Yeah I found one where part of Bucky's Winter-Soldierfication was the severing of his daemon. It also had some of the best daemon match ups. Steve's was a meerkat (watchful, alert, family oriented protection but The Government thought that was embarrassing so they gave him a bald eagle daemon in the comics) and I think Bucky's was a Boston terrier? Natasha was a mink.
I saw one where Peggy Carter's is this GIGANTIC TIMBER WOLF but the fictionalized wussy version of her in the Captain America radio show has a sparrow and her daemon thought the sound effect guy making "cheep cheep" noises was hilarious. I suppose this would be WWII, so the breed would be less inbred and it'd be something a bit more Stubby-ish and less... *glances at Boston Terrier making gross snergly snoring noises on couch nearby*
Okay, so, in the maybe 2.5 Undertale daemon AUs I've seen, people go with the route of monsters not having daemons like humans do. And that makes sense, sure, they canonically have different souls than humans, it makes sense that they wouldn't be able to separate since they're more fragile... but I still really want to try working out all the fun symbolism and stuff. So, AU where both monsters and humans have daemons, because that's how you can tell something has a soul, period? Like, there's never mistaking even the most animalistic cat monster for an actual cat, because there'll always be a daemon at their side.
Even some humans had same-gender daemons, though, so I'm pretty sure monsters could too. Any ideas about Undyne? I'm having trouble coming up with something that really says ''I'm amphibious, and I'm gonna crawl up on land and punch you in the face".
Yes, thank you. Also, I think I want Sans to have a turkey vulture. Looks super ominous, actually pretty chill and friendly and fairly intelligent as birds go... but can literally smell death on you and will follow you around waiting for you to die if necessary.
BTW, re: the issue of monsters and daemons: I wrote a few daemon AU ficlets for my fandom a while ago, and I made the nonhuman species not have daemons because a) they're animal-people with a bad history with humans and there's potential for interesting animosity in folklore there and b) of course the small adorable nonhuman child in the party whose personal sidequest is about learning it's not okay to chain unwilling souls to the mortal plane would have some problems with the taboo against touching daemons.
If Sans has a turkey vulture, then Papyrus just has... a turkey. The wild bush kind, though. Fierce but not nearly as scary as they want to be XD I heard that Undyne's model was inspired by the dunkleosterus, so I think I'd love her to have something suitably prehistoric and maybe a little bit ridiculous - an ambleocetus, maybe? I was actually thinking about how daemons would work in the buffyverse - namely that ordinary vampires don't have them, and depending on the species, maybe most demons don't either. It would definitely help the 'they're not people, you can kill them with impunity' line that the Slayers are fed. Returning the human soul to the vampire body brings back their daemon, as well. I would say Angel has a dog of some kind, probably an irish breed - ooh, maybe an Irish Wolfhound, they def try to look dignified and scary but are secretly massive dorks. Not sure what Spike has, because he tried so hard to be kind and civilised as a human but thoroughly defenestrated that life when he was turned. Maybe a european wildcat? Looks just enough like a moggy to pass, and also earn the scorn of his peers because it just looks like a common alley cat. Buffy has a pomeranian, since they Settled before they knew their destiny. Again, though, fierce af and many a badguy has learned to their detriment that he can bounce just fine to bite your crotch XD Xander's got a dog, too, but she's some kind of cheerful mix-breed mutt. Willow has a monkey, because intelligence and booksmarts made them choose, but I think he's something little like a tamarin or a marmoset - small enough to be unnoticed when she gets all shy and flustered, sharp-toothed enough to look scary when she's pissed off. Giles has a european eagle owl that seems to do nothing but sleep except when they're about to beat the crap out of someone. Faith definitely has a crow - smart, hedonistic, and not great with the moral compass if not well taught. Kendra almost certainly had a jaguar - not only does it suit someone who was trained since small to become a (Potiental) Slayer, it fits her accent, I think? (I'm bad with accents) Cordelia has a poodle, because of course she does, but poodles are actually really intelligent hard working dogs, if they're not spoiled to hell and back XD
Actually, even if you want Undyne to have a prehistoric animal, don't crocodiles STILL count? They're living fossils.
Oh, fuck now I'm imagining recently-ensouled & crazy Spike huddled in that damn basement, curled around a thoroughly pissed-off (and pissed at him but unwilling to lose him again) bundle of shaggy disheveled fur that is making MurderFace and that angry-cat rowwwwwwllll at Buffy and it hurts, @lilacsofthedead you monster (ily)
UGH and fucking Spike and his stupid ego would get into fights with his daemon like "Pfffffft I don't need you, I never needed you! Wait no don't leave me all alone again..." What have you DONE I'll have (delicious) sadfeels for days
In the aforementioned one for my fandom I had it that one character in a... not quite the same situation, but there were some similarities... straight-up rejected his daemon for a while. They had the witchy thing where they could be a long way apart and he just left her locked in a box all day. I liked it because it was awful. >:::)))
I was thinking that maybe the difference between monsters and humans was that they all had implausible mythological creatures as daemons because of their magical nature, but that felt like it would get annoyingly complicated in a hurry and eliminated a couple ideas I really liked. Also, the line between mythical beasts and the monsters of the Underground themselves is kind of blurry, so some of them might be creepy to them in the same way that a human with a human daemon might freak people out. Possibly it's a mix? Like, some monsters have mythical daemons, some have totally ordinary animals, some don't look like animals at all, etc. The Underground isn't just isolated, after all, it's a nearly completely closed system with its own self-sustaining environment, plus actual literal magic, and it has been for presumably at least a few centuries. So the whole island ecology effect you get in places like Australia could be occurring in some pretty interesting ways- animals that went extinct on the surfaces still have surviving populations down there, nonsentient magical creatures that needed the monster population around passed into myth without them, ordinary animals that had different and possibly supernatural evolutionary paths because of the ambient magic. The end result is that the idea of nature that the average monster has (and therefor where their daemon likely gets ideas from) is a grab bag of stuff from totally mundane to really bizarre. So, yeah, Sans has a turkey vulture, probably a leucistic one for color scheme and general weirdness reasons. I like the idea of Sans and Papyrus both having bird daemons to get that compare-and-contrast sense of them together, but I'm not sure about what to give Papyrus that would be symbolically/behaviorally fitting and still similar enough to have that whole mirror image quality. Maybe a king vulture, since they've got kind of a mutualistic relationship? Turkey vultures have much better senses of smell but fairly weak, blunt beaks and talons, so king vultures will follow them to a corpse to find food, and the turkey vultures can actually get at the innards after they're done since they've torn past any parts too thick for a weaker bird. On the other hand, giving both of the skeleton brothers vultures feels kind of gimmicky, so maybe not. Given Papyrus' personality alone, I'd be inclined to go with something friendly and social. Probably exclusively herbivorous and non-aggressive, seeing as how he's the only fight where you literally can't be killed.
Hehe, you're quite welcome. And yes, he TOTALLY gets into fights with his daemon - she probably scratches him as often as he picks her up by the scruff so they're face to face. The only time she's ever heard to purr is the night Spike and Buffy spent together quietly before the finale XDD (Is there a Buffy thread, do you know? I've found myself re-obsessed with this show XD)
