“I’ll crush you! I’ll make a popsic— UH OH!!”
Mega Man, Ice Man, and Magma Man vs. Frost Man
I figured it was about time I drew the lil’ blue guy again! It’s still freezing in my part of the world, and I guess you can say, this is just my way of saying that I hope it warms up soon.
What do you think happened to the lady they freed from the pool in book one? I always headcanoned that she became the crazy lady in mm1
Similar, but I headcanon that she becomes Crazy Helen in #14. Okay, fine, Cassie doesn't mention recognizing Crazy Helen as the woman she carried to safety during their first mission. But it was dark in there, Cassie had horse eyes, there was a lot else going on. And it is strongly implied that Crazy Helen is an escaped yeerk host.
Honestly, I like the headcanon that the shoe lady from MM1 was a controller whose yeerk died as a direct result of Rachel destroying the kandrona and the subsequent mass starvation. Mostly because I'm a big fan of the dramatic irony in Rachel having changed this woman's life and neither of them knowing it at the time.
Man, I still don't have the brain power to articulate my thoughts on the law of Seerow's Kindness but I can tell you that the revelation blew my mind as a kid. Like, I want to talk about it. I want to talk about it so much. But brain no worky right now. At least not on that topic.
On the other hand, I also have so many thoughts about the butterfly effect of destroying the Kandrona in 7. In 8 we see the obvious: the deaths of yeerks. But we also see that for every Derane 344 there's also an Eslin 359 - a Yeerk made disillusioned and resentful by Visser Three's "leadership" who makes choices now with the knowledge of how their empire makes decisions.
There's the Mr. Pardues who manage to make a scene before dying. Did any manage to have at least one bystander understand their message? Did some escape like the woman from MM1? How many were voluntary hosts before the empire abandoned their yeerks to starve? Did volunteers in a less expendable position start having second thoughts they shared with their own yeerks? On that note, how well did the real Chapman know Mr. Pardue?
And of course the effects of learning the empire will kill freed hosts has effects on how the Animorphs continue their own war efforts. Would they have tried some reckless plan to save Tom early on if they didn't have this new knowledge looming over his situation causing them to take more caution?
okay just some background. the megamorphs books consist of four companion books to the main animorphs series, and unlike most of the main series, in which each book is told from the perspective of one of the animorphs, megamorphs books are told from the perspectives of all of them. each of them get a few chapters in each book to tell their side of the story.
in the main series, there's a "narration cycle," in which the perspective characters' books go in a specific order. Jake -> Rachel -> Tobias/Ax -> Cassie -> Marco. this is true for most of the series. megamorphs books don't have a narration cycle; rather, the person most relevant to the story at that time is the one to narrate it. it's definitely a smart way to write it. it also leads to unequal perspective distribution, which I'm not dunking on at all — I actually think that in some cases it's funny.
percentages/statistics of each book's character distribution (and with all four books together) under the cut!
MEGAMORPHS 1: THE ANDALITE'S GIFT
42 chapters in total.
Jake: 7 chapters
Rachel: 12 chapters
Tobias: 3 chapters
Ax: 5 chapters
Cassie: 6 chapters
Marco: 9 chapters
ok. looks like rachel was REALLY talkative. and tobias was sleeping. honestly? good for him! heeeere's a pie chart to put that into perspective:
MEGAMORPHS 2: IN THE TIME OF DINOSAURS
37 chapters in total.
Jake: 7 chapters
Rachel: 6 chapters
Tobias: 8 chapters
Ax: 4 chapters
Cassie: 7 chapters
Marco: 5 chapters
note that this isn't counting the little afterword at the end, which tobias narrates, but tobias DOES get his time to shine here! go tobias! makes up for mm1 for sure.
pie chart:
MEGAMORPHS 3: ELFANGOR'S SECRET
41 chapters in total.
Jake: 4 chapters
Rachel: 7 chapters
Tobias: 8 chapters
Ax: 5 chapters
Cassie: 11 chapters
Marco: 6 chapters
jake with the least amount of chapters here! to be fair, he was killed off halfway through the book.
pie chart:
MEGAMORPHS 4: BACK TO BEFORE
30 chapters in total.
Jake: 9 chapters
Rachel: 3 chapters
Tobias: 6 chapters
Ax(imili): 6 chapters
Cassie: 5 chapters
Marco: 1 chapter
MARCO. GETS. ONE. CHAPTER. AND THEN HE STRAIGHT UP DIES. i know I'm talking in all caps here but i'm not by any means mad! i actually think this is very funny — and it's the reason I did this whole thing in the first place! on my first read of this book, i was noticing the lack of marco chapters — i notice the lack of marco everywhere, actually, considering that he's my favourite character — and wondered if he was the one with the least amount of chapters in ANY megamorphs book. hence these statistics.
but we'll find that out soon. for now, the pie chart:
okay. now that we've done each book individually ... let's put them all together, shall we?
MEGAMORPHS
150 chapters in total.
Jake: 27 chapters
Rachel: 28 chapters
Tobias: 25 chapters
Ax: 20 chapters
Cassie: 29 chapters
Marco: 21 chapters
and there you have it! Marco is NOT in fact the animorph with the least amount of megamorphs chapters in total; ax is! and cassie's got the most.
in a way, these percentages really make a lot of sense when you think about it. i'd always noticed that the ax chapters seem to come a lot later in the books than most of the others. and three out of four megamorphs books have something to do with time fuckery; it makes sense that cassie's involved a lot! despite nap time, tobias is saved by dino infodumping in mm2, among other things. rachel's not particularly prominent in most of the books, but she's got TWELVE WHOLE CHAPTERS in mm1! Marco got his time to shine in mm1 with his awesome driving skills and didn't really get many chapters in the books after that, and Jake was going pretty steadily until he got shot in mm3. just goes to show: you might get a chance to narrate some more chapters if you just don't die 🤷
More cleaning, more old MegaMan drawings found. I couldn't go through a single sketchbook of mine without at least ONE MegaMan related drawing. (Most aren't shown due to secondhand embarrassment jsjsjs)
