Animorphers DT

@LeftyWriter, the characters used this to their advantage a great many times. For example, while they were fighting their enemies, they would get injured, morph back to their human form (thereby being fully healed), and then morph back to their animal form - ta da, injuries go poof.

Another use was that someone who received a disability or scar due to an accident will have this healed, since your DNA is used to determine your body. Unless your injury or disability is genetic, it is removed/cured/healed when you morph.

If you want to avoid this and keep the injuries, go ahead, just think of a plausible reason why this would be so. I'm currently of no use in that department. (Physics suck, but they are so necessarily unavoidable...)

Yeah, I certainly don't know a ton about genetics and physics either. I could see how that would be helpful in the Animorphs series. I guess I figured since it's their body no matter what form they're in that it would keep their injuries. But I guess I'm fine with it either way, really. I could see the healing being really helpful and the not-healing causing more problems, conflict, etc... So, whichever others want to do is fine with me.

Another thought just to throw it out there is that, if they don't heal when morphing, that maybe they could heal faster than normal because of their enhanced DNA?

I was hoping we could deviate from the series a bit with that. I think they when they sustain some sort of injury in either form they keep it.

The enhanced healing would be cool.

I agree with Sunshine.

Ditto on Sunshine's idea.

Same

Also, I'm somewhat knowledgable on genetics.

As some science/lab/the Animorphs project background stuff:

These kids are kind of considered to be chimera's now. And for those of you who don't know what a chimera is, it's a mythological creature that is kind of a mishmash of different animals, a hybrid basically.

The scientists basically made it so they can mute/unmute certain genes to turn the kids into animals. We all contain "remnants" of other animal species DNA sort of. They're normally muted genes. So an example would be when scientists figured out how to mute certain genes in chickens to make them look like their ancestors: the t-rex. The chickens are not actually Dino's, they are chickens, but they still contain the DNA of the t-rex.

For those of you who follow teen wolf and it's last season with the Dread Doctors (sorry for any spoilers) they figured out how to mute/unmute certain genes through science ish to turn people into supernatural creatures/human hybrids. The people were still human, but they could suddenly mute/unmute genes to turn them into werewolves and werescorpions and whatnot.

In the book it was alien tech that allowed the kids to "absorb" other DNA to become them. And because we aren't dealing with alien tech, these are kids who are basically turning on/off genes to appear as something else, it doesn't make sense scientifically for them to have a time limit because all they're doing muting/unmutimg genes that they already have, they don't exactly wear out or anything or have an "expiration date". Also injuries would remain because it just works like that from a science viewpoint and I can't figure out how to explain it.

They may be extremely tired though. The morphing back and forth would require their cells to rapidly duplicate and grow or die off. So they would be EXTREMELY hungry all the time as well, especially after morphing. Plus with the enhanced healing, that would require a lot of energy as well. They would be drained. Unless the scientists figured out a way to fix that or something.

That's awesome, Sunny! Thanks for the info. I suppose a time limit wouldn't scientifically make sense unless... for some reason the cells/genes could only change/turn for a certain amount of time? Not sure if that's plausible. I'm good either way with the time limit.

I really like the idea of morphing and healing tiring them out and/or making them hungry.

I'm all for Sun's idea here. However, I suggest we reduce the effect that morphing has on them, as otrwise it would he too hard for them in my opinion. I think that we should just make it that they get really hungry and tired after morphing out of their animal form and healing instead of all the time. Just a thought.

LeftyWriter wrote:I really like the idea of morphing and healing tiring them out and/or making them hungry.

As for me also since it could bring tensions or something.

@LordZeus I totally agree. I think they should only be affected after morphing out and healing. Any more than that I think would be too much.

Okay, I finally got Cole's part up. I'm always afraid that I don't do other characters justice or that I write them a bit differently than they actually are, so if I'm ever off or you don't like something I've written about your character, please let me know. Thanks!

@LeftyWriter

Awesome post!

Yes, very awesome post!

Thank you!!