Clovis Lee-Daniels

Clovis R. Lee-Daniels (no one currently knows what the R stands for) from DJW's series Open Windows, the best friend of Tom Sloane who first appears in "The Interesting Life and Times of Daria Morgendorffer". He is a well toned young man always dressed in black and is most noticeable for having his back hair tied back in a nearly waist-length braid not unlike those off old kung fu movies and his black leather baseball cap. He is always wearing a pair of shades that completely obscure his eyes and rarely if ever removes them willingly.

Although reasonably intelligent and possessed of a refined manner and a dry sense of wit, he is usually more well known for lacking common sense and an extensive knowledge of martial arts which he seems to have no qualms against using on anyone unfortunate enough to get in his way. He is from a wealthy if somewhat eccentric family of British origin, Clovis himself was born in Hong Kong when it was a British Colony due to his father being a diplomat at the embassy.

He became an avid fan of learning kung fu while attending school there becoming obsessed with learning all he could, his exact history between his move from Hong Kong to Lawndale is unknown since for many years he travelled with his 'Uncle Kenny' across most of Asia and other parts of the world, always learning and studying new martial arts. It is most likely that this 'pilgrimage' is what led to his 'unique' method of thinking and tendency to follow his own internal logic.

His relationships with the other cast can vary greatly, he is Tom's best friend and will always stick by him as will Tom, even if it does mean having to dive for cover sometime, the origin of their friendship has yet to be explained but no doubt involved much hilarity and collateral damage.

Daria on the other hand alternates between viewing him with begrudging respect, tolerance or as the bane of her existence depending on what he has just done (and who he has done it to.)

Jane and Clovis are currently dating after a blind date arranged by Daria before she had the full story in him, her responsibility for this coupled with the fact he and Jane are in a physical relationship seems to be the main cause of Daria's dislike of him, however the relationship is currently on rocky ground after Clovis wound up stabbing her Uncle Max in the shoulder...twice (the first time after mistaking him for a thief and the second time when he misinterpreted the saying 'I'd like to see you try that again' in a more literal sense.)

Clovis has a habit of causing amounts of mayhem around him, in the alternate future crossover With Fiends Like These, Wasabi states that Clovis's current one-day record is $3,459,112.56 worth of damage (although it is unknown if this includes the 78,359 dollars and 64 and a half cents he'd already caused since arriving in Boston) although if the present day version has come close to breaking this it is unknown which is probably for the best.

Proto-Clovis: Clovis originally turned up in DJW's earlier fanfic series 'Iron Cynic' (taken off the fansites due to the author developing the unfortunate habit of cringing whenever he read anything of it) and was more of a cliché 'mary sue' type original character.

When DJW chose to start over with a new series Clovis was reintroduced, however instead of toning him down the author chose to take the Spinal Tap approach and instead turned him up to 11, leading to the current loveable lunatic we have today.

the Clovis seen in The Dammitall Run! and the two Falling Into College crossovers (Band of Bothers and With a Little Help From Your Fiends) although appearing before Open Windows these where the first appearances of the redesigned Clovis.