She's old enough for it to have settled, so I'm thinking Octavia's daemon is prrrrobably a blue-throated hummingbird for several reasons:
- A spider or scorpion would have been super uninspired. And I'm severely arachnophobic so fuck that noise - It's smaller and sillier and less impressive than she'd like, and that's hilarious - It works as a Con Air reference, and every Homestuck knows how important Con Air is. Hullo, humminburr.
More seriously, they are greedy, territorial and always zipping from one thing to the next! And in Aztec culture it was believed that dead warriors were reincarnated as hummingbirds which is all kinds of relevant.
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- A spider or scorpion would have been super uninspired. And I'm severely arachnophobic so fuck that noise
- It's smaller and sillier and less impressive than she'd like, and that's hilarious
- It works as a Con Air reference, and every Homestuck knows how important Con Air is. Hullo, humminburr.
More seriously, they are greedy, territorial and always zipping from one thing to the next! And in Aztec culture it was believed that dead warriors were reincarnated as hummingbirds which is all kinds of relevant.