were the animorphs lucky or unfortunate that ax didn't have a morphing allergy to humans?? imagine what would happen with an extra human ax on their hands (sorry i'd posted this separately but i wanted to know what you think)
Lucky. Holy cheeseballs, so lucky. See, the "extra" being that is burped out into reality during hereth illint is not a copy of the morpher in morph; it is the morph itself. It is the foreign DNA being forcibly expelled from the morpher's body as a whole living organism via freaky sciencey transmutationy pulling-excess-mass-from-zspace hand-wavey plot device.
So the extra "human Ax" would not be Ax at all. It would be a brand new adolescent aged human being comprised of the DNA of the four human Animorphs, spawning into existence with no memories, no frame of reference, and no previous concept of its own existence until that very moment. It would have whatever combination of human instincts/innate neural paths/muscle memory the morphing ability copies from the acquired creature, but none of the actual memories, knowledge, or learned behaviour that a human would have developed by adolescence.
They could walk, but have no idea where to go or what anything around them is. They could speak, but have no idea what sounds to make or what words even mean without being taught. They could not read. They would know what food is and how to eat it, but have no ability to parse from the myriad of appealingly scented and coloured substances surrounding them which is actually food. Ax eats cigarette butts and drinks motor oil because his human morph's monkey brain wants to put everything in its mouth and he happily indulges it. Morph-clone Ax would drink drain cleaner if no one stopped him.
This would have happened in Book 4. At the beginning of the series, when the Animorphs were still flying largely by the seat of their pants. It would have been a horrible, horrible disaster, and even if the kids managed to get through it without being discovered, Morph Clone Ax almost certainly would have suffered any number of tragic potential fates. It would have gotten dark, like really far on the Animorphs' scale of fucked up dark y'all.
Personally, I prefer the crocodile book. Visser Three getting popped like a balloon was much needed levity between Rachel almost killing her entire family by crushing their house from the inside XDD
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