bothisgood.gif. It glitches, but not in time with her except when they're both in the temporal stabilizer's field of effect.
Or it could be something like that time I decided male Nac Mac Feegle pretty much all have the same daemons. :::PPP
ooh, i like this idea. well, actshhhuaaaaally the peregrine is the fastest in a dive but in level flight the award goes to a species of swift. generally talking about fast birds, maybe a hummingbird or swift would be good? i like the flying squirrel too much though. Winston looks up from working on the chronal accelerator long enough to catch a glance of Lena's daemon before he glitches out of time. Moments later, Lena flickers in. She doesn't notice him immediately, focused as she is on looking for........something, and just as he sees the recognition in her face she, too, flickers back out of sight. (she hasn't seen her daemon in months, but for her it has been, years, centuries. or just a few minutes. it's hard to tell.) that. would actually fit with the in-universe lore very well!! the omnics had a hard enough time convincing the humans they had souls, even without the no-daemon stigma. does genji lose his daemon when he nearly dies? he had a difficult time reconciling his existence. reaper, with no daemon or with a pulsing black cloud, unforming and re-forming. sometimes it almost looks like a barn owl, white face appearing from the mist for a moment before dissipating.
I associate hummingbirds with all-consuming homicidal rage, which doesn't seem like Tracer. I'm on Team Red Squirrel. :::PPP
I did read fic where the resurrection process Reaper and Mercy went through fused them with their daemons...
My leaning would be toward something like that for Reaper (there might be suggestions of an animal shape in the smoke, but it might be your imagination), but Mercy's is still visible, it's just... off, in a way that's difficult to pin down. oh oh idea Mercy's daemon is a white bird, and most people just kind of let it go at that without worrying about the details. People who pay more attention are pretty confused, because it... doesn't really look like any species of bird they can identify. This is because it's actually a caladrius.
I bet the daemon (a sparrow?) was also horribly disfigured by the psychological trauma, but unlike him she can't undergo reconstructive surgery, so every day he sees a horribly burned and mutilated reminder of what was done to him. He'd probably keep her hidden/confined in a compartment of his armor most of the time. It would almost feel like he no longer had a daemon, which would only make him feel even less like a human. And then Zenyatta becomes his mentor, convinces him to let her out more and more, and eventually her open wounds scab over and become scars. do you have a link?? ovo
Spoiler: red vs blue would anything have happened to the director's daemon when he made the alpha and then split it? would each fragment have its own daemon and if they had different daemons, would those daemons take the same form or different ones? how would tex's daemon work, would her being a memory of the director's dead wife matter for that?
so I just found this thread, and... re: the idea that Bucky would have his daemon Separated from him, or that Natasha's daemon would be Separated as part of her Red Room training. are we talking actual Separation, which needs to be done slowly, voluntarily, and at a special location, or are we talking Intercision, where a daemon has their bond with their human forcibly severed? because if you mean the latter, then I'd like to point out that in the books where daemons come from, a human who has their bond with their daemon forcibly severed ends up with drastically reduced creativity, intelligence, and psychological will. the people who have their daemon bond severed by force are described as seeming "blank and lifeless", and their daemons are "subdued and incurious", and not everyone even survives the process; there's a boy in the books who undergoes it and he physically and mentally deteriorates until he dies because he can't deal with the effects and shit of having his bond with his daemon forcibly severed. so the question would be, is forcibly severing the bond with your daemon somehow different in the world of the Avengers? is the process more perfected? or is it actually a voluntary process that Natasha and Bucky undergo? in that case, they would regain the same intimacy after being reunited. I'd also be interested in how the brainwashing Bucky underwent affected his daemon....but that's a different question. also, if anyone would like to help me contemplate daemons for Harry Potter, some of the Homestuck characters, or any of the RWBY characters.....
The fic I saw was talking intercision, but some sort of experimental method involving mysterious Red Room science, and it was "voluntary" in the same way a lot of what they did to Natasha was "voluntary"- she didn't disagree or fight it because she was in a brainwashing assassin cult. I once saw a long post about Harry Potter daemons which was then tagged "#voldemort chopped his into seven pieces #everyone is horrified". :::PPP
mmmm, but even then, they'd have had to really alter the process somehow to make it not totally fuck up the participants.... the Red Room mostly had lots of biologically enhancing things in canon--not so much mysterious science in general, but specifically things geared towards, like, making people stronger/faster/stay young longer. though I suppose in a canon with daemons, it's possible they might've looked into it? but at the same time, it's heavily implied in the books that any and all things like Intercision would leave the human....lifeless, at least as far as personality went. the daemon is the physical form of the person's soul, after all, so you're effectively severing them from at the very least part of their soul, if not the entire soul. soullessness usually goes one of two ways in fiction: it leaves the person emotionless and lacking any kind of morality, or it makes them a shell of their former self and they lack most of the qualities they had previously. the way it's talked about in the book, I can't really see any way around that happening--not to mention that the method described in the books as the modern-day method is apparently the one that causes the least trauma and severs the daemon and person most effectively and painlessly. and even then, some people didn't survive it, because it left them feeling....empty, and kind of broken, and if they made it past that phase, they'd just be....very subdued and lifeless and blank. so would their daemons. I'm just not sure there's any technology that would be able to get around that. ....but the Harry Potter daemon post sounds amazing. I love that idea.
could work? but you'd have to jail the daemon and then make the person, like....walk a very long distance from their daemon or something. keeping them in two separate rooms that are kinda nearby isn't gonna cause Separation as far as I'm aware from the books. the people who wanted to be Separated from their daemons had to go a pretty long distance. but it could work. you'd just have to find someplace large enough, put the demon in an inescapable box or something at one end, and then start the person from that end and have them walk to the other end.
*will be over here with her horrible DtB daemon AU where the main character got knocked out and loaded onto a plane without his daemon at age 14*
....I mean, depending on how fast the plane was going, it might Separate the character and his daemon. or it might kill them both. it's kind of a toss-up.
