Hi, Bell Fen! - Luminous Hyaena

daniel-r-h asked:

Alien Alteration: You would be able to quickly alter your body to within common phenotypes; this includes both dead body parts such as hair and parts of the body with bimodal phenotype distributions such as primary and secondary sexual characteristics. You could not recreate relatively rare conditions such as polydactyly. Unfortunately, it takes time to get used to this ability; within the first year or so you would occasionally change forms with minimal control and only a few minutes' warning.

This depends on a few things:

1. Whether my hair is long enough to be a “relatively rare” phenotype and gone once anything happens to it.

2. Whether there is any protection from harm if I am e.g. wearing my wedding ring and then go up six ring sizes.

3. How hard it is to revert unwanted changes.

4. How often “occasionally” is.

If I really like the answers to 1-3 I will accept an “occasionally” value of up to “three or four times a day” (it would be higher, but I’m just imagining suddenly not having boobs anymore while trying to nurse down a sad baby…) and if I don’t really like them it may have to be much lower to compensate for bidding my hair goodbye and wearing tents and sometimes being stuck as a basketball player for an hour.