Quote Originally Posted by shinta|hikari View Post
But ants eat creatures to reproduce right? If we want them to become more human, we would have to feed the new queen more people.
Perhaps, perhaps not. It would depend on how much of an ant the next queen would be. It's entirely possible it would be so much human already that the offspring wouldn't anymore inherit directly the characteristics of the food. The whole system is kind of weird, if you think about it, because the chimera ants would only remain ants if all they ate were ants. The genealogy might very well always be a dead-end whenever a colony starts to hunt larger and larger prey, culminating in humans. Once they get human enough, they wouldn't necessarily want to eat humans anymore, and so if they still had the attribute of phagogenesis, their offspring would regress due to lesser food. I feel like the King already lost the game. For example if the King mated with Komugi, would Komugi want her daughter to be a cannibal? Phagogenesis turns into a curse if it doesn't disappear.

Actually it would be quite a cool world setting if all the nen users came from families whose ancestors were chimera ants, since the humanoid chimera ants seem to have a very strong natural nen sensitivity.