Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-6769189-20200515102419/@comment-4080775-20200521143528

@Actionmanrandell No, you misunderstand. The mechanics of DNA Transfer is Naruto is well known enough that various characters can integrate other's genes into their own body. You need to be the transmigrants of Indra to awaken the Rinnegan, but that's not the only way to obtain it, especially if people have invented techniques specifically designed to copy and/or use the abilities of others.

Strange Transmission Distant Shadow uses Senjutsu to make use of the genes of others you inject into yourself, Naturally, this would apply to the Rinnegan as well. Kabuto even modified Madara's Edo Tensei body to be beyond its prime nd use the Rinnegan as he gave them to Nagato before he died, so he had to manipulate DNA in some capacity to even achieve that, otherwise it wouldn't have happened. Plus we know Sasuke was the current Transmigrant of Indra before Madara was revived by Kabuto.

You keep saying there's no proof of this or that, but then again, there's no proof that Orochimaru wouldn't be able to handle its power. If there is anyone in the series that could handle it, it would be Orochimaru. Even if he found out he couldn't handle it, he'd go the lengths to modify his body to handle it because that's just how Orochimaru is.

Zetsu are just people that were wrapped up by the God Tree for long periods of time, kept alive by the tree itself. They should have souls given they are just transformed people.

Orochimaru likes for the bodies he takes over to somewhat look like him. That much has been shown throughout the series. Right after he took that White Zetsu's body, it modified it to look just like him.

Until we are told otherwise, its safe and best to assume that it's the same body. Because the Zetsu bodies are a product of/similar in nature to Hashi's cells, they possess his healing ability and wood release. The manga stated that much already, so yes we do know that they are different from normal bodies. When Madara was training Obito, the Zetsu he talked to told him that they have no need to eat, sleep or even poop. Thus, Orochimaru wouldn't need to do any of these things either sense he took over the body of a Zetsu.

The zetsu body he took over is the perfect body for him, thus he has no need to take over another body. He has the soul of his arms back too, so he doesn't need to switch bodies anymore due to rotting arms.