ok time to be honest...if you had morphing power, what would you do??

[Aluminator (Kit)]

Yeah, that's actually an incredibly good use of the morphing power. Let's face it; the medical world would never be the same after the introduction of morphing technology.

[bizarrocarlos]

let's be realistic...... ::)yea.
even if we did have that power,how many of us have access to a hawk or another hard to reach animal. i have the dog morph down,maybe a pidgeon if i could catch it. my friend has birds.

[Cloudbreaker]

If?  What, you guys can't morph?

Anyway, if I suddenly had the power to morph, I would keep it secret at first.  I would take some time to figure out how to deal with this newfound power and wether or not I should tell anyone about it.  During this time I would be acquiring animals and trying out different morphs.  Where I live I could easily acquire things like dogs, cats, cows, horses, various bugs, toads, pigs, and maybe even a pigeon or a sparrow, or even a buffalo.  But I would also make trips to pet shops and petting zoos and the like.  I'm sure I could get a respectable variety pretty easily.

Then I would probably tell a few close friends and relatives about what I could do, but I would make them keep it a secret.  Who would believe them anyway?

Eventually I may try to make money doing shows and go on talk shows as a guest and do other things like that.  The attention may become unbearable for a little while, but eventually most people would get bored with even something as awesome as a person who could morph.

But whatever happens, morphing would be an amazing experience.

[Dameg]

I think I forgot to say it, but I'd definitively take a bird of prey, to fly, like Tobias... But I'd take care about the 2-hours limit! lol

[Terenia]

In all honesty I would probably use morphing as a type of therapy. The easiest morph for me to obtain would be my dog and the mind of the dog is absolutely perfect for me. I'm usually super stressed out and sometimes rather grouchy after work and I think it would be easy for me to use morphing as a means of escape.

[Johnny Xtreme]

Yeah, that's actually an incredibly good use of the morphing power. Let's face it; the medical world would never be the same after the introduction of morphing technology.

It is nice to talk and imagine that "paradise" if you will. BUT it is still no more than a dream, a fantasy and I am not the kind of person who dwells on "if only" I deal with the reality of my situation and accept NO pity.

[Aluminator (Kit)]

Yeah, that's actually an incredibly good use of the morphing power. Let's face it; the medical world would never be the same after the introduction of morphing technology.

It is nice to talk and imagine that "paradise" if you will. BUT it is still no more than a dream, a fantasy and I am not the kind of person who dwells on "if only" I deal with the reality of my situation and accept NO pity.

Admirable ^_^ Don't be too hard on the "what if" thing, though. That is, after all, the point of this thread

In all honesty I would probably use morphing as a type of therapy. The easiest morph for me to obtain would be my dog and the mind of the dog is absolutely perfect for me. I'm usually super stressed out and sometimes rather grouchy after work and I think it would be easy for me to use morphing as a means of escape.

Morphing escapism... I absolutely second that one. It's a shame morphing comes with the two hour limit. I feel like having to keep track of time would take some of the enjoyability out of being a dog or a bird or whatever.

Still... wouldn't it be nice...

[Byrned]

Hmm, what would I do...

I would probably first acquire my dog and see how that goes. I guess then I might go to a zoo and pull one of those almost-get-eaten-by-a-tiger-and-then-escape-at-the-last-minute deals. I would go to school and freak people out, haha! well maybe not the freak people out, but I would get a fly morph and then spy on people. 
Well, I guess I understand why people worry about money and why they would steal it, but I don't really think of that kind of stuff. I might try and find a dove, then morph it halfway and freak out people with my 'angel wings'.  Same thing goes for bat. 
I like to swim, so I think I would acquire some type of fish and morph the gills. Just think of the amazing pranks you could pull with morphing powers!
But once I get sick of all that fun stuff, I would try my hand at...
SUPER-HEROISM!!!
hahaha I'd probably just end up half morphing tiger and scaring the crud out of people. 

[ThinkAgain]

I also figure that morphing has benefits in normal life as well as what you'd do as an animal/different person. You'd be able to take more risks and do dumber things without worrying about it.

For instance, I'd really like to learn how to do a backflip. However, I don't have access to a trampoline or anyone or place I could go to for help. I'm afraid to do it on the ground because I could seriously injure myself. Doesn't matter now, if I pop a disk or get partially paralyzed or something, just morph and demorph.

Party hard, get drunk. Morph, demorph, sober for the next day and no hangover. Friend has a contagious disease? Who cares, go help him. Diagnosed with cancer? Miraculous recovery. STD's? Pfft.

Aside from the risk of the two hour limit, morphing has no downsides but so many benefits. Actually nevermind, my main concern would be the fact I'd morph alone, and if I get overcome by the morph's instincts, I'd be screwed and end up trapped.

[yunyun]

I would try my nabour's dog first, than a bug like fruite fly to sneak to our nearest raptor center to aquire all the birds, say bye my friends, leave a brife (random) note fo my parents then fly to mexico or what ever as a perigan falcon, aquire a few more animals like dophins and spend my life morphing random animals and living like random animals.

 I HATE my life and i really don't care what other people think and just have fun.
I'll fill in all the holes later

[QIfry]

That would be hard, especially coming from the medical point of view. I don't think that my illness, Crohn's Disease, could be cured because it is an auto-immune disease. But who knows, right?

But for fun? Go to the Atlanta Zoo, buy some kind of back-stage pass, and acquire as many animals I could get my hands on. Then do the same thing at Petsmart when they got adoption weekend.

Maybe acquire one of my neighbor's cats and try to catch a squirrel to then acquire that too.

[Aquilai]

Because I'm a geek, I'd try and backwards engineer the technology behind morphing. Figure out how DNA of animals are stored in Z-space in the daytime, skydive without a parachute in the afternoon and unashamedly abuse morphing in the night-time!

[Durandal]

so uh.... what if a pregnant person morphs? or more curiously, demorphs?  because, if concienved in morph, is it still the mothers child?

I recall a very in-depth discussion on this topic a while back.

(I forgot what the conclusion was, though.)

As for me? Probably morph a horse and then charge people for rides around town. A horse-hobo. It'll be great.

[Blaise Zebrataur]

Trap myself as a red-tailed hawk and fly around all day long.

[Aquilai]

If you go and acquire a pregnant being's DNA one would assume the DNA would be the same pre-pregnancy so you wouldn't morph into the pregnant form.
If you were pregnant you wouldn't bother morphing for risk of hurting the baby! Ok if you must force the issue and morph whilst pregnant realistically I'd think you would kill the baby (technically foetus, a foetus is effectively a parasite not a symbiote). Think of morphing with clothes or a needle in your arm. The umbilical cord is just a tube to the foetus. If you follow the very unrealistic "logic" of the Yeerk morphing with the host then presumably the consciousness of both host and parasite are somehow stored in a non-corporeal form or maybe an open link inbetween Z-space and real world. In that case you would also assume that the parasite Yeerk would stop having physical control over the host since it's an equal battle of wills without the Yeerk having physical access to the host body's brain to control it.
Possibly the location of the "brain" doesn't matter when morphing so at a stretch you can imagine that the morphing technology automatically locates sentient (questionable) or conscious minds and stores that together in the non-corporeal/inbetween z-space so the foetus's mind would be shared like a parasite's. You would then reach a roadblock of whether a foetus's mind is advanced enough to actually be recognised and kept. Interesting questions arise such as would you be able to communicate in this way with your foetus. What effect would this sharing of body do to a growing foetus's mind? This is assuming that the mind of the foetus is kept otherwise after demorphing and barring any physical damage could the foetus not have a mind afterwards?
These could be interesting areas to explore in a fanfic but realistically no caring mother would EVER EVER risk their baby like that unless it was life or death to both of them and I suppose since abortion exists maybe a not-so caring mother might do this. To quickly summarise, IMO the umbilical cord whilst biologically part of DNA it's just a tube that doesn't even connect in the same way to the brain as a parasite would thus seriously risk the baby's current and future health but in fanfic you can say what you want and explore these ideas.