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Title: Pregnancy
Post by: Yorick Brown on August 18, 2008, 11:40:56 AM
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.
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Duff on August 18, 2008, 12:24:04 PM
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
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: RYTX on August 18, 2008, 12:30:37 PM
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
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Chad32 on August 18, 2008, 12:42:05 PM
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.
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Touquie on August 18, 2008, 12:55:17 PM
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.
Title: Dammit
Post by: Yorick Brown on August 18, 2008, 01:00:09 PM
I just realized that I should have asked this question on my other thread. Oh well.
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Touquie on August 18, 2008, 01:11:09 PM
The FAQ thread?  I don't think this question would be asked frequently.
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Chad32 on August 18, 2008, 01:24:18 PM
I think he means the random animorphs thought thread. And yeah, maybe he should have.
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Liz on August 18, 2008, 01:57:25 PM
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.
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Starsword on August 18, 2008, 02:14:42 PM
Would the baby have morphing powers? It indirectly touched the cube.
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Yorick Brown on August 18, 2008, 02:23:40 PM
No. I doubt it. It didn't touch the cube at all so no powers. Also, Morphing isn't heridatary.
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Duff on August 18, 2008, 02:51:41 PM
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
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: morfowt on August 18, 2008, 05:15:21 PM
don't we see in #18, that the body isn't broken up and placed random when pushed into z-space?
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: wotw2112 on August 18, 2008, 08:17:02 PM
 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...
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Myitt on August 19, 2008, 04:14:27 PM
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....
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: morfowt on August 19, 2008, 05:14:32 PM
I think you broke mine too.
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Myitt on August 19, 2008, 05:31:32 PM
Glad to be of service!   :P
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: wotw2112 on August 19, 2008, 06:39:01 PM
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....

Uh...I'm gonna go with a good old: I have no idea.  Ask the Ellimist.  ;)
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: EscafilDevice on August 19, 2008, 07:05:30 PM
This reminds me of all of those bizarre Rachel pregnancy fics where she's more like Cassie than herself.
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Yorick Brown on August 19, 2008, 10:27:21 PM
I'm betting that Applegate either missed this question completely or realize it but simply ignored it and hoped no one would ever wonder about this
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Tim Bruening on June 16, 2015, 11:11:36 PM
I'm betting that Applegate either missed this question completely or realize it but simply ignored it and hoped no one would ever wonder about this

The Animorphs were in their early teens, so shouldn't be having kids anyway!  Applegate may have feared that if she had an Animorph get pregnant, right wingers would jump down her throat!
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Dylan on June 16, 2015, 11:36:07 PM
Scholastic is not in support of teenage pregnacies.
Title: Re: Pregnancy
Post by: Tim Bruening on June 17, 2015, 12:56:01 AM
Scholastic is not in support of teenage pregnacies.

So that company ordered Applegate to not explore the issue of pregnant morphers?