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[[image:amy-tald2.gif|right|frame|Amy Barksdale in "[[Through a Lens Darkly]]."]]
'''Amy Barksdale''' is the youngest sister of [[Helen Morgendorffer]] and the aunt of [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Quinn Morgendorffer]]. She became quite popular with fans of the TV series and has often appeared in ''Daria'' fanfic as a support giver for [[Daria Morgendorffer]]. Her roles and appearances in fanfiction are many times greater than her appearances in ''[[Daria (TV series)|Daria]]'' (three total).
==Getting the Timeline Straight==
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We are reasonably sure that Helen was born in the summer of 1950, though she was likely 47 at the time of "I Don't," which probably took place in spring 1998 (before Helen's 48th birthday). Amy Barksdale would then have been born about 1958, give or take a year, and Rita about 1947-1948. This becomes important later in working out the major events of Amy's childhood.
==Physical Appearance==
Amy is a half-head taller than
==Personality==
It's been said that Amy Barksdale clearly has mild amounts of psychological damage imposed upon her by her family. It becomes obvious from what she says that she was the forgotten baby of the family, always playing third fiddle against Rita's attractiveness and Helen's overachieving. She says she was ignored by her sisters, who constantly and ostentatiously struggled for attention from their parents. ("You didn't notice my sisters are so busy competing with each other that I don't even register on their radar?" she asks Daria in "I Don't.") Amy's mother (and possibly her father as well) strongly favored Rita under all circumstances and bailed her out of trouble time and again. This caused Helen to become even more of an overachiever, desperate to
Amy, on the other hand, remained "barricaded" in her bedroom and read "weird Russian novels" to avoid conflicts with her sisters (per Rita in "Aunt Nauseam") and possibly to avoid her parents as well, who paid her little attention. In this way, she avoided family responsibilities and did whatever she liked (per Helen). The situation led (in Amy's own words) to “years of bitterness and resentment” between all three siblings.
As an adult, Amy can be quite sarcastic to the point of rudeness when speaking with or about her sisters, even if she's talking to her nieces. She says what's on her mind and doesn't care what anyone thinks of it. Her lack of involvement in family life has carried over to the point that Daria and Quinn barely recognize her when she appears in "I Don't." Amy can't recall whether Daria is in high school, college, "or something." She's deliberately remained out of the picture for decades.
Indeed, to paraphrase something [[Canadibrit]] once wrote in a fanfic, Amy is the best indication that Daria is related to these people. That is likely the reason why she has appeared way more often in
In "[[I Don't]]", she attended [[Erin Chambers|Erin]]'s wedding, and escaped with Daria to get cheese fries and, more importantly, implicitly suggest that there's a place for one of Daria's mindset in the real world after all.
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