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==Physical Appearance==
Amy is a half-head taller than the 5'2" Daria. She is shown with a trim but shapely hourglass figure in "I Don't" and "Through a Lens Darkly," with an oval face much like Daria's. However, her face becomes narrower and her figure thinner and less shapely in "Aunt Nauseam." Her thick, wavy hair falls to the bottoms of her shoulder blades and appears to be dark red in color in most images, though it could also be maroon or auburn. She keeps her hair parted in the middle, leaving her forehead bare. Her glasses have large round lenses almost exactly like Daria's, though she also uses contacts without the glasses. Pearl earrings decorate her ears, and she wears a necklace for formal occasions. Her coloration works best with autumn-toned clothing (rust, brown, beige, etc.), as does Daria's. Like her favorite niece, Amy appears to prefer pink lipstick.
 
==Personality==
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In "Aunt Nauseam," Amy makes a curious comment. In response to Daria, who said: "Mom and Aunt Rita are on the brink of mutually assured destruction, Quinn's obviously having a nervous breakdown, and Dad's on the lamb," Amy says, "Gee, reminds me of my childhood." This implies that Helen and Rita's frequent fighting caused their father to absent himself from the home, and had a negative effect on their mother as well.
 
Amy appears to be bright, well-read, introverted, prone to respond in an intellectual rather than emotional manner, and highly judgmental. Her smoldering anger over being the forgotten baby expresses itself as razor-sharp ridicule and scorn. She prefers to dress casually but with style. She appears to beComfortably self-sufficient, andshe is able tocan travel far afield on vacations, such as to Hawaii.
 
In many ways, Amy presents herself as what Daria could one day be, for good or ill. This point was made during "I Don't" and cemented in "Aunt Nauseam," when Amy got into a verbal fight with her older sisters in a way uncomfortably like Daria might do with Quinn, unless they found a way to get along. Quinn recognized this point before Daria did.
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 fanfiction than she has in the series (three appearances total).
 
Indeed, toTo 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 fanfiction than she has in the series (three appearances total).
 
==Appearances in ''Daria'' Episodes==
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