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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: ThinkAgain on January 30, 2010, 07:51:43 PM
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What would you pick and why? I saw some people bringing it up on the personal morphs thread, and I felt it could use it's own topic. Either way, not about which would be the best morphs temporarily. For instance, I'd agree that an insect or arachnid more would be great for stealth, but I'd never want to be trapped as one. Also, nothing sapient from the series - it kind of defeats to purpose if you can still be a part of an intelligent society.
So, if you had to become a nothlit, what earth-based species would you pick and why?
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I would probably be trapped as a wolf. Sure, you might have to fight the predatory instincts, but it's good in battle, and they have a woods right in Cassie's backyard. There will--of course--be times that you'll have to sit missions out, but that would probably be true if you're trapped as anything.
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a dog. dog's rock. everyone loves dogs. and you would always be happy!
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A big feline or a bird of prey. The stronger the better.
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Something domesticated that's not livestock. I want to be taken care of. A cat, probably; I am so jealous of my cat's life.
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well, not surprisingly, I would be a cat. Either a domesticated/feral cat or one in the big cat family.
I know cats, so I know what they can do. Great eyes for movement. Great hearing. And a great balance. That'd be nice to have.
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Either a grey parrot or a monkey. Grey parrots can talk, so even if I'm trapped I can still communicate without using thoughtspeech. Some people might be bugged by that, and it may be better for them if they just think I'm just a really smart bird.
a monkey because of the opposable tumbs. Of course I could go ape as well. I'd still be able to do some stuff a Human can do, like build things and work tools. It wouldn't be a bad existance. I don't know how long monkeys live, though. Parrots can live as long as Humans.
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I would have to go with either a bird of prey or a wolf. You get really excellent senses with both. Plus, they'd just be plain fun at times!
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A hawk, because flying sounds like so much fun.
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human?
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No sentient creatures, russian. :P
My first instinct is wolf or bird of prey, but both have shorter life spans which is a downside. I wouldn't mind being a horse, they live longer and they get to enjoy the freedom of running, but they have a prey instinct I would like to avoid.
Going back to the 'bird' idea, I think I would like to be an albatross. They have a rather long lifespan, possibly exceeding that of a human, they are great fliers, and they are rather large seabirds (and I do love the ocean).
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I wouldn't mind being a parrot, like an African grey. They live a long time, are smart, can sorta talk, and don't have to worry about eating animals all the time.
Either that or a river otter--I love otters, they're so cute, and they know how to have fun :D Besides, you could probably keep one around as a pet, if you had to.
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Myitt shooses the grey parrot too. Cool. Personally I wouldn't mind having something with a relatively short lifespan. Humans tend to live an awfully long time anyway. Wonderful thing about medicine is that we're much healthier in the developed countries, but we also live longer than we really need to.
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A mountain lion. So fast and wild, cept for hunting pray, so maybe a wild horse, but too many preditors so I'd have to be a ninja wild horse :)
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Something domesticated that's not livestock. I want to be taken care of. A cat, probably; I am so jealous of my cat's life.
But then you would have to eat cat food :P
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how bout a chimpanzee or a gorilla? if u cant be a human, i guess its the next closest thing to humans. you would have the same number of arms, legs, fingers, eyes, ears etc. you could still go on living your normal human life. you might not be able to speak cuz the apes throat and tongue are not capable nor designed for human speech, but hey, you've got thought speech - and that alone already has so many advantages over ordinary speech which are based on sounds. and plus you can still write.
This is if you still want to have some sort of resemblance to your original human life whatsoever.
if you choose to be trapped in something like a wolf or a lion or dolphin or parrot if you had to be trapped, then i assume that you do not really want to go back to your ordinary human livelihood and its everyday things anymore? i mean, being a bird that can fly or a wolf or dolphin or a lion might be interesting and fun and all, but hey, im still human at heart. i'd still like to drive go cruising in my mercedes (if i had one) or playing against my buddies on my ps3 and more games online. if i chose to be trapped as a dolphin, parrot, wolf or lion, i wouldn't exactly be able to do these things, whereas an apes body still could.
and i guess being an ape still has more of a chance than a parrot or dolphin or lion would with scoring a date and a night with megan fox (if u get my drift). i mean, at least an ape resembles a human more than a dolphin or a parrot does.
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A tiger, obviously. Specifically, the Siberian subspecies.
I've always felt a somewhat spiritual connection to the species.
Or maybe a Frolis maneuver to become a man-tiger, but I don't really think that's an option.
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Nothing wrong with eating cat food if you're a cat, right?
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and i guess being an ape still has more of a chance than a parrot or dolphin or lion would with scoring a date and a night with megan fox (if u get my drift).
keep her distracted so i can grab shia.
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how bout a chimpanzee or a gorilla?
Or an Orangutan. As in Discworld. I mean, you can have fun, be nude, scratch your butt, eat bananas... and nobody say anything! Perfect life ;)
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Or an Orangutan. As in Discworld. I mean, you can have fun, be nude, scratch your butt, eat bananas... and nobody say anything! Perfect life ;)
Of course, people'll kill you for your babies to used as pets . . .
It's one of the reasons orangutans are critically endangered.
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I'd definitely want to be some form of domestic animal, most likely a cat. I don't actually mind being owned by someone else (at least in my head), and with cats who owns whom is pretty arguable. >:D
I'd have perfect balance, I'd have great hearing and pretty good sight, and I could curl up in somebody's lap and purr. And no one would care. This is all they would want from me, anyway.
I'd have a little more freedom to screw around than a dog, too. If I could manage it I'd get exercise, actually remember where the house was this time (XD), and try to catch things in the neighborhood. I'd have to tolerate the cat food, but I could supplement that with dead birds and mice. Raw food probably tastes great to a cat, and I love raw fish. :D
I wouldn't live as long, but I'm getting bothered by how old I am anyway. :)
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Or an Orangutan. As in Discworld. I mean, you can have fun, be nude, scratch your butt, eat bananas... and nobody say anything! Perfect life ;)
Of course, people'll kill you for your babies to used as pets . . .
It's one of the reasons orangutans are critically endangered.
Well... then an orangutan in a magic library.
But I said that for Acalio! I don't wanna be an almost-human animal. I prefer being a big carnivore.
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so i take it most of you who don't agree with being an ape of some sort i.e gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan - are all happy with not being anything close to a human at all and not having your human livelihood anymore? cause besides these creatures, the only thing that would be human about you is your own human consciousness that is within the animals mind.
I'd stay an ape cause its at least some resemblance to humanity, albeit it is not exactly human, its closer to being a human than any other animal.
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No sentient creatures, russian. :P
So no whales? ;-)
I would want to be trapped as an bald eagle. Tobias really did get trapped in one of the best of all possible morphs.
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No sentient creatures, russian. :P
My first instinct is wolf or bird of prey, but both have shorter life spans which is a downside. I wouldn't mind being a horse, they live longer and they get to enjoy the freedom of running, but they have a prey instinct I would like to avoid.
Going back to the 'bird' idea, I think I would like to be an albatross. They have a rather long lifespan, possibly exceeding that of a human, they are great fliers, and they are rather large seabirds (and I do love the ocean).
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so i take it most of you who don't agree with being an ape of some sort i.e gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan - are all happy with not being anything close to a human at all and not having your human livelihood anymore? cause besides these creatures, the only thing that would be human about you is your own human consciousness that is within the animals mind.
I'd stay an ape cause its at least some resemblance to humanity, albeit it is not exactly human, its closer to being a human than any other animal.
Yeah, this is the main appeal to being an ape or monkey. You can still do some human things.
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Yeah but will you really be able to? Won't people be surprised to see you in front of a computer writing on a forum? :P
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how bout a chimpanzee or a gorilla?
Or an Orangutan. As in Discworld. I mean, you can have fun, be nude, scratch your butt, eat bananas... and nobody say anything! Perfect life ;)
not to meantion pee on people when they piss you off.
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A Bill Gates morph :P
seriously though I would be something like a hawk or maybe a whale. I would want some means of travel and freedom to do as I please.
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I would say either a golden eagle or, come to think of it, a great ape.
I originally liked the eagle because eagles can go almost anywhere, are apex predators, and are protected by law almost everywhere - not to mention they can fly, which is so awesome. Remember, communication isn't the problem, as you can still use thought-speak. You would lose out on human things, but you would lose out on those types of things with nearly any animal. Still, I like the eagle because it can fly, it's protected, it has no predators, and it's not dependent on anything else - a wolf needs its pack, a lion needs its pride, etc.
However, the great ape argument got me thinking a bit. It's true though - an ape can still type, use human tools, drive a car, etc. They can't talk, but there's still thought-speak for that. However, it would be awkward and strange to be a part of society as an ape, as well as isolating - a human in an ape's body would be a novelty and always be in a crowd, put up on display. In all honesty, an ape-human would probably be famous - a celebrity, probably getting on TV and such. That's the only reason for an ape, though - if you can't tolerate being the one stared at like a handicapped child, it would be pretty bad. Living in the wild as an ape seems pretty bad - you sit down, eat some leaves and fruit and watch other apes do the same.
Living in the wild as an eagle seems better than that, and if you want to go somewhere that you couldn't fly to, such as a building (a theater, a museum, etc) you could probably just get a leather shoulder pad or a falconer's glove for a friend. Assuming they don't ship you off to some government lab, they will probably let the "talking" eagle inside.
So, it pretty much depends on what you're willing to sacrifice for what. Ape, at the expense of any privacy, or eagle (or any other animal), at the expense of being a part of human society. In either situation, you probably won't form any new relationships - hope you like your family and the friends you already have.
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I think I would choose an American Bison morph. It's big, powerful, has decent senses, rarely gets messed with, has a warm wooly coat, and best of all, its food grows everywhere!
And maybe I could start my own taxi service. Buffalo Express. ;)
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[...] rarely gets messed with [...]
*Inexplicibly remembers the video of a man being thrown several feet in the air by the horns of a bison because he was too stupid to stay away. . . .*
They also get shot by farmers, I hear. You'd be confined to national parks.
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how bout a chimpanzee or a gorilla?
Or an Orangutan. As in Discworld. I mean, you can have fun, be nude, scratch your butt, eat bananas... and nobody say anything! Perfect life ;)
not to meantion pee on people when they piss you off.
Oh, yeah, that too! I forgot ^^'
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how bout a chimpanzee or a gorilla?
Or an Orangutan. As in Discworld. I mean, you can have fun, be nude, scratch your butt, eat bananas... and nobody say anything! Perfect life ;)
not to meantion pee on people when they piss you off.
Oh, yeah, that too! I forgot ^^'
Ah... 'tis better to be pissed off than pissed on, I always say...
Yeah, if I had to be trapped, I'd probably go dog. Or bird. Or something that swims... dolphin? I feel silly only picking animals they described as awesome in the series, but they really did use most of the best morphs.
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I would be trapped as a Deinonychus.
Come to think of it, it might make an interesting piece of fanfiction at some point. An Andalite comes to Earth during the Cretaceous period (a product of a Sario Rip or something similar to what happened in Megamorphs #2), acquires some dinosaur morphs to help in some far-off galactic battle, then somehow gets trapped in this form.
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totally a bird,it would be so nice to fly!Or maybe a dolphin!
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Probably another human being :P
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Probably another human being :P
Now there's an idea... not that you necessarily meant this :P but think about it: If you wanted to start things over, you could morph someone else (or mix morphs) and voila! New person. New life.
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I was gonna say a sea turtle cuz they live for like 150 years but another human doesn't sound like a bad idea.
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And, now that I think of it, you could technically use it to prolong your life. XD Say you're 90 or something. You morph a 20 year old. You've got another 70ish years.
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But then there comes the legal stuff, I mean, sooner or later you'll need a citizenship, birth certificate, etc :P
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I would wanna be stuck as a tiger or other big cat. Id rather live in the wild but it would also be cool to be the star of an awesome circus or something.
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But then there comes the legal stuff, I mean, sooner or later you'll need a citizenship, birth certificate, etc :P
Pssh. You can forge that stuff. :P
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As much as I've always envied Tobias' constant ability to fly, I would never want to be trapped as a bird.
Being trapped as a wolf would be kind of cool, I guess. Higher up on the food chain. But unlike Tobias, it would be awfully hard for me to eat meat, as I'm a stubborn vegetarian. So I suppose some kind of herbivore, like a giant panda. Or for battle purposes, maybe a buck. Those antlers could probably do some damage, as could a panda.
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Female orca. Decent lifespans, matriarchal pods, smart, etc.
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I'll take a domestic house cat.
Eat, crap, play, sleep.
Get papered all the time.
I'd want to be a Ragdoll, so friendly and lovable.
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Yeah I'm often jealous of mine.
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I'd go for a bird. Wouldn't want to be hunted for my fur now, don't we?
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Domestic ferret, dog or cat. Wouldn't be a bad life. Wouldn't have to tear other animals up and eat them.
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Without a doubt I would trap myself as a red-tailed hawk and be like Tobias.It would be so amazing to fly.
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Dunno, probaly something I'd be able to be a pet as. Maybe a parrot as I could still talk without people getting suspicious (not being able to talk would kill me XD)
Caw Caw.
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In this day and age, I'd hate to be stuck as a predator. With food sources and land dwindling, it's a matter of time before you would risk venturing into human settlements and get yourself shot.
Still, that being said, I'd have to go with Wolf too. Wolves are just my kind of animal and they have a long range in the continental US.
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I'll do a dolphin.