any last words?

hiii i’m indrid/faemothra and this was my read along blog, but now it’s just here to put all my animorphs hyperfixation stuff in one place ((mobile header is by ghost-bird & icon is by relaxmammal))

[sphenodontia]

andalites are so important

this is supposed to be elfangor (my andalite boyfriend) but all andalites look the same to me tbh (save visser three being BIG AND BEEFY)

[aniquotes]

“Ellimists are not interested in what is fair. Ellimists give you a choice that is no choice at all. Then they can claim that they do not interfere. They will pretend it was a human decision.”

- Ax, Book #7: The Stranger, pg. 78 (by K.A. Applegate)

[jewishpangolin]

Hi my name is Esplin 9466 and I have long palps with purple streaks and green tips all along my mid-back and no eyes and a lot of people tell me I look like Edriss 562 (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m related to Esplin 9466 Lesser but I wish I wasn’t because he’s a major fucking loser. I’m a Yeerk but my host is an Andalite. I have pale gray skin. I’m also a Visser, and I go to a Yeerk pool in California where I’m in charge. I’m a villain (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly blue fur. I love alien monsters and I acquire all my morphs from them. For example today I was morphing an Antarean Bogg with a huge maw full of teeth and thick tentacles. I was walking outside the Yeerk pool. It was underground so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. The Andalite bandits stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

[blackgardenfairy]

Ax: Fuck the morning rituals Ax: Ima still do it tho… ima still do it

[featherquillpen]

I know this is utterly ridiculous to think in a time like this, but I feel like my Animorphs tumblr friends would understand. Ever since last night, I’ve had a line from the Andalite death ritual in book #18 stuck in my head on a loop. “My life is not my own, when the People have need of it.” The People have never had more need. My life is not my own. It’s time to devote it to protecting freedom, in any way I might.

[aniquotes]

This is a very complicated planet, Marco. That’s what I hear, anyway. And it’s a very strange universe. Anything could happen.

Jake, Book #6: The Capture, pg. 154 (by K.A. Applegate)

[postillfastill]

some of  you may be asking, “tumblr user menderash, exactly HOW obvious was ax’s giant gay crush on marco in the tv series?” and my answer to that is, well,

[suzanami]

something filled up my heart with nothing, someone told me not to cry children, wake up, hold your mistake up before they turn the summer into dust

six dumb kids playing hero.

[walkingsaladshooter]

Things to love about this:

Ax looking snazzy and stylish in clothes Rachel picked for him.

Jake looks good in yellow yo.

JAKE BB JAKE JAAAAKE

Marco totally snuggling Jake I stg

CASSIE/JAKE HAND TOUCH and how even in this quiet moment Jake is aware and mentally present and conscious of everything and everyone and nnnnnooooooo Jake

Marco is just conked. out. and it’s so. ugh.

Rachel and Tobias what is going on there I don’t know but it’s making my heart hurt

AX WITH HIS CINNABON PHOTO

Everythiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing

[warrenworthington3]

character aesthetics [animorphs] Rachel Berenson

Unlike Cassie, unlike Tobias perhaps, I’m ruthless at times. But even I have enough sense to know the words “we have to win” are the first four steps on the road to hell.

[warrenworthington3]

Headcanon: Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary is run by Chee.

[cummingrainbows]

me in the club: can u play the animorphs theme song?

[warrenworthington3]

character aesthetics [animorphs] Aximili Esgarrouth-Isthill

War is irrational. Though it is sometimes necessary. 

[artbyifer]

This was my contribution to the lineart portion of the Anicollab last year. I used Milkshape 3D to make and pose andalite and taxxon models, then Paint Tool Sai to do the lineart.

I don’t have much experience with multi-character scenes, action poses, perspective, and lineart in Sai, and I had never drawn a Taxxon before, so overall I am quite pleased with how it came out.

[postillfastill]

remember in #22 when marco casually mentions to ax and rachel that he thinks yellow sundresses are cute? i do. i do.

[ajellyinthemix]

Arbron is the Marco to Elfangor’s Jake

[citizenpublius]

Animorphs is of course famous for its moral greyness. The Yeerks are colonizers unquestionably in the wrong, but the Animorphs are not given a pass to just wipe them out: not only are there Yeerks who have tried to change the Empire from within, and even some who have created a symbiotic relationship with their host, but they are also a group separated from their home world with no where else to go, since any attempt to return will mean being killed by the Andalites. 

The Andalites, despite being the Animorphs’ allies, are self-righteous xenophobes operating under a propaganda military government that hides from its citizens its war crimes, including the attempted genocide of the Hork-Bajir. They only care about killing the Yeerks because they see the Yeerks as their fuck-up: Seerow gave the Yeerks technology on the misguided belief that they would cooperate and go on to better things as allies, so now the Andalites want to wipe out their mistake. They don’t care what other species fall as a result, and they certainly aren’t in a hurry to prioritize Earth.

Even the Animorphs’ other allies, the Chee, aren’t given a pass in their pacifism. Everyone knows the Chee could end this war in like a day if they would alter their programming. But the Chee have proven they don’t really care about humans; they side with the humans against the Yeerks so they can save humanity’s closest companions, dogs. And we also learn that they protest too much when it comes to their pacifism: when confronted with the species - the Howlers - that killed his creators - the Pemalites - Erek learned that the Howlers were in actuality nothing more than literal children, being sent to other worlds by the Crayak to wipe out civilizations but only thinking it a game; and Erek intentionally withholds this information, hoping the Animorophs would wipe out the Howlers regardless, despite knowing they were technically innocent, so he wouldn’t have to dirty his hands.

And even the Animorphs themselves have blood on their hands. They learned early on - were in fact told straight up front by Elfangor - that the Hork-Bajir are an innocent, enslaved species. They later meet freed Hork-Bajir, and the species is heartbreakingly humanized again and again. But even as the reader empathizes with these characters we come to know, the Animorphs continue to treat their species as collateral damage. They will try to go out of their way to avoid killing human controllers, but Hork-Bajir are still justifiable kills to them, because they are so dangerous by design. But this doesn’t excuse them. Toby and the free Hork-Bajir are never allowed to be completely forgotten, so we the reader are never allowed to see the Animorphs’ slaying of the Hork-Bajir controllers as anything glamorous.

So many children’s series fall into the romanticization of war when writing about kids going up against The System (whether it’s an invading alien species, the government, The Man, etc) but the Animorphs has consistently held onto its anti-war messages well, deconstructing the genre of “kids save the world.” The Animorphs are never given an easy answer.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Animorph survival (and occasional success), by book:

1: Element of surprise

2: Poor warship construction standards

3: Poor warship construction standards

4: Deus ex cetacean

5: Politics

6: Competence

7: Interference of godlike being

Megamorphs 1: Luck

8: Competence

9: Andalite nasal sensitivity

10: Competence

11: Spacetime shenanigans

12: Shouldn’t have even been in danger

13: Competence (and enemy incompetence)

14: Poop/theme park entertainment

15: Luck

16: Lack of mission commitment

17: Inconsistent geological physics

18: Spacetime shenanigans

Megamorphs 2: Spacetime shenanigans

19: The Power of Heart/alien tech handwave

20: Many bad decisions were made.

21: So many bad decisions.

22: Dark, terrible decisions (as a result of previous very bad decisions), and Anti-Yeerk Plan C that should have been Plan A.

23: Moping, somehow

24: Competence (eventually)

25: Competence I guess (this could have been SO MUCH EASIER)

26: Interference of godlike being

27: Enforced pacifism

28: Nobody needed to be in danger here

29: Competence

Megamorphs 3: Spacetime shenanigans

30: The bright, clear line

31: Sheer desperation

32: Alien tech handwave

33: Competence

34: Competence… technically?

35: Uh…?

36: Uhhhhh…??

37: Politics

38: Competence

39: Nigh-inconcievable levels of luck

40: Enemy incompetence

Megamorphs 4: (Pre-)Interference of godlike being

41: Some… kind of… alien shenanigans?

42: Luck

43: Teammate stopping to think for two minutes

44: Six White Boomers, Snow White Boomers

45: Allies. And competence.

46: Either the biggest bluff ever or full-on betrayal

47: I’m not entirely sure, the enemy has military spaceships

48: Uh…?

49: Luck. You guys should’ve had an emergency standing plan for 80% of this already.

50: Allies

51: Competence and allies

52: Critical mass of allies

53: The intense heat of so many burning bridges

54: The power of cheap cliffhangers