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"Silverbullet"

## Gameplay Information

The **"Silverbullet"** is a Backup introduced in the 11.2.0 update.

## Appearance

It is a 1970s-themed semi-automatic pistol with the wooden hand grip, as well as a brushed steel outlook.

## Strategy

It deals strong damage, and has a good fire rate, mobility but suffers from low capacity.

### Tips

* Aim at the head to maximize its damage.
* Use this in close-medium range as this has no scope.
* Do not continuously fire as this has a painfully-low capacity, amounting to 7 rounds on use.
* Take advantage of its strong mobility.
* Use this weapon as your last resort if your other ranged weapons are out of ammo.
* It js best paired with a Primary weapon in case your enemy is weakened.
* Use this to weaken armored targets.
* Use the high mobility as your advantage.

### Counters

* Pick off its users from long ranges.
* Use an area damage weapon to easily dish out its users.
* Any Primary weapons can easily finish its users
* Avoid being in the narrow hallways as this weapon is good in close-medium range.
* Jump around to waste the user's ammo.
* Shotguns can beat its users in close range.

## Trivia

* It is based on the AutoMag 44 semi-automatic pistol.
* The word *silverbullet* with spaces between the letters "R" and "B" means something that solves the long-standing problem.
* Its valentines-themed clone was introduced in the 2018 Valentines update.
Alchemical Transformer

The **Alchemical Transformer** is a Craft item introduced in the 16.2.0 update.

## Appearance

It appears to be a magic-themed current transformer with a purple witch hat superimposed onto one of the faces of the transformer, as well as multiple wires connected from above. That witch hat has an electricity sign in it, as well as the electrical sparks surrounding it.

## Function

Converts incoming debuff stats into buff stats by up to 50% chance. For example:

* Burning,  Bleeding,  Poison becomes  Healing.
* More Damage To The Cursed becomes  Armor Bonus.
* Charm,  Weakening becomes  Damage Boost.
* Electric Shock will instead increases your control sensitivity.
Claude

**Claude** is a scout for Amazon Modeling Agency. Along with Romonica DeGregory, he manipulates everyone by praising their beauty and chances of being a model, even - *especially* - if it's a fib to steer them. He could shrug off Jane Lane drawing him as a vulture but not Daria explicitly insulting him.
It's Claude who focuses the most on the girl's hips and breasts when deciding who should be in (Brittany is much too round for him), and him who decided to have the girls in the modeling class start caressing boys' chests. Eeesh.
Once Kevin was signed to Amazon, Claude became verbally abusive of him.
Claude was voiced by Steven Huppert, who also voiced Joey.
Abruptly Amy: A New Beginning

**Abruptly Amy: A New Beginning** is a fanfic by Kara Wild, written in spring of 2000.

## Summary

The "pilot" episode for the Abruptly Amy series, it tells of how Special Agent Amy Barksdale gets in trouble with the mob and has to go into hiding. She goes home to her mother and resentful sister to help run the family bakery... but trouble soon follows.

## History

Kara Wild felt burnt out writing the Driven Wild Universe series and was itching to write something fun and different. Having wanted to skewer the "Saint Amy" image for a long time, and having been inspired by the Adelman brothers' Daria the Movie, Wild decided to write a spinoff show starring Daria's aunt Amy. The twist was that it wasn't a good spinoff, but a *failed* spinoff, falling prey to every bad television cliche.

Wild wrote the pilot episode, then the "making of" special, In Search of Amy. She also asked a wide variety of fan artists to contribute "screen captures" (including Milo Minderbinder, who would later become a prominent participant in the series), and Mike Quinn to write a Delayed Reaction Review as though he had seen the episode live. This was all eventually cobbled together into a "package" known as *Abruptly Amy (the Spinoff That Never Was)*, which premiered a little over a year after Rose-Colored Lenses.
Dr. Mike

*Daria* fanfic author, no longer active in the fandom. He created The Daria-Jane Conspiracy supersite.

## Biographical Information

Dr. Mike currently resides in Charlotte, NC. He holds a number of advanced degrees in technical fields but is very annoyed that he has never been in a position to actually use them. He currently is a minority owner of a private internet hosting and consulting firm while finds the time to work with a number of local churches and organizations that support the local area homeless. He is a multiple cancer, heart attack and stroke survivor.

## Fanon and Fan Culture Contributions

Dr. Mike was the creator and webhost of The Daria-Jane Conspiracy, a supersite that contained a large collection of fan works, both written and visual.

Dr. Mike also created the character, Quinnette, within his works. She is described as having the body and hair of Quinn, Jane's face, and Daria's glasses. She's normally dressed in a tan t-shirt with a picture of Albert Einstein on the front and camouflage cargo pants. She made her first appearance in Dr. Mike's work, Third Time's the Charm, with a follow up in Cynix Hood.

## Bibliography of Major Works

* Crash on Volturnus
* Cynix Hood
* Daria Gets a Cat
* Daria Saves Christmas
* Daria's New Car
* Double-O Sixty-Nine
* An Early Morning Reading
* For Roger
* Helen's Rage
* In the Parking Lot
* In the Trunk
* Jane Lane Does the Kobayashi Maru from Star Trek
* The Jungle
* Late Night Nightmare
* One Night in Bangkok
* Pairings
* Some Night Time Visitors
* Third Time's the Charm
* Two Hours Early
* Your Honor

## Daria Fanworks Awards

1st Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favourite Movie Rip Off Work (tie) for *Cynic Hood*

## The CRAPPIES Awards

1st CRAPPIES Awards

* The Ultimate in CRAPPIE Crap/ Fanfic Most Likely to Make You Run Off Screaming Into the Night for *Daria's New Car*

## External Links

* Dr. Mike's Steak Dinner His blog (via Wayback Machine)
Glitter Berries

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A major *Daria* fansite run by Kemical Reaxion ("Kem"). It is no longer updated as of 2007 (see Great Daria Fandom Implosion of 2007). Glitter Berries was long noted for its extensive files of fan-created artwork and intriguing layout, both a result of Kem's being an artist in her own right.

## History

Glitter Berries was founded in late 1999 or early 2000 by Kemical Reaxion. The name of the website was chosen from a self-compiled list of quirky phrases from "Daria" episodes (one of the losers on that list: Flavendar 5). It started out small, hosting a handful of stories and artwork, and featured character descriptions and a collection of episode summaries. Eventually, the site grew beyond the bounds of its free hosting space. The site was moved around several times before finding its current home. Over the years, Glitter Berries has gone through many incarnations and has seen the addition of quotes, polls, and contests. In March 2007, Kem announced that, for personal reasons, she would no longer make updates to the site. In October 2007, a final update was made and the site was moved to a free hosting site. This was the last update, however, that involved submitted work; in 2013, Kem added artwork from the closing Outpost Daria to the site.

Among its collection of unique material it hosted screen captures and text from the *Daria's Inferno* computer game, the text of the hosts' comments for the "Sarcastathon 3000" show from MTV (a *Daria* retrospective), a ten-part collection of "Scenes No Daria Fanfic Should Ever Have," and Mike Xeno's enormous Daria Character Database, with descriptions of over 400 major and minor characters from the show.
Angier Sloane

**Angier Sloane** is the husband of Kay Sloane and father of Tom and Elsie Sloane.

He's a partner in the financial firm Grace, Sloane and Page. We know he's old money.

As with most of his family, he's an alumni of Bromwell. He first met Kay at a free concert held at Bromwell by the Carpenters, when he was a senior and she was a sophmore. He played on the lawn tennis team with Bill Woods.

His relationship with his son is undeveloped, though we do know he had Tom's old Ford Pinto towed away in the middle of the night and gave him a second-hand Jaguar instead, and that Tom doesn't tell his parents about any girl he dates. Kay once said both Angier and Tom are "stuck in their ways" when it came to (not) buying new clothes.

Angier was the first one to address a friendly question to Daria when they first met. He was initially left confused and worried by Daria's sense of humour, before he worked out the girl was joking; Tom, however, says his dad thinks well of Daria.

## In fanfiction

MMan's "Anywhere But Here" and the later fic "How It Might've Turned Out by Bacner both have Angier's grandfather, Nathaniel Sloane, as the one who created Lawndale by selling off the land in 1950 that helped merge two towns into one.

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Dariaâ€™s Inferno: A Not-So-Divine Comedy

*For the computer game called* Daria's Inferno, *go here.*

A story by Kristen Bealer that is a comedic crossover with Dante's *Inferno*.

Winner of "Favorite Comedy" and "Favorite Supernatural or Fantasy Non-Horror" story in the 4th Daria Fanworks Awards

## External Links

"Daria's Inferno: A Not-So-Divine Comedy" at Outpost Daria
Coach Buzzcut

**Coach Buzzcut** is the physical education teacher and sports coach (and in some episodes teaching Maths) at Highland High, where Daria attended ninth grade with Beavis and Butt-head in the TV series *Beavis and Butt-head*. He was voiced by Mike Judge. In the Beavis and Butt-head book *This Book Sucks*, his name is given as **Bradley Buzzcut**.

He was a VERY LOUD, overbearing, drill sergeant type. He used to be a US Marine during the Vietnam War and believes the war was lost because of the hippies at home. Sport and physical ability is taken *very* seriously by him, and he was driven to anger when two football players wanted to put *learning* above playing football ("Go Highland"). (He does not seem to value academic achievement at all: in non-Daria ep *Young, Gifted and Crude*, Buzzcut incites the class to beat up a student from the gifted class!)

In the episode "No Laughing", Buzzcut was in charge of sex education for Daria's class. His only significant interactions with Daria from his POV was "Water Safety", where he handed her his clipboard and whistle so he could save Beavis and Butt-head from drowning, and the not-quite-canon strip "Science X-Periments" where she helped him get Beavis & Butt-head to hurt themselves.

Among the rest of the faculty, his only significant interactions are with Principal McVicker and Mr. Van Driessen. He's an ally of McVicker and has assisted him against Beavis and Butt-head, and in "Wet Behind the Rears" the two collaborated to humiliate the buttmunches in front of everyone. Van Driessen and Buzzcut don't get on at all due to their different temperaments and views, though they rarely get explicit about this.

Buzzcut is constantly running afoul of the demented duo of B&B, and *every* attempt to get them to do anything useful in class - "Field Day", "Go Highland" - has been a horrific disaster. In "Water Safety", they almost died in his swimming class, forcing him to save them (or he'd lose his job). He has grown supremely enraged by the idea of putting up with them: in "Sporting Goods", he deliberately has them play volleyball so he has an excuse to hurt them with a ball; "Wet Behind the Rears" sees him deliberately targeting them; and in "Beavis and Butt-head are Dead" he says it took every inch of his self control not to *kill* them.
Apartment Life

**Apartment Life** is an Iron Chef started by atiyatorilla on Lawndale-High. The prompt was simple: some of the *Daria* characters are living in the same apartment complex.

Stories so far include:

* an untitled story by WellTemperedClavier, where Quinn Morgendorffer and Stacy Rowe are living in the same complex and Stacy is becoming too reliant on Quinn
Brett

**Brett** makes his only appearance in "Daria Dance Party". He and his brother Brad goes to Cumberland High but attend the Lawndale High dance portrayed in the episode, where they try to woo Daria and Jane. They have some success until they reveal themselves as Upchuck's cousins. Brett was less visibly bothered the girls fled.

(This makes Brad and Brett highly significant: the first and really only time that Daria and a guy show mutual interest with no problems!)

They seem close to their cousin "Chuck", turning up to see his DJ act & hang out with him afterwards - Brett even does the same 'feisty' growl Chuck does. They also knew who Daria meant when she called him "Upchuck" and showed no reaction to it.

## In Fanfiction

* Darkness, by TAG - Brad and his brother have a small but important appearance
* In Daria's Life's Lottery, you have a choice between turning Brett down or keep talking to him.
Backgrounders

**Backgrounders** is a now-defunct website by The Angst Guy and UU, dedicated to identifying and tracking the backgrounder characters that populate the show.

By identifying and naming the nameless hordes, Backgrounders had a big impact on fanfiction in the 00s and especially the early 2010s: mostly original characters could be made out of recognisable figures, such as Cindy.
Anne Morgendorffer-Lane

*"Ma, Beatrice puked in the siiiiink..."*

Daughter of Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane (or their parallel universe analogs) in several works by Ranchoth.

Annie first appeared (as Annie Lane) in *A Desperately Needed Happy Ending to "Darius,"* an unofficial epilogue to The Angst Guy's Darius. She later appears—in visual form, albeit unnamed—in an April Fools video in 2006, and in a flashback in Inauguration.

Annie is the younger of two sisters. Known to be a fan of TV science documentaries, and the cartoon series Happy Tree Friends. She has red hair, cut in a "Pageboy."

## Behind the Scenes

The two Daria-Jane kids were originally created as part of a backstory for a semi-defunct fanfic project, and were subsequently reused by the author in other, unrelated works—for the sake of convenience, and as an in-joke. Annie's name was, originally "Gally" (short for "Galatea." Which, in the context of the original story, was not especially unusual). She was renamed after one of Daria's fanon middle names, "Anne."
Dr. Danada

**Dr. J.L. Danada** is an interview coach that lives in Lawndale. He has his only appearance in the episode Prize Fighters.

Dr. Danada helps prepare Daria for her interview for the Wizard Scholarship. It is also possible that he has has helped Jodie for the same interview. He has a Ph.D. (as stated on his office door), but what it is for is unknown.

Daria is initially reluctant about using him, considering it cheating, but eventually goes along. He bombards her with buzzwords about promoting herself - "you need to project 'winner' the moment you walk in the door" - before noticing she seems ambivalent about going for the scholarship interview at all. When she raises an ethical question about the prize, Danada stares for a second and then moves onto what she should wear. Later, Daria kicks herself for going to him after all her previous claims of integrity.

As "da nada" is Spanish for "it was nothing", his name is basically "Doctor of Nothing".
Bobby Stuart

**Bobby Stuart** was the bellboy at Le Grand Hotel in "Fire!", who became fixated on Quinn and promised that he could get her anything as his uncle owned the hotel. This escalated to getting her the Presidential Suite, which the Morgendorffer's insurance wouldn't cover, claiming he'd fixed it with his uncle, and asking her out to dates at C'est La Veal.

His constant favours and attention caused a jealous Sandi to convince Quinn he was a stalker. Surprisingly, he really *was*: the police investigated and informed Quinn that Bobby Stuart had no uncle: he'd been billing the Morgendorffers for everything, then hacked into the hotel's computer to delete the charges. A horrified Quinn focused on the important thing: You mean... I... almost... went out with... *a computer geek?!*"

In "Love is a Way Too Many Splendored Thing", Quinn warned us: "Just goes to show, beware of geeks bearing gifts."

## In fanfiction

* 86 Bottles of Beer:Hacking into the Antisocial Network by Kristen Bealer, where he's part of a Get Smart/Daria crossover
* A Crack Pairing Madness Iron Chef by Hyrin
* The Quiet Ones by Smileyfax, where he runs afoul of a serial killer Daria
From the Futon

**From the Futon** is probably a song by Mystik Spiral. Trent's handwritten lyrics are seen in The Daria Diaries, and Jesse has added: "Trent - you're a genius! Can I sing it?" Nothing more is known about the song, but if Jesse liked it, it probably ended up on the set list, since Max and Nick wouldn't have the power to veto it.

## Lyrics

there's no place to hide things
under the bed
and nowhere to hide from what's true
down here by the floor
my soul calls out "more"
but knows that its cry won't get through
from the futon
from the futon
everything, always so low
from the futon
from the futon
i'm in limbo
how low can i go?
i don't have a headboard
or boxspring of wire
my spirit's hit low altitude
the mattress is thin
it's itching my skin
and that isn't helping my mood
from the futon
from the futon
everything, always so low
from the futon
from the futon
i'm in limbo
how low can i go?
Greystar

**Greystar** is a fanfiction author.

S.S. Pequod

## Bibliography of Major Works

* The Longest Year
* Daria 3059
* Daria AE
* Something Didn't Happen
* Daria, We Have to Talk...
* The Mud Racer Challenge
* Paying For It
* Save the Nauga's Hide
* The Signup
* The Tattoo
* That Was the Weekend That Wasn't
* Trent, The Brain
* Experimentation OR: What Happened After Tom and Daria Went Upstairs

## Daria Fanworks Awards

3rd Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favourite Character Development/Redevelopment/Growth for *The Longest Year #8: The Facts of Life*
Big Strawberry

This spot holds a curious place in this fandom because it is never mentioned in the TV series. It appears only on the map of Lawndale from *The Daria Diaries* as a strawberry-shaped monument (or billboard) perhaps two stories high. Daria writes that it is the only roadside tourist attraction in the suburb of Lawndale, adding, "Kiss the stalk for good luck." It is also mentioned on Lawndale High's web page: Timothy O'Neill is running the "Save the Strawberry" campaign and trying to get it registered as a landmarked building, with little success ("someone at the National Register of Historic Places finally returned one of his phone calls"). It stands by the highway somewhere between the Lawndale Mall (a.k.a. Cranberry Commons) and Lawndale High.

The Big Strawberry is sometimes called the Giant Strawberry in fanfic. An unusual number of fanfics featuring the Big Strawberry are crossovers or are at least fairly strange.

## The Big Strawberry in *Daria* Fanfiction

*Daria* fanfics in which the Big Strawberry figures prominently during at least one scene are given below. Even more fanfics make minor references to this attraction (such as the time a young Jane Lane defaced it with a spray can). Descriptions of the Big Strawberry vary widely.

* "Doctor Who-Gives-A-Damn" by Yui Daoren, a crossover with *Doctor Who.*
* "Lane Change" by Ranger Thorne, a sequel to "Doctor Who-Gives-A-Damn" (Doctor Who crossover).
* "Griffin's Flight" by Crusading Saint
* "Her, Uh, Cane" by Paperpusher
* "In The End, I Can Be Only Numb" by Mystik Slacker, a crossover with *Highlander.*
* "The Chosen One" by Wyvern337, a crossover with *Buffy the Vampire Slayer*
* "Penny for Your Thoughts" by Canadibrit
* "Strange Reunions" by Peter Guerin
* "The Statement of Daria Morgendorffer" by Brian Taylor
* "Beneath the Giant Strawberry," by Rod Dickley, courtesy of Ruthless Bunny (story is rated R for content)
* "Halloween Hellraiser" by Patrick Moore
* "A Hard Days' Night", by TAG

* Artwork of The Giant Strawberry by John Berry, for Paperpusher's fanfic, "Her, Uh, Cane" (the only known fan art of this attraction)
Card Games

A story by Kristen Bealer that drew inspiration from one of the family photos in *The Daria Diaries*. Ten-year-old Daria Morgendorffer finds herself suddenly popular when the other girls in her grade learn that she has an adult library card. While she initially enjoys the attention and likes the fact that the other children are reading, she becomes concerned about *what* they are reading.

This story was a well-deserved multiple winner in the 2006 Daria FanWorks Awards recieving Booties for "Favorite Overall", "Favorite Dramatic Comedy", and "Favorite Pre-Esteemsters."

It was also nominated for "Favourite Comedy" and "Favorite Character Development/Redevelopment/Growth."
Austin Covello

**Austin Covello** was a fanfic author who was most active between late 1998 and early 2001. He is best known for his ground-breaking portrayal of Stacy Rowe in "A Day in the Life of Stacy," but he established other elements of fanon that have persisted to this day. His works remain well regarded within the fandom.

## Trivia

* "A Day in the Life of Stacy" first introduced the pairing of Stacy with Ted DeWitt-Clinton. Since then, this pairing has become one of the most popular in fanfiction and has been inserted into numerous fanfics.
* Similarly, "Boy Fiend" bestowed the name "Tori Jericho" on "the popular girl" from "The Invitation." The name has since been widely used in fanfiction.
* Covello had a rather unusual obsession over the character Akbar El-Salaam, the terrorist who hijacked Ami Mizuno's flight to Germany in Peter Guerin's first fanfiction story, "The Misery Senshi Neo-Zero Double Blitzkrieg Debacle."
* Covello was a fan of the anime series *Neon Genesis Evangelion*; this was reflected in his story "Stacy Rowe, Evangelion Pilot."
* It was Covello's essay "The Stacy Phenomenon" that partly inspired Stacy-obsessive starmeshelion to become active in the fandom.

## Bibliography

* Bouquet Too
* Boy Fiend
* A Day in the Life of Stacy
* The Death of Stacy
* Fifteen Minutes of Frame
* The Musician's New Muse
* My Date with Daria
* Otherwise Known as Quinn the Great
* The Red Maid
* Stacy Rowe, Evangelion Pilot
Diane Long

One of the most notable early romantic (or shipper) writers of *Daria* fanfiction, particularly for the stories in her Diane Long Continuum. Most of her shipper tales are Daria/Trent and feature an especially evil Monique.

## Written Works

* Diane Long Continuum
* The Last Stupor
* Sea's Sorrow
* The Trick's the Treat

## External Links

* Fanfics on Glitter Berries
* Fanfics on Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
Daria the Unreliable Narrator

**Daria the Unreliable Narrator** is an Iron Chef prompt started by Kristen Bealer. The prompt is: "what if Daria canon wasn't the objective reality it seems to be? That is, what if the episodes are heavily filtered through Daria's biased perspective, and what we see is a distorted version of the truth?"

Fanfics created from this include:

* An untitled retelling of the self-esteem class scenes by Roentgen, in which Daria is more brittle and Jane more aggressive & disgruntled

* A warning from Highland High to Angela Li by OzFerret

* "Old Friends/Bookends" by Two-Eyed Charlie, where Daria is a more passive figure relying on Jane for support

* "A colossal jerk" by Remi, with a secret real story about Tommy Sherman's death

* "I would put roses round our door" by LongSnakeMoan, with Daria as a controlling, abusive figure towards Jane

* "Break" by Princess Pasta, about what Trent's really thinking during "Is It Fall Yet?" (also found here)
DVDaria

**DVDaria** is a website devoted to putting *Daria* out on DVD. Consisting of links to numerous actions a fan could take, its centerpiece is a web petition, currently containing 25,000 signatures. Run by Alan Benard from March 2001 until August 2002, DVDaria is currently being run by Kara Wild. The site achieved its ultimate goal with the coming of Daria: The Complete Animated Series on DVD. The website has been dormant since then. Wild insists that DVDaria will get updated again, but her life has been very busy. She does not believe that she will be able to oversee a campaign for the international release, due to time and lack of resources.

## History

In spring of 2001, with the demise of *Daria* imminent (the final six episodes would air that summer), many fans were discouraged, feeling as though there would be nothing left to stick around for. Eventually the idea of taking a "next step," rallying around the cause of putting the show on DVD, became popular. Several fans took steps to make this idea a reality.

As noted on the DVDaria Credits & Legal page and elsewhere:

* Admonisher was responsible for coming up with the name DVDaria.
* David Wycislak designed the original header and wrote the mission statement.
* Martin J. Pollard designed the banners, which could be distributed to other websites.
* Aapo Laitinen designed the DVDaria website.
* Martin Sylvester gave instructions on how to write to MTV.
* Alan Benard updated the website regularly and is responsible for the statements "Whoever thought trying to give a TV network money would be such an effort?" and "The Web's finest exquisitely written, angry petition!" The latter poked fun at a statement made on the MTV *Daria* website, which was viewed as a snub of the fans.

Other fan sites would lend their support. Kara Wild would eventually offer webspace at the-wildone.com, where she also hosted the Contrarian's Corner. Eager to escape the pop-ups of Geocities, Benard moved the contents of DVDaria to the-wildone.com in February 2002 (thus escaping the GeoCities Shutdown of 2009).

## Recent News

On July 2, 2009, DVDaria joined a chorus of websites in announcing that *Daria* was scheduled to come out on DVD in 2010. On November 20, 2009, DVDaria gave more details about the upcoming release, including how the seasons would be released, the extras, and the music. For more on the DVD set itself (and fandom reaction to it), see Daria: The Complete Animated Series.
Corporal Ellenbogen

**Corporal Ellenbogen** was an instructor at Buxton Ridge Military Academy. According to Ruth Morgendorffer, Ellenbogen has only one thumb.

He is referenced by Jake in same episodes: according to him, he had to learn to shave from Ellenbogen (Jake of Hearts) and Jake still holds a grudge on him for rejecting a (bad) song Jake had composed for the school musical (The Story of D). More importantly is Jake's memories of what he described as his abusive behavior, including a flashback of what is probably Ellenbogen leaving him halfway up a climbing rope and mocking his obvious distress (Of Human Bonding).

The corporal appears to be one of the sources of Jake's recurring nightmares, to the extent that when he wakes up yelling (Sappy Anniversary), Helen reassures him that Ellenbogen is far away.

## In Fanfiction

Ellenbogen rarely appears directly portrayed in fanfiction. It is more common for him to be referenced in connection to Buxton Ridge or for his treatment of Jake. Lawndale Fighting Championship refers to a notorious wrestling academy named for him. In "Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her?", the antagonist impersonates the man's son.
Ghosts of Christmas Future

**Ghosts of Christmas Future** is a post-canon story by Crusading Saint.

It's fifteen years after Is It College Yet?, and many of the residents of Lawndale have become the future alter egos from that episode. Daria and Jane host a faltering talk show, and come across insider information on Tom's company from Tricia Gupty, a secretary with that company. Mack is faced with firing Kevin or losing control of his company to Tom, a move that would cost many of his employees their jobs. While at Tom's buiilding, he runs into Quinn Morgendorffer, who is a VP of Sales for a major cosmetics company. Jodie is a successful entrepreneur, having opened Landon Towers in Las Vegas, and is bringing a guest with her on her trip back east. It all culminates at Tom's Christmas Party, which promises to be a reunion to for all parties involved (some for better reasons than others).

## External Links

Ghosts of Christmas Future on Outpost Daria
Dr. Phillips

**Dr. Phillips** (first name unknown) is a doctor at Cedars of Lawndale.

## Appearance and Characterisation

He appears only in the episode Ill, where he treats Daria. From his brief appearance, he seems to be a calm and insightful man, quickly recognizing that Daria's own family are sources of stress to her and tricking them into leaving the room. (He and Daria play gin rummy while he asks her "What is it with your mother?") As he tells Jane, she must be a friend and not family as Daria's "happy to see you". After days in hospital, he diagnoses Daria's rash as caused by stress.

He also appears to be fairly young, and both Jane and Quinn seem to find him attractive - to his detriment as Quinn keeps wanting to talk to him.

At the sight of Mrs. Sullivan's room, he shudders in horror.

## In Fanfiction

This character was later developed into Hanley Phillips, an AU-character, who previously served as a sniper and First Lieutenant in the US Army.
Anne D. Bernstein

**Anne D. Bernstein** is an animation writer and illustrator. She has worked for multiple projects, including writing eight episodes of *Daria* and various spinoff media.

Bernstein attended South Side High School and went to the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY from 1979 to 1983, where she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts. She started as a contributing editor to *Paper* magazine between 1984 and 1988 and as a sketch writer for *Chucklehead* before becoming a senior editor at *Nickelodeon* magazine, a magazine targeted to the child demographic of the network. In addition to supervising writers for the magazine, she also served as an editor for the comics section.

Between 1996 and the present she has worked as a writer or writer supervisor on several animated television programs. She was also a contributing editor at *National Lampoon*.

For MTV, Bernstein was Head Writer of MTV Animation Development, in charge of supervising freelance writers and writing show bibles and scripts. While never a head writer for *Daria* (there was no such title), she would write "The Daria Diaries", the first of two books based on the Daria TV series, and was responsible for the bulk of MTV's Daria website material. She ended up creating the entire extended Lane family for "Diaries" and later the show, as well as being responsible for Upchuck.

She remains in New York City as a self-employed writer and is currently blogging at Roadside America.

Jake Morgendorffer is one of her favourite characters because of his random emotional outbursts. [1]

## Daria episodes written by Anne D. Bernstein

* The Invitation
* Pinch Sitter
* Road Worrier
* That Was Then, This is Dumb
* Lane Miserables
* Of Human Bonding
* Sappy Anniversary
* Life in the Past Lane
Daria Fanworks Awards 2004

This is a complete list of winners of the **1st Daria Fanworks Awards**. They were given out on January 10, 2005 for works released in 2004.

## Written works

**Favourite Overall**

"All My Children," by Deref and Thea Zara

**Favourite Comedy**

“The Idiocy,” by Kristen Bealer

**Favourite Drama**

"Gone," by The Angst Guy

**Favourite Shipper Story**

Falling Into College series (Daria and Michael), by Richard Lobinske

**Favourite Melodrama**

"Smoking Mirror," by The Angst Guy

**Favourite Character Development/Redevelopment/Growth**

Amanda and Vincent Lane, and Helen and Jake Morgendorffer, in the All My Children series, by Thea Zara and Deref

**Favourite Non Fiction Essay**

“Beavis and Butt-head and Daria,” by CF

**Favourite Alternate Story** (tie)

"Twilight's Own," by Renfield

"Estrangesters," by Ostragoth

**Favourite Post-Is It College Yet?**

“Once Upon a Time in College,” , by Galen “Lawndale Stalker” Hardesty

**Favourite Pre-Esteemsters**

All My Children series, by Thea Zara and Deref

**Favourite Jane Story** (tie)

"See Jane Spike," by The Angst Guy

“Run, Jane, Run,” by Angelinhel

**Favourite Helen Story**

All My Children series, by Thea Zara and Deref

**Favourite Jake Story**

“Falling into College #10: Chosin Fate,” by Richard Lobinske

**Favourite Crossover** (tie)

“The Idiocy,” by Kristen Bealer (with Homer’s “The Odyssey”)

All My Children series, by Thea Zara and Deref

**Favourite Science Fiction** (tie)

"The House on Space-Time Lane," by Lawndale Stalker

"The Thirteenth Man," by The Angst Guy

**Favourite Movie Rip Off Work**

“The Lawndale Tango,” by The New Kids on the Cell Block (Mahna Mahna, Betting on Delusions, Beth Ann, Guy “Decelaraptor” Payne, Scarlett), ripping off the movie/play *Chicago*

“Cynic Hood” by Dr. Mike, ripping off the movie *Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves*

**Favourite Erotica**

"Experimentation OR: What Happened After Tom and Daria Went Upstairs" by Greystar

**Favourite New Author**

Richard Lobinske

**Favourite Use of a Background Character From the Show**

Scarlett in "Scarlett," by The Angst Guy

**Favourite Weird Idea**

"Smoking Mirror," by The Angst Guy

**Favourite New Series**

"Falling Into College," by Richard Lobinske

**Favourite Slash**

"How the Other Half Lives" by Willow and Coyote

**Favorite Holiday Story** (tie)

"Nine Point Oh," by The Angst Guy

"The Fashion Club Massacre," by Roentgen

"Gifts," by Wyvern

**Favourite Quinn Story**

“Kadhimiya,” by Guy “Decelaraptor” Payne, with help from Kara Wild

**Favourite Supernatual, Horror, or Fantasy Work**

“Twilight's Own,” by Renfield

## Visual works

**Favourite Original**

"Jane as the Morton Salt Girl," by Kemical Reaxion

**Favourite Comic**

"A Daria Halloween Tale," by Wouter

**Favourite Visual Inspired by a Fan Written Work**

"Jane and Ted Kissing," by SRA

**Favourite Erotic** (tie)

"All Natural Behaviour," by Wouter

"Nurse Janey," by Ken T

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Danny Moreno

**Danny Moreno** is the younger brother of Jesse Moreno, introduced and fleshed out in "The Daria Database". Like Jesse, he plays guitar - since he's teaching Jesse diminished chords, he may be better at it than his brother.

He's the "recording secretary of the Mystik Spiral Fan Club", meaning he writes the irregular newsletter and guides to their tours.

Danny's dream is to become the fifth member of the band, and thinks two of the others would definitely vote for him; he's got "a LOT of song ideas", as he tells the mailing list. A year later, on the Mystik Spiral web site's fan club section, Danny went unnoticed and Trent was running it - did Danny leave in a huff when he wasn't let in?

## Fanfiction

A Gender Swapped version, Dani, is a recurring character in DIsaac's "Rude Awakening.
Anywhere But Here

**Anywhere But Here** is a story by MMan based on the premise, "What if Lawndale had never existed?"

The point of divergence is that Horace Sloane donated the land that would become Lawndale to the state, rather than allow his grandson Nathaniel to sell the land to developers. Nathaniel Sloane planned to work with real-estate developers by merging the land along with the cities of Lawnburg and Greendale, which would become the new city of Lawndale. Instead, the land becomes the Horace Sloane State Forest and the two cities remain intact.

The story then visits the fates of the canon characters, virtually all of whom live elsewhere. Some lead much more successful and fulfilling lives than they would have ever lived in Lawndale, others have lives that lead to disappointment or death.

(The later fanfic "How It Might've Turned Out]" by Bacner is an alternate take on this, where Nathaniel smothers Horace before the land can be given to the state but is cursed that the area will remain poor.)

## External Links

Anywhere But Here at Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
Guy Fawkes Day

**Guy Fawkes Day** is one of the escaped holiday teens from Holiday Island that appears in "Depth Takes A Holiday."

## Character and Appearance

He is a young man with spiky hair and punk clothing, the lead singer for the high-school band The Holidays. Jane Lane was attracted to him at first, but the feeling swiftly wore off.

The character is portrayed as an angry, anarchistic English "punk" (per the Sex Pistols), responding to just about any irritating stimuli with a dismissive, angry shout of "*Bollocks!*" - he later admits this is an instinctive reaction and often may not mean he's actually disapproving. He *loathes* American television and apparently the United States itself.

As with Halloween and Christmas, he fled Holiday Island due to boredom. Later Cupid and Saint Patrick's Day mention that the other two were the cool kids who ran the place, so it is unknown if Guy has the same social standing. If he's not at Holiday Island, the real-world event of Bonfire Night will quickly cease to exist and take pie stands with it (this end of pie stands seemed to bother Jane slightly more than the end of Christmas and Halloween).

He has a running feud with St. Patrick's Day, reflecting traditional English-Irish tensions.

In a MTV website flipbook (archived on Wayback via a fansite), Guy Fawkes Day is trying to get back off Holiday Island. "I hate those phony wankers and I never want to see another bloody pinata again in my life. Ah bollocks, I don't give a toss whether you like this flipbook or not, as long as I find me a nice girlie who's interested in a green card marriage. Tell yer friends: I'm imaginary so I don't eat much and I give good backrubs. No? Well then, can I at least sleep on yer couch?"

## Trivia

* In the Latin American dub, he became Bastille Day (and Daria has to be told that's a French holiday). Instead of "Bastard!", St Patrick's Day says he's "bloody".

* The actual holiday is called "Guy Fawkes Night", and more popularly called "Bonfire Night".

* Bonfire Night commemorates the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, the attempted bombing of the Houses of Parliament by Catholics, meant to slay King James I and most of British aristocracy and nobility at the time - so St Patrick's Day would likely have approved of the real Guy Fawkes. (The plot was not orchestrated by Guy Fawkes, but he was in charge of its execution.)

* Anglo-Irish relations were actually quite strong when this episode aired.

## In fanfiction

Daria fandom had traditionally tried to avoid or 'explain' "Depth Takes A Holiday" due to its canon-breaking fantasism. As such, Guy Fawkes Day has rarely shown up - an exception being "God Save The Esteem" where he's renamed Bonfire Night and in a recently-dead relationship with St Patrick's Day, or "The Meaning of Bonfire Night" (requiring Rosetta Stone).
Cameron Aubernon

**Cameron Aubernon** was a *Daria* fan who produced fanfic & fanart under the pennames Alexander Lamar Eldritch and, after coming out as transgender, Stefanie Acela.

Her earliest stories, written in 1998, focused on two admitted Mary Sues called Raven and Rebecca - fanfics that would have a bizarre legacy when the internet somehow mistook the fake 'condition' the Sues had, Alexandria's Genesis, for a genuine mutation that gave you superpowers. Aubernon would state on her tumblr in the 2010s that it was a "projection of my personal gender identity and body image issues that I was starting to confront in my 20s", while being based on a grabbag of influences.

In 2001, during her return as Stefanie Acela, she went into detail about how and why she'd crafted the fanfics that way (for example, naming Raven for a contemporary wrestler and borrowing famous surnames for her characters).

## Fanworks

* What's With Their Eyes
* Raven Vs Ms Barch
* Purple Eyes
* Woke Up This Morning, featuring Val (as in Val)
* Several pieces of fanart

## External Links

* Tumblr
* Announcement of 2001 return on Glitterberries
* Glitterberries account
Coach Gibson

**Gibson** (no first name given) is the Football coach at Lawndale High.

He is never named in the *Daria* series. His name is first mentioned in *The Daria Diaries* in a memo from football team captain Mack Mackenzie to the rest of the team. In the memo, Mack writes (sic): "I'm sure our coach, Mr. Gibson, would agree. (Update: He's almost done paying his debt to society and assures me that when the recruiter said "kickback," Mr. Gibson thought he meant "kick off.")". In *The Daria Database*, there's a note from "Coach" for Mack to talk about Kevin Thompson's achievements (and vice versa) at a end-of-season dinner: Gibson tells Mack "be nice", so he's aware of what Mack *wants* to say.

"See Jane Run" and "Murder, She Snored" have Kevin say that "Coach" fixes his grades so he can remain on the team without studying.

In the team's webpage, Mack referred to how sports means "you learn how to take orders from an ignorant, often abusive authority figure".

Gibson appears without any lines in the background of several episodes, starting with "Esteemsters" where he looks bored by the self esteem assembly. His only speaking appearance is during the episode *Lucky Strike*, where his is seen chanting strike slogans along with several other colleague teachers.

Gibson is named in the draft script to "Esteemsters". Here, he is referred to as "corrupt gym teacher MR. GIBSON", he "is overweight, with greasy hair" and wears "a thick gold chain around his neck." He does not speak, but he shrugs when Ms Li asks if 5 footballs really cost 400 dollars - a shrug devealing he has an expensive looking diamond ring. (This exchange didn't make it into the finished episode, but the 400 dollars remain.)

## Coach Gibson in Fanfiction

He shows up irregularly, often in the guise as someone corrupt and involved in the grade fixing. In fics like "Falling Into College" and "God Save The Esteem" where the grade-fixing comes to light, Gibson does not last long.

He has a minor appearance in Wouter Jaegers' Dariarotica comic "Dinner at Tiffany's", where Tiffany catches him getting it on with a woman underneath the bleachers during a game, and he reoccurs in The Excellent S's Lawndale Fighting Championship as a ringside medic (as Leon Gibson).

## External Links

* Daria Fandom Blog II posts about Coach Gibson

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Cindy (backgrounder)

**Cindy** is a recurring backgrounder at Lawndale High. She is visually based on Daria producer Cindy Brolsma, who she's named for (and in several fanfics has been given the surname "Brolsma" as well).

She wears glasses, trapezoidal in shape and mounted in thick dark frames. She usually looks pleasant and cheerful.

An extremely peculiar thing about Cindy is that she was in the same year as Quinn Morgendorffer but somehow graduated in "Is It College Yet?" with Daria's year. We're not sure how she managed this: she was still in Quinn's class in S5's "Lucky Strike" and is unlikely to have been moved up a year that fast...

Appearances by Cindy show she is a big school sports fan, appearing to watch various Lawndale Lions games (Kevin's fumble in "The F Word" had her grabbing her head, aghast) and also the Lawndale High Track Team. She seems to be a fan of Z93's Mental in the Morning as well, cheering them on in "Jake of Hearts". She follows the school fashion trends, donning all-black like Quinn in "Quinn the Brain" and wearing the school colours in "The Lost Girls", and went to the dance party in "Daria Dance Party" (where she was seen dancing with a boy she'd met). She was invited to the Fashion Club's 'Fashion Don't's' party and came in full costume in "Monster".

Cindy likes to visit The Zon too, in "Ill" and "Pierce Me"; both times are when Mystik Spiral was performing, so she might be a fan. She also volunteered in the same soup kitchen as Jodie Landon in "Is It Fall Yet?".

Despite her conformity and mainstream interests, Cindy is seen multiple times with background goth girl "Kristen": "The Lost Girls" (hanging), "Daria Dance Party" (at the dance together), "Daria!" (sitting together), "I Loathe a Parade" (at the parade). The two appear to be friends. Kristen also graduated eerily early...

We don't know her academic ability, though she looked disappointed with her marks from temp-teacher Daria in "Lucky Strike".

In "Dye! Dye! My Darling", before Jane learns of The Kiss, Cindy can be seen talking to a boy (who may be Les); the poses suggest he's either chatting her up or they're already going out.

## In fanfiction

Cindy didn't appear in any fanfics until December 2010, when a page about her was created an older fandom wiki. Following that she debuted as a computer coding nerd in cfardell\_Brenorenz29's Quinn's Code story. In spring 2011, she began appearing as a significant secondary character in God Save The Esteem as an accidental 'queen bee' at Lawndale High, and that begat the Lawndale Fighting Championship series as an enthusiastic rookie wrestler on her way up.

Mainly, she appears in alternate universe fanfiction. Two exceptions by cfardell's post-canon "A Question of Cindy" (explaining she graduated early by doing advanced classes outside of Lawndale High) and First Day of Summer.
Gary

**Gary** is the owner of Gary's Gallery, making his only appearance in the episode Art Burn.

Gary is a congenial man and a big fan of art, believing people want recreations of famous paintings because, unlike the pictures of paintings in a book, an actual painting has (sic) greater "vibrancy" and a "palpable energy".

In the episode, Gary hires Jane Lane to make replica paintings for him, offering to take a 60% commission (which is *not* a good deal for the artist). When Jane has saved enough money for her intended expenses and wants to quit, Gary convinces her to stay by lowering his commission (to 40%) and giving her a choice of which artists to do. According to him, she was his best artist.

His insistence makes Jane briefly convince herself that he was running an art counterfeiting ring, so she could quit the job without remorse. Even though that was not the case, she quits at the end of the episode.
Eight Legged Pink

A short ficlet written by Brandon League as a result of a long forgotten PPMB contest in which a Daria cast member gets a pet. In "Eight Legged Pink," Quinn gets a tarantula, shocking Daria.

Two versions of this ficlet exist. A normal version at Outpost Daria (the one at Glitter Berries is identical) and a special enhanced version at The Sh33p's Fluff that, thanks to the hard work of Thea Zara, plays System of a Down's song "Spiders" as you read it.

## External Links

"Eight Legged Pink" on Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
Decelaraptor

**Guy Payne** (November 16, 1955 - March 12, 2009), also known by his screenname **Decelaraptor**, was a *Daria* fanfic author with a twisted sense of humor. Noted as the author of Kadhimiya and related tales about U.S. Army Private Quinn Morgendorffer in Iraq, as well as The Blue and Yellow Submarine, a parody of The Beatles' *Yellow Submarine*. He was also co-author of The Lawndale Tango, as one of The New Kids on the Cell Block.

## Daria Fanworks Awards

1st Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favourite Movie Rip Off Work (tie) for "The Lawndale Tango"
* Favourite Quinn Story for "Kadhimiya" (with Kara Wild)

## The CRAPPIES Awards

1st CRAPPIES Awards

* Fanfic That Kevin Would Find Most Funny for "A Midsummer Night's Butt"
* Most Out of Character Daria for "The Lawndale Tango"

## Tributes in Fanfiction

* In the Falling Into College continuity, Derek Adler, while on active duty, was stationed at Camp Raptor.
* In the Judith Strikes! fic 'A View From The Front Row', the Earthforce *Omega-class* destroyer *EAS Decelaraptor* delivers Lieutenant David Corwin to his posting on Babylon 5.
* In the Tales of the Ringbearers fic Spirit Stick, 'Guy' is a member of The Agency who arrives to rescue Forbes Carlyle and Paige Turner from zombiefied versions of the Legion of Lawndale Heroes.

## External Links

* Fanfiction on Contrarian's Corner
* Fanfiction on Sh33p's Fluff
* Fanfiction on GlitterBerries
* Fanfiction on Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
* Decelaraptor Day on DFB2