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[[Image:Shaggy2.jpg|right|frame|Shaggy in "Jake of Hearts"]]
A silent background character in ''Daria'', and the old "Oh, The Obscurity!" flipbook on MTV's website said "the ''Daria'' artists like this mellow dude so much that he acquired the nickname '''"Shaggy"'''" - named for his uncanny (and deliberate) resemblance to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_Rogers Shaggy Rogers] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo ''Scooby-Doo''] fame.
Shaggy is a skinny teen with unkempt light brown or dirty blond hair who wears an olive-green T-shirt, baggy gray or mauve pants, and stylish sunglasses even indoors. His earrings appear to have a long animal canine dangling from each. He has a long neck with a prominent Adam's apple, and his mouth is perpetually twisted to one side as if considering something or expressing mild disdain.
His name for production purposes is '''Boy Teen 8''' (''Oh, the Obscurity!''). In "[[Cafe Disaffecto]]," a seating chart is shown in [[Mr. O'Neill]]'s hands, according to which Shaggy is actually named '''Devan'''; before the clarity of the DVD release, this had been misread as '''Dewey'''. For consistency, the more commonly used nickname will be used here. (Do not confuse with the ''Daria'' fan artist, [[Beatnik Shaggy]].)
==Appearances==
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Shaggy appears sporadically in ''Daria'' fanfic as both a minor character and a prominent supporting character, but despite his peculiarities it wasn't until 2011 that he had a "breakout" role as a ''lead'' character.
As a background presence, he appears in Richard Lobinske's [[First Summer]] story, "[[Fun on the Fourth]]," as "Beatnik Shaggy"; in Richard's story "[[Spelling It Out]]" as Dewey; and in [[Canadibrit]]'s "[[The Look-Alike Series|Process of Elimination]]" as Shaggy
His peculiar appearances on the show were given a fairly convoluted explanation in [[TAG]]'s "[[A Hard Days' Night]]," which as expected involved supernatural forces & time travel, and made him responsible for the events of several key canon episodes. Here, he uses the codename Shaggy but is actually named Dewey.
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