Can you acquire youself?

[esplin]

and use that DNA at a later time?
I dont think this has been mentioned before and I dont think the books ever touched on this with the exception of Tobais, but in his case he was a bird when he acquired his human self in the past.

Could you acquire yourself, or freeze some of your blood perhaps and wait until your older to morph your younger self?

[wotw2112]

No.  I doubt you could acquire yourself while you're in a trance.  And you already have your own DNA inside your body.  Just as I doubt you could acquire the same animal twice I doubt you could acquire yourself.

[musicman88]

I think it could be possible.  Your DNA changes when you age so it would be different from when you were younger.  I never really thought about it.

[Starsword]

Well, so long as you can in fact morph from blood as book 19 mentions, I do not see why it wouldn't be possible. It would just mean you have a younger starting point for your morph.

[morfowt]

Well, so long as you can in fact morph from blood as book 19 mentions, I do not see why it wouldn't be possible. It would just mean you have a younger starting point for your morph.

uh...book 18, and there still a little debate on how that's possible.

[Starsword]

Yeah, book 18, whatever, but if the author says its possible, who am I to disagree with the universe she created

[morfowt]

she's already wrote plenty of mistakes...

[Phoenix004]

Acquiring from blood alone was sketchy at best, and that was from a completely different person. Acquiring yourself, even from an old blood sample seems unlikely to be possible. However, there would be nothing to stop an Animorph who was about to die of old age morphing a young person or animal and extending his/her lifetime. If Andalite scientists could then figure out how to give morphing power to a nothlit, you would basically become immortal.

However (back to the topic) Rachel did technically acquire and morph herself in #32 when she was split in two.

[Gafrash]

This topic dropped me dead from laaaaaughing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Starsword]

Theoretically, Tobias did acquire himself anyhow. It was a younger version of himself, but nonetheless.... Although I doubt you could acquire yourself directly, that would just be dumb anyway, but I dunno, if you did that would you be a nothlit.

[esplin]

yeah it was just a thought and rachel did do that thing in number 32...

[Liz]

Theoretically, Tobias did acquire himself anyhow. It was a younger version of himself, but nonetheless.... Although I doubt you could acquire yourself directly, that would just be dumb anyway, but I dunno, if you did that would you be a nothlit.

That's an interesting thought.  I guess maybe if for some reason you wanted to get rid of your morphing ability you could do that.

But then again, how would you be able to tell the difference between being in morph and out of morph? xD

[Nateosaurus]

Thats just crazy.. acquiring yourself.

Its YOUR DNA IN THE FIRST PLACE... so yea...

I understand how Tobias did it, that made more sense... and same with Rachel... but if Marco or someone said "hey, i'm gonna try and acquire myself"... its just weird..

[morfowt]

I don't see how it's possible to acquire yourself. you need to concentrate to acquire, but the acquiring process puts you in a trance, so you can't concentrate. the only way you can acquire your own dna, is if it's not the same body.

[crystalclear]

Identical DNA not from the same body? Is it possible for a pair of identical twins to acquire each other, perhaps to stay young forever?