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Offline Aleron

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Questions about morphing.
« on: February 15, 2009, 01:45:54 AM »
Sorry if this topic's been posted already.

Can the morphing technology allow you to heal injuries sustained by your base form?
-MM2 and the Auxilary Animorphs say no
-Books 40 and 41 say yes

Which one is it?
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2009, 01:51:34 AM »
I think the answer is normally "yes."  Tobias has sustained injuries in his base form several times (book 13, and book 43 come to mind), and healed them by morphing.  MM2 was the only time when that didn't work.

And the reason it didn't work for the auxilaries is because a lot of their 'injuries' were actually genetic, and thus were actually part of their 'base form.'
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2009, 01:52:28 AM »
Yes.  MM2 was a KASU and the reason most of the auxiliaries weren't healed is because their disorders were congenital.

edit: Darn, you beat me.
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2009, 01:53:39 AM »
MM2 (tobias's wing was a KASU or mistake), as for the auxiliaries...

how it works is if your original DNA was perfectly healthy with no injuries, you'll be fine if you demorph. But if it's something unrelated to your DNA (Loren's amnesia), or if you were born that way (the auxiliaries), you'll stay that way when you demorph...

Edit: darn you both beat me
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2009, 01:55:12 AM »
dang, beaten.
ditto their posts, if the DNA is damaged the morphing won't help.
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2009, 01:56:50 AM »
We're all just so eager to answer questions, eh?  :P

But weren't their injuries healed by morphing in a lot of books besides #40 and #41?
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2009, 02:00:19 AM »
Thanks, guys.  It'd been bugging me for days.
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2009, 03:00:20 AM »
Although it does heal injuries I don't hink morping was intitially meant to heal injuries though, I think that was a decision K.A. made sometime after book 1.

Elfangor doesnt morph to save himself, in Andalite Chronicles he claims he's too weak yet he's got the strength to walk out of his ship, hold a  conversation, then attack Visser 3 so I never really bought that. On top of that when Tobias morphs in front of his cat the cat scratches him, Tobias retains a split finger after the morphing.
Jake also feels neutered, but that might just have been an assumption on his own part since he knew Homer was fixed.
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2009, 03:07:48 AM »
yep. a lot of things in book 1 doesn't fit with the rest of the series, cuz KA was still playing around with a lot of things...
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2009, 07:57:12 AM »
One of the most interesting aspects of morphing (which was conveniently ignored and never talked about in a significant way again) was Ax's multi-human-morph. I've always wondered if someone who was truly a natural genius at morphing could partially morph different parts of animals for whatever reason.
For example:
  • Eavesdropping - dogs ears whilst wearing a hat to be discreet in a building
  • Athletics - partial (internal) ape muscles
  • Sniping - partial eagle eyes

The list goes on. Sure the 2hour limit applies but you could in theory create a super creature using morphs from many many animals.

Technically it wasn't a question but still an interesting thought for morphing tech. Any other ideas/thoughts?
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2009, 08:49:57 AM »
It's called the frolis maneuver. it only works with members of the same species (a few humans, for example)...
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2009, 08:58:58 AM »
Ah thanks! I must have missed or forgotten that. Okay in which case acquire the leading athletes in their respective fields. You've got yourself a super soldier, the best of the best. I think remember that if you were allergic to an animal then you could accidentally morph several species parts at once.

Speaking of the allergy book. The expelling an allergen morph has some interesting side effects too...Is anyone thinking what I'm thinking? Infinite animals!
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2009, 01:35:41 PM »
Something I've always wondered about.  Was the 2 hour limit a technical limitation or a security measure?  In #8 Ax mentions that he keeps waiting for Tobias to aks about his knowledge about nothlits, which makes me think that there might some sort answer for the nothlit situation.  Also as much as everyone complains about the limit, it was useful too.
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2009, 03:41:15 PM »
It's an interesting question, still it might just have been as long as they could keep someone's Z-Space parts from floating away or something, the limit could have been a whole day or just one hour, worse it could have been like the Play Station game, 2 minutes, or worse still, like the TV show, 10 seconds (I assume Jake had only 10 seconds total in Tiger morph, no other sane thing could cuase him to run out as a tiger, scare two guys, then immediately morph back to human while still in the yeerk pool)
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Re: Questions about morphing.
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2009, 03:43:28 PM »
Maybe it was a "happy accident", lol.
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