#do you not know what happened to Holland? or Maman? Do you remember what happened to Lady? oh that's right you never cared. nvm
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Hi! i really enjoy your daemon au and i-ve gone and watched the new his dark materials series because of it. i love your take on daemons and was wondering if you have nymore headcanons for the other boys? what's luz's daemon? liptons? how do you pick their names? are there any daemons who Re the same sex as their humans? you dont have to rwply if you dont want to i just wanted to tell you i enjoy your world very much!!
Oh, hi! I’m glad you’re watching the new His Dark Materials adaptation! It’s pretty good, huh?
I do have headcanons for not just most of the boys but for the world itself. Though I also call it His Dark Materials!AU alongside daemon!AU it’s actually more the latter than the former. The only things I carried over into this AU from the original world of His Dark Materials are the existence of daemons, the fact that daemons are made of Dust particles, and the existence of witches. The magisterium or any kind of theocracy doesn’t exist. The authority and the angels also do not carry over. Instead, our own religions exist, but there’s just as much emphasis on spiritualism and mysticism as there is on moralism, which I believe would be the natural development of religion in this world where your soul/daemon, the spiritual aspect of you, is literally there for everybody else to see.
All of the boys have small or medium sized daemons, the biggest probably belonging to that of Ron and Tab, who have an Ocelot daemon and a sheepdog daemon respectively. The reason for this being that small or medium sized daemons are easily carried and they, alongside bird or other kinds of flying daemons, are preferred by the airborne. You still gotta jump out of a perfectly good airplane largely undetected. Can’t do that with an elephant daemon.
Ok. This got real long so I’m putting the rest under the cut. tw: mentions of death, trauma, and mutilation.
Some of the younger boys’ daemons haven’t settled. Miller, Hashey, Garcia, and Jackson. Hashey and Garcia’s settle in Hageneu. Miller and Jackson never get the chance.
Shifty’s daemon, Myrtle, is a Capybara. But he doesn’t know that. Every time somebody asked him what his daemon was, he’d shrug, say ‘Don’t rightly know,’ then leave it at that. What can he do? Capybara’s aren’t native to Virginia and he’s never been out of Virginia. Webster was the one to tell him that Myrtle was a Capybara because he’d read about them in a book somewhere that one time. Myrtle was startled by this and said; “I thought I was some kind of dog!” that was one of the few times she ever spoke out-loud during the whole war.
As I’ve said before in this post, Lew’s daemon is a chameleon named Amalthea. For all of the events of episode 9, Lew kept her in his pocket and that scared almost everybody shitless, because it made it seem like he was walking around without a daemon. The replacements assigned to them around that time, like O’Keefe, thought he didn’t have a soul. He never bothered to correct them because that meant letting Amalthea out, and the idea of her being in the open and vulnerable made him especially ill. He’d rather people thought he was soulless than allow himself and Amalthea to get hurt again. Which is so Lewis.
Skip has a hummingbird daemon named Ilaria, which is a name that means happiness and joy. This daemon-human duo wasn’t hard for me to figure out. It just fits.
Malarkey’s daemon is an artic hare with a summer coat named Felis. She’s settled, but after Foy and after losing Skip and Alex and Buck, she changes again. Subtlely, of course, and not wholely. She stays an artic hare, but instead of a summer coat, she permanently has a winter coat.
It’s not uncommon in this world for your daemon to change after severe trauma. I bet as the field of psychology expands, so does the understanding of trauma’s effects on the soul expand. There’s many studies on the changing of once settled daemons in relation to soldiers’ PTSD.
Buck’s daemon, a male bald eagle named Romulus, changes entirely. Still a bird, but instead of an eagle, he turns into a snowy owl. Before the war, he was a chatty daemon. After, he barely speaks and only does so to Buck and, very rarely, to those close to them.
Eugene Sledge’s male daemon, Daecon goes from a blood hound and gets turned into a Luzon bleeding heart-- which, I know is on the nose but it’s just. It’s such a cool bird, ya’ll. I’ve seen one up-close and ever since that day, I have not known any peace. The shift would be painful and would happen very slowly. It was actually horrific and was a trauma in and of itself. That was the last time they ever changed, though.
I also headcanon that the longer you’ve been settled, the harder and more painful the shift.
Merriell Shelton’s daemon settles in Gloucester. Into what, I’m not sure yet, but a part of me thinks she’s settled into some kind of big cat from the rain forests. Either a cloud leopard or a jaguar. Her name’s Charlotte but he calls her Lottie. Don’t ask me why. It just fits.
That being said, I have some Thoughts about people with big cat daemons. They’re usually aloof. Like, they make a very impactful first impression but they’re mostly solitary individuals who are weird af and difficult to get to know. It takes a really special person to tame a human with a big cat daemon. Once you earn their trust, that’s for life. They’re also really self-assured and are very secure in their sense of self. There is almost little to no tension between big cat daemons and their humans, and if there is, it gets explosive.
Ron Speirs has a big cat daemon, a female Ocelot named Aurele. She never talks, not even to Ron. They have this silent gaze/telepathy going on. Ron also takes on a couple of animalistic traits because of it. They could also... stretch their bond really far? Which is scary as fuck. People think he’s the son of a witch who, in her desperation to make him immortal, made him go through the ritual that allows a witch and her daemon to part for long periods of time and great distances. This is not true. Ron and Aurele just have really high pain tolerance.
Eugene Roe, on the other hand, is the son of a witch. His maman, however, did not make him go through the ritual because he’s not her first son. She knows the pain of outliving her sons well. She loves him all the same but understands that he will die well before her. Eugene’s daemon is a male kinkajou named Louis. Which is both a surprise and also not. For much of the war there’s a lot of tension there. Louis craves connection with others, Roe needs isolation to keep their sanity. It kind of turns into this thing where, if you wanted to comfort Roe or be close to him, you’d have to go through his daemon instead.
Babe’s daemon is a squirrel. A very chatty female russian squirrel named Abigail. They talk to each other a lot, and Abby talks to other people a lot too. Sometimes, she even answers in lieu of Babe. They’re both very blunt and very out there, no hiding with Babe and Abby. It used to get them into a lot of trouble with the nuns at school, who believed that daemons are only meant to be seen and not heard. A+ Catholic repression.
George’s daemon was a little tricky to me. I know his daemon is female and that her name is Thalia. I also know that she can fly. My first thought was: Parrot, either a hyacinth macaw or a white cockatoo. But, I also really like the idea of George having a Butterfly daemon. Particularly one that looks like a leaf when her wings are folded up but is brilliantly jewel toned when she opens them. In the end, I opted for George entering the army, having not settled just yet, and he and Thalia are this kind of double-act, where she shifts into whatever form is necessary for the punchline of the joke. She only settles into a parrot (idk still what kind) after their first jump and all the excitement in Carentan. A gradual thing. They don’t even notice until just before the jump in Holland. When they miss someone, Thalia will mimic that person’s voice. First, it was George’s mama and the voice of her daemon, both speaking in rapid fire portugese. Later on, in Austria, Thalia starts imitating all the friends they’ve lost. Sometimes she’ll sound like Skip. Other times, she’ll sound like Bill. It takes a very long time for her to break this habit. To the point wherein she and George don’t even remember what her real voice sounds like.
Lip’s daemon settled really early and is a female Bonobo named Jane. Has been since he was ten and made man of the house. This, like Skip and Ilaria, was very easy for me to figure out.
Dick’s daemon is a Caracara raptor bird. I’m still figuring out the specifics so she doesn’t have a name yet. Sorry.
As mentioned, Tab has a sheepdog daemon named Marisa who enjoys keeping him and everybody else in check. Have you met a sheepdog? They will literally herd you. It doesn’t matter if you are not a lamb or a sheep. They will nip at your heels until you go where they want to go. That’s Marisa. She’ll nip at Tab’s heels, she’ll nip at everybody else’s heels. If you are going somewhere she does not want you to go she will make sure you know her displeasure.
It is also super funny when she looks Tab in the eye and goes “Down, boy.” It never fails to make Tab go red and make everybody else laugh.
Harry’s daemon-- and don’t get mad at me-- but Harry’s daemon is a Scottish Terrier named Saoirse. He carries her around strapped to his chest during jumps. It’s fucking cute. Don’t say that to their faces though because they will lose all respect for you. It’s a daemon suited more to a teacher than it is to a soldier, that’s for sure.
Bill’s daemon is a pit-bull named Darla. Scary looking one, too, with a very bawdy sense of humor. She will growl at you and pretend to bite and you will be very scared but she only does it as a joke. She’s honestly really cool. When Bill and Babe are walking around together, Abby likes to perch on top of Darla’s head. It’s adorable. Sometimes, when Abby gets too much, Darla carries her around in her mouth. It’s still cute. But only to them, everybody else finds it vaguely horrifying.
I know there’s this taboo of humans not touching other humans’ daemons but it’s kinda difficult in such close-quarters like theirs. It is also heavily implied in the original text of Philip Pullman, that the no-touching thing is a cultural thing. Like, I think in religions that deal a lot in repression like Catholicism or Protestantism, the touching of another’s daemon is a no-no and is only reserved for the most intimate of relations (i.e. marriage). But I feel like religions such as Judaism, Wiccan, Paganism, or even some branches of Folk-Catholicism encourage touch/celebrate that connection between two humans. Neither of these two beliefs are wrong, of course. It’s just a cultural thing and they carry with them both pros and cons.
I bet Lieb grew up very used to his daemon being touched by his mother and father or older siblings. It’s not taboo to him, though he recognizes that it’s taboo to others. He doesn’t get it though, and is constantly rolling his eyes every time somebody gasps when they accidentally touch someone’s daemon.
A lot of the boys just kinda ignore the touching daemons thing until they get used to it.
I’m not sure what Lieb’s daemon is or what her name is, too. I know she’s a social kind of daemon-- not solitary like a big cat or a reptile (like snakes). I thought maybe a wolf, but a wolf daemon is too... large and there are a lot of connotations attached to it. I think Lieb’s daemon is something medium-sized and unassuming. Not a dog. Not a domestic cat either. A part of me thinks flightless bird, but no. Not that either. Give me time. I’ll figure her out. As of now, I’m thinking either a marsupial or a canidae/fox but not quite. She’s a mammal, that much I know. Just don’t know what kind.
Grant’s daemon is a male domestic cat named Saladin. He’s either an Abyssinian or a Bengal. Either way, he’s really cool. Like super cool. They’re both super duper cool.
And... that’s kinda it. That’s all I have for now. I’m really sorry it got so long, anon. I get really excited when talking about daemons. It’s character study but with animals! Thank you for giving me this opportunity to ramble. This is where I leave you.
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“He’s off the market!” Adrien read out loud from his phone, “the teen idol’s heart was been zipped away by yo-yo, by none other the Lady herself, our heroine, Ladybug.” Adrien read with a flourish, a wide smile on his face.
Marinette groaned into her pillow, “I’m so sorry,” she said, her voice muffled.
Adrien put his phone done and laid down next to Marinette, running his hands through her hair, “My Lady…” he asked gently, trying to coax her out from her pillow, “It’s alright.”
Marinette peaked up from her pillow, “I probably got you in huge trouble…” she said as she flipped over in the bed so she was laying on her back.
Adrien sighed as he nestled closer to her, and kissed her cheek, “I should have told my father that I was dating you a long time ago…” he trailed off, “and you as in you, not you as in Ladybug…you.”
Marinette giggled as she leaned into the kiss, “Maybe if we both weren’t so insistent on hiding our identities, then maybe we wouldn’t have gotten into this mess in the first place.” She turned her head and kissed Adrien’s lips. Adrien pulled himself closer into the kiss, and pulling himself over her, being careful as not to put his full weight on top of her. Marinette giggled as his lips left hers and started nibbling at her jawline, “Someone is an excited kitty.” She said as she ran her fingers through his hair.
Adrien smiled, and kept kissing her, “well,” he said in between kisses, “how can I not? I’m in bed with a very beautiful girl…” he finished by kissing her lips.
Marinette sighed, knowing full well that they could easily get lost in each other, “but we only have a few minutes before lunch ends…”
Adrien grinned, as he played with the hem of her shirt, “I can be quick.”
Marinette rolled her eyes, “Oh, just want every girl wants to hear.” She said as she broke into giggles.
Adrien kissed at her earlobe, and whispered, “If I remember correctly, you were pretty quick a couple nights ago.”
“Adrien!” she cried out, pushing him playfully on the shoulder, as he laughed. Marinette smiled at him and pulled him back toward her lips, where they could resume their kissing.
Then they heard the distinct sound of footsteps coming up to her room.
“Marinette?” Her mother called for her, knocking on her door. The teen's eyes widened as Adrien shot up into a sitting position.
“Through the skylight!” Marinette whispered to him, as he stood up, and heaved himself up onto her balcony.
“Yes, Maman?” Marinette asked, as her mother opened her door, just as Adrien shut the skylight door.
Sabine raised an eyebrow, “Marinette, did you just have Chat Noir here?”
“Um…yes?” Marinette said sheepishly, as she climbed down from her bed a blush on her cheeks. It wasn’t a lie…technically.
“Marinette…” Sabine sighed, “Listen I trust your judgment, you’re a smart girl. However, we don’t want you sneaking him in. If Chat wishes to come over he needs to use the front entrance. Your father and I just want to know when he is here.” Sabine explained crossing her arms.
“Yes, Maman, he just wanted to check on me after the Akuma…seeing as it happened pretty close to the school and all.” She explained, not the truth exactly, but believable.
Sabine nodded, “Of course, dear, he is welcome anytime.” She then smiled at her daughter, “just be sure to have plenty of condoms.”
Marinette turned a shade of purple, “Maman.” She squeaked, feeling embarrassed.
Sabine laughed as she patted her daughter's shoulder, “It’s the truth. Now off to school, your lunch break is over.”
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“Your balcony privileges have been revoked.” Marinette said as she met up with Adrien just outside the bakery. Where he was just so happening to be waiting for his Very Good Friend, Marinette. So he could walk her to school, like any Good Friend.
“Aw, what?” Adrien asked heartbroken.
“Yup, if Chat Noir wants to visit his girlfriend then he needs to use the front entrance, like a normal person,” Marinette said, taking a bite of pastry that she had on her. As the baker’s daughter, she was never short of having pastries.
“But…the balcony is so romantic,” Adrien said. “You know like Romeo and Juliet.”
Marinette raised an eyebrow, “Adrien…Romeo and Juliet isn’t the best example of romance…”
Adrien waved his arms, “what are you talking about? Of course, it is! Two star-crossed lovers, falling in love against all odds and getting married. It’s very romantic.”
Marinette had a look of confusion and concern on her face, “Adrien you never read the ending of the play have you?”
“Why? I didn’t need too, I know what was going to happen.” Adrien said as they stepped into the school.
“Oh, my dear sweet sunshine child.” Marinette whispered as they stepped into the courtyard.
Only for the both of them to be ambushed by just about every single girl.
“Adrien…” Some poor girl sobbed, “please…please tell me it isn’t true?”
“Uhhh…” Adrien trailed off, as more girls surrounded him, some teary-eyed as they looked at him.
“Alright, alright…break-it up girls!” Nino said walking up to the supermodel, his Good Friend, and the throes of fans, “He is taken, his heart belongs to another! Time to move on. I hear that Tom Holland is free.” The group moved away, mumbling, still teary-eyed.
“Thanks, Nino.” Adrien breathed out, thankful to get out of the crowd.
Nino shrugged, “Thought I’d do you favor before your death.”
Adrien paled, “My uh death?” he asked confused, looking toward Marinette who just shrugged, the trio started to walk back to their classroom.
Nino put his arm around his friend, “You didn’t tell Alya you were dating Ladybug.”
Marinette sighed, “Listen, she knows just as well as we all do, it really isn’t any of her business who Adrien is or isn’t dating.” She said trying to come to Adrien’s defense.
“I know.” Alya said, making the trio jump, she was leaning against the wall of the classroom and they hadn’t seen her. Alya then held out her phone, “but your little news did make my website crash.”
Adrien chuckled, “Sorry about that…me and uh the Bug wanted to keep things secret. Much like Mari here and the Chat.” He said nudging Marinette slightly and winking.
Marinette didn’t pay much attention to Adrien, she just crossed her arms, “You mean that Adrien and Ladybug dating crashed the site, but Chat dating me didn’t? That’s a load of bull crap.”
Alya chuckled, “jealous, Marinette?”
“No,” Marinette said slightly defensive, “Just think they are both reasonable reasons for a website to crash.”
“Anyway…” Alya said, looking at her two friends, who she had no idea who was actually dating each other, and covering it up by dating each other. “Are you two going on a double date or anything?”
Adrien shrugged, “I mean,” he cleared his throat, “Ladybug, and Chat I am assuming are very busy-” he looked over to Marinette, so she can back him up. Then he saw that she had The Look In Her Eyes. The look that she gets when she is coming up with A Plan.
“Hold that thought Alya!” Marinette said as she dashed back down the stairs and toward the locker room.
It was at At that moment the bell rang and everyone was ushered inside. 1.3 seconds after the final bell rang and before Bustier could take roll call Marinette dashed in, ushering in her apologies and sitting down. She ignored any looks from Alya, Nino or Adrien.
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The rest of the day ended without incident. When the final bell rang dismissing the students from their learning environment, Marinette dashed right out, and pulled Adrien along, leaving behind some confused classmates.
“Uh don’t worry!” she said, “I uh just heard from Chat and he wants me to run something by Adrien.” She spoke out loud, before pushing Adrien into a corner of the school where they’d be left alone. They only had a couple minute before Adrien’s bodyguard would come looking for him.
“Marinette?” Adrien asked her, confused.
“You and I are going on a double date with Ladybug and Chat Noir!” She said with excitement.
Adrien was confused, “Mari, I say this with love, but did you hit your head at anytime today? Because, Love, we are Ladybug and Chat Noir.”
Marinette shook her head, “No, not that hard!” Then she waved her hand, “No, we are going to plan a double date with Ladybug and Chat Noir, and get stood up! Then, we can discover that we like each other, all while Ladybug and Chat Noir discover their feelings for one another.” She took a breath, “I’ll break up with Chat, and Ladybug breaks up with you, and then we’ll get together.”
“Why do I have to be dumbed twice?” Adrien asked, trying to follow along. “And um as far as convoluted plans go, this one is probably one of your best.”
“Yes, I have to say I am rather proud of myself.” Marinette said, before reaching into her backpack, “and it’s all on me.” She then proceeded to pull out Nino’s Swear Jar for Marinette, which was filled.
In the locker room Nino can be heard yelling about his swear jar.
Marinette turned to look back at Adrien, “what do you say? You in?” She held out her fist.
Adrien sighed, and thought of all the ways it could go wrong. Thankfully he trusted his Lady, “Pound it.” He said as he pounded her fist with hers.
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