and what do you think is the best?
I think mine would be a cat, but a bird would really be the best one to have.
A dinosaur.
shareI'm going simple & classic. A dog I'd say. Particular breed is up for grabs.
shareI was thinking of a bird too. But given my own personality, it would probably be a dog. When I watch the show and saw that man who looked like his Daemon was a Palmetto bug, I just died. I was thinking that Daemons probably provide a good short cut of whom to date. Those folks with bugs as daemons are probably resigned to a life of celibacy. Very telling that members of the Magisterium have disgusting Daemons.
I can imagine women thinking “Lord Astel is so hot— his daemon is a snow leopard!”
That's an interesting point, it would really turn dating on it's head because it's like seeing a person's soul through their deamon. If you had the wrong type of animal that would be rough.
shareThat would be horrifying to me! God I HATE bugs! It sure would be uber disgusting to see someone have a roach/waterbug daemon! Or an ant or worm! That lady journalist who was killed in a couple of episodes back had a butterfly daemon.
It bears asking, are there any hard & set rules on what a daemon can or can't be? Seems rather stupid to have insect daemons who can be killed by mistake if someone doesn't know any better. You happen to see someones bug daemon near you & you're like, "Oh excuse me. SPLAT!" (You hit it with a shoe or something.) Then you're like "Oh shhh!!! SORRY! Uhh am I in trouble? No your honor I never meant it i swear!" Your moth daemon is attracted to the bug zapper when you're out eating & you're in mid conversation. "Well I was thinking of going to Paris on vacation &....zap! ka blink!" That's gotta suck.
The daemons have intelligence; or it might be more accurate to say, your intelligence is distributed between your human body and the daemon. But a moth daemon wouldn't fly into a bug zapper like a normal moth. Fair point about the ease of killing them though. We already saw Lord Boreal do it on purpose to that poor reporter and her butterfly. I can't remember if the novels ever mentioned anything about how people with tiny animals as daemons manage to avoid disaster. If you have a bug, a mouse, a frog, or anything that could be inadvertently stepped on life would be ... interesting.
I'm pretty sure no one has a daemon like an elephant or a rhinoceros, considerably larger than a human. Medium sized cats are about the biggest ones I remember characters having. It's been years since I read the books though. Can't recall what they said about known size limitations or where that part might be found.
A crazed velociraptor ... 😳
I'm going to assume daemons can't be long extinct creatures. Or excessively large - no giraffes or humpback whales. If I could choose it would be something like a hawk, a flying animal that could keep an eye on things from above and be hard for creepy thug types to catch and crush in their hands.
But from what they've said it's not a conscious decision. The final form reflects your personality in some way. Rats or snakes are pretty self-explanatory. What happens if you get something more neutral though: a reindeer, a prairie dog, a penguin, or whatever else? What do those animals say about you? Other people would be forced to interpret their meaning.
Mine would probably be a coyote. Just because.
I wonder if a sailor or fisherman could end up with an aquatic daemon like a dolphin or sand shark, and be unable to ever go far from the sea?