Gordon Freeman's daemon is a tardigrade named Sati. Tardigrades are a phylum of minuscule creatures ranging in size from a tenth of a millimeter long to 1.5 millimeters long. They most commonly live on mosses and lichens but can be found in many other environments, and they are all but impossible to kill. I'm not talking cockroach durability, I'm talking survival at temperatures barely above absolute zero, or as high as 151 C/304 F, doses of radiation as high as five thousand Grays (NB: humans tend to die at doses of around six or seven Grays), up to 1200 atmospheres of pressure, and the vacuum of space. You can't kill them. Hence, Gordon. Sati lives in a moss-lined glass marble around Gordon's neck, or in a flat-sided test tube if he has to wear the HEV suit. Sati is also one of the names given for the wife of Siva in Hindu lore.
Adrian Shephard's daemon is a small swarm of honeybees named Imre. The swarm is one organism. This is representative of his need to be part of something larger than himself on a more fundamental level than merely being a member of a pack or pride. Imre tends to speak to him by having a bee crawl into one or both of his ears; very few other people ever hear her voice over her buzzing. As a child he used to worry his parents severely because his daemon kept going from various regular animals to something compound, like the bees or a group of ants or termites, and then back again. Imre's a name I found on a web site about Preston County, West Virginia. I don't know what it means, but it's at least local to his home region.
Ray's daemon is a half-grown black Labrador named Susan. She will always be half-grown and gangling and tripping over her own paws and only about two hairs out of the 'what'sTHATwhat'sTHATwhat'sTHAT' stage of interacting with the world.
I have never stopped to consider what Hektor's or Arcade's daemons would be. Reasonably sure Hektor's is going to be some variety of horse, probably a big black mare who raises images of the man-eating mares of Diomedes with the temper she has that Hektor seldom shows anyone. Arcade's, I think, is an anole, which rather surprised him as it was an Old World kind of lizard that doesn't exist any more, but... well, it's quick and it's quiet and it's observant and it changes color to hide when it can, and he supposes that's only fair given how much of his life has revolved around that, really.
Zira is not human and I have no great urge to think of a daemon for her. Mordin is not human but if he were, his daemon would be a mantis shrimp, and he would have to have an aquarium of some kind following him around (fortunately eezo makes this kind of thing relatively easy).
I don't know what Medic's daemon is. Probably some form of oddly endearing spider. That would make him the second medical person I've given a spider daemon to, the other being Elliot Tercorien in Ellen's world. She has a good deal more patience and a much more easily triggered sense of amusement than he does.
Pretty sure we decided on Varric getting a vixen for his daemon, although I never did figure out her name.
And I once started working on a daemonverse AU for Fallout 3, so a lot of people in Ellen's world have had daemons assigned them. She herself has a grasshopper mouse named Saoshyant. Grasshopper mice are a couple of inches long and look like adorable bundles of fuzz designed by Studio Ghibli, right up until they rip apart scorpions and giant millipedes several times larger than themselves- they're carnivorous mice. It's not uncommon for them to attack and kill other rodents as well, if need be. Oh, and they howl to claim their territory, too. Really, don't underestimate the cute little grasshopper mice... anyway, the name is Zoroastrian. As a common noun it refers mostly to religious leaders. As a proper noun it refers to a figure of Zoroastrian eschatology, the third and final saviour of the far future, who will lead humanity in the final battle against falsehood and bring about the ultimate cleansing and renovation of the world.
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Adrian Shephard's daemon is a small swarm of honeybees named Imre. The swarm is one organism. This is representative of his need to be part of something larger than himself on a more fundamental level than merely being a member of a pack or pride. Imre tends to speak to him by having a bee crawl into one or both of his ears; very few other people ever hear her voice over her buzzing. As a child he used to worry his parents severely because his daemon kept going from various regular animals to something compound, like the bees or a group of ants or termites, and then back again. Imre's a name I found on a web site about Preston County, West Virginia. I don't know what it means, but it's at least local to his home region.
Ray's daemon is a half-grown black Labrador named Susan. She will always be half-grown and gangling and tripping over her own paws and only about two hairs out of the 'what'sTHATwhat'sTHATwhat'sTHAT' stage of interacting with the world.
I have never stopped to consider what Hektor's or Arcade's daemons would be. Reasonably sure Hektor's is going to be some variety of horse, probably a big black mare who raises images of the man-eating mares of Diomedes with the temper she has that Hektor seldom shows anyone. Arcade's, I think, is an anole, which rather surprised him as it was an Old World kind of lizard that doesn't exist any more, but... well, it's quick and it's quiet and it's observant and it changes color to hide when it can, and he supposes that's only fair given how much of his life has revolved around that, really.
Zira is not human and I have no great urge to think of a daemon for her. Mordin is not human but if he were, his daemon would be a mantis shrimp, and he would have to have an aquarium of some kind following him around (fortunately eezo makes this kind of thing relatively easy).
I don't know what Medic's daemon is. Probably some form of oddly endearing spider. That would make him the second medical person I've given a spider daemon to, the other being Elliot Tercorien in Ellen's world. She has a good deal more patience and a much more easily triggered sense of amusement than he does.
Pretty sure we decided on Varric getting a vixen for his daemon, although I never did figure out her name.
And I once started working on a daemonverse AU for Fallout 3, so a lot of people in Ellen's world have had daemons assigned them. She herself has a grasshopper mouse named Saoshyant. Grasshopper mice are a couple of inches long and look like adorable bundles of fuzz designed by Studio Ghibli, right up until they rip apart scorpions and giant millipedes several times larger than themselves- they're carnivorous mice. It's not uncommon for them to attack and kill other rodents as well, if need be. Oh, and they howl to claim their territory, too. Really, don't underestimate the cute little grasshopper mice... anyway, the name is Zoroastrian. As a common noun it refers mostly to religious leaders. As a proper noun it refers to a figure of Zoroastrian eschatology, the third and final saviour of the far future, who will lead humanity in the final battle against falsehood and bring about the ultimate cleansing and renovation of the world.