#Pauline x toadstool

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Me: I already have a good Mario AU I still need to flesh out... I don't need another one.

I don't need to make one where Fritz is the main character, kind of defeating the purpose of it being Mario related

Also me:

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It's still a work in progress. I just like drawing Rubberhose elves lately

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peachline fandom,, accept this humble gift

[kurooicha]

Princess Daisy Rant: Misconceptions

Hello there! I have been a fan of Princess Daisy from the Super Mario franchise for years, and while I know she is quite underdeveloped due to lack of appearances in most of the main Mario games, I have seen a lot of people spreading false information about her and that’s where I’d want step in. Now don’t get me wrong, wherther you like Daisy or not is completely fine, I’m only correcting the false facts I have seen people spreading all over the Internet.

EDITED: Septemper 8th 2018

“Daisy is just a spin off character.”

Actually no, she debuted in Super Mario Land which is a main game, and recently was in Super Mario Run as a playable character. SMR is also confirmed to be a mainline Mario game, it is said on Nintendo’s official Mario website. Plus in Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia which was released officially by Nintendo in 2015 to celebrate Mario’s 30th birthday Daisy was listed as one of the main characters.

“Daisy can’t be important to the main games because she didn’t do anything in SML, she only appeared for 10 seconds. There was nothing interesting in her.”

Yes, it was only for about 10 seconds, but she still had an important role, she was the main objective of the game. And she now has also been playable in SMR but that’s besides the point. You are allowed to not like her, but just because you don’t personally find her interesting doesn’t mean she is not objectively important to the main franchise. Importance is not determined by your personal tastes.

“Daisy could have been easily replaced by Peach in SML.”

No she couldn’t. Gunpei Yokoi wanted to make a Mario game with completely new environment and characters. Peach is already the ruler of Mushroom Kingdom, SML was set in Sarasaland, a completely different land, and it needed it’s own ruler, and so Daisy was made. It woudn’t make any sense if the rescuee was Peach in SML.

“Daisy is just a copy of Peach because they’re both princesses / Peach was the original damsel in distress.”

Ok yeah they are both princesses but that doesn’t make Daisy a copy of her. She may have looked a lot like Peach in her early days but there were still some differences in their designs, plus Daisy was described to be a tomboy in the manuals. But even if those didn’t matter, nowadays she definitely doesn’t represent Peach at all, aside from a different kind of dress she now has a different hairstyle, is brash and tomboyish, has flower powers and can double jump, while Peach is more calm and feminine, can float and has heart powers. Not to mention Mario and Luigi are both plumbers but nobody gives Luigi any slack for that. Also what I don’t get is when people claim her just copying Peach because she was the OG damsel in distress, like if the whole concept of DID is exclusive to Peach. People give Peach herself a free pass even though Pauline was a DID before her, also there’s Zelda and Palutena in their own game franchises, heck even Mario had to be rescued in Luigi’s Mansion, but when Daisy does it she’s supposedly just “copying Peach”... I really don’t understand...

“Daisy has no personality.”

The games have definitely portrayed her as a tomboyish, extroverted and competetive. Sure she may not be the most complex character ever made, but she still has a personality, way more than Mario himself if you really think about it. Just because she has a personality you don’t like doesn’t mean she has no personality at all.

“All she can say is ‘Hi I’m Daisy!’”

No, she only says that in 1-2 games. If you find that line or her voice in general annoying that is your problem and I can’t argue with your opinion, but she DOES NOT say “Hi I’m Daisy” all the time, only in Mario Kart Double Dash!! and in one of the Mario & Sonic Olympic games, and even in those she doesn’t say it ALL the time, she does have other lines too. In fact she doesn’t even scream as much as others claim, for example in Mario Golf Toadstool Tour she does speak with her normal voice quite a lot actually. You can’t really blame Daisy for that line anyway, it’s not like she was scripted to say that so many times, she was just programmed to say that line every time she switches places in Double Dash!!, plus a huge amount of her lines in recent games has been recycled from older titles even if they don’t fit the slightest. So again, you can’t really blame Daisy from that.

“Daisy is objectively bad.”

No, if she was objectively bad, everyone would agree on that. She may be underdeveloped sure, but since people find something likable about her, her being bad is not a fact. It’s an opinion. For example, not everyone in the world find her voice annoying or her looks ugly and so on.

“Luigi x Daisy is fanon.”

Actually it was confirmed in a Nintendo Power issue back in 2000 when interviewing Camelot that they had asked Nintendo to give Luigi a partner similar how Peach is to Mario, and they suggested Daisy. Plus in Super Smash Bros. games the Daisy trophies have despriptions explaining how Luigi is smitten with her and her being Luigi’s answer to Mario’s Peach. Now why would they say these things just because they could? They’re not, they’re saying these things because Luigi x Daisy is indeed canon.

“Nobody cares about Daisy.”

That’s not true, she does have quite big of a fanbase. In fact there was a poll in Japan which showed her being the 2nd most popular character in Mario games, only behind Luigi. She is very popular in Japan as well as in other places of the world, particularly France. She may not be that well received in US, but that doesn’t mean she is unpopular everywhere in the world.

Well, I think that’s all, hopefully I could bring these things out in a better light. Thanks for reading! :)