Ask Ms. Jessica Issue 23 – Fusing at first touch (Patreon)

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Ms. Jessica;

I’ve heard that one person’s mutant gene activating can pull in somebody else with the mutant gene, but inactive into their mutation. How often does this happen? And given the low incidence of male mutations, how many of these account for what proportion of their mutations?

You are correct. Fusions, mergings, conjoinment, whatever you want to call it, is a peculiar mutation indeed. It occurs when two beings, both with a mutant gene, have areas of junk DNA similar enough that their bodies cannot tell the difference between each other’s cells. They, for all intents and purposes, grow into each other, like two trees spliced together.

For this to happen they both, of course, have to have the mutant gene. Not only that, but their mutant gene needs to be capable of reading the same sequence of DNA. As you can expect, this is rare, but of course the more active your mutant gene is the higher the chance of it happening. More often than not, two active mutants fuse than an active and an inactive mutant. 

Remember, whether or not your mutant gene is “active” really only refers to whether it is reading portions of your DNA outside normal human boundaries. The more of this junk DNA your genetic machinery is able to read, the more you can mutate. Thus, the more junk DNA is available to read, 

An active mutant can fuse with an inactive mutant. Once again, this is done through a sort of activation process when the cells in one body stop recognizing themselves as distinct from the cells in another. You’ll note that more females end up mutating than males, but approximately the same amount of females and males have the mutant gene.

So yes, a female mutant with an active mutant gene can “activate” and fuse with a male mutant, and this happens about as often as female on female fusions. However, fusions of this sort are so rare to begin with there isn’t really relevant statistical information on that.

There is one thing worth noting however. Mutations respond to body chemistry, specifically female body chemistry, which is why they happen to females more than males. If a female starts fusing with a male, their body chemistry’s will mix, and this will usually cause them to mutate even further. For that matter, it usually ends up with the male looking more feminine, or in some cases completely feminine. It’s fairly clear that mutations are female dominant, and flooding a male body with female hormones and cells while activating a mutant gene almost always ends up with them looking… well… female. They may retain their male sex characteristics, like a penis, but most of the time they will simply look like a conjoined female mutant. This is why you can’t usually tell when a fusion was male/female just by looking at them.

Of course, there are always exceptions. Studies are happening right now to understand why there is such a huge split in the rate of male and female mutations and, if we can understand that more, maybe we can understand male/female fusions better too.

Dr. Jessica Park

AskMsJessica@gmail.com