Daryl Cavendish (ダリル・キャベンディッシュ Dariru Kyabendisshu) is a character in Little Witch Academia. She is a witch from the House of Cavendish and the aunt of Diana.
Appearance
Daryl is an elegant middle-aged woman with fair complexion. Like her sister, niece and daughters, she has blue eyes and blond hair with tea-green highlights that she collects in a ponytail. She usually wears a green suit over a white shirt, a yellow tie, and a blue skirt that covers his feet. In formal situations, wear an elegant aquamarine dress, a scarf with black feathers, a necklace and long white gloves.
Personality
Daryl is an ambitious and greedy woman. Unlike the rest of her family, she feels very little respect for the traditions, giving importance solely to money, being able to shed the fiery magic relics of her family. By belonging to a prestigious family, she treats people of great repute with great respect and manners while despising ordinary people.
Daryl's opinion on tradition and history of House of Cavendish was very low, and she revealed to be more indifferent and sinister than she lets on, a trait which slipped when attempted to sell House of Cavendish's most valuable treasures. Daryl's greed made her see her family's tradition and history not as actual things to cherish, but rather as trash and useless. She is metaphorically blind to how important her family's legacy is, has no remorse in desecrating the said legacy, and outright antagonizes anyone that questions and opposes her (like Akko and her niece Diana). When Diana called her out for her sacrilege against her family's history and traditions and vows to become a better head of House of Cavendish, she had no restraint in using her magic to deter her niece and anyone who help her, even if it also endangered their lives in process.
After she and her daughters' were defeated and nearly cursed for the attempted murder and interference the ritual, Daryl realized how wrong she was and accepted Diana's wish to become better head of House of Cavendish.
Plot
Background
Daryl was born as the youngest daughter of the House of Cavendish, being her older sister, Bernadette, the heiress of the family. At some point, she had her two daughters, Maril and Merrill. Daryl was never at all in agreement with the actions of her sister as head of the family, considering that she placed too much importance on traditions and magic. When her sister passed away, being her niece Diana too young to inherit the leadership of the family, Daryl became the unofficial leader of the House of Cavendish. During this time, Daryl was forced to face the decline of family resources due to the increasing disappearance of magic in the world, which led her to fulfill her ideals of putting money over family traditions.
TV Series
Cavendish
Daryl appears for the first time when Diana returns to the Cavendish Manor, receiving her worried by a sudden new presence in the manor. After a cold chat with her, Daryl vanishes in the shadows.
Later, Daryl receives with his daughters to Paul and Andrew Handbridge that had invited to the manor. When seeing Akko with them and then discovering that she does not come from a family of witches, Daryl is indignant at this and demands to leave but Diana demands that they let him stay. During dinner, Daryl reveals that the reason for inviting the Hanbridge was to sell them some of the family heirlooms, including a magic chess set, a mermaid flake candle and the Beatrix tapestry. When they reject them, Daryl tries to make them change their minds, unleashing a discussion with Diana, leading her to reveal that she would become the head of the House of Cavendish that very night.
Intelligence and Sensibility
When Diana heads to the sanctuary to perform the ritual to become the new leader of the family, Daryl sends her snakes to catch her to prevent him from carrying it out. After this she meets with her daughters, informing them of the success of her plan. After Akko releases Diana, Daryl and her daughters try to stop them from reaching the sanctuary, only to fall victim to the curse that protects the ritual, slowly being turned into trees. Diana finally decides to save them, at the cost of losing the opportunity to perform the ritual. When Diana returns to Luna Nova, Daryl expresses to Anna the similarity between Diana and her mother, stating that Diana could re-establish the glory of the House of Cavendish.
Tree of Leaves
Daryl is seen next to the rest of the House of Cavendish, giving their Fuel Spirit to Akko and Diana during its battle against the missile.
Relationships
Diana Cavendish
Daryl and Diana share a cold and distant relationship. Daryl disputed that Diana is the future leader of the family, at the same time Diana reprimand that Daryl does not respect the traditions and pride of the Cavendish. Their relationship eventually become tense as Daryl revealed how cruel she can be to her.
Maril and Merrill Cavendish
Daryl has a close relationship with her daughters. Both of them are always with her and support her in everything.
Akko Kagari
Daryl shows a great disdain for Akko to be a student of Luna Nova without belonging to a family of witches, affirming that the school must be losing his reputation by allowing such thing. Upon seeing Akko aiding Diana's escape, she takes no restrain from harming them.
Abilities and Equipment
By belonging to the renowned House of Cavendish, Daryl proves to be a skilled witch. Most of her spells are related to snakes. She is able to manipulate her huge venomous snakes familiars to strike and retain her enemies and she can also conjure large energy snakes with her wand. She also shows the ability to teleport by fusing and moving through the shadows.
Etymology
- Daryl is an English name, a variant spelling of Darell,[3] a given name derived from an English surname, which was derived from Norman-French d'Airelle, originally denoting one who came from Airelle in France. There are no longer any towns in France called Airelle, but airelle is the French word for huckleberry.[4]
- The meaning of the name "Cavendish" is "Cafna's pasture", derived from the Old English pre 7th Century personal name "Cafna", itself from "Caf", meaning "bold, daring", plus "edisc", meaning "enclosure or pasture".[5]
Trivia
- Both Daryl and her daughters have names ended with リル (riru) in Japanese.
Gallery
- For more images related to Daryl Cavendish, see the file category: Category:Images of Daryl Cavendish.
