Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4720870-20130610214628/@comment-24020550-20131015213709

Which this seemed weird to me, cause the boy was in contact with the turtles a good many times (granted he was wearing gloves). See, when Dogpound and Fishface got mutated they had been atleast a couple of hours out of contact with the animal they mutated into, Dogpound having been bit, and Fishface having caught the ugly fishie. So it stands to reason that if you touch something atleast some hours or so ago, you'll mutate into that animal. And as shown by Kirby, it doesn't ALWAYS have to be what you were touching before. He was hit with the mutagen while holding April, and started MUTATING after pulling away from touching her. However, when he FELL is when he came into contact with the bats, which is when his DNA got scrambled with a bats. So it stands to reason that if you're touched by something ELSE while mutating, THAT is what you'll become, rather than what you were touching WHEN you were hit with the mutagen.

So then, if Timothy touched ANYTHING with his bare skin previously or during his mutation, he should have become that....Otherwise I guess you turn into your own DNA cell form like he did.