Daisy's Adventures is my take on a spinoff series centered around Daisy. I envisioned that if the series were ever in video game form, it would be a game that played like a mixture of Kingdom Hearts and Legend of Zelda with tons of action, puzzles, RPG mechanics, squad commands, a HUB level/overworld, and good ol' Mario-style platforming (both 2-D and 3-D) mixed in. While Nintendo has done next-to-nothing with her, I believe this Mario character has the potential necessary to branch out and be a key player as the lead in her own franchise.

Unfortunate as it is to say, I will not be writing a fifth story for this series. There are other ventures I need to devote time and effort towards, including hopefully putting together original fiction. So, as far as my writing goes, Daisy's Adventures is finished. I won't be writing any more for the series. My time here is over.

I'd like to say that I am very grateful and appreciative of the support that I have received and for the continued interest of my readers for all that I have written. It's not the easiest thing to come up with the kind of stuff that I have, so I want to say, "Thank you," to you guys out there favoriting, following, reviewing, and just keeping up to date with Daisy's Adventures! Even though it is just a long-winded fanfic, I hope my writing and the world I have created can serve as a source of immersion and escapism.

Thanks for the ride, everyone.

Daisy's Adventures #1: Elemental Odyssey
- Moirai Saga (I-XI)
- Water Shrine Saga (XII-XVI)
- Air Shrine Saga (XVII-XXI)
- Kokoro Saga (XXII-XXVI)
- Deyanira Saga (XXVII-XXX)
- 12th Dimension Saga (XXXI-XLII)

Daisy's Adventures #2: Return to Sarasaland
- Homecoming Saga (I-X)
- Birabuto Saga (XI-XIII)
- Muda / Great Canyon Saga (XIV-XXII)
- Chai City Saga (XXIII-XXVII)
- Watcher's Cape Saga (XXVIII-XXXIII)
- Easton Saga (XXXIV-XXXVIII)
- Harvest Moon Festival Saga (XXXIX-L)

Daisy's Adventures #3: Time Trap
- Neo World Saga (I-X)
- Crystal Tears Saga (XI-XXV)
- Gate of Time Saga (XXVI-XXXV)
- Mystic Lake Saga (XXXVI-XLIII)
- Perseverance Saga (XLIV-LI)
- Mekarsari Saga (LII-LVIII)
- Oracle of Fates Saga (LIX-LXVI)
- Grand Finale (LXVII-LXXXVIII)

Daisy's Adventures #3.98?: Challenge of The True Arena
Round of 8, in random order:
- Dark Summoner
- Dark Marauder
- Cractus
- Dark Usurper
- Mr. M & Mr. L
- Dark Siren
- Savage
- Kokoro
Nightmare 4, in set order:
- 4) ???
- 3) ???
- 2) ???
- 1) ???

Daisy's Adventures #4: Mechanical Menace:
- Neo Present: Acceleration of Modernization (I-VI)
- A New Enemy: The Heralds of a Revolutionary Age (VII-XIV)
- Head of the Learners (XV-XIX)
- Chrysanthemum Sindograss Chase (XX-XXXIII)
- Domain of the Angels (XXXIV-LVIII)

Daisy's Adventures notes and FAQ:

Q: Why do elemental wielders carry around elemental weapons if they're supposed to be bad?

A: There's a distinction between the "elemental tools" elemental wielders like the Kruna use as opposed to that of King Sarasa's "elemental weapons." The elemental tools are designed primarily for the purpose of helping an elemental wielder to focus their elemental powers better, acting as an extension of their body. This allows them to burn less energy, channel their elements with less difficulty, and exhibit more control. Secondarily, these elemental tools can be used for melee combat if and whenever necessary. Thus, the purpose of an elemental tool is pure. Technically, the tools are weapons, but they are not universally seen as such. In addition, the elemental tool can be made for specific elements, but will not be able to exhibit any elemental control if the user can not control an element themselves. An elemental weapon, on the other hand, is something designed with the sole purpose and intent of causing destruction and harm. Elemental weapons have been used as part of the military of various nations for war and for conquering and/or invasion of other nations. These elemental weapons can be used to harness the elements regardless of whether the user is an elemental wielder or not. Elemental weapons also tend to be larger types of implements, oftentimes being machines and other similar devices. Whereas elemental tools require the user to channel their energy through them, elemental weapons run off of conventional, technological means (i.e. gas, electricity, etc.) wherein the users themselves do not supply the energy for the weapon.

Note: For any and all interactions with Paper Mario series characters, assume they have taken on 3-D forms.

Q: Are those Black Mages in Return to Sarasaland from Final Fantasy?

A: Technically, yes, but I got the idea to have them in the story from those couple Mario sports games that Square Enix made. A generic Black Mage was a selectable character in those, so I figured I'd take the Black Mages, give them names and unique apparel colors and differentiate them to make them Marissa's Sweeps team. I feel like I play around with morality a lot, so I'm not going to say that the Sweeps are inherently evil. If you ever want a picture of what a generic Black Mage looks like, you can get a good graphic of them from Mario Sports Mix, and then just switch the color palette to match Tamara or Naraka or whoever.

Q: Mechanical Menace is rated "M"?

A: Yah. EDIT: Well, not right now. Maybe again.

Q: When is this world set in relation to the games? (Thanks for asking, 7King Bowser7.)

A: Since this was made to be after Galaxy but also in the works (the series, anyways) before Super Mario Odyssey was even announced, I'd say it'd take place before Odyssey, but that's a tough question. Really, at the start of all this, I was just going to have the first story itself, and that'd be it. I wasn't going to write a second story, but a second story and a third story came to mind, so I extended this into a series. The whole time I'm writing it, I treated it as a spinoff. I thought this would just be a one-off story that could fit somewhere in the main timeline; but when I continued the series, I decided to think less about sticking to any established canon continuity and more about furthering wherever the story took this continuity. And really, Nintendo has diverged their continuity further away from mine over time, especially with how Mario Odyssey went down, so rather than try to stick to theirs, I just have stuck to mine and what I've established, for the sake of the narrative. Stuff like Bowser's motives, other people's perceptions of Bowser, Daisy's fighting style because of her inclusion in Smash as a glorified Peach clone; stuff that I was able to interpret and use all the way back in Elemental Odyssey, Nintendo pretty much went completely in the other direction with by the time I finished Time Trap.
So, how this series fits into the games? Eh, it's complicated. Too murky to give a clear answer. Eventually, I stopped worrying about where it would fit. It is just fanfiction anyways, so it is ultimately non-canon. And the story I want to tell is not in line with Nintendo's plans going forward.

Extra: If anybody's curious, I don't capitalize “koopa” [as it is by itself] for two reasons, 1) because I feel that koopas are the closest beings to humans in-universe, and since we don't capitalize “human,” I didn't feel it necessary to capitalize koopa, and 2) because there's so many subsets/subspecies/classes of koopas that I feel that “koopa” itself is just a broad term to use; like “dog.” We'll capitalize “German Shepherd,” and “Siberian Husky,” but we don't capitalize “dog.” On the other hand, things like the Nimbus people and Piantas and Nokis; there's no subset of them other than the different colored kinds of those species, so they're as specific as they're going to get. In saying “koopa,” I am referring to the whole class, including Koopa Troopas [see what I did there?, Hammer Bros, Paratroopas, Lakitus, Magikoopas, and etc. Now when I've used terms like "Koopa Clan", "Koopa King", "Koopa's Spirit"; they're all proper nouns and are capitalized as such. This'll get pretty fuzzy when referring to "toads" versus "Toad" and "yoshis" versus "Yoshi." I think we all know what the deal is with those instances, but in any case, just know that should I refer to either Toad or Yoshi, I am referring to those specific characters, but as far as generic characters of the same species, those guys will be toads and yoshis.

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