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The Curious Incident of DLC on the Net-time
Information culled from an anonymouse source on wank_report.

Daddy's Little Cannibal was a Twilight fic writer, and apparently quasi-BNF enough to merit at least one interview, with 43 stories to her name that garnered multiple awards. Her most popular story was Cigarette Burns, which her twin sister is now posting for her posthumously.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention. Daddy's Little Cannibal died on May 8, 2009, after being involved in an accident with a drunk driver.

All Need To Read:
Last night, May 8th, 2009, Daddy’s Little Cannibal (otherwise known as Stephanie) was killed in a drunk driving accident.
Stephanie’s sister sent out a mass message through Stephanie's phone telling those who knew her about the car crash. With her sister's permission, I decided to post an author's note telling everyone on FF that she had passed away.
I do not have her log in - I do not know how any of her stories end. She was a fantastic foreshadower, and nothing ever happened that you expected. I can’t tell you what happens.
For now, Worlds Collide is put on hold. I don’t know if I can finish it, or if I even want to. I’m sorry if you read it. It was Stephanie’s idea, she kept it together, and I don’t know if I can do it without her. Hopefully you can understand.
The Epic Contest will continue until June 6th in remembrance of her, as the idea and the name were both things she came up with. The ending date was the day she was supposed to graduate high school.
In respect of Stephanie’s memory, no one will finish her stories. It’s the way she would want it, no one would ever be able to do justice to her writing, and no one is going to try.
Many of you know I was good friends with her. We collaborated many times and she was an outstanding person, by far one of my favorites on the site. I’m going to take a short break from writing, just to get things together. I’m sorry if this bothers you in any way, but given the circumstances, it's needed.
If you knew her or were a fan of her work, you know how hard this is. Her fanfiction was original and amazingly good, and her novel ideas were even better. She will be missed by everyone who knew her or knew of her; she was a legend.

-Bronzehairedgirl620

And there was much sadness throughout the land.

While Bronzehairedgirl620 might not have known DLC's FF.net password, DLC's twin sister did, and thus logged in to DLC's account to leave a eulogy on the userinfo page.

First Eulogy:

I had no intention to write a eulogy or to post it on Stephanie’s fanfiction account. I didn’t think that anyone would care about her death beyond an “I’m sorry” or “everyone has to die eventually.” But I’m glad to say that I was wrong. The support for Stephanie’s death has been over whelming. I don’t think anyone, especially Stephanie, expected her to make this big of an impact on so many people’s lives.

It’s weird that I’m writing a eulogy on fanfiction. Like I said earlier, I had no intention to tell anyone about Stephanie’s death beyond Lindsey’s (I think her screen name is Bronze something) author note. We’re actually lucky that Stephanie has the same password that she’s had since fifth grade or else I wouldn’t have been able to hack into her account. XD

If there was any doubt in anyone’s mind, Stephanie really did love fanfiction. She used to come to me in random moments and squeal about a good review and then quote it for me. When she got a bad review, she would cry and I’ll be honest, I couldn’t understand why, she just couldn’t handle it. But she never gave up; she never even mentioned giving up. She knew that she would have to leave fanfiction again (she had an account previous to this account, but she wasn’t as dedicated to it as she was this) but, to her, that was years from now.

I had never seen anyone have such raw talent for writing and a passion to match it. It is no secret that she has grown as a writer (especially her grammar) and I’m sure that she would have, with dedication and practice, become a bestselling author- if that’s the career she chose to follow.

Stephanie was an amazing person. She went through a lot in her short life, more than most people go through in a long life. That’s one of the reasons that made her amazing. She apologized for the bad choices she made, she learned from her mistakes, and she never gave up. She was a strong person that fought and worked for everything she got. I had never seen her excited about something that wasn’t illegal till she found writing and I want to thank everyone that encouraged her to write, because your encouragement helped her deal with her demons.

Stephanie was always imaginative. When we were little she was the one that told us how we were to play pretend. I cannot tell you how many times we locked her up in our shed where she was supposedly murdered before someone could save her- that made a lot of people mad, especially our friend’s parents, because the neighbor kids would get angry or cry.

What you see in her stories is what you would see in her if you knew her. She was extremely funny, extremely happy, and loving. She was the type of person that would welcome anyone and everyone into her life with open arms. I cannot tell you how many times she would leave the house at six in the morning to drive three hours away to pick up someone that was drunk and couldn’t find a ride home or to comfort someone that needed someone to talk to, even if it was as small as their cat died. She put people before her and was genuine about it. She didn’t expect things back; she didn’t want things back, which is rare.

I wish that you could’ve met her. She was genuinely an amazing person. She went through a lot, but that only made her stronger and more amazing. I’m sure I can speak for all when I say that we will miss her and that she is in a better place where she can, hopefully, meet Kurt Cobain, the man that she has admired and looked up to since she was little.

Bronzehairedgirl620 later added a second eulogy, both to DLC's profile and her own livejournal. ETA: The livejournal link is 404'ed, but the eulogy is still on DLC's ff.net page and also here.

The reviews/sympathy messages for DLC's fic/death start pouring in. A podcast in which the podcasters expressed dislike for a DLC fic was even taken down, out of respect for the dead.

As for doubters? Anonymous source(s?) on wank_report anonymouse source asserts there was some funny business with DLC's now-deleted Myspace, and extrapolates that newly-created user "iamcool" on Twilighted is actually a sock (this based on the fact that iamcool is largely preoccupied with DLC). The source goes on to provide nearly a dozen links to DLC's possible old internet activities. I won't link them here because they're irrelevant, but I did cull enough information to be able to search effectively through newspapers and tv/radio stations from DLC's home state for articles or obituaries. Despite being a high school-age fatality of a drunk-driving accident during prom/graduation season (and therefore an ideal cautionary tale of woe for the media to worry parents with) there's nary a blip of news about her.

A "curious fandomer" (the anonymouse source doesn't name names or link links) finds what she suspects is DLC's Facebook profile and trolls the wank perhaps takes the research a little too far. As the mouse dramatically put it, "Armed with this information, and fighting against the refusal to provide an obituary to “protect the privacy” of the family," this fandomer calls DLC's school. "Unsurprisingly," says the source, "the administrator’s office was shocked and concerned, as they had received no reports of any student death, let alone one resulting from a drunk driver." Um, extreme? Not only is the pseuicide wanky, so is the investigation into it, I guess!

And DLC's puported new Myspace profile even mentions that someone told her principal she' dead! Er, have a screencap with whited-out face and realname, and don't mind the Nihongo.

I like the way anonymous source concludes, completely and totally evenhandedly, guys, honest!

Stephanie, aka Daddy’s Little Cannibal, is ALIVE. Alive and CONFUSED that people were calling her principal to inquire whether or not she still lived. She had created a whole new myspace, a myspace which was friends with her sister Jo, the same sister who had been gifting the fandom with DLC’s deleted writings. A simple dig revealed the following conversation. Two days after DLC’s alleged death, on May 10th, her sister posted that she had been “dragged into something she really didn’t want to be – thanks Steph!” “Steph” was perhaps ordering her to write something before 8 – most likely the above mentioned eulogy which was posted approximately on that day.

Conjecture! But there's a kernel of truth. The twin sister's Myspace - which is linked from her FF.net profile - is friends with the new Steph profile. And on May 11, she complained, "Stop Talking... Write!got dragged into something she really didn't want to be a part of." Her feeling, at the time, was "thanks Steph! " (And a cap 'cuz I got it.)

The end! ... or is it?

Is it a social experiment? Attention seeking? Was she just tired of flitting from xanga to xanga and craved a more dramatic way to disassociate herself from her previous activities? And who is the anonymous source on wank_report - grudge? overzealous detective wanting to show off their leet snooping skills? or one of the wankers, trying to garner more attention? Only time - and possible ETAs - will tell!

ETA: I found a single now-deleted flame c&p'ed by other authors on FF.net.