Name: Darlene. Goes by 'Darla'; 'Darling' by her owners; 'Darls' by her 'crowd'.

Gender: female

Breed: 7/8 husky, 1/8 border collie

Parents: Chester and Holiday

Siblings: Charla and Pester(half)// Amelia, Angie, Roy, Fabio, Trezure, Edmund, and Sly

Personality: Dishonest and envious. Darla is one of those types who will worship you to your face and then spread lies behind your back. She does this because she is insecure about her looks and feels she needs to compete with her friends and family. She cools off after she moves and meets Quarter-Tone.

History:

...When Darla was a pup, everyone would say how lovely Holiday's and Chester's family was. They'd look at each beautiful pup, and then their eyes would land on her. The perturbed and repulsed faces became permanently seared inside Darla's memories. Because of this treatment she always received, a hole grew inside her that simply cannot be filled. She always wants more from everyone, always needing to have positive attention, even if it means making others look bad.

...As expected, a nice family who knew her mother's owner bought her. They dressed her up, pampering her and showering her with every indulgence. This did not heal Darla's emotional scars; it made them worse. Darls grew to hate her siblings and others who were happier than she, progressively starting to hang out with more of her father's older friends, a 'bad crowd'. It won't be long before someone uses her for the wrong reasons. All they need to do is pay her a little attention and Darla will be at their beck and call.

...A male, Nathan, who was too good for Darla, became the object of her affection. He snubbed her repeatedly, but Darla persisted until one day he snapped, breaking his gentleman's conduct. Growling, he told the 'little gutter trollop' to get lost, going on to drag her horrible, deceitful personality and obnoxious attitude through the mud. Darls was stunned. No one had ever called her out on her rude behavior and classless company. Leaving the reddish dog, she became haunted by his blunt words, but was mostly dwelling on the fact that he never once called her appearance ugly--just her personality and her lifestyle.

...She wouldn't speak to anyone for a long time. Darla had gotten the rudest awakening of her life.

...Darla's family moves to another town in Alaska, away from the gangs she hung out with and from her jealousy-inducing family. It is a smaller town and they are more willing to let Darls roam around freely. There she meets Quarter-Tone, an adorable, unassuming mail dog. Quarter-Tone falls for Darla, thinking her beautiful(he himself is a little chunky xD). Darla is flattered and soon is equally smitten. They mate, but are saddened that Darls doesn't become pregnant at first.



How they feel about Chester: Darls loved him the most initially, but as she started paying more attention to the dogs her father hung out with, they started to negatively influence her more and Darla started completely disregarding her father.

How they feel about Holiday: After Darls lost her admiration for Chester, she became more obsessive about her mother's beauty. Darla is intensely distraught that she did not inherit her mother's figure and thus she watches her mother longingly whenever she sees her around town.

How they feel about Sly: Darla likes to bully Sly, and she finds it amusing when he fights back and gets flustered(though she knows not to really push his limits...he can be nasty and unforgiving). The two often bicker, though Sly's really the only sibling Franny gets along with. Or at least, he's the only one she isn't jealous of, therefore making him her go-to sibling.

How they feel about Angie: Uh. In a nut-shell, extreme jealousy and dislike. Darls is sickeningly sweet to Angie's face, but behind her back she loathes her 'perfect' sister and all the attention she gets.

How they feel about Charla and Pester: While Darla always grew up with the two as siblings of sorts, it wasn't until she was older that she realized that they were merely the product of her father's promiscuity. Naturally, Darla now doesn't hold a lot of respect for her 'illegitimate' half-sisters despite having known them affectionately as a pup.

Darla thinks she could have some comradeship with Charla because of some of their similar petty tendencies, though there is still the underlying jealousy at Charla's dainty figure and popularity. Darla wishes she had such an admiring boyfriend(Murtagh) as Charla has, and can't understand why Charla has a lover even with all her bad traits, while she herself has literally no one.

Pester, on the other hand, is like dirt beneath Darla's paws. Darls never thought her to be pretty or worth much of a thought, and laughed and taunted Pester when she was used by her sled-team mate, saying that it was her 'own fault' for doing such a masculine job(sledding) and mixing too well with the males. After Pester was found to be having a relationship with another female, Darla completely shunned her, thinking Pester to be shamefully manly and disgusting.

Other:
Darla gets very uncomfortable around children. She thinks they're dirty.

Darla doesn't socialize a lot-- her owners mostly keep her indoors, and Darls is fine with that and usually doesn't attempt to escape.

She loves Titanium. She'd do anything for him, but he doesn't give her a sideways glance.

Darla is eventually sold when her family hits hard times and is auctioned off as a pet in a large city in southern Alaska. She wasn't sold, so she was given to dead-beat gamblers who used her for dog-baiting, where she meets her sad end.