Pregnancy

[Yorick Brown]

I just realized something.

Can a pregnant morpher...well, morph?

There are two separate genetic entities and I don't believe you should be able to morph yourself as well as your baby and morph back to normal. Does the technmology prevent a morpher from morphing when pregnant?

I don't get it.

[Duff]

i think it would kill the baby, cause they wouldnt pass on the morphing power to the kid and when you demorph you return to your original dna

[RYTX]

I'm not so sure, I mean a yeerk slug may not be able to morph, but if the host can, so can it. And they are even more separate then mother and child

I don't know how, but it shouldn't do harm
in theory

[Chad32]

The baby would probably go into Z-Space with the other mass. Just like when Visser Three morphs. He doesn't have morphing power, but he obviously survives the morphing and demorphing process.

[Touquie]

I would guess that the baby would be treated as any other mass of a human body.  The Animorphs probably grew and therefore gained new mass and all of that new mass was treated the same as always.  So I don't think a baby would make a difference.


In terms of a baby's health it's not safe.  It needs to be attached to another human to live, right?  While in Z-Space it's not.

I think it's possible to morph whilst bearing a child, but the child would die.

[Yorick Brown]

I just realized that I should have asked this question on my other thread. Oh well.

[Touquie]

The FAQ thread?  I don't think this question would be asked frequently.

[Chad32]

I think he means the random animorphs thought thread. And yeah, maybe he should have.

[Liz]

I was sure there was a thread about this very topic before, but I can't find it.  Maybe it was in classic RAF. >.<

Anyway, I agree with Duff, it'd probably kill the baby.

[Starsword]

Would the baby have morphing powers? It indirectly touched the cube.

[Yorick Brown]

No. I doubt it. It didn't touch the cube at all so no powers. Also, Morphing isn't heridatary.

[Duff]

yea cause arisths have to get the technology at some point so they didnt get it from their parents, and neither did tobias from elfangor

i think that based on the morphing rules it should die, but if you think stuff like food morphs with them in some way then who knows, i think touqs probably right that it would die in zspace

sidebar, i was just thinking about why the yeerk can morph with the host. maybe the brain is pushed entirely whole into zspace, which would make sense because while the rest of the body could be broken up and reassembled functional, the brain remains functional and connected while in morph so it should stay whole, and if the yeerk is flattened against it, it would be transported whole too

[morfowt]

don't we see in #18, that the body isn't broken up and placed random when pushed into z-space?

[wotw2112]

 I doubt you'd lose the ability to morph but I see no reason that the baby would be killed in Z-space.  It's kinda like suspended animation outside the physical world altogether.  So the babay is perhaps "paused" until they demorph (which would be amazingly awkward). 

This would perhaps lead to a term much longer than 9 months...

[Myitt]

What if you became a nothlit while you were pregnant?  I guess the baby would just be paused in that state of development along with the rest of your body....then what if you got the power to morph again thanks to the Ellimist?  And demorphed like, ten years later, into your own body.  I think I broke my brain....