#now i have to resort to writing chat logs for daily content sdhjdsjk

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theoretically could an iterator turn themself into a lizard. for science

RP:

FTL: Depends on what you mean by 'turn themselves into'. Do you mean a 1:1 of all the cells being transformed into those of a lizard? Or do you mean their consciousness getting transplaced into or replacing that of the lizard?

FTL: Because the answer to the first one is 'no'. Not only is the total mass of an Iterator much, much larger than that of a lizard - any type of lizard - but there is the simple fact that Iterators are biomechanical. Lizards are biological (except for in rare edge cases). You cannot transform one into the other without losing something.

FTL: As for the latter, well... maybe? It would rely upon isolating and containing the Iterator's personality and most important functionalities. Doing so would lose nearly all of said Iterator's capacity to do anything at all. An Iterator's consciousness is impossible to pin down in one place. Even if you were to simply take the main personality matrix and use that, that would still be a devastating loss of ability. And even then, said container would have to be mechanical or digital, and then implanted into the brain of the lizard, overriding its own consciousness. Which one could say completely defeats the purpose in some ways.

FTL: So though it may be possible in that way, it really wouldn't work out in any way at all. You cannot degrade such a vast and complex being that much. A lizard's brain cannot handle even the most basic thoughts of a much more complex being, not on any level, unless it becomes a biomechanical being via the implantation of said personality chip, in which case it's still highly questionable. The Iterator whose mind now hypothetically occupies that of a lizard, would not know how to function, how to do anything at all. We're not made to be lizards, we're made to solve problems and do things, with nearly everything we need just a thought away (though that particular quality has eroded over time). We rely upon processes that do things for us. It'd simply be impossible to sustain oneself like that. Drastic change never does anything good.

FTL: I will conclude that the answer is 'no'. Any other possibilities I can think of are clearly preposterous and make even less sense than even the second option presented here. Unless some external force with unmeasurable power - a true god, not a relative god such as an Iterator - exists and decides to change the very laws of reality or perform such a transformation for incomprehensible reasons (most likely amusement), which I do think is unlikely, then no. It's impossible.

#whyyy is this so long #BUT ALSO. HES NOT WRONG. #THE FUCKING. YK HOW IN FAIRY TALES THE WITHC TURNS THE ROYALTY INTO FROGS OR SMTH #HOW?????? #THATS. THATS ALWAYS BOTHERED ME #LIKE YES MAGIC #BUT AT LEAST EXPLAIN YOURSELF *SOMEWHAT*??? #ITS. MASS EXISTS. ***WHERE DID ALL THAT EXCESS MASS GO*** #HOW DOES A FROG BRAIN HANDLE THE THOUGH PROCESSES OF A HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS #H O W #djfhgkjsfd #this was fun to write ᗡ: #last of the asks ill be answering (wont be answering the ghost n pals one sry.. its the Invisible Rules prohibiting me from doing so) #smth smth no shit from our world interfering too much it makes no sense or some bs like that idk #now i have to resort to writing chat logs for daily content sdhjdsjk #ALSO. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT THAT LAST PARAGRAPH OF THIS POSTIS R LY RLY COOL #AND I CANT SAY WHY #I THINK ITS THE RELATIVE GODS THING AGAIN #dfjhsdjhs #enough rambling o7 #rp #finely-tuned line #asks