Wednesday DE

[bjornwilde]

An oldie, but a goodie...

What would your pup have as a daemon, ala Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series?

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[death_gone_mad]

I think I remember assigning a striped hyena named Yandu to Amascut

Oh look, I have an icon or two.

I don't think I ever decided on a daemon for Fairy Fixit. A moth or some insect would be too on the nose. A beaver, perhaps?

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka would have a convor and I'm going to name it Ashla...for reasons. Ashla is very calm and serene to balance Ahsoka's fiery/dynamic self.

Sabine seems to have an anooba, but I don't have a name or personality.

Sam, of course, has a brown falcon named Redwing. Not sure of personality.

Before I'd given Hank a raccoon named Sherazade. She is bold and adventurous, as well as being something of a prankster.

Dog does not compute for this one, though I could see an AU where she's Lirael's daemon.

I am honestly not certain Viv would have a daemon, given she is an artificial being, but I love the idea of her having a bee hummingbird as a daemon for some reason. Again, I am failing at a name or personality.

Danny...I just got the mental image of Danny's daemon being Mu Shu from Disney's Mulan and I can not stop laughing.

Tybalt is a creature of Faerie and daemons don't compute....then again I love the image of a tiny gryffon perched on his shoulder. She'd be cheerful and bubbly to his grace and poise. ETA: Or a rose goblin! Man, that would tweak the nose of the Torquels. ; p

Lastly, Jessica Drew...who I will EP someday...has a tiny peacock spider. His name is Gary for some reason and he is sounding like one of Michael Meyers's Scottish characters. I don't know....

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen's is a northern grasshopper mouse named Saoshyant. They look harmless, if a bit large as mice go, and very cute, but they'll wrestle giant centipedes and scorpions to the death on a regular basis, then eat the corpses.

Varric's is a particularly smug-looking vixen who I don't think I have a name for.

Stacker Pentecost's is an osprey. Not sure about her name either.

Adrian Shephard's is a hive of bees named Imre. All of them, since as far as he's concerned the entire population of the hive is a single organism.

Fawkes' daemon is a hippo named Ennoia.

I am not sure about Peter/Quicksilver but I am almost convinced it is some particularly squeaky species of hummingbird, because I've watched the really small ones at feeders and they're basically aggressive little shits that beat up on each other at high speed, making Looney Toons squeaking noises the whole time.

[makesthings]

This is one of those questions, I always find incredibly interesting and hard to answer.

I think Cassian's daemon would be a bird of some kind, one of the smaller raptors that's fast and clever.

Will Scarlett's is a red fox.

For Sameth, at one point I thought perhaps a beaver or a badger, a clever but not terribly showy creature.

For the rest, I have no idea and would love suggestions. Also I just finished rereading Goldenhand so I'm hoping to play Sameth more, I'd forgotten how he's not given a lot to do in the book, but more space for me to expand.

[the_cupbearer]

Ganymede's is a golden eagle named Felicity.

Noriko's is a jenday conure named Tsuyoshi.

Sooraya's when I played her was a regal ringneck snake that she could wear around her neck under her veil.

[sunbaked_baker]

I've always had Sunshine's daemon being a honey bee called Mellifer. Hardworking, determined, maker of sweet things, willing to defend her home and people to the death.

If goddesses have daemons, Hedda Winchell/Pheme/Rumor's daemon would absolutely be one of those large, blue-and-gold macaws.

Yrael's daemon would be a white cat, who is also himself.

[irish_vagabond]

I know I've done my other pups before and I'll look up the old replies just to be sure that I haven't changed my mind on them, but I haven't done Cassidy yet. And the first thing that popped into my head was an elderly sloth named Eileen who just wants to make sure he eats well and behaves himself.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Thurlow has a kea, which I kind of want to also name after a street in Vancouver except I've had difficulty choosing one that sounds right to me. They have no significant connection to New Zealand, it's just a really, really fitting animal. This is how I described it on my tumblr: "It's green! It's fiendishly clever! It EATS EVERYTHING AND NO ONE CAN STOP IT."

Of my nonhuman characters, trolls' lusii already fill the animal-symbolism niche for them (Aradia's is some kind of kangaroo-sheep thingy, Cirava's is unseen but implied to be a giant wasp or maybe a colony of regular size wasps), and Ganymede fills the animal-companion niche enough that I've seen it suggested that in a daemonverse he is Bastion's daemon.

Whether omnics in general would/could have daemons is an interesting question; they might not for thematic reasons, since it would be harder for humans to insist that they're soulless machines (as they often do in the Overwatch universe) if they did, and while it's been a long time since I read HDM I seem to recall that the armored bears are daemonless sapient beings so there's a precedent for it.

[chanter1944]

Sariel's daemon is a rossignol, a Lucian house wren. His name is Alexandre Verlaine, and yes, that second name is absolutely a nod to the D Day codes. He was almost Fletcher Verlaine, but that just didn't seem right, somehow. Alexandre is not a nod to Hamilton, though! XD

[quick_clean_pure]

A raccoon. Because they're goth-looking and they, too, dig through garbage and steal.

[sticktothemission]

On short notice I'm thinking Gabe's is a black rat: clever, adaptable, and damned good at surviving. I have nothing for her personality except that she is probably very sassy.

Khadgar's is maybe a magpie or crow? Corvids are a heavy theme with Khadgar, his master's being that of a raven. Khadgar, though, is much more social and the mimicry magpies can perform seems to suit him better than the raucous cawing of crows.

I'll have to think about both of these.