Daisy

Daisy is a human. She first appears in Mari's Mistake, arriving on Not-Hoth in year eight. She is the main character of Daisy's Decision.

She is mated to O'jek.

## Appearance

When she first arrives she is consider beautiful with porcelain pale skin and shiny red-gold hair. After an accident in a fire, she has burn scars on one side of her face. Her hair, which had been altered to grow strawberry blonde, regrew into her original blonde shade.

## Personality

In general she is a personable, friendly and enjoys fashion and learning languages.

Initially she was a bit emotional naive, used to watching the social maneuverings and interactions of incredibly wealthy alien societies. Because of that she isn't quite able to navigate social interactions in straight forward and authentic way. She had lived all her adult life as a pampered "pet," and due to this she put a large focus on her appearance and maintaining an upbeat seemly always happy personality. She was worried if she wasn't these things that she would not be wanted and believe those were the only things she had to offer.

In Daisy's Decision, she grows into a more capable, emotionally honest and independent person. She places more focus on her skills and less on her appearance and has more confidence in her right to exist as her authentic self.

## History

Daisy was kidnapped at 16 years old, a month before earth was destroyed. She was originally going to be sold at a space station auction, but with the news she was sold at a private auction. She became a slave to a Praxiian Johani of House Vrexhii. She later married him so no one would care about his relationship with his true mate, another male. She would have happily been his full mate, but he wasn't interested. During this time she learned a number of languages, including their writing systems.

When she was no longer wanted as his mate, she connected with Niri. Niri told her about resonance, and Not-Hoth. Daisy was drawn to the idea of someone truly loving and wanting her. She asked Niri to take her to Not-Hoth. During Mari's Mistake, Niri dropped her in a pod to the planet below. She was discovered by the group who were on their way to Croatoan. After she shared the news of earth's destruction, she went with them to Croatoan, and eventually returned back to Icehome with them.

In the events of Raven's Return/Bridget's Bane she offered to help A'tam in his quest to woo Bridget. Daisy suggested making Bridget jealous by giving her the impression he had become interested in her instead. In exchange she moved into his hut, while he lived with O'jek, as she felt uncomfortable and unwanted in the single woman's cave. Eventually A'tam realized the mistake of her plan, and chose to be truthful to Bridget. Despite this they developed a real friendship and she continued to hang out with the Shadow Cat clan, growing close to all of them; O’jek especially

During the events of Sam's Secret, she rescued a kit from falling into the fire pit, and fell in instead. Veronica healed her but it left her with facial scars on one side.

### Daisy' Decision

In Daisy's Decision, Daisy is almost fully recovered from her burns, but she struggles with her self worth since she believes the only thing she could be good at was looking pretty. She also is lonely and desperately wants to resonate. She goes to O’jek and proposes going to Veronica in order to make their khuis resonate to each other. O’jek agrees to this with one exception; that she learns how to do things for herself such as hunt and fire making, hoping this will help her have more confidence in herself.

Over the next few days, Daisy tries her hardest to follow O’jek’s teachings but still struggles with letting go of her previous husband’s demands for a perfect female. She and O’jek also take a trip to the Fruit Cave to further her lessons and to get more alone time together. Daisy and O’jek become closer while at the caves; with Daisy growing more self reliant and O’jek learning to let go of control. While O’jek goes out hunting, Daisy discovers a hidden door behind the waterfall and opens it; finding a man made walkway. She ends up falling through the rusted flooring down into a passageway that’s right behind the waterfall and dislocates her arm. She gets trapped there for a few days until O’jek finds her. The two then return to Icehome Village. Almost losing Daisy and realizing how fragile she is scares O’jek so much that he decides to call of their agreement; feeling this is the best way to keep her safe. This devastates Daisy. But instead of wallowing in her self pity, she decides to push herself to be stronger to prove O’jek wrong.

Over the next several weeks, Daisy becomes more self sufficient and even learns how to fish on her own and curing skins. When she decides to go rafting, O’jek tries to intervene. She ignores him and goes out anyway with him swimming out to her and joining her in the raft; Daisy continuing to dismiss O’jek. The two end up getting attacked by a sea creature with O’jek unconscious in the water. Daisy swims to him and pulling him to shore. Daisy finds a hunting cave and tends to a wounded O’jek; using all her newly learned skills like first aid to heal his head wound and fire making to make tea. When O’jek wakes up, he’s astonished by Daisy’s new skills. He also admits that he was wrong to push her away out of fear of losing her the way he lost his mother. Daisy admits she loves him and the two reconcile. Daisy then resonates to O’jek; causing great happiness for the two. They fulfill their resonance the next day and they return to the beach.

Months later, Daisy goes to Veronica for a checkup and is excited to learn she’s having twins. She tells O’jek who is both shocked and excited about twins

### Later History

Daisy and the rest of the village helps the clones adjust to living on the beach between Flor's Fiasco and R'jaal's Resonance