Year 198X: Walker Labs, Chicago.
Young Karen Park: He could have been in sun bear form this whole time and I never knew?
Scientist: No, wait a minute . . . Mr. Cub, would you mind giving me your paw?
Yes, the pads of a sun bear paw are longer and narrower than this. I suspect he’s currently just a brown bear with odd markings. Did you catch that, boss?
Walker: I did. Disappointing. Can you get DNA samples from all the forms?
Park: It’s okay, I still like your polar bear form. Even if it turns out to be nothing more than albino grizzly form.
Scientist: This is a new technique in which we analyze the DNA in cheek lining cells. It can take some time to analyze, and Walker Labs doesn’t have the facilities in-house, but if you want a copy of the results when we finish . . .
Park: Thank you, but it’s not necessary.
Scientist: And . . . done!
Park: Finally! Is that enough tests for you, Walker? Can we get to the Game now?
Walker: You’ve been very helpful, Mrs. Park. I challenge you.
Park: I accept!
Hmmmmm. I’m wondering if this is Park before she become a Congressperson.
Hmm, so animal form depends on what the Master wants subconsciously, what animal archetype the Being is, and knowledge base of both Master and Being?
That sounds plausable giving other shapeshifters. Beastboy can only become animals he has seen or seen pictures of, including alien animals. Usually shapeshifting is limited to mass restrictions, imagination of the shapeshifter, or certain shape perameters (humanoid, order, material, complexity of structures, ect…).
There are very few structures more complex that cells. The reason most shapeshifter can’t shift into guns is that they shift on level of cells and not atoms.
That’s why we have the different terms (granted some writers had forgotten the meanings of some, like Polymorph used to mean able to shift on the molecular level and change into different material)
Cellular, Molecular, Particle, Energy, Magic
(bio), (material), (mass and structure), (state of being), (screw physics/dimensional)
Veeeeeeeeeeery eenteresting…
hmm, so Park was already married in the eighties. and she took her husband’s family name? I wonder what her virgin name was. also, shoulder pads.
I thought any and all samples turned to dust rather quickly?
Sadly, yes. They only just figured out how to do it with human DNA, and won’t get anything useful out of Beings until the technique improves.