So Alloran how are you doing as the War Prince among a guerrilla team of ariths?

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So Alloran how are you doing as the War Prince among a guerrilla team of ariths?
IM FINALLY DONE YAAAYYYYY TAKE THIS HERE TAKE IT!!! I finished this while starting Pluribus and so far it’s really good, not too proud with how this turned out but fuck it we ball
isnt it cool that youre stuck with someone that you dont even know
“He haunts the narrative” bro’s not even Tom Animorphs
Thinking about the Berenson’s makes me fucking sick, man.
Rachel and Jake are literally SO similar. Both of them fulfill roles that destroy them physically and mentally, but they do it to protect the rest of the group. Neither of them wanted this. Jake hated being leader, making hard calls and life and death decisions, but he knew it was necessary. Good, even, if it kept his friends safe, if it saved his family.
Rachel never wanted to be the group’s assassin. Yes, she enjoyed the rush of violence, maybe even it itself, but she never wanted to be known for it. She never wanted people to look to her for it. But she knew it was necessary. Good, even, if it kept her friends safe, if it saved her family.
Because someone has too, right? So it might as well be them, because at least they can handle it. The world was thrust upon their shoulders, but they gladly held it. Even if it crushed them.
Even if it killed them.
All the Berensons died in the end. Rachel and Tom literally, but Jake too, and their families. How could they be the same after that sacrifice? But they had to do it.
Because someone had to, and at least they can handle it.
The version of The Capture that I read was the reprinted one. For the most part not a big deal. But then this line in the last chapter:
We all met at Cassie's barn. And I used her dad's cell phone to call Tom at home. I went partly into a wolf morph before I did. Just enough to make the smallest changes. p. 152
HER DAD'S CELL PHONE!
Great job kids, the Yeerks now know a number to call! And that phone can easily be linked to one of your families! Doesn't matter that you hid your voice, Jake, I think caller id was a thing. And Cassie's family's numbers are probably in your family's phonebook because you hang out with her a lot.
I assume in the original print it was a pay phone. Just since they worked very hard to use things to not link back to their families and homes when they could. A pay phone would make sense. Not a family member's cell phone.
I get they were trying to modernize the story so taking the time to explain a payphone might have seemed out there to them but really? Really? We're supposed to buy that the Yeerk in Tom's head isn't going to try to dial that number later?
My spicy Animorphs take is that yes the ending is not good. Yes I get the point about war but it’s not well executed with the random evil. It fits neither the never ending slog of war angle or the PTSD angle.