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[oyceter]

Because I am a shameless copycat and very curious:

from rachelmanija
If I had a daemon, what would it be and why?

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Your daemon is a hooded rat! In fact, I think Fool-rat is your daemon.

Because you are small and sleek and curious, and have a disproportionately large brain, but are easily distracted by offers of food and warmth and other material comforts and activities. Also, your nose twitches when you get excited.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd been going to reply with 'You mean you don't?'

[maga-dogg.livejournal.com]

Mrf. The only problem with that is that people with rat daemons are Pullman's equivalent of Ensign Redshirt.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Ensign Ratshirt?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

That just proves that Pullman does not appreciate the wonder and glory that is the rat.

[maga-dogg.livejournal.com]

I suspect there was a traumatic incident in his childhood involving the Cardinal of Rheims, a gnawed cassock and an infectious disease.

[oyceter]

It's so true.

[oyceter]

Yay rat! Hee, this means I already have two daemons of my very own, though they have stopped being small and sleek and started being large and squishy ;).

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I am going to go against the tide. You know how Pullman gives tall sharpshooting Texans hares?

I think your daemon is a hippopotamus. It has lovely curling eyelashes.

[oyceter]

Hee, I like that! I keep imagining a very large, purple hippopotamus in a tutu, probably because of Fantasia.

Although if I really had a hippo daemon, it would probably be very difficult keeping it in the apartment without disturbing the neighbors.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

See, I hate answering this question because Pullman makes really awesome people have really awesome daemons, like fucking snow leopards, so if I say "An adorable robin!" then it sounds like you sweep streets for a living.

I was going to say a bird, because you are bright-eyed and curious, but no, you are also sleek and cuddly, which birds aren't. Rat seems close, but not quite right -- something a little larger and more luxurious. Like a snow weasel, or an ermine like Pan, I think. Maybe a ferret. But I definitely see it as having a white winter coat.

I don't want to make a post because very few of my friends have read Pullman -- do me! :)

[oyceter]

It's true, but then... I like robins and birds and rat daemons!

And oooo ferrets!

[veejane.livejournal.com]

Another person at whom I will guess, with only words and no mental image to guide me.

I think I see you as a leaping creature, something in the trees up in the canopy. A flying squirrel, I think, nocturnal with huge eyes, swooping from one branch to the next, now high now low. Attentive, careful about predators but bold with gravity, the sort that curls up in a knothole come winter.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

You are really good at this. I'm finding that it's a lot easier to do if I know people in person, because then I have body language associations.

[oyceter]

Oh, I like that! Maybe I could have a flying rat, if such things exissted.