[Or an egg if he was a chicken... Wait, no.]

Ah-! Yeah. It's about the same if I use too much energy too fast I can exhaust myself! ... Well, maybe not the same as changing my form...

[He holds his chin in thought.]

My alchemy magic tends to take enough energy out of me if I cast too quickly. And I can pass out if I do that. Or my transmutations come out wrong which can be problematic.

[He won't talk about his blood magic... That's a whole other bag of problems. He did scare that poor lady with it once. Tifa-san.]