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An '''alternate universe''' (AU), in both canon fiction or fanfiction, is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with the canon series, but different in some fundamental way.
There has been only one AU shown in canon: ''[[It's a Miserable Life]]'' in ''[[Beavis and Butt-head (TV series)|Beavis and Butt-head]]'', where we see what [[Highland]] would be like if Butt-head had never been born. In it, Daria is a happy, well-adjusted girl with a boyfriend, and the whole town is a nicer, more prosperous place
''Deliberate'' AU stories are seen more often since the show went off the air. A number of fanfics done while the series was ongoing - like [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]]/[[Trent Lane|Trent]] [[shipper]]s in which they actually date, or [[Kara Wild]]'s monumental [[Driven Wild Universe]] - ended up diverging from canon, but may or may not be viewed as an AU.
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==Types of AU==
One can make a distinction between two types of ''Daria'' AUs.
===Canon-based changes===
[[Image:Flip69.gif|right|thumb|240px|Axis victory in World War II is one of the more common alternate histories.]]
Three particular points in the series are often used as the diverging point in this AU. The first episode of the series in which Daria arrives in Lawndale and meets Jane, "[[Esteemsters]]," has received enormous attention and has been re-written many times. (See [[Esteemsters and Daria Fanfic|"Esteemsters" and ''Daria'' Fanfic]].) The circumstances and fallout of [[The Kiss]] have also had great attention, being a significant (and divisive) moment in canon (see [[Dye! Dye! My Darling#Dye! Dye! My Darling and Fanfic|Dye! Dye! My Darling and Fanfic]]). Daria/Trent [[shipper]] tales that strengthen the crush into mature love and the entire Daria-Tom-Jane triangle have also been revisited on a regular basis, though the former less often of late.
A popular subdivision of this AU are those stories in which the sex of a major character is reversed (assuming the usual 50/50 chance of having a boy or girl with each birth); the [[John Lane series]], [[Finn Morgendorffer]] series, and "[[Darius]]" are examples, but earlier tales along this line have been told, such as [[MMan]]'s "[[Brother, I Asked for It]]," in which Daria [[dream world|dreams]] Quinn had turned out as Quint. It's most common to see a male version of Jane - there've been John, Jake, James and Zane Lanes - in order to see how the Daria/Jane dynamic would be with Jane as a male (and thus a potential love interest). Notably, when Daria or Quinn's gender is switched, the siblings are usually shown to have a ''better'' relationship than in canon, under the assumption that they'd be less 'in competition'; the Finn Morgendorffer series is a notable exception, with the relationship being far ''more'' vicious and ugly.
===Changed universe===
In the second type of AU, a change to world history has taken place—the Confederacy wins the American Civil War, Nazi Germany wins World War II, etc.—and the story describes the possible consequences of such a change. "[[Gone]]" by [[The Angst Guy]] (Cuban Missile Crisis turns nuclear) and "[[The Other Side of Time]]" by [[The Sidhe]] (Confederacy wins) are two such examples. This kind of story is called '''alternate history''' or '''counterfactual history''' in mainstream science fiction. For details, see [[Science Fiction#Alternate History SF|alternate history SF]].
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