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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 Morgendorffer|Daria's]]
[[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 story on [[PPMB]], “[[Exchange Students]],” which reinvents
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
==Uberfics and Retrofics==
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==Reinventions and Crossovers==
Not all reinventions are [[crossovers]], and not all crossovers are reinventions. A reinvention's 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
[[Roentgen]]’s [[Legion of Lawndale Heroes]] series, currently continued by [[Brother Grimace]], has usually been called a [[crossover]] as it describes how things might have gone if the ''Daria'' characters had gained the powers of the DC Comics Legion of Superheroes (teenage heroes in the 31st century). However, the story could also be called a reinvention. (The Lawndale heroes have a "Legion Tower," like the Legion of Superheroes, but in the former case the setting is tailored specifically for Daria and company.) In the same vein, [[LSauchelli]]’s work-in-progress “[[Eldritch Evolution]],” which recasts ''Daria'' in the style of the TV series ''Heroes,'' is also a reinvention, as the background for the ''Heroes'' affects every aspect of the story, essentially reinventing it. In contrast, [[Richard Lobinske]]’s [[Daria Von Doom Series]] and [[TAG]]’s “[[Outcasts from Beyond]]” are [[crossovers]], not reinventions. The Marvel and DC Comics Universes exist in addition to the ''Daria'' setting, but do not affect the canon [[Dariaverse]] until late in the series, when the crossover for each begins.
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