Would you rather be able to fly or have the perfect body?

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Caveats: for the flying power you can only fly as fast as you can run and it takes the same amount of effort, levitating takes as much effort as a leisurely stroll. For the perfect body one you are granted complete control control of your muscle mass and body fat levels, no manipulating other tissues or body parts, with this power you can eat as much as you want, not work out and stay lean and muscular.

 

[donksmanSupreme42]

If he can fly I think the courts would find shapeshifting believable. People have successfully sued God before after all.

btw u can't deed land to god in the US cuz the IRS can't get to heaven so nobody can tax the land


also since he legally doesnt live anywhere, as he has no physical body

sending him the court notice would be impossible, especially since if he's in heaven, you'll have to kill a righteous man order to bring him the court notice, and he could just not show up

 

[WilliamDeLaPole]

Isn't that a black bear

that's a black bear with mange

Did some digging and apparently not.

Spoiler: Bear autism

The one I posted is a spectacled bear from a zoo in Leipzig, Germany. There were three hairless spectacled bears and they didn't know why they developed the condition, but assumed it was due to diet and climate being unnatural to their South American origins. Didn't find any updates about them from reputable sources.

This is what spectacled bears normally look like


Found this other one and assumed grizzly due to the color, but it's a black bear from California that was rescued from a dumpster.

Grizzlies have been extinct in California for 100 years. Good news for Eve here though, she made a full recovery and now resides in a sanctuary in East Texas.

The spectacled bear that I originally posted is a relative of the now extinct Giant Short Faced Bear, which is one of the largest bear species that we've found so far. So technically it'd be pretty peak to be related to this behemoth, if not just choosing to be the Short Faced bear to begin with.

If you want to live out your furry transformation fetish with something not extinct, then you should choose a Grolar Bear instead of a grizzly. Grolar Bears are hybrids between grizzlies and polar bears.

According to Wikipedia, they have the best traits from both species, "Their bodies are smaller than polar bears, but larger than grizzlies, while their heads fall between the broader grizzly head and the leaner polar bear head. They have long necks like polar bears, but small shoulder humps like grizzlies. The soles of their feet are partially covered in hair; polar bears have hair-covered soles, which act as insulation, and grizzlies have hairless soles. The hybrids demonstrated behavior more similar to polar bears than grizzlies. They stomped toys in a manner reminiscent of how polar bears break the ice, and hurled bags to the side "as polar bears may hurl prey". Grizzlies given the same bags do not demonstrate this hurling behavior."
And objectively the best fact:
" The hybrids were also observed lying down as polar bears do: on their bellies with rear legs splayed."

If he can fly I think the courts would find shapeshifting believable. People have successfully sued God before after all.

Perhaps, but he'd still have to prove it, which would be impossible since I wouldn't show off the power. Had to look up the God lawsuits and I saw three of them. Two were dismissed, one being in Nebraska and the other in Romania. Nebraska judge threw out the case and Romania said God isn't a citizen so can't be sued. Of course the one that actually wins is in California, but she didn't receive any compensation for it. Says a lot about California that Romania has more common sense, but this is the state that made all their grizzly bears go extinct.

OP also didn't say how flight works. Humans have no flight related physiology and are too heavy even if we did, so presumably flight in this case is purely magic. Muscle manipulation would be cool, but nowhere near as valuable as pure magic. Both the court and the military would want to know more about magic flight. I also don't think shape shifting is an accurate term. It's not necessarily that you're changing shapes, like from a human to a bear, you're just increasing and decreasing the density of fat and muscles cells, which is something we already do with hormones/steroids and surgery. OP also stated perfect body can't change bones. Adding too much muscle and fat would become a negative, as your joints and spine would collapse from the weight and pressure. Probably would fuck up your organs too.

So really there's two scenarios:
1. If having either of these powers makes society consider you a mutant, perfect body would be easiest to hide with the most benefits.
2. If society accepts mutants, magic flight would be superior. You'd need to be careful about airplane traffic though. Probably should make FMAA (Federal Magic Aviation Administration) with your own magic air traffic controllers.

 

[donksmanSupreme42]

According to Wikipedia, they have the best traits from both species, "Their bodies are smaller than polar bears, but larger than grizzlies, while their heads fall between the broader grizzly head and the leaner polar bear head. They have long necks like polar bears, but small shoulder humps like grizzlies. The soles of their feet are partially covered in hair; polar bears have hair-covered soles, which act as insulation, and grizzlies have hairless soles. The hybrids demonstrated behavior more similar to polar bears than grizzlies. They stomped toys in a manner reminiscent of how polar bears break the ice, and hurled bags to the side "as polar bears may hurl prey". Grizzlies given the same bags do not demonstrate this hurling behavior."

aren't they sterile freaks like mules?

 

[WilliamDeLaPole]

aren't they sterile freaks like mules?

Nope. There're two distinctions: Grolar is male grizzly and female polar, Pizzly is male polar and female grizzly.

The first confirmed cross between a polar bear and a grizzly bear—a white bear with brown patches—was documented in 2006; genetic analysis of a second, found in 2010, revealed that its mother was also a hybrid, suggesting that more instances are happening under scientists’ radar.

Win win

 

[donksmanSupreme42]

can't change bones

he didnt say anything about not being allowed to change the way ur muscle and fat are aligned

so u could create muscle fibers to act as active structural support

constantly pulling on the bones in the opposite direction to whichever way they are pulled by ur main set of muscles at any given time, preventing them from breaking

also adding some extra fat under the skin cuz ur gonna burn twice as many calories whenever u move

 

[Mound Dweller]

Nothing will ever beat flying; imagine being to kite deer IRL like you do Runescape shit would be OP as fuck, IMAGINE the hunter-gathered potential.

 

[DoNotFeedTheSneed]

If society accepts mutants, magic flight would be superior. You'd need to be careful about airplane traffic though. Probably should make FMAA (Federal Magic Aviation Administration) with your own magic air traffic controllers.

Commercial airplanes fly at altitudes of 30,000 feet or higher, which is too cold for prolonged exposure and most likely unreachable due to the energy caveat. Assuming you don’t live near an airport, you’ll be fine. However, in terms of airborne obstacles, you will have to worry about helicopters, drones, and small personal planes like cessnas

Power lines are your biggest threat, if anything.

 

[Cranjis McBasketball]

he didnt say anything about not being allowed to change the way ur muscle and fat are aligned

so u could create muscle fibers to act as active structural support

constantly pulling on the bones in the opposite direction to whichever way they are pulled by ur main set of muscles at any given time, preventing them from breaking

also adding some extra fat under the skin cuz ur gonna burn twice as many calories whenever u move

I will allow that your connective tissue will grow along with your muscle. But nothing too crazy, you have to stay within the bounds of the theoretical peak of how much muscle a human body can support. And yes, you can change how it's aligned, I told the other guy he can do it with fat so you can also do it with muscle.