Daria Multiverse

The Daria Multiverse is an artificial designation created by CINCGREEN that encompasses not only canon Daria episodes but all other Daria fanfiction universes as well, when those alternate realities explored in Daria fanfiction diverge signficantly from what is considered canon Daria.

These universes are designated by a numerical combination (and only rarely, letters) in the format "Daria-XXX", where XXX stands for the number. Since there is no way to automatically designate numbers, the method of assigning numbers is inspired by the late Marvel Comics editor Matt Gruenwald. In Marvel cosmology, the "number" of a universe is determined by the number of a comic book where that universe made its first appearance, or is heavily influenced by that book. The number might also relate to an important date or fact about that alternate reality.

Designations

Daria-39: the Driven Wild Universe, created by Kara Wild. The number comes from a type of eyeglass lens, CR-39. Quinn learns that her eyesight is poor in the first episode, "Rose-Colored Glasses", which necessitates Quinn wearing eyeglasses.

Daria-303: the canon Daria universe, which is the universe where all episodes of Daria take place. The numerical code arises from the air date of the first episode of Daria on March 3, 1997, or 3/03/1997.

Fanfiction tales placed in D-303 universe can be seen as fitting completely within the boundaries established by Daria episodes. D-303 stories do not significantly affect character development beyond the bounds of the show.

Daria-387: the universe of It's All About Respect, created by Brother Grimace. A major character in that universe is Kyle Armalin, whose college G. P. A. was 3.87 upon graduating from the U. S. Naval Academy.

Daria-918: the universe of the The Look-Alike Series. The numerical designation comes from the conceit that Daria has a look-alike -- "The Patty Duke Show" first aired on 9/18/1963, and the premise of that program is that Patty Lane has a look-alike cousin, Cathy Lane.

Daria-1026: the universe of Bed and Breakfast Man. The universe is titled after a song by the British band Madness, and the song belongs to the album, "One Step Belong" which was released on 10/26/1979.

Daria-23241: the universe of Steven Galloway's DF Continuum which includes such stories as Visitations. The designation comes from the tail end of Galloway's e-mail address at the time he submitted those stories to Outpost Daria.