Post by Bessain on May 28, 2007 20:36:03 GMT -8
Does your daemon always change shape?
No, unfortunately, it doesnt. When you're little, your daemon changes shape, when your older, it stops. Why does it do this? Because everyone, at some point in their life, changes physically. When YOU start changing, your daemon stops.
What does it change into?
When your daemon stops changing, it stays in the shape of one animal. What animal? Well, everyone is different, so everyone's daemon is different. There are some people, who have the same animal, but they would be different colors.
Your daemon takes the shape of the animal you most represent. It shows people your personality, what your most like.
For example:
If your daemon takes the shape of a domestic dog, it means that you:
a.) are loyal
b.) Like to follow the rules
If you had a badger you would be:
a.) prefer solitude
b.) have a nasty temper when angered
c.) maybe small but you can certainly kick butt.
Here's a snippet from the book to give you a better idea of what your daemon would settle into. This is Lyra (the main character, talking to some old guy on a boat:
"Why do daemons have to settle?" Lyra said. "I want Pantalaimon [her daemon] to be able to change forever. So does he."
"Ah, they always have settled, and they always will. That's part of growing up. There'll come a time when you'll be tired of his changing about, and you'll want a settled kind of form for him."
"I never will!"
"Oh, you will. You'll want to grow up like all the other girls. Anyway, there's compensations for a settled form."
"What are they?"
"Knowing what kind of person you are. Take old Belisaria [his daemon]. She's a seagull, and that means I'm kind of a seagull too. I'm not grand and splendid nor beautiful, but I'm a tough old thing and I can survive anywhere and always find a bit of food and company. That's worth knowing, that is. And when your daemon settles, you'll know the sort of person you are."
"But suppose your daemon settles in a shape you don't like?"
"Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folks as'd like to have a lion as a daemon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling that is."
But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.
No, unfortunately, it doesnt. When you're little, your daemon changes shape, when your older, it stops. Why does it do this? Because everyone, at some point in their life, changes physically. When YOU start changing, your daemon stops.
What does it change into?
When your daemon stops changing, it stays in the shape of one animal. What animal? Well, everyone is different, so everyone's daemon is different. There are some people, who have the same animal, but they would be different colors.
Your daemon takes the shape of the animal you most represent. It shows people your personality, what your most like.
For example:
If your daemon takes the shape of a domestic dog, it means that you:
a.) are loyal
b.) Like to follow the rules
If you had a badger you would be:
a.) prefer solitude
b.) have a nasty temper when angered
c.) maybe small but you can certainly kick butt.
Here's a snippet from the book to give you a better idea of what your daemon would settle into. This is Lyra (the main character, talking to some old guy on a boat:
"Why do daemons have to settle?" Lyra said. "I want Pantalaimon [her daemon] to be able to change forever. So does he."
"Ah, they always have settled, and they always will. That's part of growing up. There'll come a time when you'll be tired of his changing about, and you'll want a settled kind of form for him."
"I never will!"
"Oh, you will. You'll want to grow up like all the other girls. Anyway, there's compensations for a settled form."
"What are they?"
"Knowing what kind of person you are. Take old Belisaria [his daemon]. She's a seagull, and that means I'm kind of a seagull too. I'm not grand and splendid nor beautiful, but I'm a tough old thing and I can survive anywhere and always find a bit of food and company. That's worth knowing, that is. And when your daemon settles, you'll know the sort of person you are."
"But suppose your daemon settles in a shape you don't like?"
"Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folks as'd like to have a lion as a daemon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling that is."
But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.
