridiculous. It's like a tart cherry pie. Usually, I don't like cherry pie because it's so tart. But sometimes I crave a cherry pie specifically for the tartness. You get what I mean?
I guess if you wanted to have your cake and eat it to, one could theorize that such easy vampirism is specifically something of the Negative lineage. Maybe their bites transform others into vampiric minions, where as with most vampires that's not an issue. Maybe that's why their last name is "Negative" because their bites come with "negative" effects. Could even be a reason Resus's ancestor helped found Scream Street. He may have felt that doing such would keep their mutation from causing more harm. (could also be why he stays in a hibernation mode rather than enjoying his undead existence.)
Or, second theory, it could be that it's due to something that Ghoul did to the vampires in their facilities, like experimentation or adding something to the blood supply. They've certainly done far worse. Heck, maybe the thing about the supply coming from the drains of the world is a lie to began with. Making a supplement certainly sounds easier than a complex blood gathering system. After all, if the vampires thought that the blood supply was from a pipe system, when they'd be fully dependent on the Scream Street facilities. And we all know how much Ghoul loves anything that gives them more power over the cryptids. Furthermore, I'd make sense if they were particularly controlling of vampires, as vampires are a more threatening creature, they have a lot of powers. We don't see the Negatives have a lot of powers, but I'm willing to bet that's because they were raised in Scream Street. They've been denied a lot of things, and likely don't know the full extent of their powers.
Idk, just some theories that came to mind while thinking about all of this. (screw Ghoul, they are awful people) :D
Spooky season is here and so I’ve finally finished this!
This started with Resus and then I wanted to do Luke, and after that I couldn’t leave Cleo out! and then Luella was needed to balance things out.
I really like Scream Street but it’s so hard to find a place to watch it outside of the UK...
A version of this with my oc is up on my patreon for free too
Scream Street x Monster High crossover dream I had:
Ok so basically Clawdeen and Draculaura were in the Scream Street school, and were friends with Luke, Resus and Cleo. They were at school and then were heading home, however Luke's house is surrounded by the Creepy Creeper (s1,e10).
So the whole thing is a mess, the entire town is in danger, yada yada. They go to some town supervisor(? wich I think was the MH banshee teacher, and she's like "oh yeah, lemme notify that problem to get it fixed", but then the creepy creeper gets to her house too and traps her and Resus, while everyone else escapes.
Now I don't remember much after this, but basically to save everyone Draculaura has to kiss a girl (don't question it) she has a crush on. And it's recriprocrate and it was actually really cute omg.
Ok so, in this version of Scream Street, the mayor is not Otto, but some really tall lady (still a normie and still pretty much anti-monster). She has a daugther named Claudia, (wich I guess would be Dixon's replacement, tho she's fully human), who is rarely allowed to leave her house and must not make contact with the "freaks", however she is secretly (not really) in love with Draculaura. Basically Romeo and Juliet.
So, they go to her house, she's in her room on the second floor, looking outside the window and smiles when she sees Draculaura. Luke, Cleo and Clawdeen do something (?) to help her get out of her room and put her on ground level, so they can get together. It's all really fun and cute and akward and drac's like "oh... hehe look's like we gotta... uh... if that's okay with you of course" while claudia's all flustered and happy.
Anyways, while they're having this cute moment Resus and some other neighbours are probably dying, so they kiss and that makes the creepy creeper go away (guess it was homophobic, idk). They help Claudia get back to her room before the mayor discovers she's gone and then I woke up, crying because of how cute it all was.