Daisy Wells

“Spoilsport,' said Daisy, and she stuck her tongue out at me.”

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> "*The excellent fact is that you were born, and that means that you have the chance to make the world a slightly less horrid place. You mustn’t think of all the people who’ve died. Remember all the people who never got murdered because you caught their killers. Well - you and me. Mostly me. But, of course, also you.*"
> ― Daisy Wells[source]
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### Alias(es)

Squashy (by Bertie Wells)
Madam Super (by Inspector Priestley)

## Traits

### Age

13 (Murder Most Unladylike)
14 (Arsenic for Tea, First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play, Mistletoe and Murder, A Spoonful of Murder)
15 (Death in the Spotlight, Top Marks for Murder, Death Sets Sail)
19 (The Ministry of Unladylike Activity)
20 (The Body in the Blitz)

## Personal Status

### Relative(s)

George Wells (father)
Margaret Wells (mother)
Bertie Wells (brother)
Felix Mountfitchet (uncle)
Lucy Mountfitchet (aunt)
Saskia Wells (great-aunt)
Eustacia Wells (great-aunt)
Rupert Wells (uncle)
Arthur Wells (grandfather)
Elizabeth Baker-Briggs (grandmother)

The Honourable Daisy Wells is one of the two main protagonists in the Murder Most Unladylike series, created by Robin Stevens. She appears in all of the novels alongside Hazel Wong.

Daisy is the President of the Detective Society, which is famous in at least two - if not three - continents. She first appears in Murder Most Unladylike as a dorm mate and best friend of Hazel Wong.

Out of the four main detectives in the series (Daisy Wells, Hazel Wong, George Mukherjee and Alexander Arcady), she is the only one to be fully British.

## Childhood

Daisy is the youngest child and only daughter of George and Margaret Wells. She has an older brother called Bertie, who calls her Squashy because she was a fat baby. Daisy's house is staffed by Chapman, the butler, Mrs. Doherty, the housekeeper/cook, Hetty, the maid, and O'Brian, the gardener/chauffeur. She is close with her house's staff due to growing up surrounded by them, especially Hetty, who is only five years older than her.

Daisy once ate the mistletoe berries that were decorations for Christmas at Fallingford and got sick. Knowing the symptoms of this helped her solve the mystery in Mistletoe and Murder when all the older boys were feeling out of sorts...

## At Deepdean

She joined Deepdean school at the age of eleven. In her second year at Deepdean, Daisy met Hazel Wong, who came from Hong Kong. She and the other girls in the dorm, Lavinia, Kitty and Beanie, locked Hazel in a trunk for hours. They were impressed that she stuck it out.

The lower forms, most notably The Marys, helped Daisy by carrying her belongings for her.

Daisy works out when Hazel is attempting to fit in by acting more like the other girls. They become best friends after this. Three out of the ten murder mysteries Daisy and Hazel have solved were at Deepdean: Murder Most Unladylike, Jolly Foul Play, and Top Marks for Murder.

In Top Marks for Murder, Daisy and Hazel return to Deepdean after being away for some time, busy solving their 6th and 7th murder cases, to find that her place as Deepdean "Queen" has been taken away and a new girl, Amina El Maghrabi, has taken her place. Daisy's loyal helpers, the Marys and many other members of the lower forms, rebel against her and start working for El Maghrabi instead.

## Personality

Daisy is determined, and loyal to Hazel, but she’s overly assertive, and rather a workaholic. She is forceful and ropes Hazel into things and doesn’t like staying put during a murder. She loves being a detective because of the adrenaline she gets from it. She can be reckless and she rushed into tings without always thinking them through.

She is very clever but tries to hide it by acting innocent and oblivious, and deliberately messing up some questions on her test papers and during lessons. However, when she's alone with people she trusts, she shows her true personality: her eccentric, smart, sarcastic side. She also has a very high opinion of herself and her looks and often underestimates others. She doesn't like saying she's wrong and finds apologizing difficult. In 2023, Daisy was confirmed as an autistic and ADHD character by Robin Stevens.

## Appearance

Daisy has long, wavy golden hair that is often tied in a plait/plaits for school. She is described as being very tall and thin and able to look good in anything. Her eyes are determined-looking and blue. She is known to be very pretty. Hazel says that she looks perfectly English.

## Relationships

### Hazel Wong

Daisy and Hazel have been best friends since they were twelve years old; they met when Hazel first started going to Deepdean, where they are dormmates. They formed the Detective Society in their third year at Deepdean, and have solved all their cases together since then. In Murder Most Unladylike, Hazel briefly mentions the Spiritualist Society existing before the Detective society, but noted that it ended quickly after Daisy lost interest. Daisy tends to consider herself smarter and stronger than Hazel, although she does try to encourage her to face her fears, and has a significant impact on Hazel's confidence, helping her her become braver. Additionally, as the series progresses, she begins to see her as an equal, and in Death sets Sail she accepts Hazel as a co-president of the Detective Society. They are said to know each other better than they know themselves.

### Dormmates

She gets along with the other members of her dorm - Lavinia Temple, Kitty Freebody and Beanie Martineau - for the most part, although she is quite prone to arguments with them, particularly Kitty and Lavinia. However, they all, along with Hazel, have a strong sense of dorm pride, and tend to defend each other against the other dorm and school rumours. This was only strengthened when Kitty, Beanie, and Lavinia, joined the Detective Society, despite how Daisy was hesitant to let them join at first.

### The Other Dorm

Daisy doesn't get along with the members of the other dorm in her form: Clementine, Sophie Croke-Finchley, and Rose and Jose Pritchett. The two dorms regularly argue and have a strong rivalry, which mostly stems from both dorms' dorm pride. The most disagreeable member of the other dorm, Clementine, argues with Daisy, Lavinia, and Kitty often. In The Case of Lavinia's Missing Tie, Daisy was more than happy to start a rumour about Clementine to help solve the case, and in Top Marks for Murder the Detective Society used Clementine as the 'murder victim' in their recreation of the murder. Daisy showed little concern for Rose Pritchett when she ran away in the middle of the night in Jolly Foul Play.

### Amina El Maghrabi

Amina joins the other dorm in Top Marks for Murder. She initially tries to be friends with Daisy, however Daisy repeatedly rejects her. In Death Sets Sail, it's revealed that Daisy is in love with Amina. She is very secretive about it, implying that she only rejected Amina to avoid suspicion. On the boat up the Nile, Daisy and Amina share their first kiss, and in Amina’s guide to Egypt, she leaves a coded message for Daisy that reads, ‘Daisy I’ll wait. All my love, Amina x’. Amina also kissed her at the end of The Body in the Blitz, implying that they've been in a relationship for the 4 years in between those two books.

### Felix Mountfitchet

Felix is Daisy's uncle, she and Hazel both refer to him as 'Uncle Felix'. According to Hazel, Daisy and Felix look extremely alike. Aside from appearance, their personalities are also similar. While Felix is less egotistical, they are both very clever detectives and spies; they are logical and determined. Felix seems to be somewhat of a parental figure for Daisy and Hazel, although considerably more lenient than their real parents when it comes to being detectives. He still cares greatly for their safety, however, and will never put them in a situation that might harm them.

### Bertie Wells

Bertie is Daisy's brother. He is older than her by three years. They could be interpreted as having a poor relationship when they were young, with Bertie even trying to push Daisy down the stairs when she was a toddler. Arguably, though, they were close siblings, as they have nicknames for each other, and Bertie said that he taught Daisy how to swim himself. After Arsenic for Tea, they became closer, taking care of each other now that their parents were busy with the trial. In Mistletoe and Murder, Bertie bought Daisy a bunch of gifts and pretended they were all from distant relatives to try and make her feel better. Daisy and Hazel could tell that the presents were actually from him, however they found his kind gesture endearing and didn't say anything about it. Bertie is also a parental figure to Daisy, and even to Hazel, taking care of her during their parent's absence.

### Alexander Arcady

Alexander had a crush on Daisy in Mistletoe and Murder, but Daisy did not like him back and kept trying to 'warn him off' by being rude and dismissive, especially since her best friend liked him, however he did not seem to take the hint. In later books, Alexander stops crushing on Daisy, which Daisy is glad about, and they are able to fall into a weird sort of friendship. When Alexander starts to like Hazel instead, Daisy repeatedly tells her that his arms are too long and she is far too intelligent for him, but says that she will always be friends with her and forgive her if she does marry him.

### George Mukherjee

Due to their very similar personalities, George and Daisy are constantly challenging and competing with each other, sometimes roping Hazel and Alexander into their quarrels. Despite this, their rivalry is friendly and they enjoy spending time with each other and can work together when necessary. Part of the reason why they clicked so fast is because they both have autism and ADHD.

### Martita Torrera

Formerly, in Death in the Spotlight, Daisy had a crush on Martita. This is when it is first officially revealed that Daisy is lesbian, although it was hinted at in previous books, such as Jolly Foul Play.

## 'Deaths'

Daisy faked her death in Death Sets Sail when the murderer attempted to drown her. She pretended to be dead by going limp but when she tried to get up she banged her head on a branch and was knocked out. Her body was found floating in the Nile, she then regained consciousness and went into hiding. It is later said that she and Hazel will become secret agents to help Britain at war, with Daisy keeping the fact that she is not dead a secret, except to those closest to her.

Additionally, she went missing in France in The Body in the Blitz, which caused many of the Ministry members to worry that she was dead, however she returned alive when Hazel went to go save her.

## Quotes

"I shall be Detective Society President until I'm one hundred, and I shall turn the Detective Society into an organization greater and more respected than even the Pinkertons-the real ones, not *your* version." - To Alexander and George, Death Sets Sail

1. ↑ https://www.tumblr.com/redbreastedbird/712519405618200576/super-excited-to-hear-about-autistic-characters-in?source=share
2. ↑ https://www.tumblr.com/redbreastedbird/712667872451805184/do-you-think-that-any-others-apart-from-daisy?source=share