My character Darlene is a blind labradoodle.She was “patient 205” in her mental asylum.She was not born blind.She had no parents as a puppy but she was taken in by a boxer named Alfred who was a “scientist”.However shortly after she was taken in by him,she realized that he was experimenting on young puppies for his deranged research.He would put certain puppies in an isolated environment just to watch how screwed up they would get after a long period of time.He would also do physical experiments, such as cutting body parts off of the young puppies and pouring harmful chemicals on them to see how their bodies would react.Alfred then made Darlene his assistant.However overtime Darlene realized the pain that the other puppies were in,so she would resort to comforting them.Alfred was bothered by this and punished her by tying her down and pouring a chemical into her eyes,blinding her.Darlene continued to assist him out of fear but her blindness slowed her down greatly.Two months after him blinding her,police dogs raided the laboratory that Alfred worked in.They arrested Alfred and saved the other puppies.Darlene was taken away as well but not for long before returning to Alfred..However she wasn’t about to try to bail him out of jail or something..She became very angry about him blinding her.Ever since she got into a shelter for orphaned youths she was constantly bumping into things.At this point she was an early teen so no one would adopt her anyway..So she decided to break out of the shelter and find Alfred.He was in a jail, still awaiting trial, not prison yet.She made her way inside and talked to the police dogs inside the jail,telling them she wanted to visit Alfred.They allowed her to do so.She was able to sneak a knife into the jail by taping it to her stomach and hiding it under her fur. ( Because the dogs are still not as advanced as humans , there are no metal detectors or things like that ) She made her way to Alfreds cell with the assistance of another police dog.The police dog left her and she went inside Alfreds cell.At this point Alfred seemed to feel intense remorse for the things he did,especially for what he did to Darlene.He bursted out crying and apologized to Darlene as he didn’t see the knife she was hiding under her fur.She started to paw at his face,feeling around for his eyes.Once she felt her paws on his eyes, she coldly stated “Apology NOT accepted”.She then took the knife and gouged his eyes out before he could even cry for help.His unintelligible screams are what alerted the guards and they found Darlene in a catatonic state,beside a dead Alfred,his eyes lying neatly beside his corpse.They took her to a mental institution as she truly needed to be in one much like Vlad and Luna. ( In comparison to Nashira who faked insanity to get by. ) Darlene got significantly better and met Vlad,who became a rather good friend of hers.She was also one of the dogs who tried to justify Nashira’s actions when she killed a dog who made a snarky remark to her in the asylum.After she is broken out of the asylum along with Vlad,she becomes incredibly loyal and grateful towards Nashira and the whole “Young Bloods” pack.Even though she knows of Nashira’s resentment because of her blindness, she continues to attempt to please her despite not wanting to kill any dogs for her.However her blindness is a huge disadvantage to her and is quite possibly her biggest weakness.It is made apparent that Nashira wants to actually just kill Darlene because of how useless she is to her, but Nashira states that Tommy has begged her not to.Darlene doesn’t appear to be fully aware of the fact that Nashira wants her dead though.However that is the reason Nashira didn’t kill her later on.Tommy basically saved her.She is very kind and rather wise about the world despite her rather young age.She hates any kind of violence and claims that she wouldn’t hurt a fly.Dogs often question her however about how she can’t be as kind as she says she is if she could kill Alfred and feel absolutely no remorse whatsoever.She almost always responds with saying that she was getting even but she over did it by accident.This is most likely a lie, as she must have intended to kill him when ripping out his eyes, as she was fully aware of blood loss related deaths even at that age.Even so, she is considered one of the kindest dogs associated with the Young Bloods as she refuses to kill any dogs and occasionally tries convincing Nashira not to kill certain dogs, but to no avail.She seems to have great concern for Tommy as she knows how impresionable he is because of his age.She also is well aware of Nashira’s manipulation of him but she knows how much Tommy cares about Nashira,so she often says nothing about it.Unfortunately her kindness and trusting personality seem to get the better of her from time to time.As she can be convinced by any lies that any body tells her.Usually when Vlad points this out to her, she will respond with “When you are blind, you don’t need to see, you just have to believe.”.She has great faith in god and believes that one day justice will take hold of the reborn world.She is quite optimistic despite the pessimists around her.Is her optimism in vain? ©