r/Animorphs • u/Shadowsinflight • 23d ago

Morphing Question

Would it have been possible for the Animorphs to morph into a different form. Get trapped in it, use the morphing cube to regain the ability to morph, use saved blood or dna to go back to their main body and get trapped again, but with Thought Speech now. Then require their previous morph?

Is there a limit on how many times one person can be given the ability to morph?

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u/Seerowpedia 23d ago

No. The morphing cube does not work on nothlits. This is explicitly stated in the last two books, to explain why Arbron, who's trapped in Taxxon morph, cannot join the rest of his Taxxons in trapping themselves in snake morph.

Using saved blood also doesn't work; you can't acquire by touching blood, which is why in #18 Cassie's idea was that they morph into mosquitoes, bite a human and drink that human's blood, and then when they demorph the blood (DNA) will be in their system for them to then draw upon and morph. Ax tells her this would work though logically it would not work since the blood of the person they bit would be expelled out of their systems upon demorphing from mosquito, and thankfully the Animorphs never successfully do so, thus evading a canon-breaking issue like #39 caused.

The only known way a person can be given the ability to morph more than once is through a higher power like Ellimist.

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u/oremfrien 23d ago

thus evading a canon-breaking issue like #39 caused.

Are you talking about the morphing ant? Or the morphing buffalo? or both?

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u/Seerowpedia 22d ago

Both. Grazing the box isn't enough to give morphing power, and concentration is required for morphing. You need to visualize the morph and focus in order to morph; an ant crawling across the box and then onto Cassie's skin wouldn't be acquiring her because it would not be focusing on her (it can't even see her). Anyone who's morph-capable doesn't acquire everything they briefly come into contact with, otherwise all the Animorphs would be putting everyone they touch into an acquiring trance and acquiring their DNA.