by Will » Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:55 pm
"'Can't' might be too strict a term. Put me in a bin and mash me all together, and you'll get one Will, presumably. The book isn't doing it because that's not what a book is; another form would work just fine, presumably. Now, how things would mix and match is unclear, and losing the connection to the dimension, or folded space, or whathaveyou that allowed me to generate and reintegrate copies of myself makes it dangerous. Remember -- I can't generate more copies of myself right now, so killing some of me is rather permanent. And while I don't strictly obey the laws of conservation of mass, I have a maximum and minimum size; I can't go subatomic or anything crazy like that. So putting together several hundred versions of myself would also get into the problem of the sheer amount of clay. Even if all of me could or was willing to shrink down as much as I could, you're still talking about a ton of mass to deal with for the central blob -- and then, I wouldn't be able to split back off again.
Splitting and subdividing myself is not part of my powerset. It's been something that's been enforced on me -- other people have caused it to happen through various means, and the MGH stimulated it as a secondary mutation of sorts -- but it wasn't something I could ever really induce on my own. This whole 'being able to create and remove versions of myself' thing happened because of the effects of the MGH, and the 'able to do it without the effects of a significant number of performance-enhancing drugs' came because of my connection to the mirror."