早知今日何必当初

早 = 十 + 日 : Mnemonic symbol: your very own annoying alarm clock going off in the morning.

知 = 口 + 矢 : Mnemonic symbol: Francis Bacon is attributed to have stated "scientia potentia est", "knowledge is power". I'll thus represent 知 by Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon (知) and James II of England (zh) are playing darts (矢) in front of the space station (Ø1). Because they lack a dart board they just use a mandarin (口).

今 = 亽 + ㇇ : A rip off calendar showing today's date: 今

今 = 亽 + ㇇ : Joan of Arc has changed into half-duck half-human being and lives in a tipi in front of the encampment. With her beak, she shows a rip off calender with the date of Armageddon: today.

日 = 囗 + 一 : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

何 = 亻 + 可 : Mnemonic symbol (from "carry"): baby sling

何 = 亻 + 可 : In the elevator's kitchen, Rosa Luxemburg picks up the crying baby Hamlet from his bed of nails, puts him in his baby sling and tries to calm him down.

必 = 丿 + 心 : Mnemonic symbol: 忽必烈 [Hū​bì​liè​], Kublai Khan. Certainly (必) Kublai Khan (必) has to keep face, but he cannot hold it any longer. In the space station's bathroom (Ø4), He absolutely has to (必) tell Brunhilde (bi) his love for her strong character and offers her his heart (心). Brunhilde is a bit embarrassed because all she has to offer in return is a banana (丿). Kublai Khan feels like his heart has been crossed out (the 丿 stroke is crossing out 心 in 必).

当 = 小 + 彐 : This character looks like an angry pitbull. 小 forms the eyes and maybe nose, and 彐 are the dangerous teeth.

当 = 小 + 彐 : Don Quixote opposes a dangerous pit bull in front of the anglepod, and he tries to calm him down with a daisy.

当 = 小 + 彐 : This character looks like an angry pitbull. 小 forms the eyes and maybe nose, and 彐 are the dangerous teeth.

当 = 小 + 彐 : Don Quixote opposes a dangerous pit bull in front of the anglepod, and he tries to calm him down with a daisy.

初 = 刀 + 衤 : Back in the days when Chantal Chicken first arrived at the space station as the first junior scientist, she tried really hard to make a good first impression and put on a royal ermine coat. Just to be save she hid a cleaver behind her back just in case she wouldn't be received well.