Origin of my creation
Everyone may want to ask, why do I have an obsession with making derivative works on this small web animation series? And everyone may want to question my capability and even discredit me by any means.
It’s a complicated story — more and more complicated than you thought. Frankly, I look at the final look of Daisy Lai Fuk Yan, my first fanmade Daisy design, with mixed feelings every time. I’m so pleased that I can witness the long-process redesign of the characters, but at the same time, I’m so worried that I fail to spread my important message through my large derivative project.
It all initially started from my ambition to archive the stories about the 2019 crisis but at the risk of being erased instantly by the regime in mid-2020.
One of the inspirations is The Sheep Village Defender (Chinese: 羊村守衛者) series, the children's picture books published for the reading materials of children's speech therapy. However, those books are severely banned by the regime because of its fear that the next generations will no longer support the regime after learning these stories based on true incidents between the opposers and the regime. Even though we can archive them on the Internet with the aid of VPNs, the regime may still suppress their accessibility by either forcing the Cloud service provider to delete them or assembling supporters and hackers spreading fake news. (Extra example: On 6th October 2023, a clerk living in my homeland/birthplace was unreasonably sentenced to four months in prison after importing these books.)
Then I had an alternative idea, as straight creation may not work, why not apply derivative works creation to break through the suppression? Nonetheless, I hadn't seen any popular cartoons and video games to be a suitable creation base. Hence, I decided to take a long mental break.
Until late 2021, I accidentally clicked a gameplay video about a small web animation series created by Jzboy when I was searching for some video games' background music. (Yes I like listening to BGMs or video games' main songs while learning/working, don't ask which is my favorite.) The song choices for this simply-created tiny Stickman guy were pretty good and I enjoyed the parts when some meme songs played.
In the last part of the video, the whole environment changed from relaxing to quietly calm. Then a secret teenage girl appeared. Her song seemed joyful in the beginning. However, she suddenly revealed her true identity and power, surprising and confusing me for a while. After watching it, I searched for her information, understanding that she was a robot based on a dead teenage girl in another web animation series. Additionally, in my view, robots represent our future life. Everyone will complete his/her life goals through the wide application of robots. Some of us even may want to become robots after his/her death to keep in touch with the community and the world. That's why I accept this robot girl as my creation base.
In early 2022, I tried to draw Daisy even though I had stopped drawing on my tablet for a long time. (But I deleted the drawings as they looked ugly compared to my recent artwork, so I had no past fan art about her.) In May 2022, I decided to design my own Daisy species after looking up some of Thingooooooo's past design works.
Eventually, the creation of Daisy Lai Fuk Yan will be an alternative way of archiving the story of Christy Chan Yin Lam's life. Besides, I also wonder how Christy Chan would enjoy her second life after being reborn in the form of a robot.
It isn't important what creation tactics argument you have against me. I'm honestly welcome to receive any feedback about my works, not only rating my personality and my project promotion strategy.