Chris Smith
One of the last remaining figures of the old Daria Fanbase.
Biographical Information
Upon watching a Daria marathon in August 1997, Chris became a fan of the TV series and started exploring the Daria fan community by reading fan fiction from alt.lawndale.com, Planet Daria, and Sick Sad World.
Fanfiction
In October 1997, he would write "More Than Anyone Can Take", an unofficial sequel to "Maine Escape" by Michael Pfeffer. Using Pfeffer's Mary Sue characters and a original character from one of Katherine Goodman's fanfics, Chris introduced a mysterious character called Kain. Eventually, the character, along with a host of additional of Chris's characters, would be used in eleven additional fics. Two more were in the works along with a real ending, but Chris fell into writer's block in late 1998. Chris attempted to write again, but after seven unfinished fanfiction attempts, it was apparent that he never truly recovered.
Chris now contributes to the Daria Fanfic Scenes That Should Not Be threads on Paperpusher's Message Board.
Finished Fanfiction:
- More Than Anyone Can Take
- The Death of a Dangerous Trend
- This Crap Called Fate
- The Virtual Massacre
- Ruckus in the Ring
- The Road Worrier: Take 2
- Standoff
- A Prelude to War
- Carnage in the Big Apple
- The End of an Era
- Misery Chick: Wrestling With Fashion
Unfinished Works:
- Hell is Other People - A Daria/Stay Tuned crossover
- The Crazy Funny Daria Show - A Daria-themed SNL/MadTV parody
- N.F.L. (No F***ing Life) - Daria and Jane become assistant Football coaches for the Lawndale Lions
- Morons in Disguise - A Daria/Transformers crossover
- Starship Lawndale - A Daria/Star Trek crossover
- Metal Gear: Solid Cynic - A Daria/Metal Gear crossover
- Grand Theft Auto: Lawndale - A Daria fic written in the mold of the Grand Theft Auto series.
Short Stories:
- Untitled-2 - Daria forgets that her life was merely a character on an MTV show, and slowly remembers who she and her friends/family really are.
- Best Friends - Told from Daria's POV, Daria and Jane put on a gruesome hardcore wrestling match for the town.
- Daria GTS (Grand Theft Sleigh) - A Christmas poem in the spirit of The Night Before Christmas.
Wrestling
In 1998, Chris began taking advantage of the Create-a-Wrestler (CAW) feature for the WWF/WWE video games, creating the Daria characters in a rather crude form of CGI. He would later form a fictional wrestling promotion centered around the wrestling matches between Daria cast members. As of 2007, Chris is preparing to launch a website with downloadable Torrents of wrestling matches between the Daria characters. So far, only one match has made it to downloadable distribution.
Games Used:
- WWF War Zone (Sony Playstation, Nintendo 64)
- WWF Attitude (Sony Playstation, Nintendo 64, Sega Dreamcast)
- ECW Hardcore Revolution (Sony Playstation, Nintendo 64)
- ECW Anarchy Rulz (Sony Playstation)
- WWF No Mercy (Nintendo 64)
- WWF Smackdown 2: Know Your Role (Sony Playstation)
- WWF Smackdown 3: Just Bring It! (Sony Playstation 2)
- WWF Smackdown 4: Here Comes the Pain (Sony Playstation 2)
- WWF Smackdown 5: Smackdown vs Raw (Sony Playstation 2)
- WWF Smackdown 6: Smackdown vs Raw 2006 (Sony Playstation 2)
- WWF Smackdown 7: Smackdown vs Raw 2007 (Sony Playstation 2, Xbox 360)
Art
In January 2007, Chris began work on Lawndale, a webcomic depicting events five years after Is It College Yet?, the Daria series finale. The comic is set to launch during the week of the Outer Banks (OBX, NC) Dariacon on the week of May 20-27.