Amy Barksdale: Difference between revisions

However, in "[[Aunt Nauseam]]," Amy tries and fails to make peace between her sisters, prompting Daria to remark, "So, then, after Aunt Amy arrived to save the day and within three minutes had totally regressed into the same preschool encounter group as her sisters...." The notion that Amy could "save the day" was not inherent in the episodes where she appeared; in "[[I Don't]]," she and Daria merely bonded, while in "[[Through a Lens Darkly]]," she advised Daria to get contact lenses (which Daria ultimately discarded). Where did the writer of "[[Aunt Nauseam]]" get the notion that Amy could "save the day"? Possibly from ''Daria'' fanfiction or fan comments.

 

Related to the Saint Amy theme is '''Maternal Amy''', in which she either has a baby and becomes a real parent or else acts ''in loco parentis'' for Daria because Jake and Helen are either dead, absent, or otherwise unable to raise her. The best example is the Amy Barksdale of [[Kara Wild]]'s [[Driven Wild Universe]], who has a live-in boyfriend (Joel) and has had a baby with him. Amy proves herself a good if somewhat exasperated mother. Perhaps the best story in this line is Ms. Wild's "[[Mother's Milk]]."

 

 

A trope-breaking version of this appears in "[[It Slipped Through My Hands, Like a Shadow, Like a Dream]]," in which Amy eventually becomes overwhelmed dealing with a mentally retarded Daria who has received little love and affection from her parents or sister.

 

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