Fanfic / On the Run: A Daisy Brown Story

On The Run: A Daisy Brown story is a Sequel Fic Created by MermaidEyes15, based on the web series Daisy Brown, made by Julia Dapper, taking place after right after the end of the series. After Daisy’s escape with Lithop from her house, Daisy has been living on the road since then, grappling with the choices she made before and her past abuse while she attempts to take care of Lithop. Meanwhile, the town of Stevens Point gets into danger as a group of mysterious people with connection with Daisy’s father has come to track her down, all the while various others from police, hunters and other individuals attempt to help or hurt Daisy.

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On The Run provides examples of

• Abusive Parents: Continuing this trend, like with Daisy’s father Curtis; Lily’s father was a police officer who is implied to have been commanding and belligerent to her, Louie’s father raised his sons to abandon any dreams he had to inherit his motel and Hawkins himself seemingly is this, as a photo shows her daughter who graduated having a dead expression in her eyes.

• Ambiguously Evil: Curtis’ coworkers at the Analytical Research Center qualify as this. While their boss Hawkins is very clearly a prick, Primrose and the others’ motives are as of now enigmatic, simply wishing to capture Lithop due to either wanting to protect the city from a potential threat, or to cover up what Curtis did. Or both. So far, nothing is confirmed.

• Asshole Victim: No one is sad over Alan’s death due to how horrible he was. Even Lithop, who feels a little bit sorrowful over his death, acknowledges that it was better that he died.

• Audience Surrogate: Lily Weathers serves as this, being a avid watcher of Daisy Brown’s channel who is worried about her safety and health.

• Bad Boss: Hawkins establishes himself as a grade A bastard who constantly demeans and demoralizes his assistants no matter the situation, even physically intimidating them to keep them in line.

• Beleaguered Assistant: Hansen appears as this, usually snarky or tired of Hawkins. Thompson can count as such too.

• Berserk Button: The Monster Hector shows to have quite the temper.

• Big Bad: As of now, Primrose, Curtis’ coworker, is the one primarily driving the story to hunt down and get Lithop, though she is being ordered to by her boss, Hawkins.

• Big Brother Bully: Alan not only was this towards Daisy, but it’s revealed that he terrorized all the other monsters in the basement.

• Big Sister Instinct: If one thing is made clear, don’t mess with Lithop in front of Daisy.
  • Hector and Poppy had this with Lithop too, protecting her and hiding her when Alan came downstairs.

• Body Horror: The Monsters. Dear God. While the original web series left more out in the open with how the monsters were, the fic details how horrific the monsters are physically and mentally, as they are barely held together and stitched apart crudely, with missing and faulty limbs and either missing eyes or eyes that are simply not working.

• Break the Cutie: Killing her adopted brother, regardless of how horrible he was, has a clear mental toll on Daisy’s sanity as she is grappling with keeping Lithop safe and herself healthy, making the once cheery girl a shell of her former self.

• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Dr. Thompson shows little emotion towards actual monsters that Curtis has created, implying that this isn’t a new thing she experiences.

• Cool Old Guy: Andre, the homeless man Daisy meets on the tracks is a genuinely nice person who shows to disgust to Lithop and even manages to get Daisy a temporary living situation.

• Create Your Own Villain: Discussed. During the phone call between Primrose and Hansen, the ladder questions Curtis’ actions, wondering if they had a role in his downward spiral due to not being there to help him when Curtis’ wife, Rose, passed away. Prim ignored the question, though seemed troubled by it herself.

• Dead Person Conversation: Daisy has an hallucination of Alan in chapter 5, who proceeded to abuse her verbally.

• Dirty Cop: Lily father, Officer Weathers’ is said to have been one of the corrupt cops during the massive scandals within Stevens Point’s police department. He claims his innocence up until his death and his pristine reputation got the charged dropped, though by what Lily thinks of her father, they might have been true.

• Egomaniac Hunter: Solomon comes in and attempts to track down Lithop solely to capture her, seeing her as a new challenge.

• Face–Monster Turn: The reason Primrose gives for tracking down Lithop, due to the fact she’ll get more unstable and violent as she grows and will be uncontrollable. Whether this is actually true or not remains to be seen.

• Flower Motif: Continuing from the original web series, the fic establishes plants within the monsters as being connected, with Poppy having some odd form of pollen she uses to calm others, and a interconnected link the monsters had with each other.
  • Floral Theme Naming: Alongside the ones from the original, we also have Primrose, Poppy, Lily, and Weed.

• Greater-Scope Villain: Two-Fold. The first is Alan, The Big Bad of the web series, who’s abuse on Daisy (and seemingly the other monsters) still have an effect on her psyche, and the second being Curtis, who kickstarted the story by his experiments to bring his wife back to life.

• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Lithop, despite her being the only thing tethering Daisy to her sanity, believes she simply burdening her.

• Hidden Depths: While Hawkins is a Smug Snake, has a Hair-Trigger Temper and is an abusive prick, the various rewards of state fairs as well as the certificate from Cornell University, the top of his class proves that Hawkins is very intelligent, which is probably how he became the lead director of a Research Center.

• Horned Humanoid: Poppy has two branches like antlers on her head.

• It's All My Fault: Daisy does feel responsible for abandoning the other monsters in the basement, despite it being impossible to bring it all.
  • During their conversation on the phone, Hansen asks Prim if they should feel responsible for everything happening, due to not noticing warning signs over what happened with Curtis after Rose’s death. Primrose ponders before she simply pushes that thought down.

• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The motel manager, Louie, is presented as a stern and generally reserved person, introduced berating Andre, but shows to care for Daisy’s wellbeing.

• Killer Cop: Doubles as Cop Killer as Croat kills The Chief of Police to ascend as the chief.

• Loved by All: Bizarrely enough, Weed is this by all of the monsters, being horrified, angered and distraught when Hawkins seemingly kills him and cheers Weed on as he manages to escape the room through a vent. Even Hector shows to care for him.
  • Lithop is implied to have been this to the other monsters as well, given that it’s said they made her hide from Alan when he came downstairs to abuse and taunt the others.

• Mistaken for Junkie: When one of the monsters (named Rio) broke free from it’s truck and escaped, it was ran over by a business man who crashed his car. However, Primrose managed to clean the evidence after distracting the driver enough when Croat came him. When Croat came, he assumed The Man was simply delirious before he becomes agitated, believing he was using drugs.

• No-Tell Motel: Louie runs a motel complex that Daisy houses in with Lithop.

• Not Quite Dead: Weed is a barely functioning pile of flesh and plant DNA, apparently made that way by Curtis purely out of spite due to him having Hawkins’ DNA.

• Plant Person: Crosses more into Botanical Abomination however, as it’s revealed Curtis used many DNA of humans, including his coworkers into creating the monsters. However, due to multiple factors including poor conditioning and the extreme mismatching of the DNA, the Monsters look more like animals than humans.

• The Pollyanna: Lithop, again. She attempts to cheer Daisy up no matter the situation.

• Sanity Slippage: Poor Poor Daisy.

• The Stoic: Primrose Thompson presents herself as detached and robotic as she does her movements, however it’s shown it’s mostly a face to others, having moments of vulnerability when alone or taken off guard by something.

• Trigger-Happy: Officer Davis hearing the noises inside the basement made him pull the trigger, which was not a good idea.

• Uncertain Doom: Currently, Curtis Brown’s whereabouts are unknown.

• We Used to Be Friends: Implied with The homeless man Andre and the motel manager Louis.