Darla O'Doherty

• Name: Darla O'Dorherty
• Age: 35, Dec 31st
• Position: Mother of Casey O'Doherty.

Appearance: Very frail, like a living Inferius, hair a muted brown like dead twigs. There are heavy bags under her eyes, her skin pallid. Like her son Casey she has a very weak immune system. While Casey is boosted by magical ability and wizarding medicine, Darla has not gotten this treatment. At the hands of neglect, Darla is nearly comatose and in high fever and delirium. She’s also as asthmatic, breathing weakly.

Short Bio: Darla was a young muggle woman. Once upon a time she was rather beautiful but frail like a flower, an asthmatic along with low constitution. Unable to afford going to university, she found herself distraught until charmed by a handsome if hard feeling man, Martin O’Doherty. He wooed her with his magical ability and after they eloped he revealed he was a wizard. With part of his fortune they lived for a time at a manor estate in Northern Ireland. Darla’s health declined when the couple conceived a child. She had a difficult pregnancy, nearly dying in childbirth. Afterwards she was bed ridden and has never regained her strength since then.

Given his sick wife on newborn, with his fortune running out, Martin appealed to his parents for help. They provided money and the youngest house elf for assistance but worked to pull the rug out from under him, forcing him back to the family home. Not wanting a scandal or revelation to muggles of the magical world the O’Doherty’s shut Darla up in an attic room and promptly forgot about her. Only the elves, when they had a free moment, cared for her. The irregularity of this care didn’t help her health. She lies near deaths door.

Darla was the only one unfazed by Casey’s condition and had the common sense to raise Casey as one gender and to stick to that. However, her opinion was soon overruled by the O’Doherty family.

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