A Dæmon Called Hamish

thinking about how badly i wanted to love the hdm tv series but they bunked it on the daemons SO HARD that i simply could not suspend my disbelief that entire crowd scenes just happened to be full of people who had small, easy to hide daemons

3rd option: they can see Will's but not Mary's. I had thought that cause Will's daemon was pulled out of him when they went to the land of the dead, she has a physical form whereas Mary had to learn how to see her daemon which makes me think anyone else would also have to undergo that process to see hers too

(if you can pardon the ramble, whenever I see the daemons mentioned, I remember my theory about them, and also potentially another "metaphor" of the series; we know a lot of it is biblical, some very obviously, but stay with me on this... another big part of the story is the concept of childhood/growing up. one of the most important things is a substance known as "dust". through the northern lights, characters are able to see "other worlds in the stars". Pantalaimon's nick-name is "Pan". all this made me think of the story of Peter Pan, the boy who will never grow up, who flies with pixie dust, and lives in Neverland- second star to the right. so all THAT made me think of the quote about where fairies come from- “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” so... I wondered if maybe, in Lyra's world, Daemons, which are an extension of a person's soul, first appear when a baby laughs for the first time. or, perhaps when a baby is first capable of experiencing more complex thoughts/emotions, maybe even as a form of comfort in great distress, and the Daemon takes an outward physical form. there, that's all~)

fucked up sick and twisted that daemons aren’t a thing in real life. i want a little guy