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==Young woman of mystery==
Little is learned about Andrea during the five years that ''Daria'' ran on [[MTV]]. The tone is set in [[Cafe Disaffecto]] when we catch the end of Andrea's coffeehouse [[poem]], which concludes "I'm here. But where are you? Sure, I see your body. Anybody home in that rotting bag of flesh?" Later in that same episode, she was seen hiding a beer bottle.
The few hints we get regarding Andrea confirm her cynical outlook on life. Her locker is adorned with a skull and crossbones poster and a biohazard poster ([[Arts 'N Crass]]). She is happy to make a bet on Mr. DeMartino getting injured in the DJ/Faculty roller hockey game (and it is implied that she wins the betting pool). When [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] foolishly tries to raise money from Lawndale High Students so she can get plastic surgery ([[Too Cute]]), Andrea asks Quinn if she's worried there might be a hell.▼
▲The few hints we get regarding Andrea confirm her cynical outlook on life. Her locker is adorned with a skull and crossbones poster and a biohazard poster ([[Arts 'N Crass]]), and when everyone is shellshocked by their assignment in "[[The F Word]]", she's grimly doodles a coffin. She is happy to make a bet on Mr. DeMartino getting injured in the DJ/Faculty roller hockey game (and it is implied that she wins the betting pool). When [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] foolishly tries to raise money from Lawndale High Students so she can get plastic surgery ([[Too Cute]]), Andrea asks Quinn if she's worried there might be a hell.
Andrea's parents make her work at Payday ([[Mart of Darkness]]), and she's not happy about it. In ([[Daria's Inferno]]), Daria gives Andrea a cowbell to put in her nose to annoy her parents, and Andrea says: "That ''is'' irritating! Perfect." Daria's Inferno is Daria's dream, but if this is an indication of how seriously Daria takes Andrea and her goth sub-culture, it could be a reason why the two aren't friends or even acquaintances, even though they seem to have a lot in common. ▼
Andrea can be often seen in the background but is very rarely hanging out with anyone - a rare exception is when she sits next to [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718060250/http://www.theangstguy.com:80/backgrounders/077.html "Hot Shades"] at lunch in "[[The New Kid]]" and hanging with [[Backgrounder#V-Neck|V-Neck]] in the arcade "[[Partner's Complaint]]". Otherwise she seems to have less social interaction than even Daria.
The only other hint of Andrea's inner life comes from cartoon strips in [[The Daria Database]] drawn by "Andrea 666" called ''Gothic Nights: The Adventures of Queen Hecuba.'' The three cartoon strips deal with Queen Hecuba (a thinner, more regal version of Andrea) vanquishing enemies consisting of [[Charles "Upchuck" Ruttheimer III|Upchuck]], [[Kevin Thompson|Kevin]], the [[Lawndale High School]] faculty (except [[Janet Barch]]) and [[Mack Mackenzie]]. While the reasons for her antipathy toward the others is understandable, her beef with Mack is puzzling - the other enemies are all tricked into defeat and humiliations, while "Sir Mack the Fearless" is Hecuba's "archenemy" and requires fighting. That strip ends with a spectral version of Barch arriving, which terrifies Mack into retreat and causes Hecuba to give Barch a job; this makes Barch the only teacher given a positive role in the strip. Does Andrea like Barch?▼
She was part of the yearbook committee in "The New Kid" but said not a word during it.
In one strip, Queen Hecuba seeks to rescue her "beloved brother [[Damien]]" from an evil king. It is unclear if the unseen Damien is based on a real-life brother of Andrea's. ▼
▲Andrea's parents make her work at Payday ([[Mart of Darkness]]), and she's not happy about it. In ([[Daria's Inferno]]), Daria gives Andrea a cowbell to put in her nose to annoy her parents, and Andrea says: "That ''is'' irritating! Perfect." Daria's Inferno is Daria's dream, but if this is an indication of how seriously Daria takes Andrea and her goth sub-culture, it could be a reason why the two aren't friends or even acquaintances, even though they seem to have a lot in common. Daria also dreams of Andrea working for Upchuck and massaging his feet in "[[Murder, She Snored]]." ''Why?'' We don't know.
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▲In one strip, Queen Hecuba seeks to rescue her "beloved brother [[Damien]]" from an evil king. It is unclear if the unseen Damien is based on a real-life brother of Andrea's.
==Andrea in "Mart of Darkness"==
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