Round 39, Hour 18

[lolmac]

Hour 18 is brought to you by tea and ice cream.  Or hot soup, if that's more suited to your climate.

Last hour, we had people almost ready to start something!  Presumably not an intergalactic war that would kill trillions and potentially threaten the very fabric of space and time.  Has anyone started anything else yet?

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[thisbluespirit]

Silver is a mouse! (I'm sorry, this is just a well-known fact.)

:lol:

(Sorry, I once wrote a fic where Q turned Silver into a mouse, for reasons of his own, and it seemed... very right, somehow.)

I'm sure he'd be any form you want him to be! There is something a little rodent-y about him in some ways, but on the other hand he has that cat's ability to fall on his feet and not believe he can do any wrong.

(Damn, I was going to pretend I was not here and not comment till after I'd had food and felt alive again, but you went and mentioned Silver.)

ETA: *reads question properly* (I said I wasn't with it yet). Oh... if he was posing as a daemon, yeah, he might be anything. He'd definitely want to show off. Probably nothing as mundane as a cat or mouse. (Is he posing as Steel's daemon here? Or someone else's? If it was Steel, something as showy as possible for maxium annoyance of Steel while maintaining complete innocence.)

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: Then, whatever Silver chooses, it probably has to have some aspect of "this is (what Silver thinks is) not an animal Steel would want as his daemon". (Though if it's a duck again, I think you would be heading towards the "fetish" thing and we might all need to worry.)

Or something that's still quite useful for doing things - like one of those little monkey things that are quite cute? (You can see my knowledge of mammal names is extensive). (I might be thinking of a marmoset, but I really am not sure.)

Stelmaria? I have read Pullman's trilogy, but I don't really remember all the details. (ETA: Oh, Lord A's daemon, presumably? I'm sure Silver will cope. Er. Probably.)

[lolmac]

You may be thinking of lemurs. Although marmosets are adorable.

What kind of critter was Lord A's daemon? I don't remember at all.

[thisbluespirit]

I'm pretty sure I'm not thinking of a lemur. Well. I think I'm not thinking of a lemur. My natural history is fairly rubbish. :lol:

But something along those lines! A clever little monkey with a long tail!

(seriesfive is going to end up with a feathered creature, though, just you watch...)

(Er, sorry, seriesfive! :lol: I'll get over the duck eventually.)

[thisbluespirit]

Well, a monkey of that kind (I really don't know which I mean!) would be able to climb out of reach or slip away from a snow leopard, or do something generally tricksy, which does seem more Silver than trying to be something fiercer - I agree, that does sound like over-kill. (I... don't think he'd be completely averse to a sort of side-order of "look how cute I am, Steel" in choice of said form, either. Cue an unimpressed look from Steel, who now only goes for ducks.)

I think you may be splitting feathers hairs there. ;-p

[lolmac]

If you're going to need daemon!Silver to take on Stelmaria, I'd go for either a mongoose or a raccoon. Both are smallish and can look cute, but either one can take out a much larger foe. (Raccoons are related to bears, while mongooses are related to wolverines.)

They both have speed, unexpected strength, amazing flexibility and very sharp teeth, as well as the element of complete surprise that comes with being able to look cute.