fifth head owlet- wolf

Lee Berman · 11 Apr 2013, 12:54 · from 2013-April.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:54:50 -0400
Subject: (urth) fifth head owlet- wolf
Message-ID: <BLU175-W38D7539FA7FB9423822262CFC00 at phx.gbl>

>Marc Aramini: And the narrative thrust of both mimicking aboriginal and possibly,
>according to the interview, replacing empathic shadow child, would be to convince 
>others of their humanity in any way possible, including anthropomorphizing their 
>origin.  That is effective mimicry. 

Yes, I think this crystalizes Wolfe's intent for 5HoC, with the provision that part
anthropomorphizing their origin is truly forgetting their non-human origin. Though,
as Aunt Jeanine's lesson teaches us, the shapeshifter can evolve to perfect mimickry
with one limitation- their evolution requires they must retain their shapeshifting 
ability. (they can't remove it and give it to a salt goose, heh).

That's why I suggested in the other post that eventually, these parasite/detrivores will 
exhaust the resources of their human hosts and devolve back into what they once 
were.

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