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]

I thought I remembered witches referring to themselves as other than humans, but then I realized I was only certain of that memory from fanfic. Some quick googling did turn up some reference-type websites that specifically refer to witches as not human (

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I thought I remembered witches referring to themselves as other than humans, but then I realized I was only certain of that memory from fanfic. Some quick googling did turn up some reference-type websites that specifically refer to witches as not human (<a href="http://hdm.wikia.com/wiki/Witches"here they're called 'human-like creatures'</a>, and <a href="http://www.bridgetothestars.net/wiki/index.php?title=Witches">here it refers to witches living longer than humans</a>). However, it has been quite a few years since I read the books, so I can't verify that this isn't just a case of general cluelessness that includes me.

OK, I think I see what you're trying to say a bit better. As I now understand it, your point about the TARDIS we know being female is part of why it squicks you, not a reason the concept couldn't happen. Fair enough. If something were to happen within canon (or within a fic) that erased a character's individual personhood and made them part of another character, then I would totally share the squick. Something semi-analogous happened in the Dollhouse finale and it creeped me out in a major way, even with the genders reversed. It doesn't bother me personally to ask the question "but what would it be like if there was a world where she'd always been part of him and he was part of her?", but I see why it squicks you.