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spookyfurybouquet-53d553e6 · 3 days ago

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Oh, you're thinking like a House of Leaves type deal? Because you're right, that *would* be fun There would beeee Daemon fashion would be *so fun* - even aside from the UV patterns/makeup thing, you could have all sorts of cool clothes for different body plans, brands that specialize in fashion for specific types of daemons, shaving fur in cool patterns or dying it vibrant colors, etc

Also I def pity daemons who work in hospitals, because they'd need to have their entire body showered, shampooed, and scrubbed whenever they need to scrub in and out of sterile areas, whereas in our world you just need to wash your hands - this would probs extend to their human halves to an extent, because they're the ones in the shower with their daemons, helping ensure that their fur's completely clean and sterile.

Oh definitely!! There would probs also be an ADA equivalent re: general daemon accessibility - like, any appliances being able to be controlled either via voice controls or buttons that don't require much dexterity, daemon seatbelts that can be quick-released with a button, handles for drawers specifically designed so they can be easily gripped onto and pulled out via teeth, etc

What other daemon accessibility tools do you think there might be?

Hmmm, interesting! I mean, Humans actually can see UV light, by the by, if they've had a particular type of cataract surgery, so I don't think it's impossible for these new senses to be processed by the brain - it's extremely plastic - in fact, my own brain learned to interpret electrical stimulation as hearing. It's simply a matter of getting the brain to realize that all this new data flowing in is actually useful information.

So like, if a daemon settled as a bat, the human wouldn't necessarily get the echolocation directly - they would get it already post-processed, so like, a general sense of where objects are, even in the dark

Like, I don't necessarily think they'd be seeing wholly new colors - more like it would be normalized to the color spectrum of the brain (since color isn't a fact of the world, it's simply an effect of the way the brain interprets information) - so like, daemons that can see UV would likely percieve it as a more vibrant violet/magenta, but be able to easily distinguish it from violet in the visible light spectrum, (and ofc be able to easily see UV patterns on things) and as for infrared, near-infrared would likely be percieved as a redder-than-red color, while the longer waves of infrared would mostly be percieved in there being a distinct and easily visible difference between hot-[color], warm-[color], cool-[color] and cold-[color] (perhaps a monochrome gradient of sorts?), and with extra color cones, it would probs function more like IRL tetrachromats do (plus there being a distinct difference between stuff that reflects, for example, red + blue light wavelengths and stuff that reflects the purple wavelength)

Depending on how much daemons can share senses with their humans, they may or may not be able to perceive this directly, but if they concentrate, have a general knowledge that these things are hot/cold, where things are in darkness, etc I think touch screens wouldn't become commonplace until voice recognition technology does, so that daemons can still use tech through voice commands. (Or if they do, they'd still have buttons that can be used to navigate around until voice recognition becomes a thing) OH WAIT - probs resistive touch screens would be the touch screen tech that's focused on and developed, rather than capacitative touch screens, like in our world, because resistive touch screens can still be used by claws and beaks

Maybe phones/ordinators would be sold in sets, even, apps synced in different ways across 2 different screens

Now, cameras would be able to record infrared eventually (I'm thinking it takes roughly the same time to go to color + ultraviolet and infrared as it takes to go from black and white to color), but they'd only be able to use the full range of infrared on screens that aren't meant to be touched, like TV screens and desktop ordinator screens (though ofc there'd still be the option in settings to restrict this feature for safety purposes) - for phone screens, they'd be able to make some parts of the screen warm and some parts cool, and that's about it in terms of contrast.

Drawing programs probs also allow you to manually put infrared gradients/ultraviolet patterns, with a switch to bring it into normal color vision for the purposes of drawing

This probs also led to new file formats

ooooh *interesting* - in my own stories, I went the route that being severed is more equivalent to having your body chopped in half and having a thin membrane grow over the gaping wound - with time, you can learn to function (for a generous definition of functioning), but you'll still always fundamentally be half a person, still feel that loss like a gaping hole

I mean I think the stigma around intercision is more that you're cut in half - for witches, yeah, it's def *weird*/creepy to see them walking around without a daemon when you first see them, but they're more vibrant than severed folk are, and when you learn that they're a witch, well, that explains things - it's general knowledge that witches have an extremely long range, but they're still connected to their daemons in the same way everyone else is, still *whole*

That's valid! For me, the alt history is one of the fun parts! It's interesting trying to work out the changes in political relations, tech, culture, etc - though you're right, the sheer oppressiveness of the Church in canon is a bit much for me to write in - I tend to set my stories 1-200 years in the future from canon, so that I can be like, the Church has a good amount more influence than IRL, but they're not The Law anymore, which is a much more tenable scenario to write in!

Yeah, spec-fic probs also includes stuff like alt history scenarios, mundane apocalypses, shifts in how certain things are culturally viewed, anything you could preface with the phrase "what if?" (excluding the fantasy genre, which is its own thing) (What if the Magisterium never came to power, what if cultural perceptions of various species of daemon were swapped around, what if everyone had a witch-range, what if there was a culture during the regency period that silenced the human half instead of the daemon half, what if we went to space and met aliens, what if we built a ship to colonize another planet, etc)

I think probs after the heart stops, the dæmon starts to fade, and the point at which it completely disappears is the point at which the brain's been destroyed enough/starved of oxygen long enough that they're well and truly gone.

So like, people would notice that when people fall into comas and their daemon is there, asleep with them, sometimes they wake up and sometimes they fade away and die, and when people fall into comas and their daemon disappears, even if they're still breathing, they'll never wake up - so I think that plus the strong association with another strong indicator of death (I think time of death would be officially recorded as time of daemon disappearance in general) would make it so that brain death is seen as just another form of death way earlier, and one easy to diagnose - unresponsive? Vital signs still functioning? Daemon gone? Yep, you're soul dead, mark down the time of death.

oh yeah it's def rough in the teen acting sphere (maybe there was even an actor or two that was so determined to stay in uncomfortable forms so they didn't settle that they eventually settled as a form that itched uncomfortably at the seams

(coaches hired to systematically destroy these teens senses of identity) So probs teen actors only play adults in movies/limited series, because of the risk of, during a tv show, an adult who's supposed to be long settled suddenly showing up as someone that doesn't match their character at all

(maybe that's a plot point on one of those telenovelas >< (Reveal! Juan got replaced by his evil twin Ignacio who was unsettled because of how he constantly changes faces and identities, but he let himself get too comfortable in Juan's life and the settling is how they realize he's not Juan)

hello !! what are your thoughts on actors and acting in a world with daemons ? how do you think they would work ?

oooh this is super interesting...i've been thinking over this most of the day and i honestly think there wouldnt be a lot of like, huge and drastic changes. i do think people would cast for appearance of the human actor AND the daemon actor, so there would 100% be casting calls that would be like 'canine daemons only' because whatever character youre auditioning for would have a canine daemon.

BUT ALSO i think there'd be like. daemon costumes!! for places where you need a specific form but your actor isnt settled as such--like, maybe youre doing a documentary about a real person who settled as a parrot, and your actor is AWESOME but a rat. so there's a rat with a parrot costume :3 i feel like this would be more common on stage than on screen (think like, if youve ever seen the costumes of lion king on broadway, thats sorta the vibe i could see), since i feel like CGI tech would make it a tad easier to pass off one animal as another.

like i dont think cgi would replace a daemon actor entirely (to me thats like casting a human actor, and then using cgi to turn them into an entirely different person) but you would use cgi like how cgi is used today, like i know some cgi is used for costuming and stuff. so maybe a daemon has a sort of green screen type costume and thats how you get some species-changes, but like, their face and general shape is still their own.

on the same thread of movies/tv/shows etc, i do think on average there'd actually be less characters per show...like a show in our world would have four main characters, but a show in a world with daemons would have two--because the daemons are characters now too! so this might mean acting is even more competitive than it is today, since there's just less roles even if theres the same number of productions.

tho this varies based on how you present daemons in your world lol, in my 'ideal' sort of daemon-world they'd get as much sceentime as their human counterparts so you'd just have to cut down on total characters, but i write worlds where things are Not good for daemons lol.

along those lines i bet theres also daemon forms that are more vs less likely to get cast--i tend to go canine + feline are the most desired and thus like. "uplifted" forms so every hero has a lion etc, so if you wanna act but youre a sea slug you are going to struggle a LOT to be cast, bc productions would be like sorry we just need dogs <3 i think there would be a mammal bias and i wonder if there'd be anti-discrimination laws passed about this? i feel like that would be really contentious in-universe though, like a thing often argued about--people like, there are totally roles for snakes! (theyre only villian parts). or you can get cast with a fish daemon! (you will never get a main part and most of the time cant even get an extra part because its "too much work" to make the space fish-daemon accessible.) basically you can take this a lot of ways too!

if anyone else has ideas feel free to add on! or send me asks about unrelated daemon topics. i love talking about daemons :3

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your-ne1ghbor · 5 months ago

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Alright the pull came in and ya'll wanted to see some of the Magnus and Star doodles so here you go! :D

So here is some star concept doodles:

LASTLY, MAGNUS DOODLES (FW, SLIGHT GORE)

I swear I had more, but since it is like 10:22 pm here, Imma drop these for now.

Bonus:

Bonus Bonus:

Here is a fun fact: After the incident, Magnus, Agatha, and the survivors did not get proper medical treatment directly after the event. A lot of the medical materials was turned to ash and whatever did survive cannot be used because the heat could alter the chemical components in exithers or healing potions. The things that were mainly salvaged was cloths that survived the fire, which was washed thoroughly before being used as bandages.

Although they had a alternative for bandanges, many of the survivors died from smoke, lack of medicine, other related injuries, or...uhhh yeah. Luckily, other kingdoms were fortunate to help the citizens and they were able to gain proper medical treatment after around a month.

I just wanted to share this since this makes logical sense for a incident that was this bad. And also because Magnus got that nasty burn scar that was not even treated until like around a month later, same with Agatha's eye. So yeah 😜

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#there is probably like 3 I missed for maggy but I'm too tired to take pictures.#honestly magnus went through a lot of mental distress because of his burn scar! aint that fun hehe :3 #especially agatha #and for those who are wondering for what that weird base was doing in the Magnus section it is actually showing how bad his burn mark is #and yeah his poor arm 💀#plus a lot of “the incident saga maggy” aint that swell :D #and imagine all of that and then you are held with the responibility of leading all these people like damn #also a lot of conflicting feelings for when I was developing (and still am) the true forms of stars + their culture and lives.#for the designs I settled on a more “Dream Catcher” trope where they are mainly feathery because the feathers on the dream catchers let goo #dreams through as webs on the dream catchers catches bad dreams with the beads there I think to refrence the spider #disney wish #wish 2023 #art #artwork #art tag #star wish #princess asha #wish asha #king magnifico #wish star #star boy #star #wishing star #magnus #concept art #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #the kingdom of roses and thorns

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