Subject: Well...
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Posted on: 2015-10-18 11:10:00 UTC
While it is theoretically genetic in the Dresdenverse, what I understand from what I've read (I haven't read the whole series yet, but know bits and bobs- heh- from elsewhere) is that it's a bit more 'sticky' than just straight genetics, given the roles that certain characters end up landing themselves into despite the fact that at series start/their introduction it doesn't seem like they'd be able to do such at all.
The DORKS and disguise generators are just that: disguises; which, to me implies that they're more overlaps than a *complete* transformation- there's multiple bits of different PPC canon that tend to back this up, from the whole 'now I'm a Time Lord' deal a few agents have to the whole 'there is an arrow stuck in me what now' issue waaay back in TOS.
Personally, I can see it being able to work on a character who does screw up technology just by existing around it, unless it just doesn't work at all. After all, it's all tech from the Department of Sufficiently Advanced Technology. Things are... usually ensured to work, except in the case that it doesn't. You can make an argument for this proposed agent that it could or could not work, whichever direction you want to take. Or even that it works sporadically. After all, the important thing is that you get something that you think would be amusing out of it, or would result in an outcome that you would want, in this particular case.
As long as you can rationalize it to some extent, that's the important thing.