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A countdown to the release of "Martha Holmes Mysteries"Character Intro: Daisy

“You are gold.”

It’s what Daisy tells her friends and social media followers every chance she gets. Daisy Bain is a woman who finds the light even on the dreariest days. At 33-years old, she’s a full-time content creator on social media, where she’s recognized as “Aunt Daisy” to her followers. Her warm demeanour and loving, bright brown eyes soak in the world; it’s beauty and ruins, existence and pain, darkness and light. Her life is lived following the sun, not letting negativity or toxicity have any place. She stands confident in who she is.

Her mind is full of seeds for ideas to plant. Something new and creative always lurks on the forefront; the peek of a sunrise where every day is a new day. Daisy has been single for quite some time, but she’s having fun until the right man comes along. She simply won’t settle for less than what she deserves. Her last relationship ended five years ago. Her road to social media stardom started with a simple Facebook page for breakups and women enduring a rough period in their lives. It soon expanded to Instagram, and finally, to TikTok, where her content really took off. In keeping multiple streams of revenue, she does ads on TikTok (only ones that align with her platform of positivity and acceptance), sells merch and her own art on her website, and runs a podcast and YouTube channel. She never runs out of things to do. She eventually wants to write a book as well.

But it isn’t through rose-coloured glasses that Daisy sees the world. She’s realistic, intelligent and passionate. At the same time, life is so much more than what we see. It’s mundane on the surface, sometimes to the point of agonizingly boring. There’s a layer of mediocrity over every life which can be peeled back to reveal true dreams, goals and who one is supposed to be. Daisy believes so many people live on that surface because it’s comfortable and familiar. Few want to fall through the floor of stability into the unknown, regardless of what it may bring them. Yet having her own floor crumble to dust beneath her was the best thing to have ever happened to her. She realizes that many people never tear that surface back like she did five years ago, when the relationship ended and it pushed her out of her toxic comfort zone. She’s seen rock bottom. But a sunflower grows tall to embrace the sun. She let her soul do just that.

Image by Hebert Hebert Santos from Pixabay

Off camera, Daisy spends a lot of time daydreaming, allowing ideas to enter her and stir for a while before using them. Notes remain scattered all over her office, pieces of poetry or for her next video or a quote to use somewhere. Art pieces always in progress. Paintings. Drawings. Notebooks. Her tripod, always set up and ready to go at a moment’s notice when inspiration strikes. She is the shadow dancing in her kitchen at 3 a.m. to her favourite music, string lights hung around her filming area entangled with fake sunflowers. The rest of her home is filled with obscure art pieces from other creators, copies of CDs and vinyl from indie musicians and books from indie authors. She believes in paying back to the creative community all the support and love she’s received.

Her foundation of confidence and positivity truly comes from her family. Her parents have always been loving supporters of both her and her brother. It built her resiliency against a world that can be unfathomably abrasive. When all else fails, she always has a soft place of love to fall back on. All she wants to do is give that to others.

If she gets into another relationship, it has to be with a man who will stand beside her and give her space to fly and grow, not hang around like dirty dishes in the kitchen sink. A guy needs to match her energy and be ready to keep stepping out of his comfort zone – because that is one spot where Daisy never stays.

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