Poll: Time Lord daemons?

[tardis_stowaway]

I have a Doctor Who thought question for you! Over in Sherlock fandom I've read a number of excellent fics fusing the world of Sherlock with the His Dark Materials book trilogy, giving all the characters daemons*. I started wondering how such a fusion would work in the Doctor Who universe. Specifically, would Time Lord daemons be like human daemons? Please note that this is purely a speculative exercise; I have no plans for writing DW/HDM crossover fic (though I'd happily read any that's already out there...)[Poll #1752951]Feel free to use the comments to speculate further on this topic and/or suggest daemons for Doctor Who or Torchwood characters.

*A very quick primer for those who haven't read Phillip Pullman's excellent His Dark Materials Trilogy:  in this alternate universe fantasy, each person has a daemon, which is essentially an external manifestation of his/her soul.  Daemons take the shapes of animals.  During childhood they may shapeshift freely, then at adolescence they settle on a form that remains for the rest of the person's life.  Daemons have real physical form and may touch their own humans, inanimate objects, or other daemons, but touching another person's daemon is a deep cross-cultural taboo.

Comments

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

The HDM trilogy already gives us a sentient creature that doesn't have daemons–the armored bears. Still, their armor is considered their soul, so they do follow the pattern of having some external soul. Still, my personal feeling is that a humanoid alien like a Time Lord would have a daemon.

Just wandered over to your journal and read your Torchwood/HDM fusions, which I enjoyed. Did you just make Jack's daemon a honey badger? That's fantastic.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Yes, the armored bears don't have daemons, but witches do and they were not quite human (although they could mate with humans)

(I'll admit I only read the first book though, so maybe I'm wrong on that)

Yep. Jack's daemon, Amichai, is a honey badger. Mostly because of this article: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger.html and the fact it just *works*

I'd all the team's daemons planned out, just in case I wrote them, but so far only got to Jack, Susie, Gwen and Rhys.

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Ha, excellent honey badger article. My favorite honey badger description is this youtube video, which is actually the same video clip in that article but with HILARIOUS new narration.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

LOVE the new narration!