Martin Peters

Martin Peters is a fictional character in Doggieboy's Apocalyptic Daria. A young man in his late teens, Martin is staying at the Carthage UMC Rescue Center with his parents, John Peters and Martha Peters, and working as one of the guards when Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane arrive in search of medical treatment after an attack by feral dogs.

While Daria and Martin share a watch together, they end up saving each other's lives during a raider attack, but Martin was seriously wounded in the process. Kathy Wilson performed emergency surgery which saved his life.

Before the attack, Martin asked Daria to be his girlfriend, but she turned him down and they became friends instead. Despite her initial refusal, there was a definite romantic spark between the two as well as friendship, which was seen by Jane as well as Martin's parents. It was also evident in a dream Daria has in which she and Martin spend a romantic interlude together. Despite her reaction at Trent arriving at Carthage with a woman he identified as 'his girlfriend', Daria and Martin do spend time together alone. It is unknown if they have consummated an intimate relationship.

Martin is a well-read young man (his favorite work is The Odyssey), he's a fan of Sick, Sad World and Mystik Spiral, and is adept in the ways of hunting and wilderness survival. Even though he and his family are at Carthage for mutual self-protection and community support, he and his family are from the area.

Martin keeps a personal stash of treats, including various chocolate-style items and Gummi Bears, which he rotates occasionally to ensure the freshness of the products. He has done so faithfully for several years, ever since a severe winter storm caused his family to be snowed in and he went without chocolates for a month. He is also fond of game dishes, including squirrel and dumplings with cornbread.

Martin and Daria do grow together romantically and support each other during difficult times (Martin supported her when she believed that all of her immediate family were dead, and she supported him after his mother killed his father and Glen Bates during a shooting spree.) They also share a snarky sense of humor.

Both are punished by the church elders over a fight he and Daria had with three bullies. It is later revealed that they were really punished over the belief that they had sexual relations inside the church (a lie started by Odell Jones). After their punishments are overturned by the assembled church congregation, they spend their private time alone in his garage.

It was during one such intimate time, that they learn that Helen Morgendorffer is alive and have to explain themselves to her when she catches them, alone and partially dressed. He later asked Helen to be his guardian; she accepted, but warned him that he was subject to her rules in much the same manner that Daria was.

It was revealed that Martin was just several weeks away from graduation and had offers to attend college at institutions in both Pittsburgh and St. Louis - cities that were destroyed on Black Saturday.

Martin has suffered several injuries since meeting Daria. He has been shot, twisted his ankle (which is later broken by one bully during the fight, lost his left thumbnail, smashed his left hand, has his head grazed by a bullet and was cut in several places by a rogue Marine named Kerry Thompson.