Certainly he'd have a harder time passing among humans if they had daemons and he didn't. He'd have to devise some workaround like claiming his daemon was a small nocturnal animal concealed in his pocket that didn't like to come out when it was light. Then it would get dark and he'd need a new excuse. Yeah, it would be tricky.
I like the idea that the daemons changing form with regeneration might include a brief period of being able to shift at will while the Time Lord figures out who s/he has become. The Doctor often seems a little unsure of his personality after regeneration, and that wouldn't work if he could look over at what his daemon became and say "oh, I'm a ferret daemon sort of person now."
I was assuming that Time Lord daemons would originally have been Gallifreyan wildlife, but I wonder if they can now have off-world daemons. I would suspect a daemon could take any form the Time Lord (or future space-faring human?) knew about and identified with. As for Gallifrey wildlife, new Who doesn't tell us, and if classic Who gives any clues I don't know about it. Presumably the Time Lords evolved from some group of animals roughly analogous to mammals (vertebrates, four limbs, hair, possibly suckling their young as evidenced by Time Ladies having breasts), but what other wildlife might be present we don't know.
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Date: 2011-06-18 04:44 am (UTC)I like the idea that the daemons changing form with regeneration might include a brief period of being able to shift at will while the Time Lord figures out who s/he has become. The Doctor often seems a little unsure of his personality after regeneration, and that wouldn't work if he could look over at what his daemon became and say "oh, I'm a ferret daemon sort of person now."
I was assuming that Time Lord daemons would originally have been Gallifreyan wildlife, but I wonder if they can now have off-world daemons. I would suspect a daemon could take any form the Time Lord (or future space-faring human?) knew about and identified with. As for Gallifrey wildlife, new Who doesn't tell us, and if classic Who gives any clues I don't know about it. Presumably the Time Lords evolved from some group of animals roughly analogous to mammals (vertebrates, four limbs, hair, possibly suckling their young as evidenced by Time Ladies having breasts), but what other wildlife might be present we don't know.