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Suni was Finnish by nationality, andSuni frequently consulted English-language dictionaries while writing his fanfics.

Suni's first foray into fanfiction was "[[End, Weekend, End]]," written in September 1999, a comedic script that he kept as close to canon as possible. In the forward, he stated "My ambition when I started to write this was that, if this script would have been turned into an episode, nobody would know that it hadn't been written by someone of MTV's people." He quickly won praise for his efforts, and followed up in November 1999 with a similar scripted fanfic, "[[Hotter Thanthan Hades]]." [[C.E. Forman]] was credited as being a strong influence on his tone and structure (although shades of [[Kara Wild]] could be found in his copious end notes).

Suni's next fanfic, "[[How Deep It Goes]]," would be dramatically different from his first two. Written in prose, in six parts, it involved Daria pondering the meaning of life after the suicide of a classmate. This would be the first of two prosefics that Suni wrote.

Suni was a fanfiction prescriptivist from the beginning, but as the months passed, he became more vocal in his opinions. He considered only scripted fanfics that maintained all of the elements of the show to be the only acceptable fanfics, and that anything that deviated from the series should be dismissed. He held C.E. Forman's writing up as the gold standard of fanfiction writing, irritating authors whose workworks waswere not completely canon. In February 2000, [[Kara Wild]] wrote a rebuttal essay, "[[The Off-Canon Approach]]," pointing out amongst other things that even C.E. Forman did not stay perfectly on canon.

However, after Episode 4.01, "Partner's Complaint," aired on MTV, Suni's became aggrieved by the show's direction, which he felt was pulling away from its roots as a sharp satire. Soon after writing "[[A Sick, Sad Goodbye]]," he followed up with a lengthy essay, "[[Cynic's Complaint]]." In the essay, he detailed how, in his opinion, "Partner's Complaint" betrayed the show as a whole. His opinions sparked a fierce debate amongst the <i>Daria</i> fans. While several defended the character development route that the show was taking, others sided with Suni, claiming that the show was losing its edge.