Reinvention: Difference between revisions

190 bytes added ,  16 years ago
no edit summary
No edit summary
Line 2:
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.
 
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. The characters in a reinvention never catch on that they are not in their original homeland, as they were born and raised in whatever new world they inhabit. Their world is natural to them.
 
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.
Anonymous user