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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 characters (and possibly the same setting, [[Lawndale]]), 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.
In certain fandoms, a reinvention is called an '''uberfic''' or "uber." This term originated in fanfiction for the TV show, ''Xena: Warrior Princess'', wherein certain episodes were shot depicting Xena and company in completely different settings. The characters wore clothing appropriate to those settings, but they still acting much as they normally did. In yet other fandoms a reinvention is usually called an [[alternate universe]], but in ''Daria'' fanworks the latter term specifically refers to an alternation in [[Dariaverse]] history, to avoid confusion. The term “reinvention” has less ambiguity about it.▼
A reinvention that involves placing Daria & company in an earlier historical period (e.g., the 1950s or the 1880s) is sometimes called a '''retrofic'''. [[Decelaraptor]] is a master of the form, producing numerous retrofics placing Daria and Jane in various settings with humorous effect. His relevant works include "[[Le Morte d'Angela]]," "[[Tales of the Missouri Cheyenne]]," and a host of short fics for an Iron Chef called "Retro Dariana" ("[[Daria: 1830]]," "[[Blimps Over Brittany!]]" and the bittersweet World War II tale, "[[Home is the Sailor]]"). The Retro Dariana thread also includes Gregor Samsa's excellent story, "[[Ms. Morgendorffer's Profession]]," about a Daria born during Victorian times.▼
The characters in reinventions might play out their lives in different time periods or genre settings: the modern world in 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 simply there with no explanation given.
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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.
==Uberfics and Retrofics==
▲In certain fandoms, a reinvention is called an '''uberfic''' or "uber." This term originated in fanfiction for the TV show, ''Xena: Warrior Princess'', wherein certain episodes were shot depicting Xena and company in completely different settings. The characters wore clothing appropriate to those settings, but they still acting much as they normally did. In yet other fandoms a reinvention is usually called an [[alternate universe]], but in ''Daria'' fanworks the latter term specifically refers to an alternation in [[Dariaverse]] history, to avoid confusion. The term “reinvention” has less ambiguity about it.
▲A reinvention that involves placing Daria & company in an earlier historical period (e.g., the 1950s or the 1880s) is sometimes called a '''retrofic'''. [[Decelaraptor]] is a master of the form, producing numerous retrofics placing Daria and Jane in various settings with humorous effect. His relevant works include "[[Le Morte d'Angela]]," "[[Tales of the Missouri Cheyenne]]," and a host of short fics for an Iron Chef called "Retro Dariana" ("[[Daria: 1830]]," "[[Blimps Over Brittany!]]" and the bittersweet World War II tale, "[[Home is the Sailor]]"). The Retro Dariana thread also includes Gregor Samsa's excellent story, "[[Ms. Morgendorffer's Profession]]," about a Daria born during Victorian times.
==Reinventions and Crossovers==
A reinvention is not necessarily a [[crossover]], though its development can be influenced by an external source, paralleling and perhaps even completely crossing over into that specific other source. For example, if magic of the sort seen in the Harry Potter stories existed in a [[Dariaverse]], but Hogwarts, Harry Potter, and so forth did not exist there, then the subsequent tale about [[Daria]] and company learning magic at [[Lawndale High]] would be considered a reinvention, since magic is pervasive in the setting, but not a crossover. If Hogwarts and Harry Potter were there, too, the story would be a crossover and a reinvention at the same time.
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