Thoughts on daemon aus? What kind of animal would anakin’s daemon be and what would be Obi-wan’s? 🧐
If I recall His Dark Materials (which in all fairness I read over twenty years ago) daemons were opposite gender, right? but then a fan asked him if same-gender pairs also meant that person was gay and I think he was like "yes absolutely that's what it means"? so uh that alone brings up some interesting questions. (do bisexuals get two? what about ace people--okay, I'll stop myself.)
so I will ALSO assume (or perhaps I will simply cheat) that we're talking real animals, not GFFA ones. :D
I could literally go on for ninety years about possibilities because I am a nerd but I will go with my gut and say...
It doesn't start off that way, of course. As a child, Anakin's daemon mostly stuck to small animals that were resilient in the desert; scavengers, predators. Often it was a sand cat, but not always. Other common sights for Anakin's daemon was a jerboa, a kit fox, and a tiger rattlesnake.
So when his daemon settled on the same form as Obi-Wan's, there was definitely some surprise, but most dismiss it as Anakin finally letting go of his childish attachment to where he came from and embracing his new circumstances as a Jedi, taking after Obi-Wan. And why shouldn't he? Obi-Wan is the perfect Jedi, isn't he?
But wait; both of them have Black Swans. Like Mute Swans, they also mate for life.... but 1/4th of all matings are homosexual in nature.
No one says anything. Not at first. Not even them. But by the end of the first year, it's very hard to deny their feelings when their daemons are clearly mates.