DE: Daemonology

[yakalskovich]

 Simple question: what is your charrie's daemon?

With apologies to the Les Miz contingent who have already done a daemon AU.-

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[varadia]

X's daemon is a Great Grey Shrike named Invictus. He's judgy as hell, and will clearly let you know it. He also likes sitting in the curve between X's neck and shoulder. He is the master of terrible, sarcastic jokes. Before ten years ago he was silent.

I joke that Ysalwen's is Liranan, but that is not really true. Her daemon would be a gyrfalcon named Mienharel. He gets called Mien in public. He likes to fly waaaaaay high up at all times. Landing on her shoulder happens very rarely. If he has to be present for conversations, he generally fakes napping.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen's is a northern grasshopper mouse named Saoshyant. (Warning: the video is a National Geographic video of a mouse vs. a giant centipede.)

Shephard's is a small swarm of bees named Imre. They tend to clamber on his shoulders and in and out of his ears when not free to fly and make noise. They consider themselves a single entity, and so does he.

Stacker's is an osprey named Yemoja.

Santo's is a jaguar named Bahlam, and the question of her form giving away his maskless identity is irrelevant, because she settled permanently as a jaguar the moment he put on the mask.

Varric's I have never been entirely clear on; Varric is from a world where every sapient species except dwarves goes into the spirit realm in their dreams, which inclines me to think that in a daemonverse AU, dwarves' daemons would not be external to their bodies. If they were, his would be a vixen, and her name would be something complicated in the Dwarvish language as spoken in old Orzammar.

Fawkes the supermutant's daemon is a hippo named Ennoia, although that was not her original form when he first went into Vault 87. The mutants there tend to shove people and their daemons into the FEV vats at the same time. This almost never ends well. Fawkes' daemon went back to shape fluidity for a long time until he managed to pull himself together and rebuild his own sanity.

Quicksilver's is a black-chinned hummingbird named Bonnie.

And I'm retiring Gordon Freeman shortly but his daemon is a millimeter-long tardigrade named Sati, who lives in a flat-sided test tube around his neck, or a moss-lined glass marble when the test tube isn't needed.

[cottoncandypink]

A weasel would be the obvious answer for Wilford, I feel like. Which is why I'm inclined to not say weasel.

I'm almost tempted to say a cat. A big, fat tabby or something. The sort that falls off the TV stand and then pretends it meant to do that. But also the sort of cat that lets you think it's lazy and useless about 90% of the time, and then randomly surprises you by leaving a dead snake on the kitchen counter.

The fact that she would be an animal Wilford hates probably also speaks volumes about his own levels of self-loathing.

[souffle_girlek]

Oswin's daemon is a raven - gregarious and clever, he settled long before they took the job on the Alaska. Now, he hasn't actually spoken since coming to Mways (though he does try to help with the baking).

Jemma's daemon is a hedgehog, which Jemma sulked about mightily for about a month once he settled - there are so many cool snakes he could have been, what could he have been thinking? He tends to end up in the pocket of whatever lab coat she's wearing.
This answer almost got changed to 'lion' due to this fic which I adore in which Jemma's daemon is a lion, and I keep hitting F5 hoping for an update.

Glorfindel's daemon has had two settled forms - in Gondolin she was an golden eagle (mild headcanon that most of the Noldorians ended up with birds, and they tended to be very pretty birds indeed). After Gondolin, when he came back, she was a magpie (thus lending to the confusion). To make things worse, she wasn't the European Magpie that would probably be more fitting to Arda and to polite elven society... she was an Australian Magpie, so while she loves glitter and glitz as much as the next corvid, she also has 0% problem taking you out.

Sam's daemon is an Old English Bulldog (or, as she'd know it, a bulldog). If you put a modern English Bulldog in front of Sam she'd wonder why the heck you smashed what was probably a perfectly good dog under there. Anyway, her parents were horrified when she got what was essentially a fighting dog, though they supposed they should have seen something like that coming. Honestly though, it was seeing that dog trotting in at the heals of his decidedly non-male new driver that kept Foyle from throwing her out on her ear.

Question for the group: Would an Other have a daemon? Or would Katya be Tiger Cub because once she became Other she re-fused with her daemon and can shift into its shape?

Bones' daemon is a bloodhound - stubborn, sprawling, perfectly content lounging in a patch of sunshine, will work herself into the ground, and loves 'accidentally' drooling on Spock's boots.

Lin's daemon is a Bengal cat - graceful, prideful, and will 100% take your face off if messed with.

[chanter1944]

Sariel's daemon is a rossignol, or Lucian house wren, named Alexandre Verlaine.*

*Named *before* I became complete Hamiltrash, I swear. :) His second name is absolutely a nod to the D Day codes, though.

[bjornwilde]

Only have one answer...

Sabine's daemon is a vhe'viin, which is a rodent that is well known for infiltrating farms, no matter what measures are taken to keep them out. He is bold and willing to fight at a moments notice. Think a nac mac feegle in mouse form. He has stopped changing shape but still shifts the color of his fur.