[ SECRET POST #2652 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2652 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I always had mixed feelings about daemons, even as a kid. The idea initially seemed cool, but it really bugged me that people just went around with their soul bared, so to speak. It came off intrusive and too personal. But hell if it doesn't make great fusion fic.

[forgottenjester]

I get what you mean. That's why I always felt that daemons should be able to leave the presence of their human. That way you can have the best poker face, or avoid them becoming kidnapped, or get around things like trying to fit a bear in a smart car.

[(Anonymous)]

That last one, though! I wonder what you're supposed to do if you've got a creature like, say, a large fish which you have to lug around. It'd be something to behold, I guess.

[forgottenjester]

You die. It's that simple.

I kid. They actually brought that up in the books. One dude's daemon became a dolphin. He lives on a boat. I read that and was like, "Well, shit, son."

[(Anonymous)]

Geez, I guess you just have to hope your daemon doesn't settle into something unwieldy. Like a dolphin. (Seriously, that SUCKS.)

[forgottenjester]

I know, right?

Seriously, if I ever write an daemon AU that bullshit is ending.

[nyxelestia]

*looks at notes for daemon AU*

I have a midterm coming up. I should not be on this thread. Especially when I already have an answer for this particular conundrum in my particular AU. I should go study.

...FUCK IT ALL! *opens up ALL THE daemon AU notes*

[forgottenjester]

I'm sorry. If you want help I'm here? I have my own reasons and explanations.

[nyxelestia]

Eh, I would have found some stupid reason to put off studying anyway, this is a much better reason than most. :D

[forgottenjester]

Well, as I said, I'm here then. ;)

[illiadandoddity]

I'm actually writing a daemon AU for Star Trek wherein transporter technology has made separating people from their daemons without severing the link between them quite simple and easy. It's basically a science-induced version of the old rituals and training that witches and shamans used to do. All Starfleet personnel are required to do it. At the academy, they have a long room (about 200 feet long) and they just transport people from one end of the room to the other. It's quick, easy, and painless, but a little scary nonetheless.

For non-Starfleet types, most only do it if their daemon settles as something big and unwieldy, like a bear or a horse (or anything else that would be difficult to bring with you to the grocery store).

[forgottenjester]

Sounds interesting. I normally go about it by saying that it has to be done before a daemon settles because of the attempts of doing on adults in the books always ended with disaster.

When you finish writing it let me know.

[diet_poison]

otoh, a daemon is part of its person, not a separate entity, so I think the boat-life would have fit the guy well.

still, it's terribly constricting and inflexible. I would not want it.

[caecilia]

I think they actually went into that in the books

[leikomgwtfbbq]

That was always what I wondered. Like FJ said, we know what happens to people with aquatic daemons (they have to live on the water) but I've always wondered what happens if you have, like, a horse or a bull daemon, and you have to walk into the store to get a bottle of milk--are the aisles in the store just bigger so the big and unwieldy daemons don't knock shit over?

[(Anonymous)]

My theory is, probably not. From my (probably flawed) understanding of the books, it seems like only the truly unusual (and powerful?), uncommon individuals got large daemons - case in point, Stelmaria. Lord Asriel has a genuinely large, powerful, imposing personality and spirit, such that he pursues concepts as unusual and absurd/preposterous to your average citizen as tearing a hole in the universe. Conversely, folks who are known to be meek or shy or anxious have small daemons, like mice. So if you have a daemon as large as bull, you probably are in a position in life where you can find someone else to do your shopping for you - after all, can you imagine Lord Asriel in a Tesco comparing milk expiration dates? Me neither.

Same goes for a horse daemon - you probably don't find a daemon that size in your average human being's soul. Assuming, for example, that once the Spanish had loosed horses on the plains of America, then Native American's daemons started settling as horses - you probably still would only find horses in the most uncommon of Native Americans, and possibly only non-fighting women, because the typical traits of a horse are the opposite of what you'd want in a warrior (since horses are prey animals).

[caecilia]

I thought that had an interesting effect on their culture. Like it was totally normal to see other people's souls but touching them was the taboo

[(Anonymous)]

hell yes, this. I keep finding people who seem to think it'd be amazing if daemons were real and meanwhile I just think the idea's horribly weird and intrusive and outright disgusting... D: