[@Dynamo Frokane]
I'll repeat something the GM said to me when I submitted my Animals/Plants character in the interest check thread: You do not control the animals, you understand their speech and can talk to them.

And to repeat another thing from the interest check, I'll be moving Sir Isaac over here once I'm done fluffing up the Earth/Stone part of his sheet. I've done a bit, but I need sleep so I'm not half asleep while playing with strong acids and bases tomorrow morning.