Gone, just gone.

[KK]

About a day ago, Kili announced that after summer he would be giving up all of his forms and become a changeling no more. He also said that he would turn into a squirrel if he really needed to be small, and an otter if we were swimming, but that would be all the changing he would do. Then, today, he said that he would start not being a changeling now, rather than when I started school again in the fall. Ever since he said that, I've felt kind of, weird inside. All those forms we loved, like an eagle, and a ferret, and The Cheat, all gone, just gone. He's kept his cartoony squirrel dancing form, because that does count as a squirrel, but I really miss him changing. I don't know why I'm posting this, has anyone else had something like this happen?

[Zoe 'n' Calosta]

Well Cal's a changeling, but he did stop a while back. And to be honest, although I missed the cute forms he did to cheer me up or make me laugh, I felt....secure. I still do, of course but I loved the fact that he was 100% a panther, 100% Cal in my opinion because I've always seen him as a panther. Sure he's still Cal in other forms but at first it was hard, I had to remind myself that this little bird was the same Cal. Am I babbling? I'll shut up now But you shouldn't worry, everything happens for a reason and maybe it's just time to settle completely. It won't be so bad once it happens because if it hurt that much, it wouldn't happen. You're just growing up that's all. Happens to everyone

I'm still a changeling!

Shush you! Anyway, if it happens, it'll happen because it's meant to. For the good of both of you

[|3200k1]

Can you really decide not to be a changeling? Nemith never was. Sure, he used to change, but when he was settled, he's pretty much settled for good, but there are a few occasions when he'll cahnge if it's too crowded or something.

[Sil and Veil]

If he was still changing, maybe he never truly settled at all? I'm not quite familiar with the concept of changelings, but it sounds like your daemon just decided on his final form.

[|3200k1]

Sil said:

If he was still changing, maybe he never truly settled at all? I'm not quite familiar with the concept of changelings, but it sounds like your daemon just decided on his final form.

A changeling is a daemon that,even though you know its settled form, still changes just because he's not corporeal and doesn't adhere to general rules.

[KK]

Sil said:

If he was still changing, maybe he never truly settled at all? I'm not quite familiar with the concept of changelings, but it sounds like your daemon just decided on his final form.

But, I knew his final form long before he even settled. When he actually could change, I knew what he would be. I think he has been settled since mid-december, because I remember quite clearly the moment of realization when I knew he'd settled. I think he probably was settled during all this time. Oh, I don't know. He was going to explain it all to me, but we were interrupted by an instant message from my dad.

[Tatl & Valian]

I've always been confused about settling. Like, how do you KNOW theiy're settled? Meh....I dunno, Vaji really doesn't want to settle, and I don't want him to, but sometimes I wished I knew what he would settle as.... Anyway, I can't really help you, he might not even stop, but i dunno.

[KK]

Tatl, you just know when they're settled. They won't change for a while, and the form will just fit and you'll feel like you've just clicked into place. Oh, and Kili seems to have kept his human form too. Probably for yoga classes.

[Zoe 'n' Calosta]

Hehe, sorry just envisioning Cal doing yoga very, very wrong. But what does his human form look like? Is it his Oxford self or like an anime type of person? This remind me, in the first HDM book when Lyra is in the oratory and she finds the Masters' crypts with pictures of their daemons, one has a woman-daemon. But I thought you couldn't have daemons in the form of humans because the traits would be too great to specify

[KK]

About the woman-daemon in HDM, that was just a mistake. It was corrected in later editions. About Kili's human form, it's kind of animeish, but also might be his oxford self. It's a boy, about 13, with long frizzy red hair and brown eyes. I think he might have based it on this drawing I saw one time, on some art site. I'd put a link here, but the site went down for a long time and when it came up again every image had been deleted with absolutely no hope of getting them back ever, so...yeah.

[|3200k1]

I was gonna say...I'd remember if I read about someone having a woman daemon. XD I think...I don't know. I'm still working on what I'm thinking. ;-) Nemith takes a human form sometimes,too, but only when comfort from an animal won't help and I need human arms around me. Otherwise he'd just spread a sing over me and lay beside me protectively.

[Spiral Sun]

teh said:

I was gonna say...I'd remember if I read about someone having a woman daemon. XD I think...I don't know. I'm still working on what I'm thinking. ;-) Nemith takes a human form sometimes,too, but only when comfort from an animal won't help and I need human arms around me. Otherwise he'd just spread a sing over me and lay beside me protectively.

Pheo's the same! He goes human form to comfort me too when a wing doesn't quite cut it. *shudders* I'd be creeped out if his human form was his oxford self. He has white hair, red eyes and he wears black pants and a black jacket. They have a thick white stripe down either sleeve and down the sides of the pants too. And on the back of his jacket he has my errr... symbol! My symbol that I always use is embroided onto the back. He also wears black sunglasses to cover his red eyes so he can be really creepy. ...oh, and he's in his thirties. Heh heh heh! Fear the eyes!

[Vicky]

Aurora finally settled during my long break from this forum, and I'm glad to see some familiar faces, by the way! ('specially missed Spiral ^.^)

And it's good to see the new faces, too.

She, of course, is the gold dragoness I've known and loved for a long time, and rather than feeling distraught, it made me feel a lot more peaceful.

Sometimes I still do feel like she's changing from the corner of my eye, or in my dreams, though.

[|3200k1]

Vicky said:

Aurora finally settled during my long break from this forum, and I'm glad to see some familiar faces, by the way! ('specially missed Spiral ^.^)

And it's good to see the new faces, too.

She, of course, is the gold dragoness I've known and loved for a long time, and rather than feeling distraught, it made me feel a lot more peaceful.

Sometimes I still do feel like she's changing from the corner of my eye, or in my dreams, though.

YOURE BACK!!!! You left jsut after I arrived. I remember you were an old person. XD

[Vicky]

Well, not so old... I was around for maybe 2 weeks or so, real life really gets me sometimes!

Glad someone remembers me, though!