History Fanfic / DariaInMorrowind

The stories can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14143482/1/Daria-in-Morrowind here]] on Website/FanFiction.net. It was completed in May, 2021.

The stories can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1454395 here]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. It was completed in May, 2021.

* CompanyTown: Caldera is this.

* CourtlyLove: An ideal held by some characters. It tends not to happen in reality.

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: [[spoiler:Jeval, the story's version of Jamie White, gets over his crush on Quinn in "Hate Actually". Though he later falls for her again, he nonetheless outgrows Joey and Jeffy.]]
** Though not especially devout, Jane is definitely a believer in Morrowind's Tribunal, which causes conflict with Daria who's just as skeptical as her canon counterpart. She's also in much less financially stable position and must earn money through commissions.

* TheMagocracy: Sadrith Mora, the regional capital of Great House Telvanni, is a particularly ruthless example (as per the game).

-->-- from Outlanders, the first story in ''Fanfic/DariaInMorrowind''

* LargeAndInCharge: This version of Johannsen qualifies.
* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: The Council Club, a hangout for the xenophobic Camonna Tong.

* SpoiledSweet: Brittany is this. She doesn't even insist on a noble honorific despite being (very minor) nobility.

* WealthyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Jane gets this by marrying into nobility.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Sandi. An unpleasant wannabe AlphaBitch in the show, this version of Sandi is an embittered Dunmer supremacist [[spoiler:who hires thugs to attack Daria after she offends her.]]
* ADayInTheLimeLight: Sandi, Mack, Stacy, and even Jamie get short stories told from their perspectives. Quinn and Jane each get to be the star of a few longer stories.
** Most major characters also get perspective chapters in the epilogue.

* ArchaeologicalArmsRace: Shown to be one of the reasons the Empire is so keen on excavating Dwemer ruins (and by extension, one of the reasons they annexed Morrowind).
* ArrangedMarriage: Stacy is set up in one. She accepts it, and even looks forward to it to some extent, but is afraid she'll be even lonelier with her husband (whom she hasn't met yet).
** [[spoiler:The epilogue reveals that her marriage was a happy one, though her husband dies early.]]

* BlindWithoutEm: Much like in the show, Daria needs her glasses to see anything. Glasses are also a lot rarer, given that this is a fantasy setting.
** At certain points, Daria suffers from eye strain while using her glasses, suggesting that the lenses are not perfectly calibrated to her vision, which isn't surprising given the more limited understanding of such things.
* ArchaeologicalArmsRace: [[spoiler:Implied to be the reason that the Empire is interested in Dwemer ruins.]]
* BadassTeacher: [=DeMartino=], who is actually a former Redoran warrior.
* BadGuyBar: The Council Club.

* CorporatePunishment: [[spoiler:Daria suffers a mild example of this for causing trouble when she visits the Cyrodiilic School in Morrowind:Caldera.]]
* CorruptBureaucrat: The Empire, in a nutshell.

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Daria ends up on the receiving end of one, courtesy of some thugs Sandi hires after Daria offends her.]]

* DeathOfTheAuthor: [[spoiler:Daria seems to acknowledge this about her own book in the epilogue. In "History Girls", Daria also has a dream where Tiber Septim acknowledges it.]]

* DreamSequence: Daria gets one involving a surprisingly casual Tiber Septim in 'The History Girls'.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Daria in Morrowind is about Daria (and many of her peers) in Morrowind.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: This shows up in the dynamic between Daria and Quinn, with the two of them periodically switching roles. Quinn is just as superficial and flighty as she is in the show. However, her incessant socializing is done with the goal of ensuring a future for herself and her family, which in some ways makes her more responsible than the aloof Daria. On the other hand, Quinn's still pretty naive about a lot of things, and sometimes needs the more thoughtful Daria to set her straight.

* LesCollaborateurs: Great House Hlaalu, which works closely with the Empire and profits from trade with them, is seen as this by the other Dunmer great houses. The exact attitudes toward the Empire within Hlaalu seem to vary. Some, like Stacy's parents, seem to genuinely appreciate the Empire. Others, like Sandi and her family, deeply resent having to work with it but also acknowledge they have no choice but to do so.

* LocalHangout: Daria and Jane often hang out at the Lucky Lockup, in part for its interesting clientele form all over Tamriel.

* TheExile: [[spoiler:Link is one of these.]]
* TheJoyOfFirstFlight: [[spoiler:Daria gets to experience this with Tedannupal on his tamed beetle, Zadurannabit.]]
* TheMagocracy: Sadrith Mora, the regional capital of Great House Telvanni, is a particularly ruthless example (as per the game).
* TheResenter: Daria has shades of this.

* WhiteCollarCrime: Some of Helen's clients seem to be guilty of this. [[spoiler:Technically, so is Daria, since she forges a guild report.]]

* WildTeenParty: Averted. The parties seen so far are typically stuffy networking affairs for entire families, especially parental units . Fortunately, parties can still go humorously awry despite adult supervision.

* DoingItForTheArt: Completely averted with Jane. Unlike the Jane on the show, this version lives in a society where artists are seen as professionals rather than as creative pioneers. While she does create more abstract and expressionistic drawings on her own time, Jane fundamentally views art as her job and focuses on making her clients happy.

* [[OfferingsToTheGods Offerings To The Tribunal]]: Jane goes on a pilgrimage to do this.

* PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher: [=DeMartino=] counts as one, what with his opinions on the Empire and Great House Hlaalu. No one takes him very seriously, though.

* BadassTeacher: DeMartino, who is actually a former Redoran warrior.

* PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher: DeMartino counts as one, what with his opinions on the Empire and Great House Hlaalu. No one takes him very seriously, though.

* RaceLift: Jane, Trent, Tom, Principal Li, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. DiMartino, Brittany, Kevin, Ted, Sandi, and Stacy are all re-imagined as Dunmer. Jamie gets the Bosmer treatment while Link is an Altmer. Everyone else is the Tamrielic version of the race they were in the show.

* ADayInTheLimeLight: Mack gets one, in the short piece "The Balmora Beat", which follows him doing some routine work for the Imperial Legion.

** [[Sandi is aware that the father of one of her lackeys, Nedrana, is engaged in this, and uses it as leverage to ensure Nedrana's loyalty.]]

* Mayfly-DecemberFriendship: Daria and Jane. Dunmer like Jane can live for 300 years, so there's no doubt that she'll outlive her friend. Also true with other friendships between Mer and non-Mer.

* PowderKegCrowd: Begin appearing in the later stories. This culminates in the [[Balmora Tax Revolt, which serves as a backdrop for the final regular story.]]