The biggest lesson i learned this year is to not force anything; conversations, friendships, relationships, attention, love. Anything forced is just not worth fighting for, whatever flows flows, what crashes crashes. It is what it is...
It can change forms on levels that are a multiple of 5. It will not affect making a rati. As long as you have the right stats and it's on the right character at level 100, it will become a rati.