Martin Peters

Martin Peters is a fictional character in Doggieboy's Apocalyptic Daria. A young man in his late teens, Martin is staying at the Carthage UMC Rescue Center with his parents, John Peters and Martha Peters, and working as one of the guards when Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane arrive in search of medical treatment after an attack by feral dogs.

While Daria and Martin share a watch together, they end up saving each other's lives during a raider attack, but Martin was seriously wounded in the process. Kathy Wilson performed emergency surgery which saved his life.

Before the attack, Martin asked Daria to be his girlfriend, but she turned him down and they became friends instead. Despite her initial refusal, there was a definite romantic spark between the two as well as friendship, which was seen by Jane as well as Martin's parents. It was also evident in a dream Daria has in which she and Martin spend a romantic interlude together. Despite her reaction at Trent arriving at Carthage with a woman he identified as 'his girlfriend', Daria and Martin do spend time together alone. It is unknown if they have consummated an intimate relationship.

Martin is a well-read young man (his favorite work is The Odyssey), he's a fan of Sick, Sad World and Mystik Spiral, and is adept in the ways of hunting and wilderness survival. Even though he and his family are at Carthage for mutual self-protection and community support, he and his family are from the area.

Martin keeps a personal stash of treats, including various chocolate-style items and Gummi Bears, which he rotates occasionally to ensure the freshness of the products. He has done so faithfully for several years, ever since a severe winter storm caused his family to be snowed in and he went without chocolates for a month. He is also fond of game dishes, including squirrel and dumplings with cornbread.

Martin and Daria grow together romantically and support each other during difficult times (Martin supported her when she believed that her family were all dead, and she supported him after his mother killed his father and Glen Bates during a shooting spree.)

Both are punished by the church elders over the belief that they had sexual relations inside the church (a lie started by Odell Jones). After their punishments are overturned by the assembled church congregation, they spend alone time in his garage.

It is during one such intimate time, that they learn that Helen Morgendorffer is alive and have to explain themselves to her.