I don't remember the witches being explicitly referred to (by people with accurate knowledge of their cultures an abilities) as non-human so much as not like the other humans ... and a big part of that, though certainly not all, is their ability to separate themselves physically from their daemons. By the end of the series they treat Lyra pretty much like a peer, because she too has learned how to move independently from Pan.
I know that daemons can have different reactions to events than their humans, and that they're usually the opposite gender -- my point is more that I find it generally kind of squicky to turn one character who is an independent being in their own right into a literal part of another character, and doubly so when it's a female character being subsumed into a male character. Particularly after The Doctor's Wife, which makes it so clear that the Doctor+TARDIS is a pairing of equals.
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Date: 2011-06-17 08:08 pm (UTC)I know that daemons can have different reactions to events than their humans, and that they're usually the opposite gender -- my point is more that I find it generally kind of squicky to turn one character who is an independent being in their own right into a literal part of another character, and doubly so when it's a female character being subsumed into a male character. Particularly after The Doctor's Wife, which makes it so clear that the Doctor+TARDIS is a pairing of equals.