#andalite chronicles

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Regarding your (extremely valid) criticism of Tobias being Elfangor's son, I will say that I felt extremely big-brained when I read Andalite Chronicles, because when I was but a young Griff back in 1996 reading #1 cover to cover constantly for months, I latched onto the one line of "He [Tobias] never knew who his father was and his mother decided to leave him a few years back" and thought "Wait, is Elfangor Tobias's father somehow?!"

Ah yeah, I can feel that! It is super cool the first time as a kid that you realize you know where a book is foreshadowing it's going to go. I remember how delicious dramatic irony was when I first figured out the end of the first Boxcar Children before the kids did. So like, mad respect to Andalite Chronicles for pulling that one off.

And I get the argument that it's less about Tobias than it is about Elfangor, and about justifying his decision to have the kids morph. But I still wish the series had found a different way to do it.

[crimsonender]

i finally got this portrait and doodle sheet finished for @twenty-of-your-minutes ! Thanks for your patience my friend! We need more Elfangor and Loren fanart in the world.

[twilight-of-the-cardinals]

I'm fascinated by the question of how relativity works in the Animorphs universe. This seems to suggest a model where there's a maximum speed of a massive object relative to a distant observer well below the speed of light, and trying to go faster than that reduces the proper time of the trajectory but makes the externally measured speed smaller. I'm not sure if there's any coherent picture of spacetime which would give rise to that effect, but it's very interesting.

Or maybe Elfangor just never took a physics class and someone fed him some nonsense so he wouldn't ask if they could go faster.

[teknoctarkamacska]

Rereading the andalite chronicles; I completely forgot Loren and Chapman were controllers for a short while. So technically Esplin (and one of his subordinates) were the first human-controllers

I bet Edriss does not like that. Does not like that at all

[mimi-kinss]

war-prince alloran was like my first ever book crush idk what that says about me. anyway this book changed my life

[nesugosu]

Motrons are kinda cute imo

[praxcrown5]

More (old) Animorphs fanart. I was going through an art phase where I was combining traditionally colored art with digital backgrounds. Looking back on it 10+ years later, it's cringe...

In hindsight, I should have done the mortrons traditionally. I'm proud of the patchwork sky, tho...

[kooldewd123]

I decided to swap the location of the Hork-Bajir Chronicles and the Andalite Chronicles on my reread and I really feel like these positions make a lot more sense than release order.

Hork-Bajir Chronicles: Comes right after the introduction of Jara and Ket, so we get the Hork-Bajir backstory at the same time as our Hork-Bajir characters. Introducing Toby at this point right after the establishment of the colony shows immediate growth and hope for the Hork-Bajir. The name "Esplin 9466" works much better as a twist reveal here than it does in 16, not that it's a super surprising twist here, either. Placing this one first means that the first three Chronicles are in chronological order, so we get the backstory of the Andalite-Yeerk war in stages as the story progresses.

Andalite Chronicles: I'll be honest, I always thought it was weird that this one came so early. The backstory of the Andalite prince that gave them their morphing powers feels like it should be more of a centerpiece. Putting it right after the David trilogy seems like a much better spot to put it in to me, since it's a good turning point in the series. And then it's next to 23 (Before or after, your pick. I've seen opinions either way) so we get the big reveal at roughly the same as Tobias. It's not like there's any sort of dramatic irony that ever comes from the audience being aware of the twist before Tobias, so pushing it back makes it feel like less of a lingering plot thread.