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It's been, like, two decades since I first read Animorphs, and to this day, I don't think I've encountered a single other fictional relationship that scratches the same itch as Jake and Cassie. Jake is an all time favourite character, and I've noticed a lot of characters I gravitate towards share some similarities with him. But Jake/Cassie as a specific dynamic...the way after Esplin's trial, she talks to him about how they were justified, and he claims to have not been thinking about that when he drained the Pool but about wanting the Yeerks to suffer, when we were in his head when he made that call, and those negative thoughts he feels so guilty about were his way of coping with the decision...the way this is the conversation that made Cassie knew she had to move on...the way she's the first of the two characters in 54 to comment on his smile looking like Rachel's...I feel like even now, rereading for the millionth, I get something new out of it, and never read anything else quite like it.

I fully agree. They come together, they shape each other, and they ultimately fall apart over the ethical questions raised by the war. Jake trusts Cassie more than he trusts himself to know what the right thing is. Cassie trusts Jake more than she trusts herself to know how to do that right thing when the time comes.

And then Cassie does something unforgivable to Jake, because she sees no other way to win the war. And then Jake does something unforgivable to 17,000 noncombatants, because he sees no other way to win the war. And they know each other too well, ever to be able to live with each other again.

yourtown-anywhere

ohkay

segamascott

explodebeam

my ax IS my buddy!!!!!

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why cant the ending be happy

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Michael Dickman, (2011), Copper Canyon Press, Killing Flies, Flies

theflightofapollo

I miss Animorphs TV series axmarco

#marco happy moments compilation #ryan coogler take notes….

succulentul

roommate guys + other assorted things. can you tell who my favorite is

#YAYY YIPPIEEEEE YAYYY #i love your marco

one of these days ill write an axmarco paper solely for tumblr where i finally take the chance to examine how their relationship is facilitated by and connected to nature & how their mutual nonbelonging is what on one hand brings them closer together but is also what tears them apart in the end. im specifically interested in the role different spaces play for them since animorphs is so much about the way people interact and are changed by space/place. very few people would read that especially if it went on for as long as it probably would because i have a lot to say but i dont even care #passion

#axmarco is a very plausible queer reading to me. especially with the narrative stuff going on in animorphs