# If you could be... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 15, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271 "2005-02-15T22:36:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/1 "2005-02-15T22:36:31Z")
If you could be any kind of animal/fantasy beast/non-human living thing what would you be? Anything that’s not human and alive, like a dog, or a troll, or a gryphon, or an elf or something. (Feel free {or encouraged} to get creative) I would be a being without a physical body, just a kind of sirit who floats around however I feel like, who manifests myself to humans and other fleshy creatures by infiltrating their minds, and causing hallucinations. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/2 "2005-02-15T22:41:34Z")
I’d be a fairy. Wings + Magic? Oh yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/3 "2005-02-15T22:58:44Z")
I’m torn between being an elf (or a Romulan… same thing, really) or a Q. I think I’d want to be a Q though. Then I could be an elf, a Romulan, a falcon, a dragon, and anything else I wanted to be as the whim struck me. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/4 "2005-02-15T23:26:31Z")
I’d be a liger. It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed, bred for its skills in magic. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/5 "2005-02-15T23:44:27Z")
I’d be a Q. Because he was always so HAPPY 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/6 "2005-02-16T00:24:58Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > I’d be a liger. It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed, bred for its skills in magic. Hear that? It’s the collective disappointed sigh of everyone you beat. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/7 "2005-02-16T00:44:11Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I’d be a Q. > > Because he was always so HAPPY 🙂 Not [always](http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/VOY/episode/68878.html). ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/8 "2005-02-16T01:53:05Z")
A dragon. They are powerful, can fly, can breathe fire, can live practically forever, and get to sleep on mountains of gold. ---
**Author:** ![EmeraldGrue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dc4da7/32.png) [@EmeraldGrue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmeraldGrue)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/9 "2005-02-16T04:40:20Z")
Dragons? Qs? Elves? Feh. I wanna be a cat. ---
**Author:** ![Brilharma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Brilharma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brilharma)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/10 "2005-02-16T12:06:12Z")
I would want to be a duck. That’s better than being an octopus because ducks can swim AND fly. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/11 "2005-02-16T12:19:07Z")
Yeah, a duck in a pond. Floating around all day getting food thrown to you. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/12 "2005-02-16T12:50:54Z")
Burrow owl. ---
**Author:** ![Nahk\_Ila\_Dihahs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@Nahk\_Ila\_Dihahs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nahk_Ila_Dihahs)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/13 "2005-02-16T16:29:26Z")
Anything with wings… If I had wings, I’d be all over the place, doing loops, dives, climbs and every aeronautical trick there is… soaring up to mountain tops, skimming over lakes… “Sigh…!” _continues to work on his monthly market report…_ ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/14 "2005-02-16T16:31:33Z")
A fairy or a mermaid. Failing that, in real life, a dove. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/15 "2005-02-16T16:34:37Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > I’m torn between being an elf (or a Romulan… same thing, really) or a Q. No, no, no! They are not the same thing. And I’d want to be a gold dragon, and preside at Bahumat’s court, but it might be too proper for me. So if not that, then a bronze dragon, and I’d take human form and watch over humans and and take care of them like much-loved pets. Real? I want to fly. And fly high, so a hawk, or an osprey. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/16 "2005-02-16T16:35:41Z")
> [@Brilharma](#): > > I would want to be a duck. That’s better than being an octopus because ducks can swim AND fly. And their quacks don’t echo. And no one knows why. ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/17 "2005-02-16T16:48:39Z")
**Tracy Lord** is my fucking hero. I’d want to be a member of the Culture (see Iain M. Banks sci-fi). Then if I wanted wings, I’d grow them. If I wanted gills, I’d grow them. And I could change my sex. Plus I’d get to explore the cosmos and go lava-flow joyriding and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![AsecretK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@AsecretK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AsecretK)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/18 "2005-02-16T20:01:49Z")
I always wanted to be a dolphin. ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/19 "2005-02-16T21:45:38Z")
I am assuming that we can’t be Gods. If there isn’t a God then I would be a shapeshifter. If there is an some of the things spoken of in the bible are true, than I’d be a fallen angel. I’d have near God-like powers and be incredibly sexy. I wouldn’t want to be an angel because then I would have to listen to God and just sing of his glory all day, so instead I’d be one of the ones that lusted after humans and hang around on earth. I would be an androgynous male and sleep around a whole bunch. I would also kill the humans who annoyed me and constantly cause trouble for God and the regular angels. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be/290271/20 "2005-02-16T21:47:36Z")
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