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distantskies was open I considered taking Tash there. It closed and I'm repurposing the partial app, but I wanted to save the dæmon aspect of the app.
DÆMON
Name: Daranas (Cassandra)
Sex: Male
Form: Ludos
Additional notes: Ludos are basically tree-climbing alien octopi equipped with eight long, strong locomotive tentacles and two shorter forked arms used for manipulation and feeding. They can sing or “pipe”, and they have color-changing and bioluminescent abilities.
Tash is still rather young, so Daranas is smaller than an adult ludos, with larger multiple eyes. His default color is a warm gray with mottled red-pink coloring, particularly on his mantle.
Why this form:
Ludos are at home in the water or up in trees, and they are able to get around pretty well on land. They’re flexible feeders, going after dead fish, fruit, and tiny animals that conceal themselves in mud and silt. By the time of settling - which I’m going to say happened during the sixth book, Army of Terror - Tash was well used to adjusting herself to different worlds. The way ludos patiently sift through silt with their manipulative tentacles isn’t unlike Tash’s preference to sit and think something over.
Ludos have various predators. If they can’t simply escape, they set off bright bioluminescent flashes in their skins, in the hopes of startling their predators. If that doesn’t work they may turn dull black and play dead.
Their glow helps them navigate and find each other through murky water. I know powers aren’t supposed to affect daemon choice, but Tash’s Force-Sensitivity forms a definite part of her character. It set her apart from a young age and contributed to her never really getting along with peers.
Hikers on the ludos homeworld often make pets of them and use them as “backpack companions” to help ward off predators and keep party members in sight.
Finally, and this is trivial - the illustration of the ludos makes them look threatening, like the one on a man’s back is strangling him. You wouldn’t know they aren’t dangerous if not for the caption. Tash’s canon is rife with cliffhangers at the ends of chapters, but often the start of the next chapter reveals that the crisis was false - there actually is one where she feels something cold and slimy slip around her neck, and then the next chapter has her scream and tear it off, only to find it’s a flower necklace.
distantskies was open I considered taking Tash there. It closed and I'm repurposing the partial app, but I wanted to save the dæmon aspect of the app.DÆMON
Name: Daranas (Cassandra)
Sex: Male
Form: Ludos
Additional notes: Ludos are basically tree-climbing alien octopi equipped with eight long, strong locomotive tentacles and two shorter forked arms used for manipulation and feeding. They can sing or “pipe”, and they have color-changing and bioluminescent abilities.
Tash is still rather young, so Daranas is smaller than an adult ludos, with larger multiple eyes. His default color is a warm gray with mottled red-pink coloring, particularly on his mantle.
Why this form:
Ludos are at home in the water or up in trees, and they are able to get around pretty well on land. They’re flexible feeders, going after dead fish, fruit, and tiny animals that conceal themselves in mud and silt. By the time of settling - which I’m going to say happened during the sixth book, Army of Terror - Tash was well used to adjusting herself to different worlds. The way ludos patiently sift through silt with their manipulative tentacles isn’t unlike Tash’s preference to sit and think something over.
Ludos have various predators. If they can’t simply escape, they set off bright bioluminescent flashes in their skins, in the hopes of startling their predators. If that doesn’t work they may turn dull black and play dead.
Their glow helps them navigate and find each other through murky water. I know powers aren’t supposed to affect daemon choice, but Tash’s Force-Sensitivity forms a definite part of her character. It set her apart from a young age and contributed to her never really getting along with peers.
Hikers on the ludos homeworld often make pets of them and use them as “backpack companions” to help ward off predators and keep party members in sight.
Finally, and this is trivial - the illustration of the ludos makes them look threatening, like the one on a man’s back is strangling him. You wouldn’t know they aren’t dangerous if not for the caption. Tash’s canon is rife with cliffhangers at the ends of chapters, but often the start of the next chapter reveals that the crisis was false - there actually is one where she feels something cold and slimy slip around her neck, and then the next chapter has her scream and tear it off, only to find it’s a flower necklace.
