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Background

Jake Morgendorffer was the only son of emotionally abusive parents. His father, nicknamed "Mad Dog" Morgendorffer in particular, tormented his son mercilessly and ultimately shipped him off to military school the first chance he could. Jake's time in military school would furtther traumatize him, as his parents refused to visit him and all but outright forgot about him until graduation.

Afterwords, Jake enrolled in college and met his future wife Helen. The two were part of the hippie counter-culture at the time, which was a calming influence to the seething cauldron of repressed rage and hatred for the world around him and his father, who by that point had died. The two moved into a commune after graduation and got married. Helen Morgendorffer is a cartoon character from the MTV television series, Daria. Both a worker and a house wife (she is married to Jake Morgendorffer), Miss Morgendorffer used to live in Highland, a town made famous on cartoon television by Beavis and Butt-head. ...

Like many hippies, Jake and Helen rejected the 1960s counter-culture by the end of the 1970s and began working in the corporate world. Jake in particular began work in the advertisement industry, with little success. Adding to his strife was the fact that Jake worked for a rather controlling boss who treated Jake poorly and further verbally abused Jake on a regular basis.

Jake and Helen ultimately had two daughters, Daria and Quinn. By this point the family was living in the fictional town of "Highland". The family stayed there for several years before moving to the fictional town of Lawndale. It has been heavily implied, that the family moving came with Jake's decision to quit his job and start his own freelance advertising consultant firm. The move was designed to give Jake the freedom of being his own boss and to free him from the stress-filled environment he used to work in. Quinn Morgendorffer is a fictional character on the MTV cartoon show Daria. ...

Personality

As a victim of long-term emotional abuse, Jake suffers from neurotic behavior that at times borders on madness. His general reaction to everyday trauma is to avoid conflict, usually by ducking behind a newspaper that he pretends to read. However, in spite of this defense, Jake has been known to go off on angry fits of yelling and screaming at things, real and imaginary that he feels are out to get him. In particular, Jake is prone to scream "Damnit!" during these sorts of tirades.

In spite of these fits, Jake has not shown signs of physically or emotionally abusing his wife or children like many victims of childhood abuse engage in. Indeed, his children both are quite protective of their father and his wife Helen often goes out of her way to humor her husband during his tirades.

Despite Jake's neurotic behavior, there have been periods where he had true insight into the lives of his children, such as during 'Boxing Daria' in which he explained that while Daria was a difficult child to deal with due to her reclusive and jaded behavior, they understood her and accepted that while Daria was highly intelligent, she was not going to be like everyone else. This of course contradicts their behavior (primarily Helen's) who were often trying to get Daria to be like everyone else.

External links

• Outpost Daria - Character: Jake