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Mack the Esteemer

**Mack the Esteemer** by Shiva is an alternate universe series in which Daria met Mack in the Self-Esteem Class - placed there after he refused to play football anymore - instead of Jane. As the friendship between them blooms into a relationship, Daria finds dealing with Lawndale is easier if she has someone special at her side.
Off-Canon

Any fanfic that does not follow the general plot, events, settings, and characterizations used in the *Daria* show.

An off-canon story might have elements that are out of character, or it might be an alternate universe tale or a reinvention. In any event, the off-canon story marks a divergence from the sequence of events shown in canon. Such a divergence might be minor, with few consequences, or major, greatly affecting the set-up of the canon series. Any shipper tale showing an active romance between Daria Morgendorffer and Trent Lane during Daria's time at Lawndale High, for example, is off-canon.

The opposite of off-canon is "on-canon," a *Daria* tale that is congruent with the established elements of the official series.

Note that certain episodes of *Daria* are regarded by many fans as "off-canon canon," meaning they present events that are so out of keeping with the rest of the series, particularly with regard to its apparent reality, that they are assumed to be dreams, hallucinations, fiction stories written by Daria, or the like.

## External Links

* "The Off-Canon Approach" by Kara Wild, which Wild has said that she regrets writing.
Highland

The main town/city of Highland County, Texas (see Trivia), where *Beavis and Butt-head* is set. It alternates between being a run-down, filthy, violent town to a moderately-sized normal city and all points in between, depending on the episode or comic it was in.

Daria Morgendorffer was a freshman at Highland High School there. Quinn refers to "the old house" (singular) in "Boxing Daria", indicating they'd lived in Highland for as long as she remembers.

Highland contains the Hope High school for juvenile delinquents, and several businesses including Buddy's Sporting Goods, a Burger World franchise, a mud wrestling bar ("Babes 'R' Us"), a strip club, a mall, and (briefly) a furrier ("Sign Here"); a number of local businessmen, led by Clark Cobb, had formed the Christian Businessmen's Association. President Clinton visited during a tour of American schools.

The town is also notable for its oft overlooked and ignored, if not, dismissed and unregarded loads of social issues and problems, most notably stemming from current events in past history, as the world of Beavis and Butthead (and in extension, Daria) is calculated on real life and real history, more or less. The fact that its seedy underbelly and the impoverished amoral lower class conditions gave birth and an environment for the likes of Beavis and Butt-head to thrive, also makes it responsible for its own misery. "It's a Miserable Life" attributes *everything* currently bad in Highland - including Daria's misanthropy - to the very existence of Butt-head.

In *Daria,* the town is referenced only once, in the first episode, "Esteemsters." Daria says there's "no chance" of Lawndale being a repeat of Highland "unless there's uranium in the drinking water here too".

## Highland in fanfiction

Highland frequently shows up or is mentioned in Daria fanfiction - physical appearances are usually in fanfics set before Daria moved away, though sometimes return visits are paid. The odd alternate universe, like "Three" by Richard Lobinske, has Daria *not* leaving Highland. Many fanfics also take the "uranium" joke as fact, with various plot-handy consequences as a result ("It's a Sick, Sad, Sad, Sad World" by The Excellent S has the town abandoned and condemned).

The general depiction of Highland is run-down and generally crap.

## Trivia

In an interview (see below), *Beavis and Butt-head* creator Mike Judge stated that Highland, to him, lay in West Texas or eastern New Mexico. This would finally make the jump from fanon to canon in 2011, when the episode "Bounty Hunters" showed a picture of then-Governor of Texas Rick Perry at the city post office. In the same year, "Crying" revealed that Highland is located in Highland County.

Another revival episode has Beavis and Butt-head living in north Highland.

## External Links

* “Daria on *Beavis and Butt-head*”
* “Beavis and Butt-head and Daria” by CF
* Interview with Mike Judge listing general location of Highland

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Saint Patrick's Day

**St. Patrick's Day** is a holiday character and national stereotype who, along with Cupid, arrives in Lawndale in "Depth Takes A Holiday" searching for Christmas, Guy Fawkes Day, and Halloween, who have escaped from Holiday Island. St. Patrick's Day is described early on as a leprechaun but if so, he's a pretty tall one. As he and Cupid are specifically on the mission, he is presumably one of the more competent holidays; he's the leader of the duo, but gets irritated with Cupid's laid-back, passive nature.

In "Depth Takes A Holiday," St. Patrick's Day was shown to have breath that smells of beer; this was accompanied with a small, visible exhalation of green-colored breath. He mentions that the 'beer-breath' is "congenial"; even more interestingly, St. Patrick's Day mentions that he is not a drinker.

Because he is an Irish holiday, St. Patrick's Day holds a lot of animosity towards Guy Fawkes Day, who is a British one. He once grumbled about being "oppressed for four centuries" - roughly when the Tudor conquest of Ireland occurred, when England (which already officially ruled Ireland) deliberately tried to devastate Gaelic culture and polity - but in the present sense, so he's presumably an Irish Republican and views Northern Ireland as occupied land.

## Trivia

* St Patrick's Day would probably be very upset to find out that many British people celebrate his day (i.e. all of them who like to drink).

* In the Latin American (Mexican) dubbing, he is given an Argentinian accent.

## In fanfiction

St Patrick's Day has had a surprisingly large amount of fanfic appearances! A number include Cupid.

* "Restrain Jane Lane!" by Nemo Blank, in which he has to assist Cupid near the end (and is revealed to have once been Dionysus)
* "Everything Happens for a Reason by Mahna Mahna, where he follows Cupid's attempts to alter Daria and Tom's relationship
* Acts of Cupidity by Disco 3:16
* "A Hard Days' Night" by TAG, which takes place around the events of the story
* Repeiceing Down the Girl by Morden Gans, involving time travel
* "Write Off Challenge 9, entries by thatLONERchick )"Will Ye Go Lassie, Go?") and Dennis ("Last Dance", also here): "St. Patrick's Day has left Holiday Island Again and is looking for a date to celebrate his holiday with. Who will be the lucky Lawndale lady, and what sorts of misadventures will occur?"]
* St Patrick's Day Valentine by JoeMerl, where they get together
* Éirinn go Blam by SinisterExaggerator, where someone fatally questions his actual Irishness
Jill Cargerman

**Jill Cargerman** is a producer and writer, who wrote "Antisocial Climbers" for *Daria*. This was her second credited work as a writer but she had been working as a story editor on *Spin City*.

She has since worked on *Las Vegas*, *Happyland*, and *Teachers*, among others, and created *Working Class*.
Leonard Lamm

**Leonard Lamm**, voiced by Geoffrey Arend, appeared in "Fizz Ed".

He negotiates and sets up the advertising contract between Lawndale High and Ultra Cola, dazzling Angela Li with mass jargon and promises of money, while quietly leaving out the drawbacks. As he put it: "our young people are our greatest resource. Therefore, let us mine that resource". In the face of Daria Morgendorffer asking questions, he cheerfully dodged each one.

Four weeks in, he finally brought up the drawbacks - no money for the school unless it met its "quota" - and began to tighten the screws on Li, forcing her into ever dodgier ways to increase consumption. ("By the way... how are your students' grades this period?") He watched with disapproval when the Lawndale Lions lost a game due to too much Ultra Cola and revealed that a forfeited home game was itself a contract violation. This caused Li's breakdown which led to the contract being rewritten: ironically, this had likely cost Lamm a bigger job, as Superintendent Cartwright planned to have Lamm draw up contracts for *all* the schools.
Hero!

**Hero!** by Nemo Blank is a Season Four story that combines Daria/Trent shipping with the "boogie nights" costume from the window of the Funky Doodle on Dega Street. Feeling alone while Jane was out with Tom, Daria takes a walk on Dega Street and ducks into the Funky Doodle to hide from Upchuck. Inside, the owner convinced Daria to try the clothes on. While inside, the store catches fire and Daria barely manages to get her and the owner away to safety, branding her a local hero.
Victory Lane

Brother Grimace's alternate-universe version of a critical meeting between Jane Lane and Daria Morgendorffer, though under horrific circumstances for the latter.

Jane and Daria miss their first meeting in "Esteemsters" by accident; Jane goes on to become an award-winning runner for Lawndale High, but Daria undergoes "re-education" after turning in a disturbing homework assignment and is forced to become more sociable, hiding and denying her real personality and feelings.

The "Victory Lane" AU was one of the dystopian worlds visited in the cross-universal fanfic, "Illusions," by CharlieGirl, Angelinhel, and The Angst Guy. This universe is classified as 'Daria-1984' in the Daria Multiverse.
Kelly

**Kelly** is a student in Daria's class at Lawndale High. Her name can be seen on Timothy O'Neill's seating chart in "Cafe Disaffecto". She's got frizzy ginger hair and freckles, and an alternative look.

## In the show

In "Cafe Disaffecto", the Melody Powers story got her so pumped up she got to her feet and punched the air.

Has some interest in acting, auditioning for The Canterbury Tales in "Fair Enough".

In "The Story of D", she hangs out with Burnout Girl (right), while in "Cafe Disaffecto" she pals around with Tania.

She watched Tommy Sherman's most fateful game, alongside her classmates Josh and "Shaggy"... all of them looking the same age as they would in sophomore class, indicating animation errors *time travel*.

## In fanfiction

Kelly first appeared as a minor wrestler in TheExcellentS's "Lawndale Fighting Championship", with the surname Metcalf. Then it was a seven-year wait for her next one! In Wassersauefer's Legion of Lawndale Heroes story "Jenna - Just your regular spellslinging gal", she's semi-popular and disgruntled with how the Legion are overshadowing everyone else.
Jackie Wentworth

**"Jackie Wentworth"** is the fandom name for a character who appeared in "This Year's Model", coined by thatLONERchick - previously the nickname had been "Slutty Girl", because internet.

She was hinted to have taken Kevin Thompson's virginity; when Brittany angrily told a girl she was his "first" and "you can't take that away", Slutty Girl spoke up and said "I can". Kevin recognised her.

In the MTV flipbook "It Takes Two to Tangle" , it was written that their relationship was "an example of "puppy love," or more descriptively "doggies in heat." This relationship might have been saved had he bothered to learn her name."

## In Fanfic

In August 2010, Hazazel initiated a discussion/challenge for someone to explain the significance of the "Slutty Girl". Though there was some discussion, the thread soon evolved into an Iron Chef and while most fics went for comedy, a few contributions attempted to expand the character in several ways: OverlordMikey's Something they don't have showed Clair (SG) as a loose, fun-time girl who disdained others' opinion of her on the basis of her own self worth, while thatLONERchick's First Loss (the first use of Jackie Wentworth) presented her as a heartbroken girl seeking forgetfulness in the arms of faceless lovers following the loss of first love. It is suggested that Jackie met Kevin in her junior year, when Kevin was a freshman. Their relationship ended early in the year, and by the time of "This Year's Model" Jackie is a senior.

Later, she appeared in The Excellent S's Lawndale Fighting Championship as a tag-team partner for "Angel", as That 80s Team.
Stewart Stevenson

**Stewart Stevenson** (voiced by Adam Welsh in the original run of *Beavis and Butt-head* and by Mike Judge in the 2011 revival) was a classmate of *Daria Morgendorffer* at Highland High. He was a complete wuss, as eternally symbolised by wearing a Winger shirt.

He usually thoughtBeavis and Butt-head were his friends - they were *not* - and trying to impress them. On some occasions, he was aware of the damage they cause and tried (futilely) to mitigate it. As well as the arseholes bullying him, exploiting him, and dissing him for sucking, in "Drones" Beavis actually forgot Stewart was alive and they'd seen him yesterday.

Stewart's family are church-goers, with their church run by a pastor ("The Great Bungholio"). He's als omember of the Positive Acting Teens (PATsies), and hangs on the words of televangelist Clark Cobb & his horribly lame sock puppet ("Walkathon"). In "Walkathon", he genuinely thought Socko the sock puppet was "cool" - it was *not*.

We know from "It's a Miserable Life" that Butt-head is personally responsible for destroying Stewart's self esteem. If Butt-head hadn't existed, Stewart would be a more assertive, active figure - as shown by him wearing a Poison shirt instead.

Daria very rarely encountered him in the show - they were shown to be classmates in "Water Safety" but there's no direct interaction between them in that episode - but repeatedly in the comics. "Tales from the Dim" shows her opinion of him: very low, lumping him with Beavis and Butt-head as people it was "terrifying" to see at her house. She did go to his birthday party in a later issue but didn't look like she wanted to be there at all. (Of course that's her default face) In "Witless", she threatens him - quite seriously - with violence, to ensure Beavis and Butt-head would be abandoned in Amish country.

Their final encounter was in a letter page, where she told him "shut up, Stewart" while he was in mid-sentence.

## Trivia

For legal reasons his Winger shirt became an "I [heart] UNICORNS" T-shirt in spinoff media.

## In fanfiction

He will sometimes get mentioned or have a walk-in in Daria fanfiction, if that fanfic is set in Highland.

He had a starring role in "Coming of Age" by Deep Metal.
Mr Normal

**Mr Normal** is a song by Mystik Spiral, heard in the episode Jane's Addition. It is performed at The Zon as the last song of the group's first set.

It is sung by Trent and Jesse. The song has a sung verse and a guitar interlude, clocking in at 30 seconds.  Jane and Mystik Spiral try to shoot a music video for it in Art Burn.

The song was never offered as a download on Reburb, possibly because that would require some real-world remixing (in Jane's Addition, Daria and Jane are heard talking over the guitar solo, while in Art Burn, it's only heard very faintly in the background).

## Lyrics

Who dragged the Hippies

Who locked them in a zoo

Who gagged the Beatniks

Who sealed their mouths with glue

Who crushed the Bohos

Who turned their world to poo

Hey Mr. Normal!

It was you!

(guitar interlude)

Hey Mr. Normal!

It was you!
Todd Ianuzzi

**Todd Ianuzzi** is a violent hoodlum in Highland, age unknown - he's said to have dropped out of Highland High two years before the episode *Steamroller* but fandom usually assumes he's an adult. (He also turned up at Highland High a few times in early issues of the comics by mistake.)

Beavis and Butt-head look up to Todd and aspire to become part of his gang which consists of himself, his friends Slade and Earl (in the comics), and various minor goons in turf wars against an enemy called Leroy. Todd, however, expresses only contempt for the two, assaulting them with little or no provocation; he will sometimes exploit their gullibility (which can backfire on him). The lads are too thick to notice this and consider it "cool" when he kicks their asses.

He has a girlfriend called Gina. He also, worryingly, is often seen in media dating another Gina, one of Daria Morgendorffer's classmates...

In canon, Daria had no interaction with him (except for him damaging the family's mailbox in Beavis and Butt-head issue 10 during a Halloween rampage) though she did go to school with Gina and Earl.

## Fanfiction

Fandom has long exploited this link between Daria and a hyperviolent criminal; various fanworks have her running afoul of him in Highland, use him as a threat later on, and in the case of "Of All The People That Won't Be Missed" he's a serial killer dating Jane in a *Natural Born Killers* pastiche.

Fics that give him a significant appearance include "Till Death Do Us Part" by The Angst Guy, "Daria 2: The Curse of the Misery Chick" (as "Tood Boole") by Aaron Solomon (ben Saul Joseph) Adelman and Barry Eshkol Adelman, "Coming of Age" (a B&B fic crossing over with Daria) by Deep Metal, "Triumph of the Retart" by Peter Guerin, "Of All The People That Won't Be Missed" by LongSnakeMoan, and in the background to Highland set stories by Richard Lobinske. (LongSnakeMoan also had him as Jane's ex in "You Want It Darker".

## Trivia

He was based on a local bully that terrorised Mike Judge and his brother as kids. The idea of a character who was idolised by B&B even as he brutalised them was suggested by writers Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil, who would later write for *Daria*.

His surname was revealed in *This Book Sucks*, written by Johnson and Marcil.
Your Honor

**Your Honor** is a short fanfic written by Dr. Mike in May, 2004. It is a crossover between the television shows Daria and Night Court

## Summary

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Playing on Helen Morgendorffer's legal background, Dr. Mike casts her in the place of Christine Sullivan, the Defense Attorney from the Night Court show. The Angst Guy and the Fashion Club make cameos.
Taryn

*Daria* fanfic author, Fan Artist, member of the Infamous Unserious Five, and cast member of the fictional tv series Tanandaria. She created the logo for the first DariaWiki.

## Biographical Information

Taryn Greer is a native Texan, having been born in Houston and currently residing in Katy. As of August 2008 she will be attending college in San Antonio. Taryn first discovered Daria in its original run on MTV, her first episode being #112, The Teachings of Don Jake. She was hooked from that point on. The Daria fandom, however, did not enter her life until years later, 2003. Having dabbled in writing fan fiction as well as drawing fan art, she is most well known for her participation in Tanandaria.
Turnabout Confusion

A two-part fanfiction novel by Dennis, **Turnabout Confusion** was inspired by an Iron Chef suggested by Ranger Thorne. The challenge was to write a story where Daria and Quinn are forced to live each other's lifestyle for a week. What was originally a one-off scene quickly became a full-fledged fic written in short installments.

During the writing, Dennis decided that there was too much story for one part and the fic was divided into two parts:

* We All Fall Down, begun August 2007 and completed in December 2007.
* All the King's Horses, begun January 2008 and completed in April 2009.

Each part is the length of a long novella or short novel and is set over the course of a week (or thereabout), divided into chapters for each day.

"We All Fall Down" was nominated for several awards in the  2007 Daria Fanworks Awards (the Booties). Similarly, "All The King's Horses" was nominated for several awards in the  2009 Booties, and *Turnabout Confusion* as a whole was nominated for Favorite Ongoing Series in the 2009 Booties.

## Setting

The story is set in universe Daria-7 of the Daria Multiverse, during Daria's junior year, around the time of Daria 101 Season 3. We All Fall Down is set in mid-winter, around February, and All the King's Horses picks up the story "two months later" in April.

## Characters

(Partial List)

* Daria Morgendorffer
* Quinn Morgendorffer
* Helen Morgendorffer
* Jane Lane

***Factions***

**The Fashion Club**

* Sandi Griffin
* Stacy Rowe
* Tiffany Blum-Deckler

*Fashion Club Wannabees*

* Brooke
* Tori Jericho
* Kelly

**Cheerleaders**

* Dawn Wilkins
* Zoe Becker
* Lisa
* Angie
* Nikki

*Uninvolved Cheerleaders*

* Brittany Taylor

**Outsiders**

* Andrea
* Jen
* Scarlett
* Upchuck

**Faculty**

* Angela Li
* Anthony DeMartino
* Samantha Morris
* Diane Bennett
* Timothy O'Neill

**Interested Guys**

* Skylar Feldman
* Corey
* Zachary
* Robert
* Jim
* Jamie White
* Jeffy
* Mack Mackensie
* Joey Black
* Evan Larson
* Taylor Billings

**Others**

* Superintendent Cartwright
* Richard Riordan, partner at Vitale, Davis, Horowitz, Riordan, Schrecter, and Schrecter
Terry Wicklemore

**Terry Wicklemore** is a fan-created character from Roentgen's The Hallowed Halls of Fielding. He is a junior student at Fielding along with his best friends Tom Sloane and Patrick Hackney VII. He made his first appearance in Part 3 of the series, as a fellow student in one of Tom's classes at Fielding. He was born and raised in Illinois before being sent to Fielding; the Wicklemores are an influential Illinois family.

Physically Terry is a portly, dark-haired young man whose personality is at the border between a restrained droll wit and over-the-top flamboyance — he would like to be catty like Elsie Sloane but unlike Elsie, Terry would like more to be the center of attention. If Fielding offered Drama majors it would be his major and his goal is to work in theater or movies as as actor after graduating from Fielding.

He became close friends with Tom and Pat shortly after arriving at Fielding. Like many young students at Fielding, the three were seriously bullied by the older students. Terry, however, was gay and his sexuality was discovered in fifth grade — the older students beat up not only Terry but also Pat and Tom, his defenders. The beatings did not stop until Terry pledged allegiance to a secret society at Fielding only known as "The Mafia", a society of gay male students willing to physically confront gay-bashers. (For years, Tom thought that it was the willingness of the three to stand up to the bullies that stopped the bullying, but he has been recently disabused of this theory.)

Terry is not known to have a boyfriend but he does live in a dorm at Fielding with several Mafia members. It is implied that his roommate is gay. Terry might be to some degree polyamorous.

Terry's more flamboyant side can be observed when he is hanging around with his Drama friends. He serves as a gossip, calling Tom at all hours to share some juicy morsel regarding campus happenings. He was the person who alerted Tom that Claire Davidson had attempted suicide. When not gossiping, he tends to hang out with Pat Seven and get intoxicated.

A conversation between Pat and Tom implied that Terry was starting to pursue his own interests outside of the trio — or at least, that there are several things about Terry's life that he shares with neither Pat nor Tom.
Wizard Computers

**Wizard Computers** was featured in the episode Prize Fighters. It ran the scholarship program, the Wizard Foundation, which was the focus of the episode. Among other things, they do surveillance software.

It is a stereotypical "evil corporation," fronted by "redneck billionaire" Mark Straum, bringing to mind H. Ross Perot's software and services firm, Electronic Data Systems, notorious for its authoritarian corporate culture when Perot ran it.

Wizard is known for extremely dinosaurian hiring policies, rarely taking on women and ethnic minorities. Tom Sloane also refers it doing mass layoffs of workers.

Tom Sloane has expressed contempt for the company and called it "evil". Andrew Landon expressed amusement at how backward their policies and CEO were, but believed somebody in the company must want to reform it or they wouldn't be running a scholarship program.

Somehow, the people running Wizard Foundation mistook a deliberately acerbic attack on them by Daria as a "light-hearted spoof".

## Wizard Computers in fanfic

In the Legion of Lawndale Heroes universe, Wizard Computers was founded by Russell Stark (who would go on to be the founder and primary source of funding for the Legion, as well as the inspiration for The Alliance), and Bill Brower (who bought Stark out for an undisclosed amount, but is rumored to be in the tens of billions of dollars).

In J-D's "Not So Different" genderswap series, 'Sonny' Morgendorffer - a gay teenager - bluntly asks Wizard's interviewer why he should try to win when they'd not want to hire gay men at their company. It is revealed while such men do work there, they are forced to stay in the closet.
The Helen-Jane-Jodie Connection

**The Helen-Jane-Jodie Connection** is an essay by Kara Wild, written in January 2000.

## Summary

Wild examines three of the most influential women in Daria's life and looks at what they have in common, and how those traits affect Daria.

## External Links

* Essay at the Contrarian's Corner
* Essay at Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
The CRAPPIES

**The CRAPPIES** were "anti-fanfiction awards" meant to counter the Booties, taking place in early 2005 and 2006.

## History

Seeking to spur discussion on the nature of fanfiction writing and critiquing, Kara Wild created the CRAPPIE awards for fanfiction. The CRAPPIES encountered a lot of criticism on both sides, with some fans saying it went too far, while others saying that it did not go far enough. Because Wild meant for the CRAPPIES to shine a light on the excesses of fanfics that were widely considered "good," fans like CINCGREEN felt that she was just giving already popular writers more exposure, while ignoring the truly bad ones. Wild countered that truly bad fanfic authors deserved no exposure, good or bad, and that the CRAPPIE awards were meant to instill humility in fanfic authors. Wild oversaw the 2004 CRAPPIE awards, while RLobinske and Quiverwing (then nmorgendorffer) oversaw the 2005 CRAPPIES, with Wild's input. By early 2007, however, Wild realized that she had read little fanfic from 2006 and was too busy to hold the anti-awards, and decided to discontinue them.

The Angst Guy believes he would have swept the field for 2006 had the awards been held a third year, given his increasing number of wins in the previous years. [*I could've been a contender! - TAG*]

## Categories

* Best Use of a Lot of Words to Say Very Little
* Most Unbelievable "Real" (Canon) Dariaverse Situation
* Most Unbelievable Alternate Dariaverse Situation
* Fanfic Most Likely to be a Favorite of the Fashion Club
* Fanfic Most Likely to Make You Start Drinking (or Make You Start Again) (Angst/Drama)
* Fanfic That Kevin Would Find Most Funny (Comedy)
* Fanfic Most Likely to Make Ms. Li Call You a Fascist (Action)
* "Wha... Huh?" Most Incomprehensible Storyline
* Fanfic With the Most Gratuitous Mentions of Daria Fans or Fanfic Authors
* Fanfic Most Likely to Cause Diabetic Shock
* Visual Most Likely to Cause the Reader to Gouge His/Her Eyes Out
* Fanfic Most Likely to Abuse Our Tolerance of Mary Sues
* "Well Duh." Most Heavy-Handed Foreshadowing
* Biggest Titanic of Fanfiction (Worst 'Shipper Story) (\* added in the 2nd Annual CRAPPIES)
* Biggest "What the Fuck?" Ending
* Most Out of Character Daria
* Most Out of Character Jane
* Most Out of Character Quinn
* Most Out of Character Helen
* Most Out of Character Jake
* Fanfic Most Likely to Make You Run Off Screaming Into the Night

## External Links

* The 1st Annual CRAPPIE Awards (dead link)
* 2nd Annual CRAPPIE Awards (dead link)
Teeki

*Daria* fanfic author who starts more things than she finishes. Attended the Orlando Dariacon 2008. Has an unholy penchant for ramen noodles.

## Biographical Information

Teeki first saw Daria during the Daria Day 1998 marathon. As she didn't have cable, she didn't catch any further episodes until 2000, when I Loathe a Parade first aired. At the time, she was a student at Bradley University in Peoria, where she managed to not meet Brother Grimace despite living in the same town as him for four years. Since graduating in 2003, she has flopped around, searching for just the right teaching job and working at Blockbuster. She resided for many years in the Chicago area, but continued the Great PPMB Girls Migration of 2008 by moving to the Kansas City metro area and working at Bed Bath and Beyond as head Gift Packaging Bitch.
The Look-Alike Series

**The Look Alike Series** is an extended series in both script and prose form by Canadibrit, sometimes co-authored by Ben Yee.

One of the most well-known *Daria* fanfic series in fandom during the show's run and the popular enough to have a series of fanart dedicated to it, the Look-Alike Series (also known as **TLAS**) details the adventures of Daria and company after Lynn Cullen, a girl who looks and acts almost exactly like Daria (except Lynn wears purple instead of green and her hairstyle is slightly different), transfers to Lawndale High. It starts off as a then-standard school story with Lynn and the existing cast as wish-fulfillment rebels against the powers that be ("the Flak-Jacket Mafia"), with Daria and Jane being far more rebellious than they were in the show. Over the life of the series it escalated to find, among other things, the characters at war with the mob and a Mystik Spiral US tour.

The series consists of six "seasons," with interstitial specials, but the final season has not been completed - thus leaving the series in a darker place than was likely intended, with Daria on the psychological brink and (in a metafic touch) attacking Lynn for changing her world into a more chaotic state. The first "episode" is A Meeting of The Brains.

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Lynn Cullen is revealed in later fanfics to be Daria's half-sister, a result of Helen having a brief affair almost two decades earlier with Jerome Smythe.

## Original Characters

* Lynn Cullen
* AP McIntyre

## External Links

The series at Outpost Daria Reborn

Fanart of the series
Three

A cross-universal science-fiction story by Richard Lobinske that finds versions of Michael Fulton, John Lane, and Tim O'Neal recruited by Richard, a "hypersphere supervisor" of an interdimensional agency, to pursue an alien using an Architects Gate, a dimensional wormhole like the one behind the Good Time Chinese Restaurant to jump between different realities to kill Daria.

The alien is attempting to prevent the events Daria starts that leads to the alien species' final extinction. The conflict spans numerous alternate universes, some of which are linked to fanfics by other authors. Part of the story's action takes place as a prequel to Lobinske's Mother's Love saga, with which this story is further linked.

This story first introduced the character of Richard and and the inter-dimensional organization, "The Agency".

Among the alternate Darias encountered is one that never left Highland or attended college, and worked at an all-night diner to put Quinn through college.

Another alternate Daria is an "Evil Daria" that was clearly less inhibited and did not possess the same scruples as the baseline character.

## External Links

* Three at Fanfiction.net
* Three at Outpost Daria Reborn
Rose-Colored Lenses

**Rose-Colored Lenses** was written by Kara Wild in April 1999 and is the first installment of the Driven Wild Universe. Like most other installments, it is written in quasi-script form with three Acts and commercials.

## Summary

Quinn gets a long-overdue eye exam and learns that her eyesight has suffered a major decline. She reluctantly gets glasses, but finds herself torn between fear of being called a "geek" and wonder at the new world opened up to her.

## Commentary & Reviews

The title plays on the phrase, "seeing the world through rose-colored glasses," referring to the change of perspective Quinn undergoes when she is forced to wear glasses and begins a slow change in personality throughout the rest of the DWU series. Contrary to the meaning of the phrase, however, Quinn does not initially believe the world and her situation appear better; she feels quite the opposite. In startling contrast to the typical Hollywood treatment of women with glasses, Quinn starts out beautiful, cute, and shallow, and is transformed by her glasses into becoming beautiful and intelligent. This begins one of the many unexpected reversals of trope for which the DWU series is justly famed.
Three Devils

**Three Devils** is an alternate universe story by atiyatortilla, in which Daria Morgendorffer fell in with a *baaaaaaad* crowd in Highland. Now, in the present day (a post-canon time), Daria is the muscle for Todd Ianuzzi's notorious Three Devils gang and following a violent clash, she's lying low in some suburb called Lawndale.

Unfortunately, that's the same suburb her estranged family moved to years ago.

It originally started as a one-off response to a prompt, to write a story based on the 'Biker Daria' Alter Ego from S1. The longer version is influenced by the work of the late RX-87, in particular his "Homeless Daria" stories.
Tania

**Tania** is a classmate of Daria's and backgrounder given name via seating chart in "Cafe Disaffecto".

She's a fan of Mental in the Morning, left horrified by Daria's comments in "Jake of Hearts", and is hanging out with Kelly at "Cafe Disaffecto".

In fanfiction, she's a member of the Anime Club in cfardell\_Brenorenz29's "Quinn's Code".
Virtual Lawndale

This was a webpage on the now defunct MTV *Daria* website showing an interactive map of Lawndale, based on the map shown in The Daria Diaries but with significant changes and additions. The page is no longer available as the Daria site on MTV.com has long since been taken down. Among other locations not shown in The Daria Diaries are Kevin Thompson's house, Jake Morgendorffer's office, Helen Morgendorffer's law office, The Pizza Place, and The Zon.

## External Links

* Virtual Lawndale webpage on the MTV *Daria* website - No longer available
* Virtual Lawndale captured by The Wayback Machine
Wally

**Wally** is a salesman at Honest Lee's New & Used Autos, who Jane and Brittany talked to about buying cars in "Partner's Complaint". Or rather Jane did, as Wally ignored her to flirt/sleaze on an oblivious Brittany (who remembered him as "that nice man" and asked him if they had football when he was in high school). They eventually got the car offered at $100 over dealer's cost.

Then Wally showed up at Casa Lane in "[my] hot new Vexer" - Jane never gave her the address - so he could find Brittany again. Then, later, he showed up at Pizza King to seek her out and offer her a car. You little creep, Wally.
Tom Griffin

**Tom Griffin** is an accoutant by trade, the husband of Linda Griffin, and father of Sandi, Chris and Sam Griffin.

## Character Overview

Tom has a very short screen time, only making a very brief appearance in the season 2 episode "Fair Enough" where he's a feeble individual (he then disappears after chasing after his sons). He knows the Morgendorffers and they know him.

He appears in a family portrait in The Daria Database, along with his age and profession (he's a CPA by then), and his recurring questions about whether he should have married "plain Petty Wells" instead. "She was always so happy to see me and such a good sport. Still, there was that mole..."

## In Fanfiction

Tom Griffin is often portrayed as man unwilling to stand up to her wife Linda and unwilling or incapable of handling his two sons. The Griffins married life is also often presented as all but happy.

He is usually a secondary character in the stories he appears in.

Stories in which Tom notably appears or has a noted influence are:

* Blast from the Past, by Nemo Blank
* Esteem Roller, by legendeld
* Children of the Scorn by Kristen Bealer
* Winter in Hell by TAG - Though he does no appear, he is important to the backstory.
The Daria Temporal Analysis Project

An essay by Richard Lobinske that examines the often contradictory short- and long-term time references in each episode and book.

The essay examines each season separately and notes time references for each episode, if any are present. The books "The Daria Database" and "The Daria Diaries" were included under the first two seasons.

Also included were approximated timelines for the show, assuming graduation dates of 1999, 2000 and 2001 for Daria and company.
The Alter-Ego Chronicles

**The Alter-Ego Chronicles** is a post-canon series by The Excellent S. The series speculates on the futures of the show's characters based on their "future egos" presented in the closing credits of Is It College Yet?, the final official production of the Daria series.

## Stories in Series

* The Alter-Ego Chronicles 1: Rowe'd Racin': Stacy's future in motor racing is in doubt. Will a return to her home town for a career-defining race bring a change of fortune?

* The Alter-Ego Chronicles 2: (Change The Story) Morning Glory: Daria and Jane's hit breakfast TV show undergoes a rebranding by a stubborn new programming director, much to their displeasure.
What I Think About Valentine's Day

**What I Think About Valentine's Day** was an editorial by "Philosopher and former TV star" Daria Morgendorffer for The Huffington Post, "as told to" Glenn Eichler. This was the second time he'd returned to the character for an article, after "Daria Morgendorffer's Greatest Retail Regret".

Daria recounts her feelings about Valentine's Day and other holidays, reveals that she has a current boyfriend, and also gives several anecdotes about her childhood: being five years old and booing at E.T. when the alien comes back to life ("that's the only birthday party I remember being invited to as a child") and spending every May Day by slamming her parents' door open and yelling "MAYDAY!". ("Then I'd consult my watch to see how many seconds it took my father to realize the bed hadn't been hit by a German torpedo and it was okay to crawl out from under it. Man, that never got old. Unlike my father, who for some reason seems to be aging prematurely.")

Suprisingly, Daria is in favour of Valentine's Day for three reasons:

a) She's fine with other people being sappy if they really want to be

b) She also likes how the holiday causes anxiety for people, as "it can't hurt for Americans to be reminded once a year of their basic lack of eloquence".

c) She especially likes the 15th of February when all the Valentine chocolate is on discount.

## Extreme trivia

Daria refers to CVS when she talks about the discount chocolates. Because some states don't have CVS at all or don't have the CVS retail outlets, we now know that adult Daria doesn't live in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, or Wyoming.

Don't judge us.

## External Links

The article
The article at The Huffington Post
Wildgoose

**Wildgoose** is the author of Unseen Phenomenon and the Submariner Series, also credited as **Steve Mitchell**. He created and maintained a fan website called Hell Is Other People that collected fan art, fanfiction, and many screen captures and examples of MTV art for *Daria*.

## External Links

* Wildgoose's fanfics at Outpost Daria
* Hell Is Other People main page (archived at Archive.org)
* Brief autobiography at Hell Is Other People (entry dated 8/5/2002)
Worldhopper

**Worldhopper** is a fanfic by Erin Mills. It is the counterpart to the Worldburner shared world setting, and said by Mills to be "Act III" of The Judith Saga.

The story followed the adventures of the Daria Morgendorffer of universe Daria-6 as she found herself involuntarily traveling to various worlds in the Daria Multiverse - starting with Mills' first story, Killjoy Was Here - and encountering alternate versions of herself, including the reality hopping villainess, Judith. This version of Daria suffered hallucinations of gruesome disasters from ages 5 to 12, which started to come back at age 18: unknown to her, her hallucination and nightmare was a vision of the destruction of universe D-316.

Worldhopper concluded in late April. 2013, with a summary (written by Erin) of the events and fates of all involved characters and settings shown during The Judith Saga. (Erin felt that he couldn't finish the fic in a satisfactory manner, but wanted fans to have a definite sense of closure to the series.) He also gave permission for interested writers to use the original characters who survived (particularly The Padre and NegaJane) in their own works.

## External Links

* Worldhopper by Erin Mills (PPMB)

* Judy Blue: A Worldhopper/Worldburner Prelude by Erin Mills and Brother Grimace - sequel to The Legion Encounters 'Part 2 - An Unexpected Stop'", debut of Judy Blue; takes place prior to the Worldhopper prologue

* Worldhopper: Ring Shadow by Richard Lobinske - Set during the events of Worldhopper, this story looks at the efforts of The Agency to handle undead infestations after the loss of the Ringbearers as well as other issues cropping up as they and the The Foundation try to figure out Judith's plans.
Superheroes

Superheroes were used as occasional fodder for Alter Ego images in the *Daria* show. In-universe, Kevin Thompson is a fan of the fictional superhero Ratboy, Daria once saw Beavis and Butt-head running around thinking they were superheroes (and getting a beating). Marvel superhero The Thing was seen at Burger World once with his chronicler, Stan Lee.

In *Daria* fanfic, superhero fics are a subset of alternate-universe storytelling, in which one or more characters of the show have fantastic powers beyond the norm and use their abilities to fight evil (or commit it). This form of story has become increasing popular in recent times. Crossovers with either the DC Universe or the Marvel Universe are frequent.

Examples are many and varied, ranging from farcical comedies to world-destroying melodramas. Among other stories offering *Daria* characters with startling powers and abilities are these.

* Doggieboy and many other contributors: Tales of the Ringbearers

* The Angst Guy: "The Amazing Adventures of D-Day and the Mighty Jane," "Deus Jane" (Jane), "A Hard Days' Night" (many characters), "Illusions" (the Angel character; story written with CharlieGirl and Angelinhel), "Jane Unchained" (Jane), "A Knight to Remember" (the Batmobile), "Like Angels' Visits, Short and Bright" (Amy Barksdale), "Making the Breast of It" (Brittany), "The Morgendorffer Code" (Quinn), "No One Lives Forever" (Brittany), "Nuthouse" (Jake), "Outcasts from Beyond," "The Original Underground Government-Suppressed Version of Brother Grimace’s Classic Daria Fanfic, 'The Sun Will Come Out, Tomorrow'," "Scarlett" (many characters), "The Thirteenth Man" (Mack), "Three Ways of Looking at a Tiffany Blum-Deckler" (Tiffany), "Uranium in the Drinking Water" (Daria).

* Brother Grimace: Although not technically considered as superheroes, several characters with powers appear in "Lunch Hour In Lawndale," "It's All About Respect," "Tapped Potentials," and "Behind Enemy Lines." Daria also appears as the 'Dark Defender' (a Supergirl-styled heroine) in 'Back in Fifteen Minutes'.

* Ranger Thorne: Daria's Web series (Daria/Spider-Man)

* Roentgen and Brother Grimace: "Legion of Lawndale Heroes," an ongoing series based on DC's Legion of Super Heroes.

* NightGoblyn: "Lawndale's Finest: The Last Daughter of Krypton," a fusion with DC universe where Jane takes Superman's place and Daria takes Batman's.

* Richard Lobinske made Daria the daughter of Marvel's Doctor Doom in his Daria Von Doom Series. While she technically is not superpowered, numerous powered characters from the Marvel Universe appear in the stories, including Doctor Doom, The Fantastic Four, Franklin Richards, Valeria Richards, Spider-Man, Kang the Conquerer, and Mephisto.

## Essays on *Daria* Superheroes

* "Daria and the Marvel Universe," by DJW
* "Jane Lane: Hero in the Making?" by TAG
The House on Space-Time Lane

This unfinished science-fiction story by Galen Hardesty is a crossover with the fourth *Doctor Who*. Daria and Quinn Morgendorffer discover strange happenings within their house that reveal the mystery of what happened to the previous owners. The peculiar nature of the home at 1111 Glen Oaks Lane (the Morgendorffers' address, per *The Daria Database*) is in large part grounded on actual discrepancies in the way the house is shown in the animated episodes, leading Daria and Quinn to conclude the house itself violates the laws of three-dimensional space.

Tied for "Favorite Science Fiction" story in the 1st Daria Fanworks Awards

See Schloss Morgendorffer.

## External Links

The House on Space-Time Lane at Outpost Daria Reborn
The Ranting Klown

**The Ranting Klown** is a fanfiction author.

## Fandom History

Entered the fanfic community in February of 2006, with an attempt at an in-canon piece Citizen Jane, profiling Jane's fight to become student body president of Lawndale High.

However, he soon became known for posting highly out of canon serials on the PPMB, with memorable contributions involving stories about Jane becoming a secret movie star, and a 1st and 3rd person account about Tom and the decision he made to court Daria set to *Hey Jude* by the Beatles.

One of these serials was repackaged and emerged as North and South, The Ranting Klown's first attempt at a Daria/Trent shipper. In amongst all this, he started work on his only series, The Rest of My Damn Life which has been generally received well by readers. Recently, The Ranting Klown went back to in-canon work, and produced Just us Two and the Devil Makes Three, memorable for it's snappy dialog.

Currently, he is working on a new piece, where four members of the PPMB are set to make cameos.
Three Js

> "*Quinn! You spoke to us!*"
> ― Jamie, "Fat Like Me"
>
>

Three students at Lawndale High, **The Three Js** are boys obsessed with one of their classmates, Quinn Morgendorffer. Quinn was only able to remember the names of Joey and Jeffy, often calling Jamie "Jameel", "Jason," and other names that began with "J." Ironically, Jamie is the only character to be given a last name in canon. In the shooting script for "The Invitation", they're described as "three nearly identical jockboys".

By the process of elimination on the ending credits, we know the voice actors for the three are Steven Huppert, John Worth Lynn, Jr and Tim Novikoff. We don't know which was which.

Though in competition with one another for Quinn's affections, and having come to blows in The Invitation, the characters appear to share the same brain, and together are almost smart enough to be considered a single person of only marginally-below-average intelligence. They often appear to think as a collective, such as in Groped by an Angel, when they manage to collectively arrive at the conclusion that Quinn's "guardian angel" is actually a human suitor who is "way too old for her." They also convince themselves, somehow, that Timothy O'Neill, the "Language Arts" teacher, is Quinn's guardian angel.

Quinn uses them without any sign she cares about them or the effort they put into her. Early on, she admitted she didn't want to go steady with any of them but still tells them to keep "paying attention to me and buying me stuff and driving me places". Even though she picks them in "One J at a Time" when she seeks a steady boyfriend, she writes them off for such 'failures' as needing to pee during her lengthy phone calls and being unable to take her to a sold-out concert. In MTV's feature "Love is a Way Too Many Splendored Thing", Quinn sums them up: "These guys are fun to hang out with, except when they are fighting over me, which is even better."

"The Daria Database" took their obsession over the line and showed us their "Quinn Central Reconnaissance Room", where they keep a record of Quinn's routes to school, her class schedule, a black phone to report in Quinn sightings (mainly used by Jamie to send them to false locations), lovingly-preserved items Quinn borrowed (and broke), and a Red Phone set aside solely for Quinn to call. "It has yet to ring."

They were also on the school's football team along with Kevin Thompson and Mack Mackenzie.

They are:

* Joey, the black-haired one
* Jeffy, the redhead
* Jamie White, the blond

## External Links

Scenes from Lawndale High - What are they doing without Quinn around? by Wassersauefer

The Three Js character page on Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)