and genuinely the thing about Ax's ending that is so disturbing is like. it's only a physical manifestation of what was going to happen to him anyway right. like he was already being reabsorbed into andalite's military and being stripped of everything he had become that made him unique and the family he had made outside of their society. in a way being made part of a giant fleshy hive mind was just the same thing but, ultimately, less cruel because now jake doesn't have to see his face when he kills him.
















