I’m Re-reading The Amber Spyglass And I’m Once Again Struck By How Good A Villain Marisa Coulter

I’m re-reading The Amber Spyglass and I’m once again struck by how good a villain Marisa Coulter is. A terrible person but such a complex character.

In the cave, her duality is so obvious: while drugging Lyra with force and in such a cruel way, she’ll be tender, kiss a lock of her hair, sing a lullaby to her even though she’s never done it before and doesn’t even know the words, try to soothe her, use endearing terms. Afterwards torturing and tearing a bat apart in frustration over the situation - directing her anger towards a smaller creature, then sulking and anguishing about the fact that her daughter hates her and won’t forgive her for all her actions, and she knows it.

At the same time she has this twisted idea that she is keeping Lyra safe by keeping her asleep, and her intention is genuine in that aspect - she isn’t wrong. She’ll feed her and wash her and protect her while being so self-serving and ignoring Lyra’s wishes. But she is hell-bent on not letting anyone hurt her daughter again.

It’s also so heartbreaking that Lyra is calling out for literally anyone but her biological parents to save her, mostly some of her found parents, Iorek and Serafina. Even in her tormented sleep, she doesn’t accept Mrs. Coulter no matter how tender she tries to be.

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What would happen if our world was suddenly given the gift of seeing dæmons?

The situation: waking up in the morning of their timezone, people all over the world have woken up to find they have a daemon.

Some people upon waking were quite happy to find a sweet chinchilla snuggled next to them, a friendly dog in their bedroom, or a giraffe peeking through their window. Others may have been frightened to find mice, toads, and spiders by their side.

There were some reported incidents of people attacking their daemons at first sight, only to feel the pain in their own body. Hundreds of unsuspecting people were sent to hospitals for minor injuries. Two deaths were recorded in the states, one notable death being a man who rolled over his daemon in his sleep.

People are torn: they either love their new life companion or think of them as curses to humanity. Religous groups have taken to calling them “demons” sent as punishment for our sins. The name catches on with both pro and anti daemon groups, particularly since the word “daemon” is already a greek word that describes the animals accurately.

After a bit of research and talking with their daemons, people realize that daemons are a part of the human body. It is also realized that daemons aren’t actually animals, since people with cat allergies are fine around cat daemons.

It doesn’t take long for new forms of discrimination to arise. Animals in our world carry meanings, so people with “undesirable” animals are seen as suspicious or as outcasts. Snakes, vultures, rats, pigeons, insects, and “pest” daemons are seen as lesser. People with such daemons begin to unionize in hopes of bettering their image.

After almost a year of having daemons, people have mostly figured out that daemons are not a threat. If anything, they’re useful, since it’s like your very own sidekick. It’s common place to have daemons sit at the dinner table, to see business men and women carrying their daemon on their shoulder, and students keeping smaller formed daemons in their backpacks and hoodies. Pretty much everyone has named their daemon by now.

Even after all this time, daemons are still a hot topic in the news and no one has figured out why they appeared, despite all the theories. New branches of study have opened to research daemons (Daemon Morphology, Daemon and Human Anatomy, and Daemons in Society are just some of the college courses offered). People are still in the means of understanding this new daemon phenomenon, but it’s becoming more and more normalized with each day.

please feel free to reblog and add on! this is really fun to think about tbh

4 years ago

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Touch ID! Phones can regongise a dæmon’s paw print or maybe a feather print or just their skin in general as well as yours, so that if you’re in an emergency your dæ can unlock your phone for you! (Also would probably end up with you finding a lot of selfies your dæ took whilst you were looking away from your phone)

Playgrounds! Playgrounds having special adaptations so dæmons of all shapes and sizes can play with their humans. Would probably include more open spaces for bigger dæs and not having climbing frames that are so narrow and closed in, whilst also having places where children with smaller dæs can hide out and feel protected and closed in. Also the playgrounds would probably be bigger in general for kids with bigger dæmons and if the people caring for them have bigger dæs

Sleepovers with your dæ! Kids and teens staying up late with their dæmons and nicking sweets from the cupboards. Watching scary films on their phone and comforting eachother when it gets scary (and trying not to be too loud and wake up parents).

Feel free to add more! Like seriously, add more we are obsessed with modern dæmon headcanons 😂

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