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[[Image:flip8.gif|right|frame|The Fashion Club, reinvented as a punk band like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones_(album) 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.
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. (If they state that they know they are not in the [[canon]] [[Dariaverse]], the story is then probably of the [[characters as actors]] sort.)
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]] 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 story on [[PPMB]], “[[Exchange Students]],” which reinvents Daria, [[Jane Lane|Jane]], and [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] (and their families) in startling ways.
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