Thoughts that should not be distracting me from work:

[tiamatschild]

How does the whole The Daemon is Always The Opposite Gender thing work with animals that don't have binary sex?

I mean, clearly it doesn't take into account people who are non-binary, but there are so many potential daemonic forms that would also be non-binary - - -

*wanders off into daydreaming about how pretty slugs are again*

Comments

[holyschist]

Canonically, they are only usually a different sex, and there's no canonical "explanation" for those that aren't (fannish speculation has generally been that those people are gay or trans, but I kind of think that may be overly simplistic; I kind of like it not meaning anything specific, just being a thing that happens sometimes).

Also, I'd agree about the human imagination thing as a limit--plus I don't think people ever have daemons that take forms they wouldn't know about?

[ilthit]

Yep, yep. The daemon isn't an actual animal, it's a soul given physical form, and the form is determined by human expectation. /my interpretation