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==Character Overview==
===In ''Daria''===
Landon lives in the town of [[Lawndale]]. She is an intellectual girl bound for a prestigious university, but she feels tremendous pressure from her parents, [[Andrew Landon|Andrew]] and [[Michele Landon|Michele]], to excel in school.
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Jodie does a lot of volunteer work, internships, and extra-curricular courses at the behest of her parents. In "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", she was working for most of the summer and could barely see Mack. In "[[The F Word]]", she'd tried to get some time off and failed, sounding defeated and later stating bitterly that "my parents would rather I drop dead from exhaustion than miss the opportunity to shred some bribe-taking congressman's incriminating phone bills." She would apply to Turner behind her father's back, only to let him push her into choosing Crestmore despite being miserable about the decision. When Mack pointed out to Andrew that she'd applied without telling him, however, her parents let her choose Turner. (Michelle appears to have pushed Andrew into this. In "Gifted," there were implications she'd done the same thing so Jodie could avoid [[Grove Hills]].)
====The Daria Diaries: "Living up to your Potential"====▼
In ''The Daria Diaries'' is an editorial for the [[Lawndale Lowdown]], written by Jodie, about "living up to your potential." As the editorial goes on, it becomes steadily more bitter as Jodie covertly refers to trying to please two unrealistically high (and mutually contradictory) expectations from her parents (corporate activity from Michelle and political legislation from Andrew), asking "what if she [Jodie] really wants to be a ballerina?"). She rerports being so pushed to succeed that she feels she's not allowed to take a break ("Fun is a luxury you cannot afford") and her belief that she's "not all that superior to the so-called 'norm'" but is terrified that if she makes a mistake, she'll slide into disgrace. As noted earlier, she even wonders whether she dates Mack because she really likes him.▼
"Always do your very best," ends the editorial, "never mind the terrible, terrible toll it may take on your spirit. Have a great summer!"▼
===In ''Jodie''===
In ''Jodie'', Jodie's left college and is working for the tech start-up [[Firstfinity]]. She's still dating Mack and made a new friend in college, a party-loving finance genius called Cas.
==Jodie and Daria==
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[[Jane]] seems to trust Jodie. She twice tells Jodie about Daria's problems ([[Ill]], [[Through a Lens Darkly]]), and tells Jodie about her problems with Tom and Daria ([[Fire!]]).
▲===The Daria Diaries: "Living up to your Potential"===
▲In ''The Daria Diaries'' is an editorial for the [[Lawndale Lowdown]], written by Jodie, about "living up to your potential." As the editorial goes on, it becomes steadily more bitter as Jodie covertly refers to trying to please two unrealistically high (and mutually contradictory) expectations from her parents (corporate activity from Michelle and political legislation from Andrew), asking "what if she [Jodie] really wants to be a ballerina?"). She rerports being so pushed to succeed that she feels she's not allowed to take a break ("Fun is a luxury you cannot afford") and her belief that she's "not all that superior to the so-called 'norm'" but is terrified that if she makes a mistake, she'll slide into disgrace. As noted earlier, she even wonders whether she dates Mack because she really likes him.
▲"Always do your very best," ends the editorial, "never mind the terrible, terrible toll it may take on your spirit. Have a great summer!"
[[Image:landonhome.jpg|frame|Jodie Landon's home in Lawndale]]
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