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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'Neill|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
Jane admits 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, and the two clear the air on all the sore points: that Jane doesn't think Daria's a misery chick, and that Daria knows Tommy Sherman shouldn't have died but that he also wasn't a nice person. Afterwards, Jane admits she told Trent to say to anyone that visits that she was out running. "What a surprise, he forgot." "He didn't," replies Daria.
Soon everything is back to normal in Lawndale high, though Daria gets to lay things down when asked a question about Tennyson's "better to have loved and lost" quote, as she says realising that life is both good ''and'' painful is being realistic, not miserable, and recognises pain is better than feeling nothing. Despite all this, Daria is still approached a few days later. This time by [[Sandi Griffin|Sandi]], whose cat [[Fluffy]] is ill. However, Daria is now ready, demanding a cash payment in advance of delivering a blunt, though effective, advice. ▼
==Trivia==
In ''[[The Daria Diaries]]'', Sherman is mistakenly called Tommy ''Sheridan''.
The later episode "[[A Tree Grows in Lawndale]]" shows a memorial tree for Tommy.
Daria's comments on Tennyson provide a contrast with later episodes, which make it clear Daria has traditionally disengaged from the rest of the world rather than deal with it; in "[[Psycho Therapy]]", she even admits she's aware of why she does this. This, however, was before she moved to Lawndale and met Jane, someone Daria has called her first friend. In "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", she'll withdraw again during a bust-up with Jane (following [[The Kiss]]) but find herself trying to convince a young boy, [[Link]], to not completely disengage.
▲Soon everything is back to normal in Lawndale high, though Daria is still approached a few days later. This time by [[Sandi Griffin|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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* [[Deus Jane]], by [[The Angst Guy]]
* [http://theangstguy.com/fanfics/antisocial.htm The Antisocial Climber
* [http://theangstguy.com/fanfics/lifebitparts.htm A Life of Bit Parts], by [[The Angst Guy]]
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