The Daemian Union (TDU) V2 (POSTING OPEN!)

[Rainbow Dash]

lol hai gaiz. I'm back from my trip, badly sunburned, and I pulled a muscle in one shoulder. But I roofed a house! Hooray!

If you have and speak to a daemon, then does your daemon speak in a different accent to your normal thought voice/your actual voice?

No accent on his part. Pretty much your typical American young guy voice.

[correlate.]

Okay, I will give this a try...

What species are you now?: Undecided
Male or female: TBD
Presence: I like to be quiet most of the time... I won't be the person who's talking the loudest, for sure. Right away, anyway.
How active are you: I'm not one for over-doing exercise... But I do enjoy some types of it^^ Mentally active? To the max, I guess. I'm not a vegetable at all :3
Reliability: Eh, I am usually reliable. I feel bad when I don't or can't do something right for someone...
How social are you: With my friends, very. But I have to get to know you a little before I start talking non-stop.
Intellectual or emotional: Both. You could say it's 50-50. I can be very emotional and touchy, and sometimes true logic can't get me back to reality.
Practical or dreamy?: Mostly dreamy. Heh, I daydream a lot, so you have to watch me if I'm in that type of mood.
Temper: I have a very bad temper... It's something you probably don't want to see. If you set me off, it's hard to get me back to the way I normally am right away.
How loyal are you: Very. I will stay by your side through almost anything; sometimes my loyalty causes problems. And I'm not loyal to you right away... It can take a while.
Sensitivity: I guess in the medium-high range. I usually don't look very sensitive, but I am.
Patience: With most people, it's relatively high. But when my patience runs low... That's when that nasty temper kicks in o.O
Empathy: High. Like sensitivity, I usually don't show it.
Adaptability: Eh, not really. Some things I can adapt to quickly, but most of the time, not so much.
Anything else to help place you?: I'm usually indifferent with my family, and I can get fussy...With other people, I'm very obedient; I often don't do things right away when my parents ask, but with other people... I also like to argue, and I am opinionated. Again, sometimes I'm moody and these things can be opposite. Oh, quick edit: I like to organize and be the leader of a group, and I like to work it group settings depsite my... original unwillingness?

Is that enough? My brain isn't functioning right today...

[Lirrie]

I finnally found it. Oh a quilt? I better get drawing then.

@Question

Nope he speak in the same accent as me.

[OvOpus]

LATELATELATELATELATE but I really wanted to say this:

but I think Vay says that she fits boy coondogs slightly more because boys have more of a tendancy to be aggressive more quickly. She's not snappy enough to be another animal and coondogs fit her perfectly, but she's slightly more snappy than the average, and boy coondogs are slightly more snappy than the species average.

It is possible to confirm/refute the claim "male coondogs are snappier than coondog species average" because there is a more-or-less empirically-determined, objective, and well-defined "coondog species average." In contrast, it is much more difficult if not completely impossible to confirm/refute the claim "[someone] is snappier than coondog-personality daemian average" because there isn't a more-or-less empirically-determined, objective, or even just well-defined "coondog-personality average."

I'm assuming that "coondog species average" was arrived at by documenting the traits (including behaviors) of as many coondogs as possible - male and female, from newborn to old geezer - and then figure out which very specific combination of traits + degree of trait expression is most commonly found in the general coondog population (I know that's not the definition of a statistical average, but I was going with a more colloquial definition). In theory we could also do this with coondog-personality (or any-personality) daemians, but in practice we just don't have a large enough population sample. We generally have at most 3 confirmed-settled people for any given form, so there's no way we could figure out "coondog(/treefox/bearcat/noseface/etc.)-personality average," i.e. what combination of traits + degree of trait expression is most commonly found in the general coondog(/treefox/bearcat/noseface/etc.)-personality population. And if we can't figure out what "[insert animal here]-personality average" is, then we can't possibly know how far away from that form-average we are or are not.

Example:
You say you're a settled red fox-personality who's just a tad lazier than the average red fox-personality, but the truth is that you're only lazier than one of the other 3 settled red fox personalities, and at least one of those 3 is actually lazier than you are. Things get even messier if you consider the possibility that the settled red fox who's not as lazy as you is perhaps just a bit too un-lazy to even be a red fox - then you would actually be one of the least-lazy red foxes who is still a red fox. And how in the world do you determine the dividing line between "just a bit too un-lazy to be average red fox" and "just a bit too un-lazy to be red fox at all"?

[Lady Kiba]

@accent question- Usually when I'm separating the thoughts Carr sounds like the voice for Draco on the harry potter audiobooks. >.> Sometimes I'll use other accents, but thats the default.

There is an accent for Phoenix people, but not everyone has it, I don't Only thing you can get from my voice is that I'm from America.

[Aureus]

The vibes thread one TDF- are people allowed to ask for vibes about themselves? I was randomly looking through there the other day and noticed someone had done that. I know there is a already a thread about people-vibes, but it might be interesting to get more daemon-y vibes. Someone could ask their vibe and be told "you seem slinky and sharp" or "you seem big and intimidating." I'm just curious if that's allowed or whatnot.

Edit: To make this more on topic...Maximum person, I could see domestic dog? :3

[KittyKat1001001]

@ Accent question- Usually very similar to my own. However, when I really want to differentiate between the two of us she takes on a more girly (which ticks her off because her actual talking is very boyish), higher tone. Not really another accent really (as if it was Valley Girl Pip would murder me by way of driving me insane XD). Plus I think she just doesn't really like accents at all, unlike me (I think some accents are cute <3) and frankly Pacific side of the US doesn't have really noticeable accents.

Kayla, I have an aunt who lives in Snots- I mean Scottsdale. XD Thinking about it her family does have a bit of an accent, and so does my other family in Arizona but not as much as her. Never really noticed it until you mentioned it.

[Stop.turning.blue.]

Not an accent per sey; but Frithjoroth's voice has an uncanny resemblance to Davey Havok's, they even have the same demeanor. lololo. His accent is similar to mine, if I'm not mistaken he comes from Rochester NY. I have a Philly accent. :B Which is apparently one of the most neutral accents out there. Lololo, radio and TV anchors come here to learn it for that sake.

EXCEPT WE SAY WUDDER AND NOT WATER

[Scarf]

...sometimes an Australian.

Contrary to the squadrillion British and American accents, Australia has...three. With slight variations on a few. I have a suburban/costal accent with a slant towards the posh, Englishified accent (I watch too much ABC television and it's left me slightly distorted towards some bastardised mush of English accents. My sisters are distorted towards America, which shows the POWER OF TELEVISIONNNN). I also watched a documentary on the Australian accents a few years ago :D (apparently Australian accents are the hardest accent to learn, because they live furthest up in your nose)

I don't believe in the letter 'r' at the end of words or often inside words, it is a silent letter. WAHTAH. FLOWAH. TAHHDIS

Luth will sometimes get more nasal than me, but he never uses a different Australian accent (no Kath and Kim bogans in my head), but he usually has on some accent from the TV that we've picked up. Which is usually some sort of British one (depending on what TV I've been watching it's one of the Doctor's accents, or Mancunian, or the-Welsh-from-Torchwood-which-I'm-assuming-is-South-Welsh (lawl [New] South Wales)). He's also picked up American accents (I have no idea which ones because I don't watch much US stuff and am not used to the differences or where the accents come from :D).

At OvO...I think that the 'average' is probably taken as the analysis, if it's a good one. That's better than averaging the [form] people you know, because as you say, the sample size is too small. The hypothetical person that it describes should be made by pooling all of the available information and averaging it...of course analyses are flawed because none of this is a precise science...what I was talking about is a little vague and squidgy, like much of this. I think where you draw the line is where people start change from "I'm a female binturong because the binturong analysis fits me, but I'm ever so slightly more overbearing and dominant than the person described there" (one of the other few problems with Kris' original analysis was that it described binties as submissive...it was very bias towards the boys) to "I'm a female binturong because I always dominate the situation and am not willing to compromise, even if it gets me into conflicts". In that case the person is contradicting one of the big, core binturong traits, and once their distortion starts doing that, or even just...I don't know, dulling? making those big points less important, they've probably crossed the line into another species and have another animal that would fit them better.

It is too early for thinking good :(

[Cometdog]

Okay, I will give this a try...

I too thought Dog. One of the bigger terriers maybe? Lakeland? Welsh? Airedale? Those guys.

@accents- Cody speaks in a similar accent to me. His is more boyish though. Imagine Charlie Brown with a deeper, coarser voice. That'd be C-dog. ;3 My accent's a northern US one. v.v I think that's what people call a normal American one? You can tell Cody would be from this region too by his voice. So yeah.

@Zoe - kinda OT but I've been told my british accent impersonation sounds more Australian. O: