Quinn Morgendorffer

Quinn Morgendorffer is the tritagonist of the MTV animated series , a spin-off of .
She is the younger daughter of Jake and Helen Morgendorffer and the younger sister of Daria Morgendorffer. Quinn is the type of person you would get if you took a girl like Daria, shaved off a dozen or so I.Q. points, and gave her an obsession with fashion, boys, and popularity. She wraps up in one stuck-up, too-cute, pretty and self-absorbed package everything that Daria holds in disdain. She dates as many boys as she can, but, paradoxically, she seems to have a real fear of intimacy; she won't even let a boy slow-dance with her. That doesn't seem to affect her ability to get dates, however, as almost every guy she meets tends to fall all over her (with one notable exception).
There are moments in which Quinn reveals that she's not quite the airhead she appears to be, but for the most part, her intelligence is geared mainly towards what is most important to her: namely, being cute, beautiful and popular. However, by the start of her junior year, this began to change; after a summer of tutoring, she discovered that she actually has a functioning brain under all that makeup and bouncy hair, and has begun to use it... within limits, of course.
For years, Quinn was terminally embarrassed at having Daria -- a "brain" (ewww!) -- for a sister. She would tell everyone that she and Daria were cousins, distant relatives... anything but sisters. However, her tolerance and respect for Daria grew steadily over the years, particularly after her summer tutoring. This finally culminated in her public admission to her friends (in "Lucky Strike" (#506) of her true relationship to Daria . It was the most significant moment of personal growth Quinn had ever shown, but the ironic thing is, her friends had known all along that they were sisters; they were just being polite about it!
It is a safe bet that if Quinn ever discovered her true potential, her lethal combination of looks and brains would make her a very formidable person indeed!
== Physical appearance ==
Quinn is a Caucasian teenage girl of an average height (although she is slightly taller than Daria) and slender build. She has long ginger hair with bangs that falls to her lower back, and like with all Daria characters, her eyes are black dots. 
She most frequently wears a pink T-shirt with a smiley face design that has been cropped to reveal her navel, a pair of blue bellbottoms with a black belt and silver buckle, and tanish-brown shoes. Later on, she began wearing a long-sleeved pink shirt with a butterfly symbol that was also cropped to show off her navel and black loafers.
== Personality ==
Unlike Daria, Quinn values popularity and her appearance. Due to the fact that she is afraid that others may see her in a light similar to the one they see Daria in, she claims she is an only child and denies the fact that she and Daria are sisters, usually telling people that Daria is her cousin, a girl that happens to live with them, a foreign exchange student, etc. 
Quinn is very shallow and materialistic, and she offers her time spent with Daria as a service to her parents in exchange for money. She is also quite air-headed, because deep down she's afraid of being labeled as being "a brain." For these reasons, she gives little regard towards academic pursuits.
She is the vice president of the Fashion Club and is well-liked and popular among her peers.
Quinn has a highly manipulative and mercenary personality when it comes to boys; she dates them for a brief time period for material gain and then dumps them when a better one comes along. She also strings along Jeffy, Jamie, and Joey so she can use them or feel better about herself by manipulating them into fighting over her. She is manipulative, often wheedling cash out of her father, undermining Sandi during Fashion Club, and getting Daria in trouble.
Despite this, Quinn has low self-esteem, confessing to Daria in Monster that the only things she likes about herself are her physical appearance and her popularity, and that she focuses on these things because they're the only things that she's really good at; according to her "You have to be good at something". She starts off having mute academic ambitions but ends up valuing her intelligence and her family, even hiring David Sorenson to tutor her. She is also loyal and caring, at one point confronting her friend Lindy about her alcoholism. Quinn is a very social girl, who very quickly integrates herself into the Fashion Club on her first day of school. She is also sexually conservative, turning down older boy's advances and refusing to pose sexually with boys in This Year's Model.
Quinn begins to grow and mature in the last season. She becomes more sensible and slightly more caring to her older sister, especially after the events of Is It Fall Yet?, in which she fell in love with her tutor and learned that she doesn't have to act dumb and shallow to be popular. In the episode Lucky Strike, she even admitted to her class and to the Fashion Club that Daria is her sister and not "[her] cousin," as she had repeatedly stated throughout the show's history.
== Trivia ==
* In the development process for creating Daria, Quinn was originally going to be a little brother instead of a sister. 
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