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I very much doubt it could achieved so easily, AR is lightyears beyond common shapeshifting.

When I think about it, AR is overall a bio-techno-magical hybrid power : absorb/assimilate (biology), replicate/customize (technology), omni-adaptive/logistic-free (magic).

It's actually pretty hard to find it a credible origin for such a complex and transversal power. The only thing I can imagine is that before all Creation exploded into existence (Big Bang style), a tiny shard separated from the whole, and migrated aimlessly for eons until it met the user and merged with him.

Since the shard was original one with all existence, it can reasonably absorb and replicate anything whatsoever, and so can the user who was his first "acquisition" (exactly Prototype's Alex Mercer was revived/remade by the Blacklight virus, and actually became one with it).