#daisygoopy

Daisy in the original Last Guest, not even in just Forsaken which does her even worse, is.. not really a character. She's Jimmy's supportive wife who takes care of Charlotte while he's at war, and is wholesome and sweet, but very bland as far as characterization goes.

Trina in Falsettos is meant to parody this troupe of the submissive wife, as her husband ends up cheating on her with another man causing her to break down. And while Jimmy pointedly is not doing that, I do think Trina's feelings towards her husband/life reflect Daisy's. Honestly, I think her character writing in general is what inspired me when writing Daisy.

Instead of cheating, the main problem in their marriage is Jimmy neglecting his family because of his dissatisfaction with himself and the way his life is going. This leaves Daisy feeling hurt and upset, because in her mind she can't understand why he dosen't think their family is enough. Neither are evil, but you can tell that Jimmy is screwing her over far more than she is to him.

She was raised in the same orphanage that he was, and her whole life she's craved settling down, getting married and having a family without any worries or stress. Having a chaotic childhood just made her want a simple life—she was raised to want a nuclear family. This idealized version of a happy ending also came from how young girls are taught that this is what a perfect life is—being a perfect wife with a perfect husband. And that ideal ended up leading her throughout her life. So she married Jimmy, had a daughter, and for a while she had that life she always wanted.

Eventually Jimmy left to go to war, but she understood his cause and didn't object. She was supportive. So when he came back and overtime became unsatisfied with where he was, she felt betrayed. She loved him dearly, and was supportive and caring for his whole life and their whole marriage, only to be pushed to the side because of his lack of wanting to stop fighting for someone. He's spent so long fighting that he can't imagine stopping—but she can't understand why he wouldn't want to.

Back to Trina, her whole character arc is trying to keep together a broken marriage for the sake of her family, and then realizing that (in layman's terms) men ain't shit. Although Jimmy has a lot of knowledge and experience, he still has some of that immaturity and pride that a lot men have when they're unsatisfied. And Trina her whole life is constantly surrounded by immature men who she's expected to put up with and keep grounded because she's the woman. This is why she originally chases this, because she thinks it's a good thing because it's all she knows.

Daisy is very similar to this. She has to put up with a husband who (while he still loves her dearly) is becoming more distant in favor of a damned ex-cultist, and stubbornly can't take her perspective. She's been submissive and second to men her whole life, being pigeonholed as the "wife" and "mother" for ages, and so this is her realizing that the perfect nuclear family has just as many problems as any other type of family.

I'm still developing her, and I don't think that she and Jimmy will split, but to me she's a lot more complex than she seems. Very similar to Trina, she's surrounded by men who won't take her seriously and definitely needs some therapy.

Also since the acress I choose performs in a musical, rather than audio-clips for the voice claim, I have songs I can link to! Feel free to listen. I definitely think they're thematically similar, and gives a good impression on what I think she sounds like :)