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Compare WillingChanneler, when the host willingly accepts the demon into his body in the first place and HeroicHost where the partnership grants fantastic ablities. Contrast with DemonicPossession, when it certainly ''isn't'' a fair relationship, and SharingABody, for when it's two people in the same body, and not a possessor and a host. Might overlap with MonsterAndTheMaiden, if the host is female and the entity possessing her is male/masculine.

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Compare WillingChanneler, when the host willingly accepts the demon into his body in the first place and HeroicHost where the partnership grants fantastic ablities. Contrast with DemonicPossession, when it certainly ''isn't'' a fair relationship, and SharingABody, for when it's two people in the same body, and not a possessor and a host.host, and BondCreatures, which involves a PsychicLink but no possession. Might overlap with MonsterAndTheMaiden, if the host is female and the entity possessing her is male/masculine.

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* In the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe, select Trills host a symbiote. The symbiote can live for a very long time as long as it is joined with a host (or confined in a very specialized environment on the Trill homeworld). When a host dies, the symbiote is transferred to a new host. The symbiote carries the memories of the previous host with it. As a result, the new host gets the memories and knowledge from all of the symbiote's previous hosts. This results in a fairly young host having memories of several lifetimes. In exchange, the symbiote gets keep going out in the universe and experiencing new things instead of being confined to a single small underground lake.

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* In the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe, the Trill are a joined species: select Trills members of the humanoid Trill host species can be implanted with a symbiote. sluglike symbiont. The symbiote symbiont can live for a very long time as long as it is joined with a host (or confined in a very specialized environment on the Trill homeworld). When a host dies, the symbiote symbiont is transferred to a new host. The symbiote symbiont carries the memories of the previous host with it. As a result, the new host gets the memories and knowledge from all of the symbiote's symbiont's previous hosts. This results in a fairly young host having memories of several lifetimes. In exchange, the symbiote symbiont gets keep going out in the universe and experiencing new things instead of being confined to a single small underground lake.lake.
** When the Trill [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness were first introduced]] in a one-shot ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the symbiont's personality was the only personality of the joint being, suppressing the host's. When they were more fully developed in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', a joined Trill's personality was showing instead as a combination of the host's and symbiont's. In particular, Jadzia Dax appeared to evolve over time from her original studious and detached character, just with more memories, to integrating aspects of her past hosts' more freewheeling personalities.

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