Deamons: I'm a bluejay, Niles is a cougar.
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Deamons: I'm a bluejay, Niles is a cougar.
Deamons: I'm a bluejay, Niles is a cougar.
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i also have deamons for.
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So. Many. Franchises.
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picking deamons is literally my Ultimate Special Interest
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I have trouble with this meme.
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combining complex character analysis with animal facts
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WHO YOU NEED DONE
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I can and will give you my Guided Tour
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Byakuran from KHR and Ardyn from XV are the hardest for me.
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okay sadly i'm canonblind, but my Process works as so:
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start with broad categories, and then get more specific.
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im talking BROAD, are they a mammal, reptile, bird, other
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i tend to base this on Outward Emotional Behavior
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like, hotheaded people tend to be mammals
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Byakuran is a bastard Stepford Smiler psychic. Ardyn is... admittedly similar in behavior, but more internally tormented.
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where as reptiles don't necessarily emote a ton
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and birds often have like
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the two big bird categories are
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High Aspirations
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and Doesn't Behave as Expected
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What if they emote but it's all fake and they're two-faced assholes?
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Byakuran might be a bird, he wants to take over the world because he's BORED.
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that could lean in a predator direction
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knowing how to do the thing is equivalent with showing it in stuff like this
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Ardyn's harder to place... But when isn't he? He's defying fate.
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oooh okay so very Defiant people i often like to go
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ungulate with
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or other Large Animal just, someone that is Hard to Manipulate
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Byakuran is difficult to strip the smile off of because he's convinced he holds all the cards. Ardyn is faking it because he knows he doesn't.
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hmmm
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I feel like Ardyn might have either a rhino or a wolf.
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so wolf would have to be very Social
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Which are both really large animals, but one on a whole different scale.
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and rhino conversely would be extremely loyal to One
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Ardyn's... weird. He has corrupted memories, can be social, has only loved one person his whole life, used to be a healer of the masses...
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how aggro is he
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Now? VERY.
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He hates society.
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hmm m okay so now we gotta think about When he would have Settled
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About 19, he was a healer until he was 30.
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bc if he settled in a more trusting time, and THEN snapped
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So it might no longer be representative.
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He settled in a social trusting helpful gentle time.
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kkkkinda, it just means we have to pick something with the Potential in there
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He was also royalty at the time if that has any impact.
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the ONLY predator i can see him as now is some kind of bear i think
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but if you are willing to go herbivore i think we have more options
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Either works!
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(Kravitz's Daemon is easier, he's just got a raven.)
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i like that idea, but Especially if making a pact with the raven queen Forcibly Changes your deamon into one because selling your soul etc etc
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how Smart does he see himself as and/or is he?
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because he could be a monkey of some sort
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which have potential for both highly prosocial behavior, and Very Nasty Angry behavior.
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and sounds like maybe 'does displays to make self look bigger' fits with his bluffing?
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In some ways, and that works surprisingly well.
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Byakuran might actually be unsettled at 26 due to the nature of his abilities. I play him at 16/22 so it'd still be that way.
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(He's... quantum linked to all his alternate-universe selves so even as they all have different experiences and worlds, they all share one memory bank that can be manually synced.)