Draculaura, the 1,600-year-old daughter of Dracula in the Monster High franchise, is a complex character with a unique lifestyle that deviates from traditional vampire lore. Her dietary choices and personality quirks make her a standout ghoul at Monster High.
Draculaura's Character Traits
Draculaura is described as bright, optimistic, and ambitious. She is currently dating Clawd Wolf, Clawdeen's older brother, and has a pet bat named Count Fabulous. Her favorite color is pink, which is reflected in her clothes and closet.
Physical Appearance
Draculaura has pale pink skin, pale purple eyes, and black hair with pink streaks. Her physical features, such as pointed ears and fangs, nod to her vampire heritage. She also has a small pink heart-shaped birthmark under her left eye. Her fashion motifs include vampire fangs, hearts, ribbons, bows, the color pink, and bat wings. In the cartoon series, Draculaura is notably shorter than her friends, even in heels.
Personality
Draculaura is sweet, energetic, friendly, sensitive, and easy to get along with, though she can be a bit childish. She is usually ecstatic and gets distracted easily, making her prone to accidents and mixed information, so she's usually portrayed as naïve. However, her happiness rarely fades. She is the most emotional of the girls and cries easily. She's also shown to be a bit of a flirt, having the most crushes out of the cast.
Draculaura's Unique Diet
One of Draculaura's most defining characteristics is her vegan diet. This is a significant departure from the traditional vampire stereotype of consuming blood.
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Veganism Explained
Draculaura's meaning of veganism is that she does not consume meat or blood. As mentioned in The Ghoul Next Door, she eats ice cream, indicating that she is not a strict vegan, as she consumes dairy products. In some adaptations of the franchise, her phrasing of not drinking blood or consuming meat is referred to as vegetarianism. Other vampires who follow a similar diet are called "vegetarian vampires" rather than "vegan vampires". Draculaura's diet consists of vegetables, ice cream, fruits, and a lot of iron supplements. She may be a lacto-vegetarian, as she appears to eat milk products but does not seem to eat eggs.
Origins of Her Dietary Choice
Draculaura's blood phobia stems from the fact that she was not originally a vampire. She was once human and got sick, after which her father transformed her into a vampire to become immortal. Her adoptive father, Dracula, is a very bloodthirsty vampire, which may have contributed to her vegetarian ways. Many times in the cartoon, it is brought up her hemophobia. She will faint when seeing meat in front of her.
Draculaura's Vegetable Garden
Being a vegan, Draculaura arranges her own food mostly from her vegetable garden.
Vampire Abilities and Characteristics
Draculaura holds the standard abilities and characteristics of a vampire, such as the inability to stand garlic or to have a reflection in the mirror, and the need to be invited into places before entering. However, she does not drink blood due to her vegan nature.
Bat Transformation
After finding the vampire ruler Elissabat, Draculaura acquired her vampire powers, including the ability to turn into a bat at will. This ability is gained when a vampire is old enough or when they perform an outrageously good deed, such as saving an important vampire lord from a sunburn, as seen in Frights, Camera, Action!. However, in Welcome to Monster High, she can turn into a bat at will but has difficulty controlling it to stay in bat form.
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Other Abilities
- Hanging from surfaces: Draculaura can hang from any ceiling, no matter the material.
- Echolocation: In Welcome to Monster High, Draculaura as a bat can emit a shockwave screech.
Relationships
Draculaura is best friends with Clawdeen Wolf, and the two have accepted Frankie Stein within their group. She is also friends with Lagoona Blue, Ghoulia Yelps, and Cleo de Nile. While living in Transylvania, Draculaura was good friends with Elissabat. She is also friends with Operetta and Spectra Vondergeist, along with Abbey Bominable and Clawdeen's sister Howleen.
Family
Draculaura's School's Out diary reveals that Draculaura is Dracula's adoptive daughter, not biological, and that he took in her and her mother "when no one else would". She also reveals that her father is not the Dracula who Bram Stoker wrote about. Draculaura was born in AD 412 as the daughter of a centurion, Gaius. After he was killed in battle, Draculaura and her mother were left homeless. After some time, the two made their way to the province of Dacia, which in modern days partially overlaps with Transylvania, where Draculaura's mother became a housekeeper of Dracula. She and her mother fell subject to a wasting disease (presumably tuberculosis) and her mother, Alina/Camilla, died because of it. Dracula turned Draculaura into a vampire before she could die too, beginning her life as an immortal. One way or another, Draculaura ended up being adopted by Dracula and eventually moved with him to the USA after being chased away by angry villagers.
Pet
Draculaura’s pet bat is named Count Fabulous. She likes to dress him up in pink, coordinated outfits. Draculaura only allows him to eat small insects and sometimes fruits, like bananas. She calls him her BFF (Bat Friend Forever).
Romance
Draculaura is a romantic-idealist who places a lot of value in finding the right one and maintaining a relationship that is “perfect”. Currently, she has found her perfect partner in Clawd Wolf, a kind, athletic, smart, and loyal werewolf who also happens to be her best friend’s brother.
Draculaura's Interests
Draculaura has a special liking for writing and storytelling and is talented in doing so. With this, she has decided to join various clubs, such as the school magazines and newspaper, and is a faithful reader of Spectra's Ghostly Gossip, due to her love for gossip talk.
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Draculaura in the Reboot
In the 2016 reboot, Draculaura and Frankie Stein are the new founding members of Monster High. The ghouls decide to expand Dracula's castle with dormitories and classrooms and then recruit monsters from around the world after Draculaura puts her vlog on the monster web.