my chimaera
#1: human
a: intelligence
b: thick skin
d: circulatory system to support the upper body
e: liver( it goes in the cheetah half and is normal human liver sized)
f: a pair of eyes(located where the temples go)
g: hemoglobin
h: throwing-optimized arm structure
i: torso skeletal and muscular structure
j: osteopetrosis(a condition that makes your bones really dense)
k: a pair of lungs
l: digestive system, but the esophagus just takes food down to the cheetah half so the stomach can be big enough to digest enough food for the whole body, and, you know what, just put all the organs related to digestion in there.
m: retention of lactose tolerance into adulthood
n: melanin
o: pack bonding with anything they regularly interact with that doesn’t try to kill them
p: dwarfism in the human half so the cheetah half can physically support it
q: a pair of kidneys
r: neuron density of the brain applied to all the nerve clusters, either shrinking them, or making them more powerful.
s: AuDHD modified so the special interests of genetically identical individuals always perfectly align
t: complex language
#2 sea sponge
a: cell de-specialization
b: motile body cells
c: phagocytes lining the entirety of the digestive tract
d: enhanced regenerative capabilities
e: reproduction via budding
f: slightly decentralized circulatory structure to allow ripped off limbs to grow into more of me, given enough time and resources.
cheetah
A: speed
B: neuron firing rate, so the brain can keep up with the muscles
C: skeletal and muscular structure, slapped onto the bottom of the human torso, with muscles connecting them so they work together, and the spines joining into one long spine. oh, also add a thick pair of ribs for the human abdominal muscles to attach to, so the organs still in there stay in there
D: toe beans(the sign of a killer) in the cheetah paws, and the human arms
E: walking and running gait
F: circulatory system to support the lower body’s needs, it isn’t connected to the upper body by any major(to a cheetah) blood vessels, but it and the human circulatory system do exchange blood via the cheetah half’s carotid arteries and the human half’s femoral arteries
G: claws to grip the ground, but they’re also on the human hands, with those ones being kept sharp for defense
H: another pair of lungs, with the airways exiting the sides of the human half’s abdomen
L: whatever form of ADHD cats have going on
M: skull and jaw structure(only the sensory processing lobes stay in the brain case, the rest are moved inside the human ribcage to keep the main brain as connected as possible, while still separating it into multiple ganglia), but with a bigger brain case
N: fur covering the entire body
O: another pair of eyes, this time specialized for seeing further away, and located at the bottom of the human half’s chest
P: whiskers
Q: another pair of kidneys, both are in the cheetah half, as the human half is shrunken to about 60%
R: a bladder
S: vocal range, so they can communicate above the hearing range of most animals
T: more types of melanin
U: pheromones, this means catnip works on them.
V: olfactory organs.
W: ears and hearing range
#4: blue-ringed octopus:
A: decentralized nervous system(the larger nerve clusters from this are in the the rib cages, and are essentially clones of eachother) to allow the chimaera to do multithreading, and retain human intelligence with a much smaller skull. the central octopus brain wraps around the spinal chord, and is split in three, one in the midsection of the cheetah half(routes signals from the motor cortex in the cheetah half to the limbs and tail), one in the area the human half connects to the cheetah half(routes signals between the ganglia in the human and cheetah halves, as well as from the sensory ganglion to the cheetah half’s ganglion), and one between the two sets of human arms, inside the human ribcage(routes signals from the sensory ganglion to the ganglion in the human torso, as well as from that ganglion to the four arms). the neuron rings all have the job of routing signals from the different ganglia where they need to go, and cross longer distances by adding bundles of nerves to the spinal cord, as well as small nerve clusters for regulating heart function
B: limb count(the extra limbs are another pair of arms located under the first pair)
C: venom glands(they have their tubes go through the fangs)
D: chromatophores
E: scaled up mantle for storing water and air
F: enhanced regenerative abilities
G: retina structure(as in how the retina connects to the optic nerves)
#5: black widow
A: exoskeleton(it goes below the fur, possibly even below the skin)
B: liquefying venom(also goes out through the cat fangs)
C: pedipalps to free up the hands
D: partially hydraulic limbs
F: 8 more eyes (2 spider, stretched across the back, hidden behind fur, 2 octopus, at the bottom of the human half in the front, 2 more spider, making cool lines across the skull, and alerting the chimaera to imminent danger, and the final pair will be human, with the iris and cone types of a cheetah, taking the primary eye sockets)
G: scaled up deadly venom glands
H: book lungs for storing oxygen
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are we just making one chimaera that we control directly, or making a species of chimaeras and controlling all of them?