Lauren Young

Lauren Young is the deceased mother of David Young.

Appearance
An exact description of her appearance has never been given.

Biography
Lauren's history is unknown, all that is known is that she fell in love with Edward Young at one point in her life and got married. Shortly after, the 2 had a kid together, David. When David was 6 years old, Lauren had been diagnosed with cancer, after fighting it for a year, Lauren eventually passed away from the cancer shortly after David's 7th birthday. 2 years later, Edward died in a car accident.

David remembered his parents as the years went on, becoming the vigilante, Red Ryder to fight crime and make his parents proud for doing something to help the city.

When David was investigating some strange things going on at Rollins Asylum, he was given a vision of his parents in body bags in a morgue, his mother said the words "Help us, Dave! Don't let us die!" before her body vanished.

Later on, David recieves another vision of his mother, after he was sent back to the hospital on the day she died, being forced to re-live the memory of her death.

In another vision, although Lauren isn't seen, she is mentioned, when Nightmare was giving an evaluation on David's mental state, Nightmare says David never got over his parent's deaths.

Trivia

 * She is based on the Batman character, Martha Wayne, the deceased mother of Bruce Wayne, aka Batman
 * She is the only deceased female in the Red Ryder universe to have been deceased before the events of the fic and also have her name revealed.
 * She is also the only female to be mentioned as deceased who wasn't murdered