• OZFive@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Your brain shape shifts as well into an exact copy of the animal you mimic. You have the intelligence of the creature you turn into. Which means a one way trip as any coherent logical human thoughts is driven out by animal instincts.

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      If I shapeshift into another human, I’d just have their memories. Id have to shapeshift somewhere calm, and leave myself notes

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        Oh my god, Memento meets Animorphs.

        Holy shit this is actually a good idea, I would actually read this book or watch this movie…

        It could also work in a video game, but it would be very difficult to pull this off as the player character… could make for some extremely interesting NPCs in various settings.

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        This would have infer that your shape shifting skill had the ability to mimic not just their DNA but their nueral patterns as well. Without that you are again just left with instinct and a blank slate brain with no memory or knowledge.