Question Animen and CSD

Is there a chance that an Animan develops some form of GSD or MTD or did Dr. DNA engineer that out somehow? Forsome reason I had the idea of one of the panther breed going Displacer beast or growing wings to end uo looking like a Gargoyles style mutate.

Well, whenever you're playing with genetics at this level, odd things can happen.

That said, Dr. DNA is probably the world's foremost geneticist. And, minor quibble, you're comparing a pair of wildly divergent approaches of his. Paramount's Catamount Guards are humans who were injected with a 'serum' in comic book terms. The genetic material they were altered with was spliced into a retrovirus and introduced intravenously. The Catamounts do not breed true in that the child of either a Catamount and human or two Catamounts will have their parents pre-serum genetic legacy and be completely human.

The Animen, on the other hand, were genetic creations and grown, from scratch, not starting with a human and changing things. They began with eggs and sperm that were altered and then force matured, then cloned and altered. The humans who became Animen had their consciousness moved from their old body to the new one.

Yes, a new Animan could have looked at their own corpse. As you can imagine, this was avoided.

Animen, as we have seen with Nick junior, DO in fact breed true. Whether they may be subject to those conditions is still unknown.

Well, if Animen can be mutants (as shown by Nick Jr.), it's likely that they are subject to the same mutation malfunctions that affect "normal" humans.

Who knows? Their 'GSD' may turn them human, and what a shock THAT would be...

E. E. Nalley wrote: Who knows? Their 'GSD' may turn them human, and what a shock THAT would be...

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Since I'm here, Animan Transform compared to Drow Transform.

Any reason that Jobe couldn't technically make a Animan Transform Serum?

TTYL. AFK.

Oh, easy reason. Drow are magic-ish.

Were DNA needed to make Animan Serum? *shrugs*

E. E. Nalley wrote: Who knows? Their 'GSD' may turn them human, and what a shock THAT would be...

That's what I was thinking with the Catamount Guards example. If one of the parents was human, it would be much easier for the child to be born human. Not resembling either parent would be disturbing, or worse, for the family dynamics.

null0trooper wrote:

E. E. Nalley wrote: Who knows? Their 'GSD' may turn them human, and what a shock THAT would be...

That's what I was thinking with the Catamount Guards example. If one of the parents was human, it would be much easier for the child to be born human. Not resembling either parent would be disturbing, or worse, for the family dynamics.

As the Catamounts do not breed true, that would still be a viable story, though not GSD in the strictest of senses. Though there would not be any mutants in the Catamounts as the minimum age for the process is 25 exactly to prevent a burn out or triggering something. Getting into the Catamount program is tough and you need a pretty hard core resume. Infantry experience AT LEAST, special forces qualifications preferred. And by that I don't mean 5 jump chumps!

The Cats have good reputation in the special forces/operator community, one they have earned over the decades.

The selection process is broader for Lord Paramount's Animen, who are still being made in Wallachia, but that comes with a 10 year hitch minimum.

E. E. Nalley wrote: Who knows? Their 'GSD' may turn them human, and what a shock THAT would be...

Another spin I am tempted to toss in. If Sapphire had issues....

Thanks EE Your reply was about what I was expecting, but I wanted it from the horses mouth.

I think that the confusion possibly comes from the mentions that Belphy may have some magic potential, possibly as an unintended side effect to Jobe's 'homage to' Fae genetics. However, no magic went into creating the Drow serum itself.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: I think that the confusion possibly comes from the mentions that Belphy may have some magic potential, possibly as an unintended side effect to Jobe's 'homage to' Fae genetics. However, no magic went into creating the Drow serum itself.

Can that be said with absolute certainty? Maybe that Jobe personally didn't put any magic into the serum... But, how did he get samples that should have been covered by the world spell protecting Fey? Further, given Nimbus' interest in the project, is there any proof that Nimbus didn't add something to the serum while Jobe was out at class or something...?

I couldn't say so, no. Kristen, OTOH, can. And did.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: I couldn't say so, no. Kristen, OTOH, can. And did.

Of course they have a magical core, just like every other human.

Jobe has no magic ability because he doesn't believe in magic, although he accepts that of course some there can be replicable phemomena which can be studied through the scientific method (ergo, not magic) that aren't sufficiently explained through current theory.

So in contrast, Belphy definitely does believe in magic?

Belphegor was looking for any way to obtain faux-energizer abilities. If he couldn't get it through technology, I suppose magic works for him as a backup. Did Belphy inherit that subconscious hope that magic is real and can solve her problems when she just doesn't have the right tech on hand?