oh gods she always gets the worst injuries ough and for poor tobias too! she's such a knight/shield. i love her but ough it hurts to
the pleading of the victims making her more willing to suicide mission shark devour the yeerks is so good ugh
an ANT girl? i know you didnt have alot of time to think but it really seems like Rachel's mind goes to the worst case scenario every time and she dives headfirst toward that fear just to prove she can, like she deserves it or like it's the only way forward god
good gods leave it to rachel to call escape via controller shirt a victory. and then call the shirt cheap lmao
oh of course i shouldve guessed the yeerks have a contraband locker full of oatmeal duh. amazing. hopefully no one goes nothlit this time
oh good cassie's okay it's girl mission time. and man does cassie not wanna do this based on how quick she was to realize how helpless the yeerks are in the pool.
god i love them. they're so sweet to each other in the face of mortal danger every time.
thAt's what hurts Rachel?! i get it, trunk is very sensitive but you got your wing burned off like 5 pages ago and no reaction at all!
Now that was quick thinking Rachel nice one involving Visser. Did he chop off your trunk on the way to the splash zone?
ah yes. running headfirst toward her fears again i see. no way it's that easy to survive falling tons of rock but sure. fair enough
and also somehow having enough time to break Edelman out of being institutionalized. i knew we'd go back to that somehow but i thought it'd be with Rachel helping her mom with the case or something idk. this is much more rachel tho. congrats on half- successful yeerk pool invasion this time. And ant morphing yeesh. Wonder if the oatmeal comes back at some point. but i doubt it
In re Marco angrily telling Rachel “You always back Cassie” in #28 (cows book) and Jake telling her “You and Cassie just egg each other on” (idk what book) and also Rachel agreeing with Marco that it’s a bad idea to save David but voting with Cassie to do it anyway in #20, and also Rachel saving that guy in #17 (oatmeal book) which frankly deserves to be included in my Can We Save Bystanders Midseries Introspective analysis, and Cassie lunging at crazy cannibal guy in #16 (online chatroom bill gates is an alien cannibal book) in a frankly Rachel-esque unsanctioned fit of rage, which maybe also deserves a place in the Bystanders Introspective: what holds Cassie and Rachel’s friendship together despite their enormous differences is that they both believe in their hearts that the rescue of the individual person in danger in front of you is an uncompromisable moral imperative. What holds Jake and Marco’s friendship together is that they don’t.
Rachel referring to the yeerks as 'our enemies in this war' really cements/reminds me how soldiery she feels in all this +her anger is obvious upon any description of what they do and how the infest people. love her
Also love how she talks about Tobias now and how he's perched on her a few times in the last few battles since Jara and Ket. so cuute
It would be right. Does Marco ever go through a feminism arc like Sokka did slowly over time or does the story just get too dark for these jokes to keep showing up anymore? Cuz im gettin tired of em.
oooooookay that's a lot to unpack Rach. guess it's an attitude still prevalent in the 90s? Because Cassie seems like the only one who responds semi-normally. i would say im surprised this book is focusing on suicide but im not surprised at anything dark in this series anymore. plus he probably has a yeerk in his head, just a hunch
oh nice callback to her house still needing repairs since the alligator allergy one haha
yep. yeerk infested. impressed that he managed to override the will of the yeerk to try to die tho? and talk about it on multiple news channels somehow. maybe its dying
yeah crazy how those helpful coincidences happen to u guys so often huh? gotta thank the Irony gods (Author) occasionally guys
i love her so much.
Ooooh my god only Applegate could remember that tidbit about tarantulas on bananas and weaponize it against our little protags. the poor things omgs that is so unfair.
Tobias to the rescue folks omg gross
HA. okay Marco is actually normal sometimes lmao.
I know these kids do half baked plans at best but what is the plan after getting in? it's not like they could talk to George unless through thought speak...oh. hm. there's an idea.
OH. awesome....welllll i can seee why he wanted to die now. that makes a sense. didnt think being parasitized could be much worse but yeeesh. maybe if he doesnt eat oatmeal it'd starve and die? could he maybe avoid it? horrifying.
yeah no kidding. but that is a lot to put on Cassie's shoulders, Rachel c'mon. i know everyone does to a degree, but no one had put it so blatantly.
damn. some pretty good lines in this conversation.
I didn't know she was capable of a cynical laugh. 'And all the rights and wrongs, and all the lines between good and evil, just go wafting and waving and swirling around, don't they?'--god poor Cassie. i love that each book weighs them all down just a little more over time. painful.
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.
I think Jake should have the final say since he has Tom to think of, but in the end it might be a moot point. How could the Animorphs as such a small group, get enough yeerks to ingest it? there will always be too many for this plan to work for real. especially since they're likely to just make the people in charge of the oatmeal flavor discontinue it or something. even if they can eat it in the yeerk pool without a host.
God Rachel's dreams are terrifying to read like this. somehow worse than if the narration had just written out the dream in italics.
oh no not the gleet biofilter
oh okay cool straight into the yeerk pool. it feels like napalm or nerve gas or something but it also seems way less awful than getting controllers to eat it
the way it just became so reflexive to her so quickly. ouch u poor terrified kids. this is going to be horrible for her. why can only one mole dig at a time anyway?
Oh, babygirl
i just wanna shake them all individually and say 'you don't have to prove anything!' but how else would the story/war progress *sigh*
splat on the concrete girl? geez
ok i know ur not scared of the bats but like...rabies.
it is cute that they keep joking about the oatmeal being instant
you should just go home, guys you don't even have the oatmeal!
but yeah. dooming yourself to playing the part you can't pull yourself out of i get the message of the book T^T
