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==Summary==
Former Lawndale High football star [[Tommy Sherman]]
However, Tommy Sherman is shown to be a very unpleasant person, strutting through the school halls, bluntly propositioning [[Brittany Taylor|Brittany]] and insulting [[Kevin Thompson|Kevin]] and [[Mack Mackenzie|Mack]] shortly after arriving in Lawndale High.
Daria, who witnesses this behavior, is fed up and verbally belittles Tommy when the later makes some nasty remarks to her and Jane as Daria was just asking him to move (he was leaning on her locker). Tommy, however, doesn’t get mad at the verbal barb and makes one of his own, pointing out HE’S a winner who’s going to be honored, whereas Daria is just a depressed whiner girl, nicknaming her ‘misery chick’. After the exchanged insults, he sets out to the football field for the ceremony. As Daria and Jane talk about his character and Jane wishes him dead, Tommy is crushed by the falling goalpost.
The next days are filled with reactions to his death. Mrs. Li address a student’s assembly, praising Sherman, as with an inconsolable Kevin cries all throughout the ceremony. Daria, on the other hand, Daria finds herself the object of much unwanted attention from other students and even a teacher. They feel either sad or anxious by the situation and consider Daria to be a candidate to understand death related subjects, since she is a thinking person. Despite her unease with her role and label of misery chick, Daria consoles Kevin, Brittany, [[Timothy O’Neil|O’Neill]] and even [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]]. At the same time, Daria founds herself being avoided by Jane.
Finally fed up with her friend’s absences, she goes meet her at the [[Casa Lane|Lanes]]. After a brief conversation with [[Trent Lane|Trent]], where he reveals Tommy and he had been classmates but hadn’t had much contact, Daria confronts Jane in her room. After and awkarwd beginning, her friend explains the reason the others were coming to her was that they were searching for ways to deal with Sherman and to stop thinking about life and death, thinking Daria would be the best to approach. Jane adds she doesn’t think Daria is a misery chick, and that she had been avoiding Daria because she didn’t want to remember that her comment might had caused the football player’s death, a notion Daria quickly dismisses.
Soon everything is back to normal in Lawndale high, though Daria is still approached a few days later. This time by [[Sandi Griphin|Sandi]], whose cat [[Fluffy]] is ill. However, Daria is now ready, demanding a cash payment in advance of delivering a blunt, though effective, advice.
==“The Misery Chick” and Fanfic==
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