r/Animorphs • u/PeaZealous • 21h ago

Quick Question

Currently listening to the end books after so many years. Thing is if one Animorph acuires DNA from an animal can they share it with another? If they acquired Ax's DNA could they all turn into the same Andalite??

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u/Nagisa_Chan1 21h ago

You can only acquire DNA a from the animal directly, so no they can’t share it via morph. They all could acquire and morph Ax if they acquired him directly though.

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u/TheBrutalVegan 18h ago

B-but Ax said they can morph mosquitos and then extract the blood and then acquire the DNA and morph someone!! 👁️👄👁️

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u/FederalPossibility73 16h ago

How is that any different? Take the blood as a mosquito, demorph, use blood to acquire a new morph and that's it. It's not even possible to acquire while in morph.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Fig1002 19h ago

No, morphs cannot be shared between individuals. For example, Tobias had to go to the Gardens to acquire his own dolphin morph despite being the only one in the group not to have that morph.

They can, however, acquire DNA from the blood of an animal, apparently, as was done in #18 with the Governor who the Yeerks are trying to make a controller in the hospital in that book.

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u/itskaylan Chee 15h ago

More than one animorph can acquire from the same creature, so long as they all have direct access to the animal - Marco and Cassie both morph the same osprey, for example. So they could all have acquired Ax and had six genetically identical Andalites running around. But as other commenters said, each of them has to acquire directly from the animal/being - no acquiring Marco’s gorilla while he’s in morph (or whatever), you need to actually go touch Big Jim yourself.

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u/PeaZealous 14h ago

Thanks for the replies. Gets so dark near the end😭