Dæmons

[Tamien]

How about a hedgehog? It's cuddle when it wants to be, but spiny the rest of the time.

[Alphabeta]

How about a hedgehog? It's cuddle when it wants to be, but spiny the rest of the time.

There we go, though she'd probably miss being able to throw spines at people (detached bits count as no longer part of the daemon, right?).

[Bluelantern]

I have given extensive thought to this and mostly I have no idea. I have considered possibilities ranging from "squirrel" through "dragon".

Did you ever stated your criteria for the Bells somewhere?

I have a similar problem, I would like a bat, but probably wouldn't get anything that flies. I think it would have a shell and be associated with shy and timid people.

[Alicorn]

Did you ever stated your criteria for the Bells somewhere?

Most Bells get flying animals. The ones that don't (e.g. Juliet's tiger, Aether's pangolin, Sarion's raccoon) are associated with a sort of... knocked-around quality, although it's not just who I've been meanest to, it's a particular emotional tone associated with it that those three have which e.g. Shell Bell doesn't have. There's also a shared quality between the two with kinds of flying squirrel (Glass, Aegis) which I haven't tried to articulate before... both of them grew up in environments that were nurturing without being quite open-ended. Izzy and Ara get bats but except for the fact that I wanted them to correspond and that's why they both have bats I can't explain why bats.

The Bells in worlds with funky animals (Ace, Chi) will get funky animal daemons (Altaria for Ace, "riverbat" is a bat/otter cross for Chi). T'Mir will have a Vulcan animal but I haven't decided on its details yet (though I named it independent of that; whatever it winds up looking like it will be called a kes'lat). When we do Mira, her world has winged mice in it and she'll have one for a daemon.

The bug Bells have nothing special in common: I wanted to give Rose a stinging animal since she has the mental defense that bites back so she got an attractive sort of bee, and Pat is being Default Modal Bell so she got one of the things Path found appealing for Bell reasons rather than for Amariah reasons (the glowing is a luminosity thing). Butterfly will get a butterfly (a Hewitson's forester) mostly for thematic reasons and because she's intensely vulnerable on a personal level.

The three with dragons (Stella's red, Golden's gold, and Tab's not-so-mini white) are linked to the fact that their worlds are related (ingotry, witchcraft, Gifts).

The rest of them have birds or I haven't decided what they have yet. These are mostly chosen for aesthetics - the sort of thing that would look right with the character. Although I remember picking a smew for Shell Bell in particular because the pattern of markings on the males is described as "broken" (and I wanted an aquatic harmless bird), Phoenix gets a phoenix, Clarity will also get a phoenix but it'll be a constellation (we've decided that there are more constellation critters than just ursas in Equestria), Etty gets a swan, and Lailah will get a greater honeyguide, all of which are for reasons.

Note that with the exception of Amariah's Pathalan, Cam's Grace, and Shell Bell's Neptune, none of the daemons are actually instantiated at this time so when I say "have" I mean "would if they went unprotected to Alethia".

[Lambda]

Based on the name alone, I imagine a "kes'lat" as a flying mammal, carnivorous/insectivorous, mottled brown, feathered wings, average wingspan 4-5 feet, a pointed/conical snout, sharp teeth, primarily uses its mouth to grab prey.

[Bluelantern]

Based on the name alone, I imagine a "kes'lat" as a flying mammal, carnivorous/insectivorous, mottled brown, feathered wings, average wingspan 4-5 feet, a pointed/conical snout, sharp teeth, primarily uses its mouth to grab prey.

It could probably combine aspects from other Daemons, it would funny if they ever get the chance to react "Look! It is like a a cross of Neptune and a flying squirrel!"