@ Tangleflower: I ditto everything Slinkypants said. And like she said, most longtime TDFers mean "my form" and "I'm settled as" when they say "my daemon's form" and "my daemon's settled as," so they're definitely not giving any special consideration to what forms their daemons actually take (otherwise they wouldn't accept crazies like me who have a form without a daemon to take it ;D). Nonetheless, your confusion is completely understandable because anyone who doesn't know what the terms actually mean would be well within reason to assume that "daemon's form" means the daemon's actual taken forms do matter in determining form suitability.
Personally, I wish people would stop calling the representative animal the "daemon's" form, as that terminology leads straight to the "but my daemon doesn't take/like to take the form! ;_;" confusion that distresses a lot of newbies. However, reality is that 1) old habits die hard, 2) vets already know what the terms actually mean, and 3) for settled people who don't have changelings/overactive imaginations, the settled animal *is* the daemon's only form. So I just shrug and hope that maybe someday "daemon's form" will go out of fashion and something more accurate like "my form" will become the common term, just as "soul" went (for the most part) out of fashion and "mental construct" became the common term for what a daemon is.
@ Kamaliah:
I did not foresee this MASSIVE TURNABOUT in which the stalker would become the stalkee! *climbs up a tree and
cackles at you from the branches* NYAAH NYAAAH JUST YOU TRY TO STALK ME NAO.
@ Prinz: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU-- FIRST JULES AND NOW YOU GET ON THE HEALTHIER-FORMCHANGE TRAIN. AM I DESTINED TO WALLOW FOREVER IN MY UNHEALTHYDOM ALL ALONE. I will now h8 u 4evar until you go back to being and STAYING a grumpy frumpy fatcap.