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FreeFlier wrote:handing the company over to someone who's going to have a sudden crisis - or even just a lack of acute interest - is not a good thing for anybody!

That could leave Nadette in an emotional corner where she drives everyone away, then commits suicide because she's alone . . . I've seen it happen.

This could explain Richard Cory

Opus the Poet wrote:Why does everyone think that being in human form is of any problem to ursamorphs? It could be the energy expenditure of transforming from one form to another is the real annoyance.

Or habit . . .

Or they don't want to shed on the furniture . . .



--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote:It would have to be pretty radical to be suspicious . . . I look so much like a friend that many people think we're brothers (and a few think we're the same person). I look much more like him than any of his brothers do.

But when you get the rest of the family together, you can see the relationships.

I wasn't thinking of the members of the family looking different from each other; as you mentioned, that's pretty common even in biologically related families (and more so in families with adopted members, obviously).

I was thinking more along the lines of humans who occasionally see the family over a long term, and noticing something such as Nadette looking like a tall blonde one time and a short red-head the next. Unless the Starr family restricts its activities to what would probably be an uncomfortable level, they'd have to associate with humans who would have to be kept in the dark about their true nature. Delivery men, business partners, restaurant staff, whatever. Even just a couple of family photos that show too much difference would at least make humans curious. So it would make sense to have a standard family appearance that they all take whenever doing family things that might be observed.

Opus the Poet wrote:Why does everyone think that being in human form is of any problem to ursamorphs? It could be the energy expenditure of transforming from one form to another is the real annoyance.

We've seen Nadette sleeping in human form. So either it doesn't take effort to keep that form, or else the effort is so habitual that it doesn't matter.

Some shapechangers have a default human appearance

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Some shapechangers have a default human appearance

So default, dear AnotherFairportfan, is in the Starrs?

Catawampus wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Some shapechangers have a default human appearance

So default, dear AnotherFairportfan, is in the Starrs?

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Pay. The. Pun. Jar. Now.

(That was very good, by the way.)

Dave wrote: . . . (That was very good, by the way.)

No, it was very bad . . . the best kind of pun.

--FreeFlier