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Player Name: Rae
Player LJ: aircrash
Contact: you know this!
Character Number: F-four.
Character: Daria Morgendorffer
Fandom: Daria
Personality: It would be easy to write off Daria Morgendorffer as a simple misanthropic teen misfit with no use for 99 percent of the rest of the world, but that would do her character a great disservice. There is, in fact, more to Daria than the “Negative Nelly” image she presents at first glance.
In point of fact, Daria claims she’s not actually a misfit - she’s just not like everyone else. She doesn’t necessarily enjoy being an outcast, but she doesn’t want to be part of the in-crowd, either. Dealing with people - especially people her own age - is just more of a headache than it’s worth, in her opinion. In “Gifted,” she claims she’s “too smart and too sensitive to live in a world like ours at a time like this [...] this attitude is what works for me now.” This is her justification for how she presents herself to the rest of the world. Daria knows she’s different than most people, and she’s not willing to compromise her sense of self simply for the sake of fitting in, so she chooses to revel in that deviation from the norm instead, because (in her opinion) it is the lesser of two evils.
Daria has strong opinions about things, obviously. Her standards are rigid and ridiculously high; she’s extremely critical of everything and everyone, herself included, and she doesn’t shy away from making her opinions and observations known in an extremely vocal manner. Sarcasm is her default mode, and her wit is both quick and acerbic - she can even be downright vicious, if the situation (in her opinion) warrants it. Though she holds herself under the same critical lens as she does for everyone else, it’s far more often the others who are the subject of Daria’s ire; in “Esteemsters,” she quips “I don’t have low self-esteem [...] I have low esteem for everyone else.”
Just because Daria isn’t perky and doesn’t make an effort to act differently doesn’t mean she’s depressed, either. She’s not miserable, and attempts to pigeonhole her as such are met with irritation, as seen in “The Misery Chick.” In fact, Daria is capable of a full range of emotions - anger, fear, despair, joy, etc. - but she expresses herself in more subtle ways than most other people. She’s shown smiling, blushing, even doing stupid things like piercing her navel for a boy (“Pierce Me”); she displays genuine guilt and remorse at the realization she’s perhaps unintentionally made her parents’ lives difficult just by being herself (“Boxing Daria”). Daria can also be jealous and vindictive, such as when her best and only friend Jane Lane takes an interest in boys (“See Jane Run,” “Jane’s Addition”), causing Daria to feel threatened by the intrusion and potential loss of Jane’s companionship.
At the top of the list of Daria’s major flaws is her tendency toward harsh criticism, which at some points leads to a nasty judgmental outlook and streak of elitism. She’ll also sometimes act in an aggressively unpleasant manner toward people as an active defense mechanism, which stems from fear of rejection. For the most part, however, Daria is extremely self-aware, even of her flaws.
Despite the inclination to have as little to do with most people as possible, Daria isn’t completely awkward socially. She can be amiable with her classmates, up to and until the point the situation calls for other tactics. She does have and maintain one good close friend, Jane, even through serious conflicts that might have broken up an otherwise-solid friendship. She even has a steady boyfriend (Tom, the source of the aforementioned conflicts with Jane) by the series’ end. And Daria does manages to survive her mildly maladaptive home life with an odd sense of harmony. She tolerates her parents with a sort of blithe amusement and respect until their attention becomes too invasive, at while point she withdraws, but she does genuinely care for them; when her father suffers a heart attack, she’s notably concerned about the idea of his mortality, and when troubled with the decision of which college to attend and how it will impact her future, she takes honest note of the advice her mother offers. Daria’s relationship with her younger, vacuous, popularity-obsessed sister Quinn is antagonistic throughout most of the series (as we are told it has been their entire lives previous), but there are a few points in certain episodes (“Too Cute,” “Aunt Nauseum,” “Speedtrapped,” for example) where they’re able to set aside their differences and help each other out, or at least work together toward common goals. By the end of the series, the sisters’ relationship grows into something that can even be classified as amicable - Quinn admits to her friends that Daria is, in fact, her sister, whereas through most of the earlier seasons, she’d claimed Daria was a cousin or taken in from Witness Protection.
Daria appears apathetic and unmotivated, opting in almost every situation to take the path of least effort, but she does on multiple occasions stand up to those in authority who misuse their power. She will take risks if they serve her purpose, such as in “This Year’s Model,” when she invites a right-wing mercenary group under the school principal’s name, to make a point about the integrity of accepting money from a modeling agency out to recruit new teen models from high schools, or in “Fizz Ed,” when she is basically the only person to stand up and point out the questionable ethics of allowing aggressive soft drink marketing at Lawndale High in exchange for money. For the most part, though, Daria is content to slide by without making much of an effort to involve herself, both in schoolwork, extracurricular activities, and her personal life. Despite the fact that she’s shown spending minimal time and energy on her studies, she still receives top marks, and often is the only student in her class with half a clue on the teacher’s lecture topics. She’s very smart, and it’s one of the main reasons for ostracism from her peers, who too often are content to dismiss her as “a brain.”
History: Wiki links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daria_Morgendorffer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daria#Setting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Daria_episodes
http://www.dariawiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Daria_Morgendorffer#Daria.27s_Growth
Daria’s an 18-year-old high school grad turned college freshman, and outside of the everyday tortures of dealing with her family and high school, her life hasn’t been terribly eventful. Daria moved with her family to Lawndale when she was 15/16; her home life prior to this move seems to have been relatively peaceful (as peaceful as living with her particular brand of dysfunctional family could be, anyway) and uninterrupted. The episodes comprising Daria’s five seasons tend to be more character-driven, using Daria herself as a foil for commenting on the absurdity of modern middle-class American suburban life, as opposed to centered on an overarching plot other than “survive high school without resorting to self-trepanation." Even most of the “big issues” Daria encounters (such as learning to drive, deciding whether to be sexually active with her boyfriend, choosing a college to attend, etc.) are fairly mundane.
Timeline: Post-series.
Abilities: Outside of her gifted intellect and acerbic wit, nothing - Daria is merely a mortal teen girl.
Inventory: Just the clothes she’s wearing.
Link to an image of the character: You’re standing on my neck.
Player LJ: aircrash
Contact: you know this!
Character Number: F-four.
Character: Daria Morgendorffer
Fandom: Daria
Personality: It would be easy to write off Daria Morgendorffer as a simple misanthropic teen misfit with no use for 99 percent of the rest of the world, but that would do her character a great disservice. There is, in fact, more to Daria than the “Negative Nelly” image she presents at first glance.
In point of fact, Daria claims she’s not actually a misfit - she’s just not like everyone else. She doesn’t necessarily enjoy being an outcast, but she doesn’t want to be part of the in-crowd, either. Dealing with people - especially people her own age - is just more of a headache than it’s worth, in her opinion. In “Gifted,” she claims she’s “too smart and too sensitive to live in a world like ours at a time like this [...] this attitude is what works for me now.” This is her justification for how she presents herself to the rest of the world. Daria knows she’s different than most people, and she’s not willing to compromise her sense of self simply for the sake of fitting in, so she chooses to revel in that deviation from the norm instead, because (in her opinion) it is the lesser of two evils.
Daria has strong opinions about things, obviously. Her standards are rigid and ridiculously high; she’s extremely critical of everything and everyone, herself included, and she doesn’t shy away from making her opinions and observations known in an extremely vocal manner. Sarcasm is her default mode, and her wit is both quick and acerbic - she can even be downright vicious, if the situation (in her opinion) warrants it. Though she holds herself under the same critical lens as she does for everyone else, it’s far more often the others who are the subject of Daria’s ire; in “Esteemsters,” she quips “I don’t have low self-esteem [...] I have low esteem for everyone else.”
Just because Daria isn’t perky and doesn’t make an effort to act differently doesn’t mean she’s depressed, either. She’s not miserable, and attempts to pigeonhole her as such are met with irritation, as seen in “The Misery Chick.” In fact, Daria is capable of a full range of emotions - anger, fear, despair, joy, etc. - but she expresses herself in more subtle ways than most other people. She’s shown smiling, blushing, even doing stupid things like piercing her navel for a boy (“Pierce Me”); she displays genuine guilt and remorse at the realization she’s perhaps unintentionally made her parents’ lives difficult just by being herself (“Boxing Daria”). Daria can also be jealous and vindictive, such as when her best and only friend Jane Lane takes an interest in boys (“See Jane Run,” “Jane’s Addition”), causing Daria to feel threatened by the intrusion and potential loss of Jane’s companionship.
At the top of the list of Daria’s major flaws is her tendency toward harsh criticism, which at some points leads to a nasty judgmental outlook and streak of elitism. She’ll also sometimes act in an aggressively unpleasant manner toward people as an active defense mechanism, which stems from fear of rejection. For the most part, however, Daria is extremely self-aware, even of her flaws.
Despite the inclination to have as little to do with most people as possible, Daria isn’t completely awkward socially. She can be amiable with her classmates, up to and until the point the situation calls for other tactics. She does have and maintain one good close friend, Jane, even through serious conflicts that might have broken up an otherwise-solid friendship. She even has a steady boyfriend (Tom, the source of the aforementioned conflicts with Jane) by the series’ end. And Daria does manages to survive her mildly maladaptive home life with an odd sense of harmony. She tolerates her parents with a sort of blithe amusement and respect until their attention becomes too invasive, at while point she withdraws, but she does genuinely care for them; when her father suffers a heart attack, she’s notably concerned about the idea of his mortality, and when troubled with the decision of which college to attend and how it will impact her future, she takes honest note of the advice her mother offers. Daria’s relationship with her younger, vacuous, popularity-obsessed sister Quinn is antagonistic throughout most of the series (as we are told it has been their entire lives previous), but there are a few points in certain episodes (“Too Cute,” “Aunt Nauseum,” “Speedtrapped,” for example) where they’re able to set aside their differences and help each other out, or at least work together toward common goals. By the end of the series, the sisters’ relationship grows into something that can even be classified as amicable - Quinn admits to her friends that Daria is, in fact, her sister, whereas through most of the earlier seasons, she’d claimed Daria was a cousin or taken in from Witness Protection.
Daria appears apathetic and unmotivated, opting in almost every situation to take the path of least effort, but she does on multiple occasions stand up to those in authority who misuse their power. She will take risks if they serve her purpose, such as in “This Year’s Model,” when she invites a right-wing mercenary group under the school principal’s name, to make a point about the integrity of accepting money from a modeling agency out to recruit new teen models from high schools, or in “Fizz Ed,” when she is basically the only person to stand up and point out the questionable ethics of allowing aggressive soft drink marketing at Lawndale High in exchange for money. For the most part, though, Daria is content to slide by without making much of an effort to involve herself, both in schoolwork, extracurricular activities, and her personal life. Despite the fact that she’s shown spending minimal time and energy on her studies, she still receives top marks, and often is the only student in her class with half a clue on the teacher’s lecture topics. She’s very smart, and it’s one of the main reasons for ostracism from her peers, who too often are content to dismiss her as “a brain.”
History: Wiki links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daria_Morgendorffer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daria#Setting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Daria_episodes
http://www.dariawiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Daria_Morgendorffer#Daria.27s_Growth
Daria’s an 18-year-old high school grad turned college freshman, and outside of the everyday tortures of dealing with her family and high school, her life hasn’t been terribly eventful. Daria moved with her family to Lawndale when she was 15/16; her home life prior to this move seems to have been relatively peaceful (as peaceful as living with her particular brand of dysfunctional family could be, anyway) and uninterrupted. The episodes comprising Daria’s five seasons tend to be more character-driven, using Daria herself as a foil for commenting on the absurdity of modern middle-class American suburban life, as opposed to centered on an overarching plot other than “survive high school without resorting to self-trepanation." Even most of the “big issues” Daria encounters (such as learning to drive, deciding whether to be sexually active with her boyfriend, choosing a college to attend, etc.) are fairly mundane.
Timeline: Post-series.
Abilities: Outside of her gifted intellect and acerbic wit, nothing - Daria is merely a mortal teen girl.
Inventory: Just the clothes she’s wearing.
Link to an image of the character: You’re standing on my neck.
