Grandma Barksdale: Difference between revisions

[[Helen Morgendorffer]]'s mother, who is never directly seen or heard from in the [[Daria (TV series)|''Daria'' series]]. Her presence, however, is felt from Erin's wedding onward ("[[I Don't]]"). It is implied that she is unable to travel, and also implied that she is well off enough financially to afford showering Rita and her daughter [[Erin]] with gifts and windfalls. Of her three daughters, she is closest to [[Rita Barksdale]] and appears to favor her over Helen and [[Amy Barksdale|Amy]]. This spawned a long-running feud between the three sisters that is finally (one hopes) resolved in "[[Aunt Nauseam]]." Before then, Helen occasionally rants about the unfair treatment Rita gets, said rants being remarkably similar to her husband [[Jake Morgendorffer]]'s rants against his father.

The character was expanded in numerous fanfics, with many divergent names. [[C.E. Forman]] gave her an equally wealthy half-sister, [[Aunt Eleanor]], and the same rivalry that Helen/Rita had with Amy and Quinn with Daria. [[Kara Wild]] named her [[Evelyn Barksdale|Evelyn]] in the [[Driven Wild Universe]] and made her generally crusty, but loving. Later, [[Richard Lobinske]] would create [[Tess Barksdale]], the southern matriarch in the fanfiction series, [[Falling Into College]]. [[Roentgen]] introduced a ''Bethany'' Barksdale for [[The Hallowed Halls of Fielding]], a connected upper-class matriach, paying for Quinn & Daria's [[Fielding Prep]] education and ignoring Helen's authority in her attempts to mould Quinn into a 'proper' high society lady. [[Brian Taylor (author)|Brian Taylor's]] [[Moving Pictures]] has Edie Barksdale, a moderately wealthy woman who remarried in the 1980s and has a disintegrating relationship with her daughters Helen and Amy.