Can you breed the opposite way as a shapeshifter?<\/p>\n
I’ve considered this before – even talked with other people about this before, and the expressions I get when I mention it are fascinating.\u00a0 The consensus, it seems, is that one should not be able to do – nay, should not be able to even conceive of doing – such a thing.<\/p>\n
I have some theories as to why this is.\u00a0 The uncharitable chunk of it comes down to latent homophobia.\u00a0 The more charitable one is that it’s just too much work<\/em>.<\/p>\n I mean, who has which bits?\u00a0 Does it matter?\u00a0 Could you get the deed done with an eyeball and a pseudopod?\u00a0 Who carries the child to term?\u00a0 Do both parties do so?<\/p>\n And then there’s the matter of the child.\u00a0 What shape does it come out – the natural form of one or both parents, or the forms they were in when they did the deed?\u00a0 An amorphous puddle of goo?\u00a0 Does the child have shapeshifting too?\u00a0 How fast does it mature?<\/p>\n More to the point, since we’re talking about swapping sexes before… well… swapping sex – what happens to the sexual characteristics and gender identity of the child?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can you breed the opposite way as a shapeshifter? I’ve considered this before – even talked with other people about this before, and the expressions I get when I mention it are fascinating.\u00a0 The consensus, it seems, is that one should not be able to do – nay, should not be able to even conceive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theory","tag-amber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}