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the auximorphs have so much personality in such little screen time.
Shoutout to the yeerk resistance member that chopped off Visser One's tentacle to save Jake. Hopefully the ensuing Taxxons smelling blood issue allowed you to sneak back into the shadows.
Just as Jake was the original "glue" linking the different pieces of the group together (Marco's friend, the guy who sort-of knew Tobias, crushing on his cousin's bff Cassie) it's Jake breaking down that causes the group to start collapsing on itself.
"Don't get attached," Jake said tiredly. "Life is probably going to be a lot shorter than you thought it would be." Marco's grin faded. "You know what, Jake? You don't have to remind me about that." For a split second, Jake looked embarrassed. "Sorry," he mumbled. "It's okay, dude. It gets to us all."
When you think you're going for gallows humor but you actually just reveal that you have depression instead.
Angry mostly because I had wanted to hurt her. Because she was making me be the grown-up. And even after all the endless months of fighting, with all the disgusting acts I had witnessed—or committed—I still sometimes wanted to be normal again. Also, because I was worried. Not just about my own parents. If the adults didn’t accept the reality of the war, they would never be prepared when the time came to fight. And if they weren’t prepared, they wouldn’t survive. Animorphs book 50: The Ultimate
90s children's literature, my beloved.
James motioned to a boy named Craig. A girl named Erica. Like James, they'd been healed by the morphing process. Like James, they were pretending to still need care. How they managed it, I don't know. Craig and Erica were, in effect, James's lieutenants.
While I want to say "product of it's time" here I really can't because even as a kid I thought it was kinda sketchy to have the squad leaders be the ones who were healed. I know it's in part because they're part of James's own team that they aren't, but I thought it would make more sense for Collette, Kelly, and Timmy to be James's lieutenants since they were the initial group he chose. Even if they had to be these other two, the other two didn't also have to be healed.
Likewise the choice to heal James is in part meant to show his character - that he's willing to stay confined in a rehab center when he could leave for the sake of his friends - but I never felt like the leaders being the healthy ones was the right choice for the story 50 was telling.
Actually, what would an Alternamorphs set at book 50 have looked like? You, reader, regardless of how able-bodied or not you are in real life, are now playing as a disabled teenager who gets the ability to transform into animals to fight a decreasingly secret war.
Like, given the era it probably almost certainly would be one of those "ages like milk" takes on being disabled, but it could at least be an interesting take.
(and maybe if there was a "play as an Auximorph" book then 53 wouldn't have been so willing to tpk the group)
Cassie really is more like her mom than she realizes in her comparison. We saw some of the buildup to this in the buffa-human book (yes. that buffa-human book). Cassie tends to underestimate those she sees as needing help. It's a very realistic flaw and one that suits her character.
Also her not technically answering when Jake asks if she's with them on the plan? *chef's kiss*
