#as opposed to Xavier literally giving Changeling part of his own telepathy

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I have seen some (excellent) fanfic suggesting that X-Men 97 Morph has a photographic memory because that is apparently an ability associated with 616 Changeling (mostly in character bios, one of those informed traits that's never really seen on-page, like Avalanche supposedly being married). And I love the idea, but I can imagine TAS Morph would downplay or hide it because:

Photographic memory would mean people expect them to be a genius, and they are definitely NOT a genius. I think Morph is reasonably intelligent, but they are not Beast or Forge's level. I can imagine Morph able to rattle off some highly technical information that they read somewhere, but having no fucking clue what it actually means.

They can no longer use "I forgot" as an excuse.

On a more serious note, Morph was definitely having memory issues during their time under Sinister's control, and I tend to headcanon that they never fully remember all of it, those memories are shattered, incomplete, and often out of order and out of context, and it is terrifying for Morph that for the first time they cannot rely on their memory, but at the same time what they do remember stands out in sharp, painful detail. (Something that Wolverine would fully understand and relate to if Morph let him in enough to talk about it.)