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Dæmons


ToM Dracone

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I finished reading The Golden Compass today. I love that book so much. Lyra is the most perfect child ever and there are witches and bears and I love Pantalaimon and Mrs. Coulter is cunning and devious and awesome. I have an odd thing for murderous, beautiful, intelligent women in literature. They're always the most fun characters. Mrs. Coulter is no exception. "Do you like chocolatl?" *shiver* She's a lesson in why you should not accept candy from beautiful strangers.

 

And I love the idea of dæmons. They're so cool.

 

On a Bionicle-related note, they actually reminded me of an idea I had forgotten about for quite a while. I want to see someday a team of Toa who are all accompanied by familiars. (for those who don't know what a familiar is, it's an animal companion spirit.) Like Jaller and the Hahnah crab. They could take the route the Hahnah crab does, and make a new mold that's used both on the familiar and somewhere on the Toa. You'd simultaneously fill the quotas for a new-body-armor-piece and something unique to each canister set!

 

I'm thinking the Water Toa would have a crab, and the Stone guy a scorpion, and the Air guy a bird, akin to a Taku. Something small and twittering.

 

Also, I have power. Fear me and my mop.

~ ToM

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Dæmons are awesome, yes. Makes one think of what their dæmon would be or what they would want it to be.

 

And great idea with a Toa team with familiars. Epic, perhaps? Or a series of MOCs?

 

-CF

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Did you read the other two books? (The Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass)

 

They can get quite complicated, but still are good.

 

And Toa with familiars... Man, that would be awesome.

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I think that the Familiars idea is very cool. You should definately do an epic or MOC series based off of that.

 

-AZBlue

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I'm reading that book right now. I like the idea of dæmons too. The whole idea of Toa with companion animals is kind of a cool idea I think, maybe make MoCs or write an epic.

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She's a lesson in why you should not accept candy from beautiful strangers.

I thought we already learned this in Narnia?

 

BtB

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She's a lesson in why you should not accept candy from beautiful strangers.

I thought we already learned this in Narnia?

This one.

 

Also the spelling always makes me think of 40K, so reading(or attempting to) Golden Compass is harribly creepy.

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She's a lesson in why you should not accept candy from beautiful strangers.

I thought we already learned this in Narnia?

 

BtB

*nods*

 

I like the idea of daemons but not the book or movie.

An epic would be epic, excuse the pun.

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She's a lesson in why you should not accept candy from beautiful strangers.

I thought we already learned this in Narnia?

 

BtB

This is true. Incidentally, the White Witch is the only character I actually like in Narnia. Hm.

 

I might foray into MOCs, but not an epic. And these ideas would require new molds, anyway, so that makes MOCing them slightly difficult. But I can always draw...

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She's a lesson in why you should not accept candy from beautiful strangers.

I thought we already learned this in Narnia?

 

BtB

This is true. Incidentally, the White Witch is the only character I actually like in Narnia. Hm.

I like Reepicheep too. But not in the movies. *gagh*

 

BtB

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(in reference to deleted comments)

 

Aaand Pintsize and Eranok, we really didn't need to go there. If you'd be so kind in the future, those of us who are atheists don't particularly appreciate the implication that everything we write must be bad, okie? Try to be more considerate.

 

 

@ Janus: Show me how to make a frog-shaped familiar and I will. Make one, that is. Not cry.

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I keep meaning to get my hands on the book, but I keep forgetting...I'll get around to it someday. I watched the movie and it wasn't so bad, but I'm sure the books are nice. And dæmons are win.
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I loved that book. So riveting, and it had such a sense of realism to it. Other than the talking bears, but those were my favorite part.

 

If you were to create MoCs along the lines of Dæmons, would we be seeing the armored bears, also?

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