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[[Image:flip8.gif|right|frame|The Fashion Club, reinvented as a punk band like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones The Ramones]]]
A '''reinvention''' is a creative recasting of the canon [[Dariaverse]], retaining the same setting ([[Lawndale]]) and characters, but with pervasive changes in canon plots, events, and relationships between particular characters. Some changes in the personalities, goals, values, or habits of the characters might also be present, though not enough to make them unrecognizable.
The characters in reinventions play out their lives in different time periods or genre settings: the modern world, foreign countries, the Old West, fantasy kingdoms, the far future, the Ice Ages, etc. The characters might be the ancestors or descendants of the canon ones, or they might be reincarnations, computerized entities, [[dream world|dream figures]], or just simply there with no explanation given.
A reinvention appears on the surface to be a type of [[alternate history]], but there are no specific points of divergence in the canon timeline that would produce a reinvention. It is possible that a reinvention could be the result of numerous timeline changes, but it would require so many of them that trying to pinpoint them all is essentially meaningless. Notable differences from canon appear throughout the story set-up of a reinvention, as the author retells the saga of [[Daria]]’s high-school years in a unique and personal way.
[[Napalm Kracken]] did much early on to popularize the notion of reinventions, though without calling it such, in his superb [[Daria Disenfranchised]] tales. Here, the main characters again play out their high-school lives but with all-new dialog and plot twists. The characters are still true to their canon selves, but as the world around them has subtly changed, their reactions also change, and the story heads off into lively new directions. An excellent recent example of a straightforward reinvention is [[NightGoblyn]]’s work-in-progress on [[PPMB]], “[[Exchange Students]],” which reinvents [[Daria]], [[Jane]], and [[Quinn]] (and their families) in startling ways.
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