Name: Trent Lane (The God of Never-Ending Sleep)
Age: 22
Occupation: Lead singer of Mystik Spiral and slacker extrodinaire
First Appearance: "The Invitation"
Voice: Alvaro J. Gonzalez
Favorite Pastimes: Sleeping, practicing with 'The Spiral' in his basement, writing songs with no deeper meaning, ranting about how superior vinyl is, walking around his house looking like he's in a coma, gazing forlornly into his perpetually empty refrigerator


Trent is Jane's big brother and the lead singer of Mystik Spiral, an anarchist alternative band. Daria has had a major crush on him ever since the second episode, and he is completely oblivious to this. He, however, does like her as a friend and proclaims that she is "the coolest high-schooler I know."
When the show first started, Trent seemed to be rather aloof and cool towards Daria and even Jane, but in "Road Worrier", he realized he was missing out on a lot by acting this way.

Trent is basically the definitive slacker, and he is often depicted sprawled across his bed in his landfill of a room, fast asleep. Despite his abudance of sleep, he's usually tired when he's awake, due to what he claims to be "staying up all night writing a song". (Yeah, right.) Even though all of this might seem rather bad, he's actually quite intelligent, nice, and sometimes pretty funny, but like Jane, he doesn't exactly live up to his potential.

Name: Daria Morgendorffer (our own goddess of the opressed)
Age: 17
Occupation: Member of the Junior Class of Lawndale High School
First Appearance: "Esteemsters"
Voice: Tracy Grandstaff
Favorite Pastimes: Watching "Sick, Sad World" and "Animal Maulings on Home Video", writing, embarrassing Quinn in front of her friends, talking to Jane and Trent (well, when she isn't too embarrassed to talk to Trent)

Daria is the show’s main character and the queen of cynicism, sarcasm, and dry wit. Her best friend, Jane, and she are probably the only half-intelligent beings in their town of Lawndale. She is plagued by insane parents and teachers, a super-popular sister, and extremely stupid classmates.

Daria is one of Lawndale High School’s “brains”, which means that she will graduate from high school, go to college on a scholarship for something other than football, and be moderately successful in the future. She hopes to be a gene-splicer when she gets out of school, but a mortician seems to be what the school’s career aptitude test has in mind.

Even though she seems so perfect (yes, this is from a brain; I know many people would not consider her perfect at all), she fortunately has a softer side that shows sometimes, especially around Trent. For instance, in "Road Worrier", she actually put on lipstick to impress Trent. It was an utterly horrible purple, shimmery colour, though, and rather fortunately for her, Jane noticed and embarrassed her into wiping it off. She's also admitted that she wouldn't be quite so misanthropic but she's so extremely sensitive that whenever she opens up, she gets injured, so she just doesn't give people a chance. (I can identify with this. Really, really identify with it.) Anyway, this helps a bit when we followers do something a bit vain and feel that we've betrayed our goddess. (Well, it helps me. I don't know that anyone else it this strange.)
Up until Season Four, Daria's crush on Trent was still going strong. But in this season, her abhorrence of Jane's Tom turned to luurrrrve and they've been going out since sometime between the end of "Dye, Dye, My Darling" and the beginning of "Is It Fall Yet?", the movie. Fortunately, Jane has gotten over the initial shock and hurt and actually thinks that they make a good couple. This, however, is not the opinion of many Daria viewers, and we just have to wait anxiously for Season 5 to reveal all. Of course, we shippers know that Daria is merely going through a confusing period of her life and she and Trent will still get together, and they had better get cracking with it soon, dammit.

Quotes:
Mr. O'Niell: "Right here and now, let's pledge to make Daria's dream a reality."
Daria: "You mean the one where people walking down the street burst into flames?"
(“Café Disaffecto”)

"How come even in my fantasies everyone's a jerk?" ("College Bored")

"The whole thing's enough to turn your stomach. Which I guess is good if you want to be a model... eases the transition to bulimia." ("This Year's Model")

"Forget it. I don't like kids. I didn't even like kids when I was a kid." ("Pinch Sitter")

Quinn: "Can I have $29.99 for a removable nose ring? No piercing required!"
Daria: "Good idea. You don't need any more holes in your head."

Trent: "Do you ever feel like you're wasting your life?"
Daria: "Only when I'm awake."

Trent: "You know Daria, sometimes it's hard to believe you're in high school."
Daria: "I find the situation unbelievable myself."

Brittany: “Daria, this is my stepmom, Ashley-Amber. Do you recognize her?”
Daria: “I think so, but it's so hard to remember your childhood nightmares clearly.”
(“The Old and the Beautiful”)

Brittany: (to Kevin) “Hmph! For your information, there are plenty of guys who think I'm pretty and smart!”
Daria: “You can visit them at the Cedars of Lawndale head injury ward.”
(“Daria Dance Party”)

Brittany: “Then you just go ah

Daria was a TV show that aired back in the late '90's. The main gal, Daria, was the queen of sarcasm. Learn to be like her here!

Steps
Make sure your clothes remain neutral. Don't get clothes from American Eagle or anything. Just get some solid color shirts from Wal Mart.
Once you're wearing your plain Jane Lane clothes, you can start acting like Daria. Daria spends most of her time watching Sick Sad World, a TV tabloid, lying on her bed staring aimlessly at the celing, reading, sleeping, and eating pizza with her best (and just about only) friend Jane Lane. Notice that Daria is just a TV show and your life probably runs longer than 30 minutes. Do whatever activities you enjoy, just don't look like you're enjoying them. Blink several times. Look unamused. Move slowly.


Next step - human interaction. Daria seems to only truly speak her mind when she is pissed off. So unless someone makes you angry, reply in a monotone voice with some sort of sarcastic comment. Example: You're shopping at the grocery store, checking out some melons or apples or something. Some friendly, optimistic person examining the same product comments to you "these are some niiiiice (round fruit's name here) aren't they!?" You reply with face anger. "(fruit's name)!? I thought these were an alternative to silicone breast implants! Dammit. I knew (price of fruit product) was too good to be true." Then walk away.


Daria excels in school, but doesn't really care. She just wants to get out of the hell of high school and the only way to do so is to pass. She pays attention in class because there's nothing better to do. She never raises her hand to answer a question even if she knows the anwer. If picked on, she stalls saying something like "I'm sorry, but I'm currently on an answer strike. I'll refuse to answer any questions until the government agrees to raise teacher's salaries to 1,000 dollars a week." If the teacher persists, or threatens to give detention, she then answers the question. If you aren't so smart, you can still be a Daria! Simply say "I don't know." When they persist just blink and perhaps throw in the classic "aren't you supposed to be teaching us?