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6	''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDuzk8o9OnYDc8P9YE1GlUw/feed?disable_polymer=1 Daisy Brown]]'' is a very... ''unusual'' Website/YouTube channel about a girl named Daisy and her pet monster, Alan, who was allegedly created by [[MadScientist Daisy's father]].
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8	Said girl is extremely sheltered and naive, while her monster is sickly and grotesque (and seemingly becoming increasingly more violent...).
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10	The real nature of the series is difficult to peg, but most people agree that it appears to be an AlternateRealityGame. Turning on closed captions reveals subtle hints that things in this world are indeed not what they appear.
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12	Daisy also has a Twitter account, [[https://twitter.com/daisybrownreal here]], which should be viewed in order to better understand the series.
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14	[[note]]The ARG was created by one Julia Dapper (who also plays Daisy). To see her other artworks, as well as behind the scenes imagery from the ARG, [[https://www.instagram.com/tea_and_bees/ visit her Instagram]].[[/note]]
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16	!!''Daisy Brown'' provides examples of:
17	* ArcWords: "Hateful thoughts" tends to come up in this series often, usually in reference to Daisy dealing with intense negative emotions. Alan even lampshades it when he takes over Daisy's twitter, as he responds to a fan's tweet using the word "hateful" with "huh, not the first time I've heard that word today."
18	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. While we never see her face, Daisy can be seen with bruises on her body as Alan gets more "mean." Not to mention the time he ripped out her hair...
19	* BittersweetEnding: The episode "Final Video". [[spoiler:Alan's dead and Daisy and Lithop are free, but Daisy is still painfully aware that she's not entirely sure what she'll do with her new freedom and while Alan absolutely deserved his death, Daisy is still somewhat understandably horrified at the fact that she was forced to kill him]].
20	* BlueBoyPinkGirl: Alan is Blue and [[spoiler: Lithop is purple]]. In "The Calm Videos" the captions show that Daisy's father considers Alan to be male because he is blue.
21	* CatsAreMean: [[spoiler:Alan's excuse for killing Strawberry is that the cat would attack him whenever Daisy wasn't looking. Knowing Alan, he's most likely lying]].
22	* CentralTheme: DomesticAbuse, and the impact it leaves on people in that kind of situation. [[AbusiveParents Daisy's father]] is revealed through captions to have abused her, and, as noted below in DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything, her relationship with Alan gets increasingly more evocative of it.
23	* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: None of the weird or gross things Alan does fazes Daisy, seeing as she's had to live with this stuff her whole life. [[spoiler:At least until he starts to grow...]] She lampshades this in her third video, by mentioning that it didn't occur to her that monsters weren't commonplace.
24	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
25	** Daisy's relationship with Alan is highly evocative of more grounded DomesticAbuse. He physically attacks her under seemingly little provocation, puts her in situations like locking herself in a room and regularly being chased outside, and destroys things beloved by Daisy like her garden and [[spoiler:an innocent animal]] out of apparent spite. Daisy, in turn, tries to defend him even when it's clear Alan is being hurtful. The parallels become even more obvious once [[spoiler:Alan is able to talk, as he uses his newfound ability to verbally insult Daisy over her personal issues]]. Perhaps not coincidentally, [[spoiler: since her father had abusive episodes as well as the captions have revealed.]]
26	** The parallels become even more clear when [[spoiler:Lithop]] is added to the mix, effectively giving Daisy a surrogate "child" or "younger sibling" to protect, whilst simultaneously boosting morale for her.
27	* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Daisy's first upload is her casually showing how she feeds Alan, [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror apparently not realizing that most people haven't even seen a monster before]].
28	* FlowerMotifs: Flowers, and plants in general, come up in this series often. Daisy herself is named after a flower, and her avatar is of a rose. Several of Daisy's videos show she has an interest in gardening, and Alan gains root-like growths as the series goes on. [[spoiler:Daisy points out Lithop is named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithops after a plant]], and Lithop tells her that she is a mixture of human and plant DNA.]]
29	* FloralThemeNaming: As an extension of the above motif, each female character is named after a plant ([[ConditionedToAcceptHorror Daisy]], [[MissingMom Rose]], [[CuteKitten Strawberry]], and [[spoiler:[[CreepyGood Lithop]]]]).
30	* GoryDiscretionShot: While we do see the aftermath, [[spoiler:Daisy killing Alan in self-defense]] is not outright shown, as the camera glitches and blacks out when it happens.
31	* HopeSpot: Daisy adopts a cat and names it Strawberry in one video and she enjoys its company for a while. [[spoiler:Then, when Alan drives her out of the house, Daisy realizes that she forgot to take Strawberry with her and books it back home as fast as she can. She doesn't make it in time, and the next video is her placing a flower on Strawberry's grave]].
32	* MadnessMantra: In "im outside" Daisy repeats to herself a few times that she's not afraid of cars. While this could be an attempt to reassure herself, she's also in shock from being chased away from the house by Alan (and, as she mentions, it's not the first time).
33	* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Alan tells Daisy that she killed her mother when she was a baby, as a way of bringing down her self esteem.
34	* MissingMom: Daisy's mother [[DeathByChildbirth died while giving birth to her]]. It's one of the major things [[spoiler:Alan likes to torment her with once he's able to talk]].
35	* ObviouslyNotFine: In one video, Daisy is sitting alone in her room talking to the audience. She's locked herself in there, implicitly hiding from her pet monster Alan. At one point, Alan starts screaming and crying outside, which prompts an immediate "It's fine" from Daisy, despite that she's clearly uncomfortable and upset about what's going on. This remains a theme in other videos as well, where she insists to the audience she's doing well when all evidence points to things being... [[DomesticAbuse not fine at all.]]
36	* OhCrap: In "im outside", Daisy rambles on for a few minutes until she realizes [[spoiler:Strawberry is still in the house with Alan]], at which point she cuts herself off and ends the video.
37	* ScreamingAtSquick: PlayedForDrama when Daisy [[spoiler: sees Lithop's real face for the first time.]]
38	* ShoutOut:
39	** Between the mention of "[[Film/ThisHouseHasPeopleInIt Lynks Disease]]", Alan's name[[note]]In-universe a reference to Alan Turing, according to the captions of one vlog[[/note]], [[WebVideo/{{Alantutorial}} a blue chair]] that can be seen in some videos, and the general format, it's safe to assume that the creator is a fan of Alan Resnick.
40	** "Another cooking video!" has Daisy show a ''Manga/KitchenPrincess'' book, and she mentions having gotten into the series.
41	** In one video, Daisy is shown wearing a ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' t-shirt. Considering that one of the main characters is also named Daisy, it may also be suggesting a parallel between the troubled Daisy and Tom Buchanan relationship of the book and Daisy Brown's increasingly abusive relationship with Alan.
42	** In "Alan's Drawing", the hidden messages in the closed captions are a conversation between Daisy's parents about ''Art/LasMeninas''.
43	* SpotlightStealingSquad: In "Hateful Thoughts" it's revealed that Daisy views Alan as this. In reality it appears to be the other way around, as fans seem to like Daisy much more than Alan, who used to be the "focus" of the series.
44	* WhamEpisode:
45	** "Alan is growing!" has Daisy talk about the bumps on Alan's body, only to gasp in shock as she notices root-like growths coming out of them.
46	** "Alan pulled my hair out", which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. It's the first major incidence of Alan being violent.
47	** "Unexpected growth". ''Holy crap''. Basically, Daisy's showing us her flowers when suddenly, Alan calls for her to come upstairs. When she gets to him, she discovers that [[spoiler:he's grown bigger, he can talk and he ''might'' be a little bit mad at her]]. The whole situation is so shocking and unnerving that even ''[[ConditionedToAcceptHorror Daisy herself]]'' is left terrified.
48	** "Hateful Thoughts". After [[spoiler:Strawberry the cat's death]] and implicitly Alan taunting Daisy over her mother's DeathByChildbirth, Daisy's StepfordSmiler facade finally breaks and she starts screaming, sobbing, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness swearing]] and trashing the house, ranting about how much she hates herself, how she perceives Alan as being better than her, thinking that her viewers only care about him and not her and asking herself if her father created Alan to be his "perfect" replacement child.
49	** "The Basement": Daisy ''finally'' stands up to Alan and he repays her by throwing her into the basement, which up to this point, Daisy has never been in because her father said it was off-limits. She explores a little after finding a candle and discovers [[spoiler:that there are ''more'' monsters living down there. Fortunately, these ones appear to be good guys, but Daisy's still so overwhelmed by them that she flees the basement and seems to be on her way to a full on mental breakdown]]. And to top it all off, ''Alan'' discovers [[spoiler:the other creatures after one of them, Lithop, tries to return Daisy's dropped camera]]. That can't be good...
50	** "Final Video": Inevitable, considering the title, but not many people expected Daisy to [[spoiler:outright ''kill'' Alan]] in it.
51	* WhamLine:
52	** If you look at the captions for "Monster tries different Sugar sources for the First Time!!", you can get an early glimpse of Alan's true thoughts on Daisy. Keep in mind that this is only nine episodes in, and Alan is still essentially a baby.
53	-->(This foolish child.)
54	-->(Frivolous and vain)
55	-->(This world was built for me not her.)
56	-->(And I was built for this world.)
57	-->(Bitch.)
58	-->(Entitled bitch.)
59	-->(Stupid. Ignorant. You are the blind one.)
60	** Courtesy of Alan in the "Q&A" video...
61	-->'''Alan:''' I didn't have to [[DeathByChildbirth kill someone to come into existence...]]
62	* WhamShot: "Artistic video" starts out as a simple video about Daisy drawing, until Alan shows up with ''realistic'' pictures of her doing such. Daisy is appropriately disturbed, since it means he's no longer blind.
63	* WordOfGod: An unusual in-universe and TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou example; someone (presumably, but not confirmed to be Daisy herself) uses Website/YouTube closed captions to give some weird introspective insights into Daisy's life and state of being. Some of the more disturbing ones include [[spoiler: Daisy remembering (or at least interpreting) her mother's DeathByChildbirth and her father in vicious denial of it]].

Context WebVideo / DaisyBrown