By choice. Maybe they choose it to comfort Odo, or maybe because other humanoids recognize them as like Odo (the only shapeshifter they’d known before).
I could be wrong, but I also thought it was a conservation of energy thing. Like it took energy to hold humanoid form, so he just did the low-poly version for day-to-day stuff. Maybe I’m mis-remembering.
Yeah, but then why are the practiced shapeshifters also looking like shit when they turn human?
Maybe because they think humans are shit and it makes them feel filthy to look like that?
That would definitely be on brand for them
By choice. Maybe they choose it to comfort Odo, or maybe because other humanoids recognize them as like Odo (the only shapeshifter they’d known before).
I could be wrong, but I also thought it was a conservation of energy thing. Like it took energy to hold humanoid form, so he just did the low-poly version for day-to-day stuff. Maybe I’m mis-remembering.