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'''Trent Lane''' is
{{quote|Could you imagine what Spiral would sound like if we were ''forced'' to practice? Even when we didn't ''want'' to?|Trent, [[Is It College Yet?]]}}
==Appearance==
Appearance-wise Trent is tall and spindly with wild black hair and a goatee. Between Season 1 and 2, the appearance of his goatee changed from 3 stripes of hair to a small triangular "soul patch", and would remain that way for the remainder of the series. He has three ear rings in each ear like Jane and sports a tribal tattoo he got out of a magazine. His speech is laid back and he often coughs when he tries to laugh.
==Personality==
Trent is a narcoleptic slacker who spends most of his time oblivious to the world. Still living at home affords him a carefree life style that allows him to pursue his twin passions of music and sleep. ''Why'' he sleeps so much has never been elaborated upon, whether it be a literal case of narcolepsy or purely the side effect of a rock and roll lifestyle. He can nod off any time or anywhere, which Jane has said is an annoying habit while he’s driving (and in one episode this actually happened). This complete slacker lifestyle also involves the inability to keep a schedule, and he will keep missing the start of rehearsals or gigs; he claims that watches depress him because he's always late, and that's why he never wears them. In a rare interaction with [[Tom Sloane]] in "[[Mart of Darkness]]", he drives Tom to frustration and despair with his slacker ways.▼
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Despite his zoned-out nature, he's proven to be quite capable of identifying when something's wrong with Jane or Daria, and taking action to sort it out. Notably in "[[The Misery Chick]]", after Jane had been avoiding Daria and everyone else, Trent "forgot" that he'd been asked to tell people she was out and said he "thought" Jane might be upstairs.
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==Music==
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During his non-waking hours he likes to practice. He's been known to practice the opening to Nirvana's "Come As You Are" for hours, and when rehearsing his own songs the volume is cranked to maximum.
He also spends his time trying to invent lyrics. He can be inspired to start talking in lyrics or writing them, at any time or place. This too is another bad habit he has while driving, and in conversation (he once started doing a song about betrayal right after he'd tried to reassure Daria that she ''hadn't'' betrayed Jane).
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==Daria and Trent==
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Despite knowing that he was flaky, Daria had a crush on Trent for a few years in high school (first three seasons of the show). In their first encounters, she could barely ''talk'' when around him and spent half of "[[Road Worrier]]" deliberately holding back on her sarcastic remarks for fear of offending Trent. (It turned out Trent found them amusing.) The idea of embarrassing herself in front of Trent was a great fear of hers, and Jane would several times deliberately leave them together.
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==Personal History==
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His parents [[Vincent Lane|Vincent]] and [[Amanda Lane|Amanda]] allowed Trent, like all their children, to do as he pleased in his youth. A few quirks of his childhood were living in a tent for six months, and having gone through an ‘orange skin phase’. Amanda and Trent remember the tent affair differently: Amanda thinks Trent was just playing around and later lost interest, while Trent was actually waiting for someone to invite him back into the house and sounds upset that nobody ever did.
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During his school days, Trent once ''had a summer job'' at Lawndale Diner - [http://www.theangstguy.com/sounds/summersucks.WAV he wrote a song about it.]
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After graduation, after which point he met [[Nicholas Campbell|Nick Campbell]], Trent's "career" involves fronting the Spiral and writing lyrics. With the Spiral he mainly plays brew pubs and grunge clubs though they have been known to play high school house parties for the right price and even a child’s birthday party to get out of a ticket. He’s never known to have been formally employed in a conventional job but once wrote a jingle for [[Happy Herb|Happy Herb's]] used cars in exchange for twenty bucks, an hour of studio time and a set of new tires; this was a deep, dark secret he didn't want anybody knowing.
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===Trent's future===
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For the show's 20th anniversary, [[Susie Lewis]] explained how she thought the cast had turned out and [[Karen Disher]] drew 2017 versions of them for [http://ew.com/tv/daria-20-years-later/catching-up-with-the-daria-gang/ Entertainment Weekly's] [[Catching Up With The Daria Gang]]:
"While his Mystik Spiral days are over, Trent has found, well, not success exactly, but... a functioning band in [[Trent Lane and the Mystikal Explosion]]. He lives with his four bandmates in Queens. Trent had some financial success with Mystik Spiral's one-hit wonder, "Freakin' Friends," but since then has been making ends meet as a bartender. He and Jane still spend a lot of time together, and Daria often joins in. (See? It's not weird anymore, guys.)"
==Trent and Fanfiction==
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[[Image:Trentshipping.jpg|right|frame|A full 20% of all Daria fanfics ("[[Lane Miserables]]")]]
Despite what Glenn Eichler and the others writers intended, Trent/Daria [[shipper]] fanfiction ''abounds'' in fandom. The production rate of shipper fics used to be quite intensive during the first few years of the show, both fics that showed them getting together (especially [[Michelle Klein-Hass]] in the early days, and [[Ruthless Bunny]]'s "[[Bed and Breakfast Man]]") and fics that played up the crush ([[C.E. Forman]]'s "Lost Stories" fics). The number have gone down since then, and [[anti-'shipper]] fics have turned up to poke holes in the pairing, like "[[I've Waited Here for You]]" by [[Kristen Bealer]]. New Trent/Daria fics are still a frequent sight, however - [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=31873 Life As We View It] / [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=31913 Second Glance] by [[GingerLove84]]; "[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34866 Reunited and It Feels So Good]" by Person - however, as are fics that have the pairing in the background ("[[Drive (TAG story)|Drive]]" by [[TAG]]). Sometimes, as with "Reunited", these are post-show to get around the age gap.
The main depiction of Trent in fanfiction is either a similar role to canon - a helpful, decent (but lazy) ally of Daria and Jane.
Some fanfics will play up Trent's worse attributes and his obvious lack of a future for dramatic purposes, like [[E. A. Smith]]'s "[[Nowhere Man]]".
A minority of fanfics take a deliberately negative view of Trent, such as [[The Angst Guy]]'s "[[Darkness]]" where an older Trent is a physically and emotionally abusive man, and [[Smileyfax]]'s "[[My Best Friend]]" where Trent (in a deliberate [[alternate universe|twisting of canon]]) has always been an abusive psychotic.
Trent as a success became less prominent as fandom went on until Susie Lewis wrote "Catching Up with the Daria Gang" and presented Trent as a working rock musician. Post-canon fics will now often show Trent and his new band. [[LinnOfTheWoods]]'s [[LinnOfTheWoods Continuum|Continuum]] fics use this as a springboard, with Trent hooking up with original character [[Rose Norstein]] - this reveals the bar he works at is run by an older [[Upchuck]]!
▲A minority of fanfics take a deliberately negative view of Trent, such as [[The Angst Guy]]'s "[[Darkness]]" where an older Trent is a physically and emotionally abusive man, and [[Smileyfax]]'s "[[My Best Friend]]" where Trent (in a deliberate [[alternate universe|twisting of canon]]) has always been an abusive psychotic.
In [[Fashion Club Entertainment]] by [[tommyXmaserati]], Trent teaches Quinn guitar and Sandi vocal lessons when they decide to become an indie rock band.
==Misc. Trivia==
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