I used to be just another sad, lonely kid. But now I'm never, ever alone...
CHARACTER STUB: Student || YEERK || Human || VOLUNTARY
Everybody says that Voluntary Hosts are the best -- well, unless they're Taxxons. There's really nothing good about being in a Taxxon, except for the fact that you at least get to get out of the pool and look around (and eat). But voluntary humans, those were definitely the way to go; nothing like crawling inside a plump little meat-suit and being welcomed by the dim-witted creature whose body has just become your personal playground. The Yeerk had been very excited to learn that he had been assigned to infest a voluntary human — but this human turned out to be pretty powerless, a perfect example of those downtrodden-masses that The Sharing was so good at preying on. There wasn't a lot of use to this human, but he had volunteered, so he'd been given his Yeerk -- and this Yeerk, his first human Host. Of course, any Host is better than none, and at least this one was voluntary.
Miserable teenagers might not be exciting, but this planet seemed to produce them in bulk, so it wasn't any wonder that a low-level Yeerk like him had ended up with one. This one at least seemed interesting underneath the dull, drab self-pity; there was still a spark there, something alive and creative. The Yeerk teased it out because it got boring sitting in classes pretending to learn things he already knew or didn't care about, and interacting with the Host was better than listening to the teacher. And much better than the Taxxon he had been in before. Of course, he never expected to become friends with his Host...well, something like friends, anyway. He was still in charge, and if the human ever objected to anything the Yeerk Empire demanded, he'd find that out the hard way. But for now, they were getting along swimmingly...
His life used to really, really suck. His parents were always too busy, his friends didn't seem to actually like him all that much, and his teachers were absolutely heartless -- who has time for that much homework? It's not like getting good grades really matters in the long-run, so why were they always on his case about the fact that he'd been slacking-off all year? None of it mattered. In fact, nothing did, and he'd been seriously thinking of ending it all, of escaping the dull and endless misery of his hum-drum life -- and then he found The Sharing. Actually it was Vice-Principle Chapman who found him when he'd been sent down to the office for yet another pointless lecture meant to "motivate" him.
Chapman had seen the futility of that though, and instead of berating him about his schoolwork, had suggested that he relax a little -- go make some new friends. The whole idea had seemed pretty lame, but anything was better than another detention for missed-homework, so he'd gone to the meeting. And that had been pretty okay, so he'd gone to another, and then another...and eventually, he'd been invited to join the Inner Members, to become a real part of something that did matter. Maybe not everything the Yeerks did was nice, but humans weren't any better, so who cared? Really, the two species deserved each other, and at least now he had some proper friends.
Erek King -- friend, fellow member
Kathryn Wills -- friend, fellow member
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