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According to Selective Soulmate, her interests are "aromatherapy, the tragic life and death of Margaux Hemingway, collecting fragile glass animals, assertiveness training". In "[[Life in the Past Lane]]", she becomes interested in stage magic and in "[[Is It College Yet?]]" she believes in curses.
We know she has had dates, but the only boyfriend we know by name is [[Bret Strand]] - who gave her up after a single date and then tried to avoid her. In "[[Fat Like Me]]", she recounts with shock that a date once took her to a chain restaurant.
Stacy was perceived as "the weakest link" of the Fashion Club by club president [[Sandi Griffin]] and was sometimes humiliated and verbally abused by her. While she viewed the other Club members as friends, they often seemed to ignore her: in "[[Fair Enough]]", her mass-crying over being stood up was not only ignored, [[Tiffany Blum-Deckler]] actually asked if that meant the guy was available. The idea of being excluded or on the outs with the club was one of the things that set her off: in "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", she utterly collapses when it comes out that Sandi and Tiffany didn't tell her something. ▼
▲Stacy was perceived as "the weakest link" of the Fashion Club by club president [[Sandi Griffin]] and was sometimes humiliated and verbally abused by her. While she viewed the other Club members as friends, they often seemed to ignore her: in "[[Fair Enough]]", her mass-crying over being stood up was not only ignored, [[Tiffany Blum-Deckler]] actually asked if that meant the guy was available. The idea of being excluded or on the outs with the club was one of the things that set her off: in "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", she utterly collapses when it comes out that Sandi and Tiffany didn't tell her something. In the later "[[Fat Like Me]]", we see the counterpart of this: Stacy not being bothered at all (and seems quite happy) when Sandi isn't in the Fashion Club anymore.
She constantly sought the attention and approval of fellow Fashion Club member Quinn and would often side with Quinn when her friend butted heads with Sandi Griffin before getting bullied into taking Sandi's side. In a memorable scene from "[[Gifted]]," Stacy completely relinquishes her own tastes so they become exactly like Quinn's, a change that Quinn didn't approve of and made her leave the house. It is shown on that episode that Stacy looks up to Quinn and considers her to be her best friend, sometimes to a point that even Quinn cannot tolerate. Quinn, for her part, is on friendly terms with Stacy on a day-to-day basis... but she won't date ''any'' boy that she discovers dated Stacy first, even marking them down on a list. ("[[The Daria Database]]") However, when Quinn is only allowed to invite one friend for sleepover in "[[Of Human Bonding]]", Stacy is her first choice.
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During Season Five of ''Daria'', several episodes spotlighted Stacy. She was the only member of the Fashion Club to be drawn favorably in a group caricature portrait in "[[Art Burn]]", and kept hold of the portrait and secretly pinned it up inside her closet. In "[[Life in the Past Lane]]", she was astonished by [[Charles "Upchuck" Ruttheimer III]]'s magic acts and willingly became his assistant, helping him do more elaborate tricks; for one trick, she ''faked'' a sobbing fit as part of the illusion that Upchuck was trapped, and memorably chided Sandi for being "so naive" (a chide Sandi had used on Stacy earlier) when Sandi fell for the trick. In "[[Lucky Strike]]", she revealed that, like everyone else, she'd known for ages that [[Daria Morgendorffer]] was Quinn's sister but was just being polite by not bringing it up.
In "[[Fat Like Me]]", she and [[Tiffany Blum-Deckler]] were left to run the Fashion Club all by themselves... which, in practice, meant ''Stacy'' was running the club and trying desperately to keep it from falling apart (more). At the end, she finally snapped and tore into Tiffany for not bothering to lift a finger to help: her first outburst of anger on the show. When the Club reformed, Stacy showed new backbone by
In the second movie ''[[Is It College Yet?]]'', Sandi continually makes condescending comments during Stacy's birthday party, and Stacy wishes that she would "stop talking" while blowing out her candles. Sandi then came down with laryngitis and Stacy believed it was her fault (Sandi went as far as calling Stacy a "saboteur"). She spent most of her scenes in the film trying to 'cure' Sandi through voodoo and magic. Even when Sandi got better, she tried to get Stacy to do a list of "chores" as an apology. Stacy quietly refused and decided to take a sabbatical from the Fashion Club, showing backbone once more: in doing so, she was the cause for the whole Club to break up, which she still found an upsetting thought (even though it was clear they were all going to keep hanging out ''anyway''). (Note: It is disputed whether The Fashion Club still exist as an hierarchical group in the post-canon.)
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