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Adult daemons
If you are an adult can your daemon be a baby animal, like a kitten or puppy?
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I doubt that an adult's dæmon would be a baby animal. If the person never "grew up," their dæmon wouldn't have settled in the first place, and there are plenty of forms that represent playfulness or other "childlike" traits that are adult animals.
I doubt that an adult's dæmon would be a baby animal. If the person never "grew up," their dæmon wouldn't have settled in the first place, and there are plenty of forms that represent playfulness or other "childlike" traits that are adult animals.
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Who knows? Presumably they wouldn't go through adolescence, so their dæmon would never settle. I've just noticed the subtle use of that word there - settle. It's a good thing, settling down and not being so restless. So teenagers do it? Right...
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hmm... i think the settling of one's dæmon is caused by a mental/spiritual maturation, not a physical one. even though someone who was castrated wouldn't go through puberty, they'd still become an adult mentally, so their dæmon would settle.
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If you don't go through puberty, do you become an adult mentally? Tough one... I don't think we can answer it.hmm... i think the settling of one's dæmon is caused by a mental/spiritual maturation, not a physical one. even though someone who was castrated wouldn't go through puberty, they'd still become an adult mentally, so their dæmon would settle.
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i know there are peopel who have a disease who never mature or go through puberty, but their minds are the minds of whatever age they are
so i think it has more to do with mental maturity
so i think it has more to do with mental maturity
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I'm assuming its different hormones etc that make you mature physically and mentally.. because you get those people who look old, but still have a young mental age. Presumably it would work the other way round too..
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That's true. Another possibility is that the kind of maturity that matters for dæmons settling is a maturity of mental structure, not content. There's a kind of maturity that comes from having your own set personality, even though society might not consider your actions mature.
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Having dæmons might have something to do with it too....
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