u/EZClapsTTV

This post contains spoilers for anyone on their first run through, youve been warned.

Question... in an earlier season, shapeshifter Charlie was dying because he'd "been in the body too long" as suggested by another shapeshifter. But fastforward to season 3, a shapeshifter had made a comfortable life with a wife and kid. 5 years had apparently gone by.

Not even large quantities of Mercury worked to keep shapeshifter Charlie from dying, so how did this other one stay in his body so long?

[EDIT] I'm going to go with Charlie's body was under sustained damage.

The whole "different model" theory doesn't add up to me given the arrival of these different shapeshifters.