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She never speaks again after this episode. The "[[Oh, the Obscurity!]]" feature on MTV's old ''Daria'' website says, tongue in cheek, "she dropped out of sight shortly thereafter. (Sandi probably had something to do with it)".
She appears in the back of classes taken by [[Quinn Morgendorffer]] and
In "I Loathe a Parade" she and [[Backgrounder#Blue_Shirt|Blue Shirt]] seem to have something going on: the two are standing together, and Blue Shirt leans over to put his arm around her as Daria passes. (They are later pelted with candy by the football team, who misunderstood what 'passing out candy' means) Given her popularity, she probably dates a lot.
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Vast hordes of Popular Girl One appearances (many can be seen in the links below) started in spring 1999, when [[Austin Covello]] named her '''Tori Jericho''' in "[[Boy Fiend]]." Austin continued to use this name in other stories (e.g., "[[Otherwise Known as Quinn the Great]]"), and the practice has since been widely adopted by other fanfic writers. (Austin even parodied his creation of the name in an [[AU]] tale, "Stacy Rowe, Evangelion Pilot.")
Tori's personality has remained stable through most fanfics featuring her: a mildly irksome, shallow, rumor-mongering popularity princess who likes attention and dislikes Daria. She has running appearances in [[Canadibrit]]'s [[The Look-Alike Series]] stories as [[Lawndale High]]'s "one-stop gossip shop and popularity gauge on legs"
In [[Brother Grimace]]'s "[[It's All About Respect]]," Tori is shown as on-air reporter/anchor for [[Lion Tales]], the LHS in-school news program. This role, too, has been adopted by other writers (e.g., "[[Four Play]]," by [[Crusading Saint]]).
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In the [[Daylight]] [[Legion of Lawndale Heroes]] fic ''[[The Hope Mission]]'', Tori is a Legionnaire named ''Wildfire'', one of the three most powerful Legionnaires, and appears to be composed of a deadly anti-energy form that she controls with the aid of [[Psychon-class devices|Mark 70 quantum stabilizers]]; with them, she can maintain a primarily human appearance that possesses [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TronLines 'Tron line'-style energy emissions] over her body. The number and intensity of the energy emissions varies with Tori's emotional state; the calmer she is, the fewer lines appear.
SOme fanfics even get ''sympathetic'' with Tori. In Shiva's [[Ethan Yeager in Lawndale]] and [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=610619#p610619 The Popular Girl Speaks] Tori has a carefully hidden intelligent side and at times borders on omnicapability, and is the niece of Dallas Grimes in the former; in a Random Pairing [[Iron Chef]] challenge, [[Princess Pasta]] paired Tori up with [[Ronnie]] in [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=729040#p729040 To Each Their Own] and has the girl depressed everyone ignores her outside of her looks and gossip;
==Trivia==
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130704133811/http://www.outpost-daria.com/fanfic/its_a_sick_sad_sad_sad_world.html "It's a Sick, Sad, Sad, Sad World"] by [[The Excellent S]] (Tori, along with Brooke, abandon The Fashion Club in the desert for not letting them in the group)
* "[[Lawndale Fighting Championship]] by [[The Excellent S]] (Tori replaces Stacy in The Fashion Club and subsequently feuds with her, among other events)
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=657512#p657512 Stop The Presses] by [[SacredDust]], with Tori as newspaper editor
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=610619#p610619 The Popular Girl Speaks] by [[Shiva]], revealing hidden depths
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