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Character Name: Daria Morgendorffer
Age: 19
Canon: Daria
Canon Point: Post Canon
History:

(Plot Synopsis of "Is it College Yet?", her post canon point before going to Forestcovered.)

It was a night of stress and unrest for Daria, who was frustrated with not settling into her college life after a few months attending. Her confidence took a hit and went to bed after writing her best friend an email that she needed to speak to her whenever she was free. In her dream, a being came forth and asked her if she wanted her troubles to go away. Unaware of the circumstances, unsure how lucid she was IN the dream, Daria complied. The next she knew, she arrived on a contract as a worker in Koriko. Their new bitter librarian.

She didn't need any friends, she thought. This place was too scary and filled with weirdos she couldn't trust. So at that point, she decided to just work off her debt and return. Life there had other plans and she met someone special. Ichimatsu Matsuno, a bitter loner with an equally dark air. Finally, maybe someone who could understand. Then she met others. Frisk and Mabel, optimistic children who engaged with her. Nari, an equally jaded and headstrong librarian. Unsure still on making social links, she went on to spit in the face of wishing magic by doing better at her insecurities on her own terms...growing closer to the people she found herself liking.

Daria was met with her first major tragedy when Ichimatsu got killed in the woods, a concept she couldn't grasp. People die and stay dead, and the Matsunos found death of each other as common place. She was given a glimpse of their world and tried to understand the sextuplets, because for some reason she really wanted to make sense of Ichimatsu. In her journey, she lost out on officially declaring a friend in Nari, as she was to go home. Never wanting to make that mistake again, despite clearing the air with her before she was too late (she hoped), she decided to regard people as her friends. She grew closer with the Matsunos (very oddly enough, to Karamatsu too), Frisk, Mabel, and others. With Ichimatsu especially, she noticed how he tried to be kind to her despite his own mistakes. This was a gesture that didn't go unnoticed. She even went on a "date" with him to a cherry blossom festival. A seed was planted.

In October, shortly before her birthday, he left. Frisk was gone. The majority of the Matsunos. So was Mabel. Daria was alone. Watching Ichimatsu's cat as a token to him...did she love him? Well...it was complicated, but after a dramatic event, he wouldn't be around for her to really find out. Daria grew lost, angry, confused, wanting to go home more than ever. Logically, she knew it wasn't fruitless after everything she grew to accept when it came to making friends. But emotionally, she felt wasted and devastated. She was meant to be stuck here while everyone else had someone else to be with, or who eventually went home to. She missed Jane too much to bear, and lived in a near comatose routine for a few months. After New Years was when she met someone again, a very bitter and angry boxer by the name of Juzo Sakakura.

Daria's opinion of him grew in time ever since he threatened some spirits who broke her glasses. He was dangerous, intimidating, and imposing. But he was the first guy who listened and really followed her remarks. After getting a hint of a dark past that he didn't make excuses for, and considering what she learned by that point in terms of friend making...she gave him a chance. After plenty of drama between the two and their flaws, the two Bitter Betties made a friendship pact. This friendship was the driving force for a long time. She also found a deep friendship with Kyoko, a jaded yet more intimate and emotional girl. But...was it going to be temporary again? Would she lose it all again? A deep fear that clouded her more and more as more time went along. Especially after she was reminded of Jane, the person she missed and trusted the most. A feeling she bonded with Juzo who felt the same for a certain housekeeper. However, the distance away from Jane and the realization that she was trapped hit a breaking point after her was reunited with the housekeeper. This made Daria feel alone again, like she was still going to be stuck here while people around her found their special ones.

After a year of dealing with her supreme loss and loneliness, she then tried to run away. She needed to be away from the pain she felt and couldn't stand the feeling of inevitable abandonment and decided she need supreme isolation instead. Not looking back, she ran and potentially put herself into danger doing so.

She immediately regretted this.

The sole remaining Matsuno had ran to try to find her and eventually did in an abandoned shack.

She returned feeling regret for her impulse mistake, a feeling the grew deeper after dealing with the confusion, concern, and anger from her friends.

With the help of Juzo and Kyoko especially, Daria came to conclusion that she needed to grow up. She was stupid to not consider others feelings toward her, and even stupider to not consider that maybe they wouldn't throw her friendship away like she feared. At that point, she decided that Jane needed to wait. She had to see this situation through, and she had to do it for herself and the people she grew to care about. Jane had to wait because she made a commitment with her friends. See wasn't going to throw them away.

Antics continued and life went on as it should, with Daria now accepting her life the way it was and survived with her friends. Her writing was at an all time high and soon enough, she reached the end and was allowed to go home. They say that you forget once you leave, but while Daria didn't remember she felt like she changed. Life was confusing but better at home until Koriko called her back for one last hurrah. She saw the people that mattered to her one last time, and told herself that she better not forget them. She needed to write a story about a boxer for Juzo, find a cat in honor of Ichimatsu, look at passionate artists like Kyoko and Karamatsu and remember them. She needed to know the support she gave and received from so many people. Frisk, Mabel, Ko, Noya, all of them. Koriko's magic waned, a new magic called for her. She remembered, and she found something in her pocket.

Personality:

When people meet someone like Daria, there can really be a wide amount of opinions. Her friends think of her as no nonsense, headstrong, realistic, wise, mature, and cool. Her foes would see her as negative, weird, creepily monotone, bitter, and plain. All are very true, to an extent.

Daria had grown up as a very antisocial type, and up to this point, still is. She's a very introverted sort who finds comfort in those few people, and judges a social situation quickly for comfort. Rather because, she very much prefers quiet and simple comforts. She is an avid reader and writer, and keeps to such creative and intellectual pursuits. She's the girl who was known as the "brain", someone who actively goes out of her way to avoid people and parties and would rather learn and study. Such is truly, as the girl has her room riddled with medical replicas and posters of Kafka. But that doesn't mean she doesn't have her vices: like garbage TV, bad movies, loud music, violent video games, and lots of greasy pizza. A total nerdy teenage girl.

Many people find her to be rather cold and not very personable at first, and she is. Daria has a rather low opinion of the world, and doesn't shy away from saying just how critical she is with rather snarky and cynical comments. While she's not as misanthropic as she was in the beginning of canon, she still isn't open to trusting people unless if they give her a real reason to. She still holds a contempt for the shallow and superficial, and is brutally honest about her opinions. But she holds her opinions close to her, and comes to her own decisions on them in the end of the day. Daria doesn't believe in faking enthusiasm, or faking in general, and doesn't even so much smile unless something really truly pleases her. She has a history of being so rigid on her values that she's just as hard on herself as she is on others, and that's because she has crazy high expectations of how things SHOULD be. Which, on the whole, ARE good; but they have fed her cynical outlook.

As she had lived in an environment that fought her through thick and thin on her ways of being herself, she had to have a lot of confidence, integrity, and strong will to keep being sane and true. Daria knows what she's about, and grew even more of a self awareness to herself and her flaws as she got older. She had even flatly stated when she was told how her attitude can make her miss out on things and that she knows it's not perfect, but it was what she knew. Daria's confidence isn't skin deep per-say, but she knows underneath her layers is a very sensitive center that could very well get hurt by others if she let it. That came about since she was around six years old, when the kids all made fun of her for being the bookworm kid. Her isolation is just as much self inflicted as it was from others around her. When a situation is not desirable, she has a tendency to send the barbs out quick. Sometimes too quick, making her look sometimes unfriendly and overly judgmental. When she's particularly angry is when she can be downright nasty, cutthroat and merciless. No matter if the person deserved it or not. If people hated her, that was fine. Better that people hated her than wait for them to hurt her. It was easier to be in the background to avoid permanent teenage exile. To deal with the crap from school and her family with sarcasm. It wasn't until she met Jane that she knew what having a friend was like. Someone to trust. Someone to care about.

Because of Jane, Daria had learned what it also meant to be a good friend. Despite her mistakes at times because of her social weirdness, it's usually very clear when Daria highly respects you. She struggles with intimacy but people who approach her with fairness and kindness do get it back. Which comes from deep within. She would be more willing to engage in discussion and the like, and see the points of view of such people. The more she likes you, the more you can see her true self. Despite her cold nature and deadpan expression, Daria is actually very quite compassionate. When people get hurt by the real cruelness of others and situations, she shows real distaste for it. Daria does help others, and has done so whether people ask for it or not. People who get that far usually do find her to be a safe place to discuss things because, no matter the situation, she was going to be as frank and honest as she could with any advice. Such things are totally sincere. She truly has a good sense of justice and moral fortitude, far above her peers that she sticks by. Her words and her mind are her power, and when they are really needed to solve and issue she will aim to use it. She grew a bit less defensive due to her growing world view that is constantly expanding, and the people she met across time and dimensions. In the end of the day, she follows an important mantra: stand firm for what you believe in, until and unless, logic and experience prove you wrong.

Which is one of her strongest points, her logic. Daria is highly smart. Genius level. Her skills in knowledge expand in book smarts and common sense. When she's going through a problem, she'll analyze the points to get to a resolution to the very best of her ability. Even though she acts apathetic and unmotivated, she has made strides to put effort into what actually matters. She'll go beyond really only when the situation really calls for it, but no work is left half finished. A bit lazy, but does things competently. No point isn't backed up with reasoning or evidence. There is no tolerance for nonsense of others, and she will tell people what she finds wrong in every amount of detail.

Her growth became more apparent while in Koriko. Besides the seasoned experience in the crazy supernatural, inexperience from her old life was put into play. This made her grow to be more susceptible to really try understand moral implications of the new world she was in and the worlds others came from. Daria now realizes that people are from other worlds that didn't have the same rules or privileges as hers. Thus, this helped her grow her skills in dealing with bad situations as they come and staying calm in a crisis. She's not going to win any social butterfly prizes, but her open mindedness had improved and her aim to be a more dependable person for the people stuck in the same crappy situation became more noticeable.

Powers/Abilities: Daria is just a normal human with a big brain. She has an uncanny ability to not give a few damns though.

Suitable Jobs:
- Librarian (or in charge of books), Pizza Joint Cashier, Coffeeshop barista, Tour Guide, Newspaper/Magazine Editor

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- Gloomy Cloud

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