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Also called "OOC," "out of character" refers to any depiction in ''Daria'' fanfic that shows one or more series characters acting in a manner inconsistent with canon—e.g., showing [[Daria Morgendorffer]] as either stupid or obsessively fashion conscious. Alternate-universe depictions of canon characters may seen OOC, though an alteration to the usual cause-and-effect chain in the series is assumed to be responsible, and should be made clear in the tale as the lynch pin for the unfolding AU plot.
Part of the problem in evaluating an OOC situation is that an author can "[[cherry-pick]]" elements from canon and use them to show a character is not OOC, but a reader can often do an equally good job cherry-picking other elements to show the reverse.
=="Daria Would Never Do That!"==
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The "out of character" accusation is not a cut-and-dried manner. A fanwork could have an egregious instance of being out of character—for example, a fanwork showing Quinn as a fan of country music and NASCAR races. Many accusations of OOC, however, come from decisions made by a character during a story. The appropriate phrase is "Daria/Quinn/Jane/Jodie would never do ''that''!"
Whether choices made by a character are OOC if they go against what has been established before are a matter of contention. Some prescriptivist fans believe that the patterns of action established in canon episodes prescribe the actions of the canon characters—Daria will never join a school function, [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] will never have a steady boyfriend, etc. Other fans, however, take the opposite extreme, believing that circumstances and momentary irrationality can affect even the most consistent characters to make decisions one would not normally expect them to make.
The core problem is that the characters of ''Daria'' were not always shown to be consistent themselves. The most glaring example here is, of course, the moment when Daria kissed [[Tom Sloane]] in his car ("[[Dye! Dye! My Darling]]"), which many fans believed Daria would never have done in the first place. Other fans found reason to justify [[The Kiss]], but it remains the prime example of when a character was considered to be OOC during the series proper.
=="Out of Character" in Fanfiction==
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==External Links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_character Out of Character] at Wikipedia
* [http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/itslipped.htm "It Slipped Through My Hands, Like a Shadow, Like a Dream"] (see "Author's Notes II" at the end)
[[Category: Fanwork Conventions]]
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