#the change

[k4ppasta]

Have you ever wondered why some versions of Ink are more shallow and selfish than others? Well here’s The Change! (An alternate ending to another comic of mine The Argument. Where this takes place instead of Ink going to Error) Enjoy!

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[imperfectskeleton]

Gotta love that literally every Rachel & Tobias Not A Date, It’s A Mission will at some point have one of them suggest something totally suicidal, reckless and also mildly showboaty and the other will hit you with <Rachel, have I ever mentioned that you are extremely cool?> and then they count themselves in for the stupidest move anyone has ever pulled. It’s the best kind of relationship. Two halves of a whole idiot. The animorphs greatest assets on the battlefield.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What if Tobias did become a human and kept the morphing power in 13?

I have no idea, because among other things I'm not sure where he'd live. Does anyone else have inspiration?

[mother--doll]

"I am the Devil's minion and he grants my every wish"

[emeraldmew]

This reread I've noticed that there's sort of a... motif around food that just keeps popping up. Food - what and how you eat - is really sort of a thing in Animorphs.

Obviously there's Visser Three, cannibalism king, munching on his enemies and subordinates alike since his very first scene. There's also his brother, who has to become a cannibal to survive because when he's cut off from the pool he decides his continued existence outweighs his brother yeerks.

There's Jake eating a spider during his first morph of the green anole, which sticks with him (and every other narrator) until Tobias has a breakdown over eating a rat. After that, the spider doesn't get brought up much anymore and Tobias learns how to be a predator.

But then I noticed the similarity between Tobias and Arbron.

Tobias has already been a nothlit, but it's not until he hunts like a hawk that the reality sets in in full.

And when Arbron is trying to get Elfangor to kill him...

It's not just being a taxxon that sends Arbron into a suicidal spiral: it's eating like one and understanding that if he survives his wounds he'll still likely be eaten like one.

For both of our nothlits, hunting and consuming something like a thing is the point where you cannot reverse becoming it. Tobias often sees his hawk body as a predator first and the flying that comes with it comes second.

In a way even though he didn't become a nothlit this applies to Jake as well: Marco coins the name "Animorphs" for their group immediately following Jake's return from the anole mission. Eating the spider didn't technically change anything, but heck if it didn't coincide with the point of no return.

Aside from that, we also see how alien diets play a huge role in how the species develop and the role they play in the wider series with andalites, hork-bajir, taxxons, and yeerks.

Andalites were a prey animal that had to eat on the run to avoid being eaten. So they developed into a very defensive species that after wiping out their own predators tries to assert control and order over the rest of the galaxy to feel safe.

The Hork-Bajir Chronicles will delve into this a bit further, but by 13 we learn that Hork-Bajir are designed around their diets and that very design (sharp blades for cutting bark) becomes the reason the yeerks see them as weapons.

Taxxons are always insatiably hungry. They cannot control their own appetites to the point of cannibalistic feeding frenzies and aligning with the yeerks. They're another group we'll get into more later in the series too.

And of course yeerks rely on Kandrona to live. The Animorphs strike their first major blow against the empire by destroying the Kandrona generator in 7, which continues to ripple throughout the series. Yeerks cut off from Kandrona starve to death so unless they're able to figure out the cannibalism thing like Esplin 9466 the Lesser they have no way of leaving the empire. The only other alternative they've found drives them mad by replacing their brain stem. In this way food becomes a weapon of the Animorphs.

Just... I never noticed until now just how much food is a running theme in this series.

[flayedintheusa]

☘︎THE CHANGE☘︎

Harringrove • M • A/B/O • 2/? • ao3

Conclave - n - ˈkänˌklāv

a private meeting or secret assembly

“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” —Source Unknown

• • •

Doc Owens calls the party and the adults to discuss some unresolved business after the closing of the gate.

[Work info below the cut]

Summary:

Hawkins was more or less the same even after the third run-in with the Upside Down. The town went on fine, unaware of the severe after-effects left to a handful of its inhabitants.

When Billy woke up from his coma, he wasn’t himself anymore. It’s only fair, considering everyone who found their sorry soul in contact with the upside down ‘weren’t themselves’ anymore. If that were all, maybe it would be easier to handle.

But that’s not all. No, Billy woke up with years— a decade— worth of buried bones crawling their way up to his surface. And maybe he would have been able to soldier on as before, if it weren’t for the changes. If it weren’t for his apparent detrimental need for ‘scenting’. If it weren’t for the fact that Harrington is the key to it all, and something about all of it (or is it just Harrington?) seems to pull the bones up faster.

[Additional Tags: Sort of canon compliant until it’s really really not, anti ST5, pretty much everyone lives after s3, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Omega, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Angst and Feels, Angst and Humor, Angst and Romance, Comfort/Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Trauma, Childhood Trauma, Psychological Trauma, Bonding Over Trauma, Omega Verse, Alpha Steve Harrington, Omega Billy Hargrove, Alpha Jim "Chief" Hopper, Omega Joyce Byers, Alpha Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Omega Lucas Sinclair, Alpha Mike Wheeler, Omega Will Byers, Beta Dustin Henderson, Scenting, scenting for therapy, Touching, Lots of Touching, it’s real important, the dove is so very alive, Comedy, Tragedy/Comedy, Rating will change]

[bopbyers]

i’ve been anxious to open tumblr bc my brain gets overwhelmed easy but im in tears seeing how sweet everyone was on my last post hoooooly shit

like oh my God you guys are the sweetest people in the entire world, how lucky am i

yall have no idea how much it meant coming back to sm love like that’s insane to me lol so so insane

thank you guys sm 💕💕 im ready to ease back into will world 🐇