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[[Image:dariabbchristmas.jpg|right|frame|Daria with a boyfriend, leading a normal life—if Beavis and Butt-head had not existed (per ''A Very Special Christmas with Beavis and Butt-head'')]]
'''Alternate universe''' in fanfiction is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with the canon reality. An alternate-universe (AU) fanfic is one in which a change is made to the sequence of events that occur in the canon ''Daria'' TV series. AU stories are seen more often since the show went off the air, but it could be argued that many of the stories done while the series was ongoing were also AUs (e.g., [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]]/[[Trent Lane|Trent]] [[shipper]]s in which they actually date, or [[Kara Wild]]'s monumental [[Driven Wild Universe]]).
One can make a distinction between two types of ''Daria'' AUs. In the first, the alteration to events is made only to events internal to the series—i.e., not to the larger historical setting of the United States or the world. An AU in which Daria does not come to [[Lawndale High]] but instead attends [[Grove Hills]], for instance, is not assumed to be a consequence of a historical event outside of Daria's family; her parents had a choice of which school to send her to, and they chose Grove Hills.
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