Liveblogging The Solution (Animorphs #22) pt 3
anyway i hope this shitstain kid dies a horrible death i dont care anymore. good on applegrant for taking his sexism to a logical near extreme but uh. yeah fuck him up, Rach. Any chance you get. i know youre a kid and youll feel things about it but remorse doesnt really need to be on the list anymore.
WOAH OKAY WOAH WHAT THE FUCK. JAKE WDYM something is wrong with RACHEL, wtf is wrong with you that you'd say that to her???? wow wow wow i know theyre both highly emotional and overtired and fucked up over the Saddler shit rn (how tf did david get rid of the real one?!), but that was so so far over the line and off base that Jake is like my least favorite animorph right now what the actual hell. i thought he and cassie could commiserate over being able to read people and figure out how to make the group function well but he's just analyzing their sports stats and looking at them on the surface level like theyre video game characters he has to use well for mission to go right. like shit thats a horrible thing to have to practice especially since he's friends with them all and i feel so so bad for him but like.....dude. how could you believe all this about her and then also use it to your advantage anyway? and Say it to her?? so fucked. at least he knows he's doing it and kind of apologizes but like. it's not real. he's not going to stop doing this. and i know rachel knows theyre both left with little choice in all this but he didnt deserve a hug over it. i guess it was a good display for david who was glad to see them fighting but like. fuck. and im only on book 22!!
so this was another staged conversation obviously but i still wonder where and when they planned what they would actually do because of how paranoid they were about where David can be at any time.
oh okay next chapter answers that nvm. weird that david would dismiss a hawk flying so close over Cassie's barn though, even if he thought he'd killed him. like he's not particularly witty but he's certainly not dumb.
this is. so casually horrifying. (Do i ship marco and rachel rn? she really grabbed him by the neck in that staged fake plan scene. they really know how to push each other's buttons.)
are they gonna give him a fake escafil device?? or some kind of mcguffin rat trap that will force him to nothlit or something? idk but sorry rachel you guys are all killers. like i know it feels different to kill a human being but you all have killed hork bajirs and all kinds of people-adjacent beings in this actual genuine war youre in and you know just how sapient they are. you guys all killed the dinosaurs and the people living in the cretaceous period. youve been killers for awhile.
lmao i know this had to be public but it's hilariously insane that this conversation with david is in a taco bell.
i love that rachel can cry on command. i know it must not have een too difficult considering everything she's been through in the last 72 hours or so, but i know she must have been seething to have to act like she was scared and hopeless in front of David like that.
and then actually be helpless in rat morph jesus fuck. *After* he says that creepy shit about going with him ugh it makes me wanna throw up he's so awful
shit Rachel you should have just had someone in or out of morph pull you both out or something that's horrifying! and apparently somehow doesnt take that long? fuck
well im glad he gets trapped as a rat. suits him. but of course cassie would think of this. she knows how to make an effective rat trap and exactly how it feels to go past that 2 hour mark and lose your whole life to it. honestly this kid deserved this i think. i mean maybe death would have been nicer, but it would have been harder on the animorphs. he wanted to live by the rules of nature or whatever. just not as prey.
anyway here's Rachel again, protecting everyone from anything she can because she loves so fiercely.
She doesn't want to be a weapon, she never did. She wants to be a shield. And she has all my respect for that.
