Daemon AU

[luckysock]

DAEMONS
A dæmon is the animal embodiment of a person's inner self - their soul made corporeal. In childhood, daemons can shapeshift; around puberty, they settle into one form which represents a person's personality.

Daemons can talk, are typically of the gender opposite their human, and can't go more than a few yards from their human half. Any pain felt by a person is felt by their daemon, or vice versa, and to touch someone else's daemon is painfully intimate and the greatest taboo.

RNG:
1. meetings (mean snap judgments; what do you think of someone with a snake soul?)
2. fight scenes (are a lot more badass with a lion at your side, or tricky when your weak spot is a poodle)
3. rescues (are difficult if your daemon can't drag theirs to safety. you won't break the taboo, will you?)
4. cuddling (gets weird when your alligator snuggles up to their rabbit)
5. confined spaces (are more claustrophobic with the risk of touching someone's soul)
6. poor conditions (when your cat can't swim or your dragonfly might freeze)
7. lies (are harder to tell with daemons telegraphing body language)
8. touching (from a torturer is horrifying; from someone intimate, it's powerful)
9. abnormalities (include same-gender daemons, limitless separation ranges, or inhuman lack of a daemon)
10. suddenly (everyone has daemons. they didn't before. what the hell.)

Want to rehash a canon scene, now with daemons? Make up your own prompt? Just here to dump your "why X has Y animal" in a toplevel? Go nuts.

Comments

1..ish? and possibly some other things besides

[timeandace]

[If asked, Ace would say that she's just passing through. This is (probably) not incorrect - she might be older now than she was, but so far she hasn't really felt a whole lot of desire to settle for good. But on the other hand, there's a surprising number of things that end up heading from Earth and the way she figures, having a spare set of eyes round the place can't hurt. It's a little less a home and more a sort of home base.

A...home base that she is currently away from, but she's never really stopped traveling and there isn't really much that needs her attention back on Earth anyway. (Plus after some of the latest events on Earth even she can't help but want to go elsewhere.)

Of course, one thing leads to another, and what had started out as a way to relax for a bit has devolved into ... well, something a lot more like what her life with the Doctor had been like - there's been no small amount of yelling, a handful of non-too-pleasant alien lifeforms (she recognizes the type, but not the species) and an awful lot of running.

It's at some point during that latter that she runs across the Doctor; while she recognizes neither him nor Gormlaith this time round, she's still much the same as she ever was and Sorcha is dogging her heels in the same old form she's always had.]