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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. 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. In other fandoms a reinvention is usually called an “alternate universe,” but in ''Daria'' fanworks the latter term specifically refers to an [[alternate history]], to avoid confusion. The term “reinvention” has less ambiguity about it.

 

 

Some reinventions result from combining numerous [[Iron Chef]]-style fanfic-writing challenges in a single story. For example, a June 2007 [[Iron Chef]] was proposed by [[WacoKid]] that combined many separate Iron Chef challenges issued by another fanfic writer, [[Bliss Ticks]], resulting in the so-called “Bliss Ticks Challenge.” A third writer, [[CAP]], successfully answered the challenge with a remarkable tale in a divergent Dariaverse in which [[Daria]] is an alcoholic, [[Jane]] sells drugs, [[Tiffany]] goes to prison, and so forth. A similar collection of unrelated Iron Chefs produced “[[And When Your Heart Begins to Bleed]],” by [[TAG]], several years earlier.