Lincoln Memorial, DC.
Kid: Mommy, look!
There’s a tiger!
Mom: Don’t be silly. Why would there be —
— a tiger?
Ann’s Being: Coming up on Park now, boss. She has the Bear with her. Animal form. Diminished somewhat from life-size . . . probably in an effort to make her seem taller.
Park: In other words, the same size I’ve kept him at for the past ten years.
Walker: Oh, there’s no need to be offended! I do the same thing. Borrowed the idea from you, in fact.
This’ll be an interesting interaction! I wasn’t expecting the Bear to be a polar bear – unless like Patrick’s mutable human forms, the bear is able to be many different varieties of bear?
That’s actually an interesting question for Beings – could Cybele for example be a color other than pink, or like how Poe tends towards purple and occasionally yellow all the time, and Patrick does with green and brown, are there colors they must keep constant regardless of form?
hmmm, that does reduce the species/breed variety of some. But then we do have both a domestic cat and a tiger, and a wolf and a domestic dog. It does question if Patrick can change breed. If Poe can change bird species it would put a huge limit on any other flyers if they don’t have more than one being per form.
The variety of beeings doesn’t need to follow a specific boundary. It is possible that normal and polar bears are within capability of one being but raven and robin are not. The boundary between Patrick and the wolf would be especially interresting, as the difference between domestic dog and wolf is three bowls of food.
Thinking about it … what if the existence of a different being is what limits the morphing ability? What if Patrick can take a shape of wolf after the wolf will be killed?
the kill to achieve new forms…That might feel like stepping into a Highlander territory.
The dog/wolf one is the closest, different bears is simular to domestic cat vs tiger, same group, phylum, water ever you call it when its at “Feline” or “Canine”, “Ursa” ect…level on the family tree.
But the bird one is different species entirely, even different groups. The Raven is a “Corvid” the Robin I believe falls into the song bird territory. Although most birds look so simular they are genetically as distinct from each other as say a mouse is from an elephant, just mammals have more external variety than birds, or at least more noticable. The birds for the most part hit a winning combination (or is the result of serious bottleneck evolution as the only group of Archaesaurs to survive the KT boundary event that we know of, so all have this common ancestor with the wings, feathers, and beak, to descend from.
Ok, the robin was not so good example … fast wikipedia search failed :-) (both should be of same order – Passeriformes).
The main point is that we have the scientific nomenclature, the “external variety” or simply look, the genetical variety and age of last common ancestor. Those four, while not completely different, can give different results for being in same “group” no matter how big the groups is. Dolphin is a mammal, not a fish. Wait, don’t we actually have Dolphin-shaped being? So, we can learn a lot about this issue if we find out if there are some fish-shaped being and how similar it can look.
@hkmaly
I kind of wander if a master has ever had them stay in a hybrid form.
Sphinx, Nekojin, werewolf, ect… like forms. We have seen them do claws, eyes, and ears before.
Gratuitous fan service AU moment:
They were later arrested for public indecency stemming from the clothes lost during an apparent wrestling match in the Lincoln Memorial Reflection Pool. Said the officer, “I would have stopped them sooner, but…WOW.”
Well, if Bennett’s “conversation” is any indication, this talk is gonna be more akin to see who the alpha-female of this chapter will be.
If that’s the case, I’m rooting for Rep. Park. I have to. She has a bear.