A Taiwanese influencer stunt has turned a local election filing into a public protest over political dynasties and a bullying scandal, an embarrassment for the Kuomintang lawmaker whose son is running.

• A former JKF model legally changed her name to a 16-character phrase that translates roughly as "princess who traveled back in time to fix the bully Si Kuang-yang," then filed to run for Taoyuan city council.
• The stunt targets Si Kuang-yang, son of KMT legislator Wan Mei-ling, who registered as an independent candidate a day earlier and has faced accusations of bullying.
• She showed up at the election commission in historical costume, and said the name change is meant to symbolize coming back to correct inherited power.
• Si responded that everyone has the right to run and said he respects her candidacy.
• She says she will not fundraise or open a political donation account, and will give any public campaign subsidy to stray animal groups.

Outlook: The race becomes a live test of how much voters punish the KMT over hereditary politics, with the campaign likely to play out through short-form video rather than conventional stumping.