Weird Question
Do you think that if any of the Animorphs were Visser 3 that they would do a better job at conquering Earth in their own way?
Personally I think that somehow and someway if any of them were in Visser 3 position they would all do a better job then the 30 something year old (in Earth years slug) His ego is seriously way to much and most of his problems would be eliminated if he just listened to people who are experts and did threaten everyone with death.
I'm reminded of that quote about how you don't have to be a psycho to kill someone; you just have to think you're right.
Visser Marco: Easily the scariest of the bunch. He not only has the strategic thinking to get the job done, but he has the charisma to sell his transformational leadership style. Might still do the thing that Visser Three does with protecting a small inner circle at the expense of the greater Empire, but Marco has the right mix of ruthlessness and charm to make it work. TBH I headcanon that a big part of the reason the yeerks won in #41 is because some visser got their hands on Marco, and he's just that good.
Visser Rachel: Although she wouldn't share Visser Three's viciousness toward his underlings — she never fights anyone who she doesn't think is stronger than her — I could see her going all in on the monster morphs. Given her impatience with the nuances of leadership in #37, I could also see her getting too into the side project of finding All The Monsters to fight into submission for acquisition purposes, and quickly becoming bored with the task of hunting down half a dozen andalites.
Visser Cassie: If you've ever read The Host, I picture her like Wanda. She cares deeply about humans, she wants to save them, she's sad for them, and she views resistant hosts as being raccoons with a leg in a trap who bite the ecologist trying to free them. But also like Wanda, I think that very concern would be the seed of dissidence, because she'd listen to humans more than her fellow yeerks. If all of her human bodies are farm-raised not to resist, then she might go about her merry way through the galaxy finding and breaking in new host species for her people (again, like Wanda). But if she meets a human who has love and connections they're willing to fight for, she'd probably end up rebelling.
Visser Ax: Yeesh. Edriss 562 alert. I think if anyone would become the most like Visser One — brilliant, cold, elaborately convinced of the rightness of the mission, willing to view humans as pets — it'd be him. He doesn't like leadership, but if you convinced him it was the right thing to do, then he'd go to just about any ends to do what he sees as the right thing. And then he'll retire, with his 3-5 pet humans in tow, to a nice preserve upstate.
Visser Tobias: The clear loser. He's so dour, so willing to question everything, so unwilling to give orders, that he'd end up fired within a month. Whether the charge would be insubordination, dereliction of duty, or refusing to interact with his fellow yeerks, it'd be bad.
Visser Jake: He would be dangerous for a completely different reason than Marco. He's no strategist, but he is excellent at winning the loyalty of talented people and then delegating them well. If the Yeerk Empire is closer to an authoritarian military (you go where you're put, and you do that job until you can't) then Jake might not do well because he needs to be able to build a talented team for his own strengths to come out. But if it's closer to a ruthless American business (Meta will recruit talent from anywhere, and they don't care who they have to kill to do it) then Jake will have built and mentored himself a planet-killing machine of talented yeerks within a year. Heck, if he gets promoted to the Council of Thirteen, it'd be only a matter of time before he won over 10+ of his fellow counselors and became Emperor in all but name.
