Oooooo, aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh. Virus.

Unfortunately, a virus would never work.

Anyhow, I love it! Please, can you read/comment my stuff? I want the opinion of fellow 'virus scenario' writers. Please help?

I really do like your story, maybe because I'm trying to write something like it. Yours is simple and clean, I mess up in complicated details.

And why wouldn't it work?

Also, I'm not really a 'Virus Scenario' writer, so much as a general TF writer. With the exception of my soda theme of my fursona, I never have one prevailing theme or trigger, unless its a continuation of a earlier story.

A long thread on furmorphed.com Here goes.

1) Doesn't a virus reproduce by infecting a cell, turn it into a virus factory, then burst from said cell to infect others? In order for the virus to change all of your DNA, it would have to infect, and therefor destroy every cell in your body. Not a pretty sight.

2) A virus can't change your bone structure. You'd need surgery.

3) You'd have to know and completely understand the human genome. That's no easy task, seeing as we have around 20 thousand individual genes, all doing important tasks. Not only that, but you're trying to change a very select few of those genes, and if you make one mistake and mess up, and if the 'brain function' gene happens to be beside the turned-off 'fur' genes, well..... Also, some aspects are also controlled by a number of genes, not only acting in addition to each other but also affecting each other and interacting to make you, say, have ice blue eyes instead of sky blue.

4) No seriously, understand DNA through and through. And stem cells. And why some cells specialize when others don't. As posted by Hyperboliccube, you wouldn't want hair on your liver. Or in your head either, fuzz-brain.

5) Then, if you were to succesfully have very specific bits of your DNA 'fixed' all at one time without your immune system getting gung-ho and trigger-happy, you'd have to wait. You'd get a 'new' stomach in about a week, a new skin (and probably fur) in about two, etc. You have to wait for your cells to multiply and rebuild using their new template. Some cells reproduce once a week, some twice, some twice a year, etc. Some cells never reproduce, say like brain cells or optic cells. Those things would never change.

6) If once again you were the hypothetical subject to the succesful DNA change, just because you've changes your DNA doesn't mean everything's gonna change. If you encode in your new DNA that you'll have a third eye in the middle of your forehread, chances are nothing'll happen. You have skin cells there, but no specialized 'eye' cells. Your body might have all the information it needs, it doesn't have the 'specialists' to do the job.

7) Since you won't be growing a tail, the obvious answer is to make one then attach it to your butt. If you could succesfully grow a full tail, permanently screw the tendons to the bone, saw out the tailbone, attach the extended tail to it, manage somehow to reconnect the tail nerves to your spinal cord, find a way to have all the veins flowing blood properly, convince your immune system said tail isn't an enemy, then what? Having the nerves connected to your brain doesn't mean you can control your new tail. That tail would be about as useful to you as a third thimb sticking out of a random part of your anatomy, and be about as easy to control as to try to move objects with your (maybe limited) brainpower.

I've always liked biotechnologies, but it's so hard to control. Nature writes in her own code, and that might just be the best one there is, was, and ever will be. It's easier to use robotics, because WE wrote the codes. I'm writing a story series about how the world became a fuzzier and better place to live, and I thought I'd explain it all using some sort of wacko virus. I mean, who doesn't think of that?


Don't mean to be aggressive or anything, but when you consider the facts, there's not much one can do about it.

derp, forgot to post it as a reply, check below

No probs, No Probs. Interesting Facts in the end.

1.Point there. I could give some sort of excuse about a altertered Virus/Bateria(like in the Ender's Game series) but Ill concede that.

2.My best answer to that is while a Virus can't change you bone mass and sturcture, your White Blood cells can. This still doesn't explain how they can be that exact but same time, it is a way.

3.Concede that, but eh, that just requires really really fine toothed research, so its not a strong point.

4.Same as 3 really, plus alot of testing on subjects basically.

5.This is interesting, and something Ive thought about at times when it comes to transformations. Really if such happened in real life, it most likely would be "Butterfly Cacoon" style. Rapid transformations really do make sense only in the case of shifting, in which a body would already be able to create the proper cells to cause the transformation. But in the case of storytelling most times, such things go out the window.

6.Ill Concede this as well, but I figure that either such processes have been repeated over and over to make sure the changes function the proper way, or much like traits, its coincedence. This of course can cause from some strange results, but still.

7.Have to say I LOVE this point on tails! And really no one can throw anything at it to change that. Physically its just a challenge to "Grow one"...well, unless its a slow process in a controlled area(ie "Butterfly Cacoon").

In the end, its what works for the story, but Ill keep thoes in mind if Im playing aroudn with the realistic side agian.

Hey, this is fiction. we can write anything we want any way we want. I just find adding realism makes it that much more entertaining.

You have a good point though. I'll have to go reaserch more about the butterfly cocoons.

See ya!

I never commented on the piece, but I do love it. You got the scene down wonderfully and the details you added didn't overshadow the event. <3 I approve