why do worms that walks have genders?

[dreadfury]

Title says it all. Why do masses of worms have genders? Do they reproduce? I think not considering magic makes them.

I had a brief image of two worms that walk joining like star craft templars and becoming a horrible mass of worms archon.

But why does it have a gender!?!?

Fyi this is not a cisgender flame thread im trying to come up with a cannon response.

[Azten]

Because the base creature did, and you don't stop thinking/looking like your gender before you became a mass of worms.

[Revan]

All worms that walk were once humans (or elves or halflings or...), until they died and their personality and power were subsumed into a mass of vermin. To their own minds, at least, they are still the person they were, despite their now squamous physiology, and so they still think of themselves as male or female based on what they were in life.

[Snark Victory]

Because they have the personality and memories of the caster that became them. Think of it as less them having a gender and more that they still think of themselves as male or female.

[aegrisomnia]

Quote:

Fyi this is not a cisgender flame thread im trying to come up with a cannon response.

BOOOM!

[dreadfury]

I guess the memories would be part of it.. but after living for a few thousand years as a mass of worms wouldnt they kind of evolve out of that?

[Petty Alchemy]

dreadfury wrote:

I guess the memories would be part of it.. but after living for a few thousand years as a mass of worms wouldnt they kind of evolve out of that?

No one can say from experience, certainly. You can decide that they do, or that they don't.

[David Neilson]

Depends if you become more set in your ways, or if experience smooths everything away, I suppose. I mean if I have been thinking myself as a guy since before the pyramids, I am probably going to be pretty confident in that. The really creepy idea is what happens when Worms that Walk try to *act* on those sorts of idea. I can easily imagine one asking "Why prince I put on my nicest dress, I had hoped you would be more appreciative of this sort of things."

[Azten]

To be fair, if they plan on acting on it they either don't care(eeeewwwww) or they use Alter Self.

[dreadfury]

Perhaps the general repulsive nature of a humaniod mass of worms or insects could shy them away... imaging alter self... picking up a girl/guy at the local pub... next morning worm that walks passed out in bed next to you.

[brewdus]

And then the spell runs out in the middle of the "act"! Ewwwwwww....

[Vee..]

Because they're gender benders.