#garatron

[toadinthechest]

The blue blur

Imagine adding a new cool alien in the book series just for it to never appear again.

And descriptions of aliens in Animorphs are always so funny, because most of the times it's basically: <<list of the limbs + vibe>>.

Since we don't really have much information about Garatrons and their homeworld I guess we can make any theories about them.

So! What if! They're so fast because they're on the same niche of their homeworld as insects on Earth? You know, like flies or roaches appear fast to us, humans, because of the size differences. Same for garatrons and... whatever giants inhabitants of their homeworld. It doesn't explain though why are they're still so fast on Earth. It's just funny to think of the world where insects are the same size as the gazelle... And are sentient... And are centaur-like.

Space deer and space gazelle comparison.

Very messy sketches, because my favorite pencil died.

[toyzoology]

Umm, for an art request, maybe one of the Non regular aliens? Like the iskoort or ketrans? :D :D

Done! One of my fav non-regular species in the series: Garatron <3>

[pocoslip]

I would Love a New Transformers Thunderwing Toy, whether he's Based on the Marvel Comics or IDW Design

(I don't even mind the Prime Design, Unless Hasbro probably Forgot about the Transformers Prime Game)

[church-of-crayak]

What was an alien species mentioned in the Animorphs that you wanted to see explored more?

i honestly wanted to know more about the garatron, since basically all we get is "yeah they're like andalites but faster and pointier. and also the yeerks have one of them" like okay, man, whatever, what's their society like? how convergent with andalites is their evolution, yk? are they bugs? are they ungulates? are they herbivores, even? how do they eat? what do they eat??? whats the garatron-controller like when he's not infested? you can't just drop this description on my head and then NEVER MENTION THEM AGAIN

pulled taffy, dude? like, what's going on with their physiology? partially it has to do with rachel being the narrator, and she's one of the least objective writers of the main six, next to marco, who is responsible for calling andalites "horses with arms sticking out of their necks", where every other character describes them as centaurs.

i went through the weakness again to see if there was much else to work with, and no, all we get is "they're fast enough to run on water", "they're not as fast as a striking snake", and "the yeerks may or may not continue infesting them" GET real. i wanna know if they run on water regularly on their home planet. is their planet's surface made out of quicksand or goo or something that you can't stand still on for fear of becoming Eaten By It? get goofy! get weird! but no

i have other gripes with this book but i would have to actually do a reread to put them to words

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

I drew some cute aliens and a quadcopter.

Left to right: Hork-Bajir, Weird Tailless Biped, Andalite, Taxxon, Yeerk in a quadcopter, Gedd, Garatron.

I’m also trying a new style for a couple of things. How does it look?

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

Concept Art of an Andalite and a Garatron that appear to be pretty close. I imagine Garatrons having little nubs on the end of their tail for clubbing with.

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

Andalite-Garatron Hybrid holding a Dracon. Not much else to say.

[red-thorn]

Animorphs, volume 37:

Jake comes back and is like, "Being leader is fuckin hard, cuz. Y'all are alive? Then ya did good." That's fair, I guess.

These Garatron entities are still a bit worrying, even if they defeated this one. Fighting style seems to be mostly running in circles, though, so could be easily exploitable. I wonder where the yeerks got them.