DAEMON AU MEME

[bloodyashes]

~TOWER OF ANIMUS: DAEMON AU VER~

They call it the Tower of Animus - the tower of souls. In that place, they draw the soul out of you, and give it a shape of its own.

In this version of the Tower, there's a new meaning to the name; every character, from the most mundane human to the most powerful of gods, has picked up a daemon upon arrival. Originally from the His Dark Materials trilogy, daemons are essentially physical manifestations of a person's soul, which take the form of animals.

And now, residents of the Tower, you have found yourself accompanied by one!

Some quick daemon facts:

• - They can talk, no matter shape they take, and each daemon has a unique name and voice.
• - A human can use their daemon's senses and vice-versa, although it takes some level of skill and concentration between the two.
• - Children's dæmons can change form at will; around puberty they 'settle' and become one animal permanently. Some daemons tend towards forms similar to their final ones before settling; others seem to settle suddenly.
• - Neither the person or the dæmon chooses the final settled form, but it always reflects their personality (although not necessarily in obvious or simple ways). This might be an animal from Earth, or something native to your character's world; the only stipulations are size (no smaller than a bumblebee, no larger than a horse) and sapience (daemons do not take the form of creatures that are themselves sentient). Aquatic daemons are possible, although rare.
• Typically, the personality of a daemon is similar to their human's, but tends to represent the less-often expressed parts of that personality.
• - They are almost always the opposite sex from the person they're attached to (about 90% of the time).
• - If a dæmon feels pain, so will their person, and vice versa - if one dies, the other does too. A slain daemon dissipates into a shower of golden light.
• - Being physically apart from one's dæmon causes horrible emotional and physical pain; the majority of people can't stand to be more than across the room from their daemon. There are some people (women called "witches") in the HDM universe who have forced themselves away from their daemons and are no longer bound by this limitation; their daemons can range apart from them for miles.
• - Dæmons frequently talk to and touch each other, in ways that reflect or complement their persons' interactions, but dæmons talking to humans other than their own is considered strange, and touching humans not their own is extremely taboo; it generally occurs only between long-time lovers. Touching someone else's dæmon without permission is a terrible violation.
• - A person who is "severed" from their daemon and no longer connected to it seems to behave like a soul-less zombie; the daemon, in turn, is quiet and complacent, and generally settles in an unnoteworthy form. In-universe, severing can only be done to children whose daemons have not settled, but, well, this is the Tower. Go wild :'D

Respond to this post with your character and information about their daemon (name, gender, settled/unsettled, and settled or common forms) and maybe a prompt or two, and you're all set to go! If you'd like help deciding on a daemon, there's an OOC Daemon-help thread on the first comment of this post.

[About half of non Tower-specific text was cribbed off of the original meme on bakerstreet.]

Comments

Daemon Help Thread

[bloodyashes]

[Or, "oh god I need a daemon guru" thread.]

[attheclocktower]

Assuming Xion's would even be settled yet given the mental vs. physical age thing...

[bloodyashes]

I'd say her time at the tower has probably settled her, yeah.

Thematically, maybe some kind of shorebird? Both of the sea and sky, etc

They also tend to be somewhat skittish birds (except gulls, but xion is defs not a gull)

[midgarhorizon]

Out of curiosity, whatcha think for Reno?

[bloodyashes]

Offhand? Some kind of scavenger. Depends on what you'd be looking to represent in his personality, though.

[seventhsong]

I recommend the dhole, if you accept outside suggestions!

Here's a photo of one.

They are dog-sized hunters and scavengers and eat nearly anything including plants and fruit, highly social like most canids but unlike wolves don't stick to a very strict hierarchy. There's enough to go around so there really isn't any infighting. When hunting in dense forests, they don't bark, and they never howl. Instead they whistle to each other. Unlike most other canids except African wild dogs, they let their pups eat before they themselves eat. They're bold enough when they have their pack, to go after tigers fearlessly.

[puppy_lancer]

Can I get some help with Lancer's? Bonus if it isn't a dog.

[bloodyashes]

But what kind of Lancer isn't a dog...

Anything in mind to start out with? I admit I'm not that canon familiar haha

[puppy_lancer]

He likes ponies.

Avenger | Fate/etc

[destructiveprinciple]

[ The Servant is sitting down somewhere, a scruffy spotted hyena flopped over on her side next to him. ]

Hidetoshi Odagiri | Persona 3

[altitonant_emperor]

[ Hidetoshi is hiding a yawn behind his hand while a sika deer rubs his shoulder idly against the cafeteria wall. Seijitsu is probably impatient to finish their stupid pumpkin-favored breakfast and get going. ]