Random question of the day!

[awanderingbard]

Can daemon!chameleons change colour, or are they stuck as whichever colours they had when they first settled?

Real chameleons change colour to reflect a mood or to appeal more to the opposite sex or show that they're big and scary and shouldn't be messed with, and I thought it would be cute if a daemon!chameleon changed colours to reflect their human's mood. But as they aren't real chameleons and daemons don't tend to change (for example, a stoat daemon doesn't become an ermine daemon in the winter, like its animal counterpart would), does that mean they wouldn't have the same abilities as a real one?

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Wow, good question. I'd assume yes, they can change colors since it seems like the daemons can do anything the animals they are can do?

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

That's my reasoning, too, but it just feels a little special snowflake, like giving a character magical changing eyes or something. But I suppose it's no different than a peacock daemon being able to fan its feathers or a squirrel daemon being able to walk up and down trees. Just part of the nature of the animal.