#** headcanons.

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Daisy Mae grew up in Austin, Texas up until she was ten years old when her parents and her moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana just an hour from New Orleans which she frequented.

Daisy Mae has a distinct southern accent, and i found / decided on her official voice claim ♥️😍 below is an example if anyone wants to hear what she sounds like but it’s Rosetta from the pixie hollow franchise ! ( funnily enough she gives me daisy mae vibes appearance wise too hehe )

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daisy mae postpartum body headcanons.

never quite loses that “post baby” weight, she tried a little but she just loved food and after Mabel her metabolism wasn’t as fast.

her tummy is soft, she has a bit of a “muffin top”, and her breasts are a little bit bigger from back when she breastfeeding; albeit covered in now faded stretch marks. she also has stretch marks on her lower abdomen and her thighs / hips.

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daisy mae and her daughter were failed by the system ™️ yes it was nathaniel parker who carelessly forgot his two and a half year old in a hot car for hours resulting in her getting heat stroke but mabel wouldn’t have been at his house if the family court judge had just given her mom full custody; if he had believed her when she tried to say again and again that her ex husband would not be a good guardian even part time.

she didn’t know that his neglectful nature would end up in her losing the person she loved most in the whole world but she knew mabel wouldn’t be properly cared for anf that she could get hurt, she was also worried that he might eventually become physically abusive. but the judge was a firm believer that children should have both parents in their life so long as the parent has never been very overtly abusive especially physically or sexually.

mabel was failed by law enforcement and by the social workers that visited her father’s house a few times during his weekends with her. due to reports from neighbors that a toddler had been left entirely alone. but even when he was home it didn’t mean she would be supervised properly. one particularly troubling incident involved her gleefully chasing a colorful butterfly out of her father’s backyard and down the street then down another street…another street…at some point she lost sight of the butterfly but was finding plenty to explore and be curious about.

she was seen by a semi busy street trying to cross on her way back to her dad’s house after her about 20 ish minute exertion. her mother had taught her to always look both ways but she didn’t remember that her and her mom always used a cross walk. luckily a couple saw her and pulled over to grab her before she attempted to cross on her own.

nathaniel was subjected to an inquiry / visit from social workers following this but in the end all that really happened was it was “noted” in their files and it was required that he had to ensure his backyard gate had a child proof lock.

nathaniel lost his daughter for roughly 20 minutes and didn’t even realize she had left the backyard. meanwhile daisy mae lost sight of her in a busy grocery store for about 3 minutes one time and nearly had a panic attack. that incident combined with everything else should have lead to him getting his partial custody stripped at least until a full scale investigation was done but it wasn’t and a 2 year old child paid the ultimate price for it.

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daisy mae was the kind of mom who while giving her daughter a taste of peanut butter for the first time did so while parked right outside the emergency room ready to run inside the second mabel might have shown any adverse reaction.

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a look inside daisy mae’s diaper bag for mabel. + headcanons aka me rambling.

daisy mae found herself overwhelmed with the anxious need to be fully prepared for anything “just in case” this combined with her feeling like she had to go above and beyond to prove to people she wasn’t some irresponsible / lazy teen mom who didn’t bother doing her research meant that her daughter’s diaper bag was packed to the brim with things it didn’t really need. lots of unnecessary extras of things.

it was usually well organized but sometimes yes it looked like a baby store blew up inside; mixed with a few random personal items of her own.

items not pictured: at least half a pack’s worth of Huggies little snuggler diapers which would be replaced with pampers easy up “training underwear” since by the time of mabel’s death they had been working on potty training. a non contact thermometer, pacifier / bottle wipes, a few bottles of water for her formula bottles before she transitioned to cow’s milk, more toys and stuffed animals, a a “busy book”, vicks babyrub ( Vicks VapoRub ), infant tylenol, and a first aid kit.

at one time daisy mae had figured she could give the bag away when Mabel was old enough to not need a diaper bag; perhaps to a friend. but now it sits on the top shelf of her closet, still lightly packed with items and untouched since the tragedy. beechnut fruit and veggie pouches, gerber’s mild cheddar lil’ crunchies, and yogurt melts all long expired but she can’t throw them out.

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usagi has undiagnosed adhd.

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obviously daisy mae misses her daughter every day but july and october are especially debilitating. with july being the month mabel died and october being her birthday month. the depression that hits her is so intense every year it's reminiscent of those weeks of initial grief. almost like she's experiencing it again for the first time over and over. christmas is also hard because while daisy mae was never a christmas girl herself she'd been excited about making it magical for mabel.

she'd made a big deal out of her first and second christmases and would have done so again for her third. mabel had started to grasp the idea of santa claus. daisy mae really wanted to do all the traditions with her like putting out cookies and milk, using men's boots to leave sparkly snow-y foot prints as "evidence" that sort of thing.

with her birthday comes the pain of what if. who would mabel have been if her father hadn't been so neglectful ? she's forever frozen as an almost-three year old.