acts_of_gord | For daemonmuses.

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Tell us about your daemon's favorite shape/its current shape. What do you like about it? What do you hate about it?

Sati's nearly always been something along the line of an insect or crustacean for as long as I can remember. Something shelled, tough, and small. I thought for the longest time that I was going to wind up having to live by the ocean, but she finally settled down into a form that sort of made that moot. She's a tardigrade- a waterbear, a type of animal about a millimeter long. They live in moist environments, mostly. They're all but impossible to kill. Tardigrades can survive up to 151 degrees Celsius and down to one degree warmer than absolute zero. They can survive the vacuum of space or up to six times the pressure of the water at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. They can live without water almost ten years, they can survive more than five hundred times the amount of radiation that would kill a human being, and they can survive incredibly high levels of environmental toxins. It's good to know she can stand up to pretty much anything the world throws at her. Reassuring, you know?

The down side is that my daemon is less than a millimeter long. Do you know how many looks I get from people who think I don't have a daemon at all? Sati lives in a vitredur marble lined with moss, about as long as the end of my thumb. When I have to wear the HEV suit for work she moves into a flat borosilicate glass test tube I wear around my neck under the suit. Either way, I come across as some kind of daemonless freak unless people know what to look for. And people wonder why I don't talk much…

Quotes

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong

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vance_prime

At least your daemon is something small and inconspicuous. Ever since Kei settled, sneaking around City 17 is freaking impossible.

acts_of_gord

This is true.

On the other hand, the next person who knows about Sati who asks me if that's my daemon in my pocket or if I'm just happy to see them is going to wake up to find out why it's not a good idea to cheese off someone who fits in the HVAC system.

I've been wondering. Can you still hear her when she talks to you? Like, even when she's in the test tube?

Yes, but it's difficult to explain. It's... there used to be a device that you could bite down on or hold against your teeth or cheekbone, and it would transmit the sound through the bones of your head to the bones of your inner ear and you'd hear it. Nobody else. Just you. As long as I have the test tube or the marble next to my skin somewhere, I can hear her through my bones.