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:'''Plant'''
:'''Plant'''
::Pros: Plants are easier to deal with, from a story-telling perspective, than animals or bacteria. They're simpler than animals in terms of lifestyle, and they exist in a single body, so they can't spread in an untidy manner like bacteria or viruses.
::Pros: Plants are easier to deal with, from a story-telling perspective, than animals or bacteria. They're simpler than animals in terms of lifestyle, and they exist in a single body, so they can't spread in an untidy manner like bacteria or viruses.
::Cons: It's hard to picture the great Daodan organism living outside a host as a mere potted plant.
::Cons: If the Daodan were a plant, it probably would need to be able to survive on its own, being that plants are [[wikipedia:Autotroph|autotrophs]] -- unlike viruses, most bacteria, or animals. It's hard to picture the great Daodan organism living outside a host as a mere potted plant.


:'''Bacteria'''
:'''Bacteria'''
::Pros: If the Daodan were a plant, it probably would need to be able to survive on its own, being that plants are autotrophic -- unlike viruses, or even animals, which require other life as a food source. That means that, strolling through the Wilderness, you might happen upon a Daodan plant or a Daodan bug. Being microscopic allows the Daodan to be more mysterious, and also more menacing and alien when eventually viewed through a microscope. Localizing it in the form of a simple green-celled flora or an insect or mouse-sized animal, could easily trivialize the Daodan organism that is so key to our story.
::Pros: Being microscopic allows the Daodan to be more mysterious, and also more menacing and alien when eventually viewed through a microscope. Localizing it in the form of a simple green-celled flora or an insect or mouse-sized animal, could easily trivialize the Daodan organism that is so key to our story.
::Cons: They're boring! Anything that we can do with bacteria, we can do with the "enigmata" below. Plus, the more mysterious we make the Daodan, the further outside known science it becomes, allowing us more story-telling freedom.
::Cons: They're boring! Anything that we can do with bacteria, we can do with the "enigmata" below. Plus, the more mysterious we make the Daodan, the further outside known science it becomes, allowing us more story-telling freedom.


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