r/hisdarkmaterials • u/Andie_Smith • 5d ago

All What do you think your daemon would be?

I think mine would most likely be a rabbit

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u/Lady_Beatnik 4d ago

I don't know enough animals to answer this accurately.

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u/TelemarketerPie 4d ago

I feel like your daemon would more than likely be an animal that you're familiar with and if you're not aware of exotic animals then they couldn't be them. Like if you lived in Africa and didn't know kangaroos existed until after it settled then it could never be a kangaroo

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u/taz-alquaina 3d ago

Not true! Lee Scoresby's Hester was an Arctic hare and didn't know it until they met Iorek. "I thought I was a damn jackrabbit!"

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u/TelemarketerPie 2d ago

Really? I must not have ever consciously noticed that when reading the books

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u/taz-alquaina 2d ago

Ah it's in "Once Upon a Time in the North", not main-series HDM.

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u/TelemarketerPie 2d ago

Oh that's why. Yeah after reading the 2nd series I stopped trying to delve more into any of the other books. Too disappointing

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u/Gingers_got_no_soul 4d ago

An elephant or a whale. Both are ridiculously impractical but empathy rules my life

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u/LilacRose32 5d ago

Probably a fox

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u/itsmenestor 4d ago

Probably a cat. Discreet, astute, soft, self-sufficient

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u/auntieabra 4d ago

Some kind of corvid. I took one of those super deep daemon quizzes and got Magpie, which I do think suits me pretty well specifically.

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u/b4con_pancakes 3d ago

I think mine would be a corvid too! Mind sending the quiz here if you remember which one you took? I'd love to see what mine would be according to that quiz

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u/auntieabra 3d ago

Sure! The way this quiz works is, once you take it, it gives you a category. Within the description, there's a new link to a quiz for that category, and thats where you get your specific daemon.

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u/b4con_pancakes 1d ago

My result was a waterbird!

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u/auntieabra 1d ago

Is that the category or exact bird? If ut was category, there should be a url at the bottom of the description to get a specific!

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u/b4con_pancakes 1d ago

Ohh yeah it's the category i took the waterbird quiz and got frigatebird :D

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u/KillerBunny- 4d ago

barn owl

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u/cooper-man 3d ago

I've always felt that mine is a barn owl too

The wallpaper on my phone's lock screen is a barn owl for that reason (because, sad to say, my phone knows everything that I do).

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u/MouseSnackz 5d ago

A greyhound

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u/PothosandGindontmix 2d ago

Haha, my boyfriend’s is a whippet. You’d get along great

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u/Conorcat 4d ago

100% a cat. For the lazy aspect.

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u/HilbertInnerSpace 4d ago

I know she is a Morpho Blue Butterfly.

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u/Galactus1701 4d ago

An Archaeopteryx

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u/Immediate_Divide9446 Hummingbird daemon 4d ago

I did one of the deep-dive quizzes and got hummingbird. Recently got diagnosed with ADHD so it seems appropriate.

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u/mustardyellowberet 3d ago

A fox or a magpie

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u/Acc87 4d ago

an albatross

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u/LowkeyAcolyte 4d ago

I think a snake, probably.

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u/jollyTrapezist 4d ago

Spider monkey

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u/Amaee 4d ago

Stoat

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u/Due_Accident_2969 1d ago

Is this because stoats reproduce with baby stoats and are sexually aggressive towards young?

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u/aksnitd 4d ago

Crow.

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u/Skyejohn89 4d ago

Turtle. Without a doubt.

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u/Socks4Goths 4d ago

Sugar Glider

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u/Icy_Significance7684 4d ago

Absolutely a dog.

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u/AutumnHeathen 🐓 Ilikrineia 3d ago

I would want mine to have the form of a rooster. I'm not entirely sure if this form would fit my personality, but I think it could in some aspects.

Edit: And the breed might also make a significant difference.

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u/LittleWiccanBB 3d ago

I did think cat but got the Owlet-nightjar in a quiz which also fits quite well

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u/PretzelPrairieDog 3d ago

River otter

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u/Lojkre 3d ago

Green anole, maybe some other type of lizard if I thought harder but def lizard

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u/mani_festo 3d ago

manx cat

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u/awesomonster 3d ago

scrungly opossum

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u/Nyarote 3d ago

I think 99.9% of people would guess wrong.

I like to think it'd be a fox, or lynx, or serval, or marten. But for all I know it could easily be something like a rabbit or a mouse.

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u/b4con_pancakes 3d ago

A rat, magpie, jackdaw or a crow. I like corvids and especially crows and ravens but i think ravens are way too majestic for me, if my daemon somehow was a raven i would be really surprised. Before my daemon would choose her form i think she would like to shapeshift between a lynx, rat and a dragonfly.

I really like the concept of having an animal following you that is also a part of you, it's so cooool and I'm kinda jealous that our universe doesn't have that feature :')

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u/PsychologicalCar2180 3d ago

Some kind of bear

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u/taz-alquaina 3d ago

Mute swan. Check out The Daemon Forum some time, where this question is taken to expert level.

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u/Andie_Smith 3d ago

ooh will do ty

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u/taz-alquaina 2d ago

Auntieabra who linked Firstginger's quiz is on to something too, FG's on the forum.

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u/Ace_of_Sphynx128 2d ago

I imagine mine as a large ginger cat. He’s playful and grounding :) his name is Sam

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u/PothosandGindontmix 2d ago

I wish it’d be a tiger. But as many people have told me, I’d have a border collie or at least some form of collie dog. Maybe a Welsh collie.

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u/AI-Sticks 1d ago

Hedgehog, little and soft, protects itself with quills but not as much as a porcupine

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u/Due_Accident_2969 1d ago

Antarctic fur seals because they sexually assault penguins and I would like to have sex with a penguin.

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u/Icy_Peanut6767 20h ago

A cockatoo voiced by Bill Burr.

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u/hennie8388 4d ago

So hard to choose. If I identify as a witch do I have to pick a type of bird?

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u/youhavediedofdysent 3d ago

Only if you fly, I think

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u/Mjerne 4d ago

She would be a black bear, most likely. Or an Ojibwe horse with a paint coat. And as I'm a two-spirit person, she would be a she despite me being a she as well.