Their Dark Materials

his dark materials will literally always work bc every small child wants an animal companion that loves you most and goes on adventures with you and every adult wants an animal companion that can shoulder some of life’s immense psychologically damage for you. and you can pet it

And to tear down the feeble corpse of God! Every kid and adult wants that also!

I have a headcanon that Pan and Kirjava actually settled earlier than most other kids’ dæmons because of everything Lyra and Will went through forcing them to reach emotional maturity faster. Because, in La Belle Sauvage Alice is an older teenager (16? Not sure what the working age is in her universe) and she and Ben are still unsettled.

Jack Thorne just came into my house and said, “Fuck the rest of your day and your responsibilities, you’re going to dwell on the idea that even the people you love and want in your life will be forced to leave because of some higher laws of the universe, but that just because you can’t and don’t see them doesn’t mean they can’t exist in the same space at the same time as you, just on the ‘other side’; and that sometimes their just having been in your life is more than enough because they suffuse the very essence of who you are, so that even when you are separated you really are not because they live in your memories and heart and every atom of you.”