ELLA DAREN
| Mother to Katie and Josh Daren | Vampire | 55 (36) | Rachel Weisz |
| strong | protective | true |
Ella was born in 1961, 3 years after her brother, Ryan. she is from the Daren line of witches, obviously when she was made a vampire, she lost her witch powers.
The Daren's are a family of witches and hunters which have been around for a very long time. Katie and her brother Josh, MacKenzie's father, are Scottish and moved between Scotland and America over the last few years.
Essentially Ella is from a long line of hunter brothers and witch sisters. The girls in the family gain the memories of their previous life's to help them with the current one. Josh and Katie lost their parents early and were raised by their Uncle Ryan and gran. I put a little about the history in Katie's profile and Josh's.
The way the Daren line works is that in every generation there is one boy followed by one girl born to the female of the generation. HOWEVER this set of Daren siblings is different, Josh had a daughter, MacKenzie. This has only happened once before, to the first siblings of the Daren line, Clara and Hugh. Clara, witch who is a past life of Katie's and the most powerful of their line, cared for her brother's daughter whilst he was off protecting the world of the supernatural... just like Katie is guardian of MacKenzie.
Ella's history up to returning is pretty open accept for these KEY moments in her life:
- Was born in Glasgow, Scotland
- Grew up with Ryan and her mum, Isabella, in Mystic Falls before moving at 13 to Scotland.
- At 16 she received her past memories. She was Emma Daren (1758-1790) and Anna Daren (1818-1894) - She still has the memories even though she is a vampire, they are part of her.
- At 18 left to travel the world.
- In 1975 her gran, Kathryn, was ill (she died in 1980) and she moved to Scotland along with her brother to research the family history there.
- Moved back to Mystic Falls where she met George Walker, the love of her life and they had two children, Josh (in 1981) and Katie (in 1984).
- George died in 1983/4 before Katie was born. She isn't 100% sure if George or a one night stand is Katie's father, she believes in her heart that George is her dad though.
- Moved Josh and Katie to Glasgow after Katie turned about 3.
- She worked in a museum and would travel with Ryan on a case if needed.
- In 1997, she went on a case with her brother, they found vampires and were attacked. Ryan believes his sister died in this terrible case, however she was made into a vampire.
Ella, during her time watching over her children as a vampire, met another vampire who became a 'friend' to her. This friend was Isobel, Alaric Saltzman's ex wife. After finding out about him, the women found out that he was searching for something about Isobel. The two vampires decided to play matchmaker and arranged Ric to follow a lead given to him by Ella to the bar Katie went to.
After this it's up to you what Ella did. Please remember she'd have always kept tabs on her children, but she didn't want them to see her as the monster she felt like. I see her being able to control herself and blood lust well, feel free to plot the control out. She found Nikki, Mac's mum, and sent her a trinket which broke the spell Nikki was under.
she returned to mystic falls soon after Nikki's return and it wasn't easy. Both kids and her brother took a while to forgive her for leaving them. She was a big help to Katie when Ric died briefly. And now she is promised to be part of their lives once more as their vampire mother.