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==History==
Fanfic author [[Robert Nowall]] was the original inventor of Veronica, the supposed youngest sister of Daria and Quinn, in a story begun as a story fragment in a PPMB post (2/5/2004: “Another story idea dumped here...”). Daria awakens one morning to hear her mother call for her, Quinn, and Veronica to come downstairs to breakfast. Daria stops what she’s doing and says, “Veronica?” Other story fragments detail Daria’s increasing astonishment, confusion, and annoyance that everyone, even Jane Lane, believes Veronica is her youngest sister. Veronica, who looks like a younger version of Quinn with Daria’s round-lens glasses and sarcastic world-view, becomes increasingly distressed and angry because Daria claims she doesn’t know her.
She was originally created by [[Robert Nowell]], in a story fragment. She was then taken up by [[Renfield]] to produce the excellent and heart-wrenching ''[[Twilight's Own]]'', and later finished by Nowell himself in ''[[Next Time, This Time]]''. The character gained a life of her own after that. Her personality was further refined by [[Brother Grimace]], in his story ''[[The Trouble With Veronica]]''. She appears in [[The Angst Guy]]'s novella ''[[Darkness]]'' as Daria's half-sister.▼
The concept was an immediate sensation, as such things go, and Veronica was shortly adopted into other stories by many authors. A partial listing of all <i>Daria</i> stories including Veronica, in any of her various incarnations, follows.
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* “[[Twilight’s Own]],” by [[Renfield]] (a heart-wrenching shock-fic in the style of <i>The Twilight Zone</i>, based on Robert Nowall’s original story fragments).
* “[[Next Time, This Time]],” by [[Robert Nowall]] (a complete AU story collecting the original story fragments into a coherent and intriguing whole).
* “[[Esteemsters Reloaded]],” by [[Decelaraptor]] (an unfinished AU serial comedy on PPMB that continues the original hypothesis that Daria has numerous other siblings of various ages, one of which is Veronica).
* “[[Darkness]],” by [[The Angst Guy]] (in the year 2017, Veronica is an adult Daria’s teenage half-sister, the daughter of the late [[Jake Morgendorffer]], who has divorced [[Helen]]).
* “[[Illusions]],” by [[CharlieGirl]], [[The Angst Guy]], and [[Angelinhel]] (a complex multiple-AU tale including a world expanding of Nowall’s original story concept, in which Daria does not remember Veronica because of a brain tumor).
* [[Ranger Thorne]], “[[Rifts]]” (Daria/Star Wars crossover) (Veronica was born to Helen and Jake after Daria and Quinn vanished from [[Lawndale]]).
* “[[Three]],” by [[Richard Lobinske]] (a Nowall-type Veronica is killed by an alien assassin; Daria in this AU is deaf).
* “[[The Trouble with Veronica]],” by [[Brother Grimace]] (a future tale about a teenage Veronica who is smarter and prettier than either of her older sisters, with a distinctly non-Nowall personality and appearance).
* “[[Nothing Happens for a Reason]],” by The Angst Guy (a Nowall-style Veronica included in an AU parody of [[Mahna Mahna]]’s shipper-fic, “[[Everything Happens for a Reason]]”).
Characters named Veronica appear in the Morgendorffer household with some frequency to this day. In an unnamed serial by [[NightGoblyn]], in the 2007 PPMB thread, “More Apocalyptic Daria,” Veronica is again the youngest Morgendorffer sister. The tale is set in a post-atomic, <i>Road Warrior</i>-style American wasteland). In Richard Lobinske’s “[[Accidental Future]],” Veronica is Daria’s oldest daughter, born of her marriage with [[Tom Sloane]]—which Daria does not recall because of a car wreck (the near accident in “[[Boxing Daria]]” was more serious in this AU). Decelaraptor created a crossover ficlet for an October 2005 “[[Iron Chef]]” competition in which Helen Morgendorffer remarries after Jake’s death, giving Daria and Quinn an older stepsister, Veronica Lodge (from the Archie comics). Fictitious Veronicas, invented on the spot by either Daria or Quinn, appear in [[Roentgen]]’s “[[A Lie]]” and The Angst Guy’s “[[One More River to Cross]]” (“Aunt Veronica”). Additional Veronicas appear with regularity in ficlets and fragments from the various “scenes no Daria fanfic should ever have” threads on PPMB.
It has been speculated that any of the times Helen and Jake are shown fooling around on the original <i>Daria</i> show (e.g., in “Depth Takes a Holiday” and “Fire!”) could result in Veronica’s birth, despite Helen’s assumed mid-to-late 40s age.
Do not confuse this in-joke character with occasional mention of unrelated Veronicas in Daria fanfics, such as the Veronica in Invisigoth Gypsy’s “We Are Not Amused” or crossovers with <i>Heathers,</i> <i>Veronica Mars,</i> etc.
==Personality==
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