#and also no i don't condone eating cats irl jesus christ you fuckers get a goddamn grip i shouldn't have to say that

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so i watched that daisy brown arg that everyone was hootin and hollerin about a few years back and i made some observations, particularly about how daisy behaves towards alan/in general really

(warning: you probably aren't gonna like this post if you're in the "daisy never did anything wrong in her life and alan is pure evil" camp; also additional warning for mentions of physical and mental/emotional abuse and theft & death of an animal)

okay so first off, the way daisy treats alan when hes a baby seems a little fucked to me. like.. sorry but i think that using an infant creature to test your dollar store makeup and handling him in a way that looks like you're trying to snap his neck is a lil weird (seriously look at the way she holds him in some scenes from earlier episodes, how the FUCK did his head stay on)

actually let's talk about the fact that she's filming him and posting him online anyways!! yknow how everyone hates youtube "family channels" for broadcasting all their kids' formative years online for countless strangers to see? thats basically what daisy did to alan!!! since he was literally an infant!!! imagine having videos of you as a baby online!!! how wouldn't that fuck someone up!!!!!

this isn't even mentioning the fact that daisy sewed fabric into alan's flesh and it was confirmed once he could speak that it hurt him. yeah she was trying to make sure his head didn't fall off but who the hell sees a living being in pain and goes "oh!! i should stick a needle in it!! :D" (especially since. the needle likely was not sterilized. and also she started doing this when he was in a relatively juvenile stage. yeah)

okay moving onto later videos: i never see anyone talk about the fact that daisy likely stole strawberry.. she mentions in the video where strawberry is introduced that strawberry had a collar, and i mean. cats aren't just born with collars on. so either she stole a cat that escaped from a shelter or she stole a cat from her neighbors. nice. cool. very cool and good behavior definitely Smol Bean Activities™

oh speaking of strawberry! daisy already knew that alan was eating large quantities of meat (lmao)!! and she decided to steal someones cat and keep it in her house despite that!!! even if she adopted strawberry legitimately it would still be a massive irresponsible decision because. [gestures to everything about alan]

oneee more thing about strawberry: so she has this creature that she's taken care of for most of her life (if the captions are anything to go by). and then she sees this random-ass cat wander onto her property. and then she immediately decides that she cares more about this random cat that she's known for less than a day than the creature she's cared for like a mother since her own childhood? yeah i get it cats are cute and all but jesus christ. imagine caring about your pet more than your kid. what the fuck daisy

in defense of daisy:

she's very, very sheltered (if the captions are anything to go by), and thus she likely has no other reference for parenting or interacting with others besides her dad, and her dad was... not great. and it is good that she's at least trying to be better than he was at parenting, but it seems like she doesn't quite understand that baby dolls are not an accurate replica of actual babies

additionally, daisy's father himself introduces alan to her as just a creature. yes, a living creature, but still a creature. not a pet, not a family member, not even a friend, but a chore. "you and i are gonna have to take care of this thing, and yeah i know it's probably gonna suck, but otherwise everything will be fine, don't worry; it's like he's not even there". (if you don't know what i'm talking about here then rewatch the series and turn on the subtitles)

however...

alan also has no reference for basically any human behavior besides daisy, and daisy... basically just treated him like a toy. "human behavior" includes morality and empathy. daisy doesn't seem to have taught him anything besides "other people are toys" from a very, very early age. suddenly him getting a kick out of messing with her makes a little more sense.

some of the more caring things daisy did for alan in the earlier videos could be interpreted very differently through the eyes of an infant creature who can't communicate what they're feeling... specifically i'm talking about the "trying out different sources of sugar" video, where. from alan's point of view, she's basically force feeding him. and also in later videos when she basically ignores him because she's busy doing something else that doesn't involve him.. i think that he might've maybe seen things that weren't really there, so to speak

anyways tldr while daisy is nowhere near as obvious & cartoonishly abusive as alan is, she's still not a perfect person and might've been partially responsible for alan turning out Like That™ because she's been isolated from the entire world for her whole life and has no reference for how to parent correctly.. also justice for alan, he deserved therapy, not death, fuck you guys you guys are just mean/lh