#animorphs headcanons

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

@jelimore said: What’s each Animorph’s favorite movie from before 1960?

Tobias: Metropolis. It's cerebral, it's weird, and it's Marxist as hell.

Cassie: It's a Wonderful Life. It's sweet, it's sad, and it shows one person can make a difference.

Marco: Some Like It Hot. Gender is fake, the rules don't matter, and nothing is funnier than the patriarchy.

Jake: Bridge on the River Kwai. It's American, it's cynical, and it's about the power of working together.

Ax: The Wizard of Oz. This is basically his life story.

Rachel: Sleeping Beauty. The O.G. Disney movie where the women slay dragons (and become them) while the men wait to get rescued.

#animorphs #classic movies #animorphs meta #animorphs headcanons #i'm never not thinking about that salman rushdie essay about the wizard of oz

[please-help-this-little-lesbian]

Random Headcanons I have about modern-day Animorphs

Rachel

Would be super into thrifting. She'd post hauls on her TikTok that would have millions of followers.

Marco

Is a Swiftie. Argue with the wall. He'd love Mitski too. And unironically love country music.

Tobias

Used to post his art on Instagram as well as fanart. He also had a fairly popular Tumblr, though he's not exactly active anymore.

Cassie

Has been arrested protesting Global Warming. Republican politicians hate her.

Ax

Has been banned from Bath and Body Works for eating the candles and hand sanitizer. He's also banned from Sephora for similar reasons.

Jake

Has an Ao3 account. It is the only social media he has. His fics are huge and the bibles of their respective fandoms. Tobias has unknowingly read his fics.

#ftr ALL the animorphs were arrested at said protest as well #Jake's author notes are wild #“sorry for the late update guys my grandpa died and I had to stop my alien brother from killing my dad” #animorphs #animorphs headcanons #jake berenson #rachel berenson #tobias fangor #jake animorphs #rachel animorphs #tobias animorphs #marco animorphs #cassie animorphs #ax animorphs #aximili esgarrouth isthill

[acavatica]

what are your animorphs height headcanons?

At the beginning of the war (all 13, and whatever age Ax is) Marco < Cassie < Tobias (human) < Ax (human) < Jake < Rachel < Ax (Andalite) At the end of the war (16) Tobias (hawk) < Cassie < Marco < Ax (human) < Rachel < Jake < Ax (Andalite)

Adult heights Jake: 6'3" Rachel: rip at 6' queen Tobias: ~20 inches long, ~4 ft wingspan Cassie: 5'2" Marco: 5'5 1/2" (the half is important) (his grindr profile says he's 5'9") Ax: almost 7 ft (over, if you count the stalk eyes), human morph 5'10"

#animorphs headcanons

[gros-chat-fait]

Just six normal teens hanging out in the woods. --

100th post and final drawing of the year. Happy holidays and new year, everyone <3!

#animorphs #just some normal teens who don't have ptsd or have ever killed or lost a family member to an alien invasive army #me: i'm gonna put everyone in shoes so i don't have to draw feet #also me: anyway here's human!ax and it wouldn't make sense for him to wear shoes here...... oh #they said ax lived in a shack in the woods right? anyway my headcanon is they found this bushcraft shelter and commandeered it #been practicing backgrounds because i wanna start working on a graphic novel next year #so this style might pop up more from now on #less characters floating in white voids yay #art du chat

[toweringclam]

I love it when you meet an alien who's Extremely Autistic and you think, oh, it's just because he's an alien but then you meet the rest of his species and find out no really he's just autistic

#autism #autistic #autism headcanon #worf son of mogh #star trek tng #tng #star wars #star wars ahsoka #grand admiral thrawn #aximili esgarrouth isthill #ax animorphs #animorphs #tos #star trek tos

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

I am now thinking more about the Jurassic Park/World - Animorphs crossover AU (Dinomorphs?). It has stuck in my head like a bad song and I can't get it out.

InGen and any of the other companies involved with making the dinosaurs would be taken over by the Yeerks almost as soon as the Yeerks arrive. These companies have biological engineering capabilities approaching the level of the Arn, but on a much better planet. The Yeerks would be salivating over that.

Following on from this: Hybrid dinosaurs like the Indo-series Rex and Raptor or the Stegoceratops from the video games are probably Yeerk projects. The Yeerks are looking for ways to create more shock troops to unleash on the Andalites.

Similarly, we could expect to see even more interesting hybrids involving alien DNA. Velocihorks and Pterotaxxons and Geddosaurs. I imagine most of these hybrid projects would be failures that illustrate the depravity and utter inhumanity of the Yeerks, like the failed Aquatic Hork-Bajir project.

Dinosaur-controllers, mostly with medium-sized dinosaurs that can function as guards or shock-troops but aren't too big to fit inside of Yeerk ships. As much as Visser Three would love to have Tyrannosaur-Controllers on the payroll, they're just too big and their arms too tiny to be useful to the Empire on a day to day basis. (I imagine this is the same reason the Yeerks can't deploy the giant monsters on the Hork-Bajir homeworld to other planets - their spaceships just can't hold the critters, there's not enough room.)

Visser Three, of course, would have all the big dinosaur morphs. He can bypass the "too big to fit" limitation thanks to Alloran's morphing ability.

Because the Yeerks have to use smaller dinosaurs in their ships and Yeerk Pools, the Animorphs could still use their regular battle morphs (or in Ax's case, his normal Andalite body) for a lot of the fighting, if they aren't able to acquire dinosaurs themselves. And if Visser Three turns into something too big for them to handle, they can do what they usually do and run.

If the dinosaurs have escaped into the wild before the Animorphs get into the war, then smaller dinosaur morphs could be acquired at Cassie's barn.

Following on from the last point - if Cassie has any mid-size theropods at the Barn, or if there are any at The Gardens, then Tobias definitely gets stuck as one of those instead of a hawk.

How would the chimeric DNA of the dinosaurs affect morphing allergies? What if Rachel burps up a Baryonyx or an Ankylosaurus because it has the part of the crocodile DNA that she's allergic to in it? Is this how we find out Jake is allergic to Tree Frog DNA?

Toby and the Free Hork-Bajir adopt a dinosaur early on. I don't know what kind yet.

#Animorphs #Jurassic Park #Dinomorphs #headcanons and other ideas

[i-ges]

Cursed slimecicle sketches

#qsmp #headcanon he animorphs into Gegg #I am contributing to the fandom #qsmp fanart #qsmp slimecicle #my art #slimecicle

[pixelsilver]

Young andalites are born with underdeveloped eyestalks, practically nubs on their head. This is to protect the very delicate budding nerves at the end of each stalk while they're in the pouch. Once out of the pouch, the eyestalks start developing. The eyelids start completely glued closed in a similar manner to a young kitten or puppy. As they grow, the nerves lengthen and grow, causing the very elastic skin to stretch inch by inch while the eyes develop slowly at the ends of the nerves. By four months, they're completely developed. Once they're able to see out of them, the very first thing they seem to always look at is their own faces. If it's just because it's more comfortable to curl the newly developed stalks inward or if they're just fascinated with their newly discovered self, which this is around the time they start being able to recognize themselves in a mirror. But this habit soon stops when they start developing thought speak and an new fascination with the world around them.

#Andalite #Animorphs #Baby Andalite #Andalite Headcanons #Marsupial Andalites

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

idk if this is still the case but when i was really In It in animorphs feelings a couple years ago because i was unemployed for the first time in my adult life / temporarily living alone in the last house my family lived in / freaking out about climate change / generally Going Through It, and like poking around the animorphs scene on tumblr, there was this notion commonly expressed that rachel and tobias were "toxic," the major piece of evidence for which was the scene in 33 where she "tries to trap him in human morph." which like first of all i'm SOOOOOO SORRRY that the fucking fifteen-year-olds secretly fighting a guerrilla war in which their greatest threat is the mind-controlling slugs they're trying to save humanity from but their second greatest threat is the diminishing hourglass of their collective sanity as they all have to work steadily harder and more desperately to not just completely lose their shit entirely from all the violence and literal 24/7 constant threat and murder that is happening, like i'm sorry two literal children who have managed in this ongoing horror show to forge a bond of loyalty and affection and care and attraction and understanding that can act as a kind of solace neither of them have any other way to access, sorry those actual murder babies sometimes have some communication problems. lmao. but also it's insane to me that people read that scene (in which they're dancing to, i'm not making this up, iris by the goo goo dolls - i mean they don't tell us the song but it's a slow goo goo dolls number that even tobias knows, so - they're dancing to iris by the goo goo dolls at a school dance that is not going well because they are both awkward about the newfound public Officialness of their relationship and rachel who is the only one of them who has ever been capable of socializing like a normal person is in a particularly bad mood because of the emotional hangover of her starfish adventure [great concept executed terribly in the previous book], and then like after two entire minutes of letting himself feel some nice emotions tobias spots the clock and starts leaving to go demorph and then rachel runs after to him to awkwardly attempt to share that she is very fucked up about how insane she has become and she wants to hold on to things like school dances and also this is all happening in a hallway by a student poster on red tailed hawks that states their lifespan of a handful of years in the wild, it's so good) as rachel trying to trap tobias in morph, when like, first of all, "good thing happening -> time to punish myself for feeling nice for 5 whole seconds " is like THEE tobias thought pattern because he's the number one kidlit trauma baby of all time, like truly the first time i dove back into the series i was struck by how well his narrative voice captures Child Of Insane Family Dysfunctionality, he is NOT a reliable narrator on this, but also second, and more saliently, like, believing this scene is rachel attempting to trap tobias in morph requires that you believe rachel, all by herself, made a plan in advance and then attempted to execute it, which is a skill we literally never see her demonstrate even one fucking time outside of the comfortingly familiar hunting ground of the mall

#animorphs #i have a hard visceral aversion to personally adopting ADHD headcanons in general #(you do you idc about people's headcanons but like #this is one that reliably does not do it for me [person with ADHD] and which also often makes me feel weird for vague reasons #but again like this is not an Argument or a Criticism have your fun it's simply not for me) #BUT. someone once said they headcanon rachel as ADHD. #and that is... the ONLY time i have ever read that and been like 'oh wow no okay yeah that tracks' #which honestly thinking on it now i feel like sort of helps me articulate why i'm usually like 'her?' #bc i feel like i tend to see it as like 'this would be cute/relatable/fun to project on to' (you do you not for me) #or i see it based on like... a perception of general ADHD Vibes #which like. on the one hand i get. there can be Vibes. there's a reason the set of people i Enjoy A Lot has ADHD overrepresented on it. #but personally i am like. but where are the scenes of them ruining their own life for reasons attributable to ADHD traits #i don't personally get anything out of lumping people into a DSM category with me if they are not also constantly ruining their own lives #like i can just relate to them because we have similar Vibes. that's plenty. #but rachel................. #the scenes of rachel constantly ruining her own life because of her inability to think for 5 seconds before speaking or acting ever. like. #that's in every book rachel ever has #she literally has a line at one point like 'i don't know why i say these things. they just pop out of my stupid mouth.' girl same... #anyway. speaking of ADHD. i have GOT to stop letting myself 'just check tumblr a little bit' while i'm waiting for the adderall to hit

[church-of-crayak]

i'm bored at work, so here are some personal headcanons abt andalite eyes!!

-andalite eyes have stronger color associations than humans, like, to the point they're physically wired for it

-their main two eyes' eyesight looks a bit like the filter over the first Twilight movie. this means that blues are common and almost overbearing, and that reds pop more than anything.

this is connected to their evolutionary history as prey animals, when reds and other, more vibrant colors signified danger, and their fellow andalites meant no harm. other andalites do not stand out as much as potential predators and, incidentally, lots and lots of peaceful aliens.

-their stalk eyes are tritanopic, only seeing in shades of cyan and red. they're also much more adept to sensing movement than anything else, like the eyes of a cat. they are also low-effort—keeping them open and surveilling does not directly disrupt sleep, but can affect REM. their motion-based sensitivity is very useful for catching assailants before they have a chance to strike.

-many andalite soldiers and arisths are suspected to have sustained damages from their near-complete lack of deep sleep. it's also been observed in retired andalites that adjusting back to a healthy sleep pattern will often come with adverse side effects such as disorientation, psychosis, and insomnia. It can take years for an andalite to stop jerking awake when their stalk eyes are closed—even after just three months of sleep training.

-there are andalite scientists pushing to stop forcing soldiers to sleep with their stalk eyes open, as it hasn't been proven to keep soldiers any safer since standardized security systems became far more accurate than the average andalite. the argument in favor of sleeping with two eyes open is generally "lack of proof" that sleeping in this fashion makes any tangible impact on their ability to fight. They also argue that the possibility of machine error is too high to unequivocally trust.

-yeerk branding and design was just a knock-off of the ubiquitous bluish andalite aesthetic (for obvious reasons, nearly all of their tech is stolen or repurposed andalite stuff), right up until visser three infested an andalite himself. upon experiencing how strong the instinctual andalite aversion to the color red was, he decided to rebrand his fleets with striking red decals and outfits in an effort to put more fear into the hearts of their main enemy. this was so effective that it was adopted by yeerk culture as a whole.

-the visser marks his elite soldiers with blue bands because it's been so ingrained into his own psyche that red equals bad and marking them with blue is his own, overtly simplistic method of telling his own allies apart.

#txt #animorphs #andalite #headcanons

[theidiotabides]

Would really love to hear about the angsty marcotobias fic if you're interested in sharing. 👀

Oh gosh, I feel like I'd have to actually write it for it to make sense because like 80% of it is subtext, but here's some rambling in that general direction.

I'm chiefly interested in the ways in which Marco & Tobias are actually incredibly similar -- their senses of humor, their attractions, their complete direspect for authority, and most importantly how they both lowkey hate themselves but insist on survival anyway, largely out of spite -- but how they treat their similarity as, like, a cautionary tale rather than the basis for a healthy connection that it could be.

Like, Tobias disappearing into the woods and giving up on everybody is exactly the kind of behavior that Marco finds incredibly triggering, having lived through it with his dad. Marco would never walk away from his remaining loved ones like that, especially in the post-war world where he's charged himself with being the public face of the Animorphs because somebody has to. But there is absolutely a part of him that wants to give up and disappear; ya boi is tired.

Meanwhile, I think Tobias sees Marco's devotion to Jake and refusal to abandon him even after how Rachel died (which Tobias blames Jake for) as a version of the hero worship complex Tobias used to have about Jake -- like, I think Tobias sees Marco as being too devoted to Jake to see "the truth" about him, and he pities that in Marco. But at the same time, Tobias envies Marco's close personal connections, and I think on some level he knows that the only way to get to that place would be to work through his anger at Jake to get to his anger at Rachel, and he just can't bring himself to do that. It's easier to stay mad.

And then there's the question of Rachel herself, whom they were both deeply invested in trying to keep alive at the end of the war. Like, we see this explicitly from Tobias, with his "just be Rachel" and constant emotional check-ins with her, but I don't think Marco gets enough credit for his active role in keeping her literally alive. Dude bodily removed her from battles, at risk to his own life, and I just refuse to believe that's not something Marco & Tobias talked about, given how much time they spent together in Ax's scoop during that period of time between Marco's fake death & the move to the valley. Rachel is both a mutual love and a mutual failure for them (and that level of mutual devotion to a third person gives my polyamorous ass A Lot of Feelings).

Basically I think there's a lot of respect and love between Tobias and Marco, but they can't get to it because it would require each of them to deal with Rachel-related guilt and confront parts of themselves that they don't want to acknowledge.

...so I want to get them high on Marco's fancy penthouse balcony and make them kiss about it

#when I say “their attractions” I mean both of them are in love with both Rachel & Jake because they are Berenson-sexual #also I cannot be the only person who headcanons that The Scoop Boys were weed smokers #like maybe when it was just Ax & Tobias they were more straight edge but as soon as Marco was living there they were lighting up guaranteed #I have never met any 16-year-old who spent that much time either programming or hanging out in the woods who was not a pothead #I bet they were all absolutely high af when they hacked the CIA #I bet Marco used CIA employee credit cards to order pizza while Tobias and Ax giggled and shushed each other in the background #I also have a lot of Feelings about the role that Marco plays in helping Tobias rescue Loren in 49 #like there's this line where Marco says that Jake sent him & Ax to check on Tobias & I Do Not Believe It #Jake was losing his shit over his family at the time; he just let Tobias fly off alone & he spends the whole next book abdicating leadershi #Jake did not so much as consider the possibility that Tobias would stage a solo rescue mission; meanwhile Marco was fully expecting it #Marco absolutely took his own initiative in rallying Ax to help Tobias & then credited Jake for it because he didn't want to be Seen Caring #I also have like 10% of a fic about this btw but it's mostly centered on Jake #animorphs meta #animorphs #tobias animorphs #marco animorphs #marcotobias

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

what horrible new halloween costumes do you think will become popular after the war?

Andalite tourist (lazy version): Don a headband with blue stalk eyes, and carry around a Krispy Kreme box.

Andalite tourist (hardcore version): Paint your entire body blue, have an inflatable second set of legs and tail attached to your butt, and attach the tail blade to a wristband so that you can swing it around by waving your arm.

Animorph (lazy version): Put on bike shorts, take off shoes.

Animorph (hardcore version): Exactly match Rachel's preferred cut and color of leotard. Wear brown fur boots and gloves, then use body paint on your arms and legs to make it look like they're transitioning into a morph.

Yeerk (lazy version): Borrow your friend's The Sharing shirt.

Yeerk (hardcore version): Shave your head, and paint your scalp with the illusion of a window looking in on your brain with a slug wrapped around it. Then borrow your friend's The Sharing shirt.

Hork-bajir (lazy version): Get a t-rex costume, add a headband with blades on it.

Hork-bajir (hardcore version): This one involves stilt-walking, while wearing knives, and has been banned in six countries by November 1 of the first year after the war.

#animorphs #animorphs headcanons #halloween #halloween costumes #andalites #hork-bajir #yeerks

[ziekaramaik]

Whenever you think the Animorphs act out-of-character in the ghostwritten books, tell yourself it's because the Ellimist and Crayak were secretly changing their personalities as part of their game.

The only good thing about Ellimist and Crayak is that we can probably blame every plot hole in the series on them.

#animorphs #the ellimist #crayak #headcanon #meta #ghostwriter #ghostwritten

[gros-chat-fait]

A 2-part series inspired by the #54 cover which paid homage to the Stones' Hot Rocks 64-71 Compilation cover.

The songs:

Cassie - 14/Street Fighting Man Jake - 19/You Can't Always Get What You Want Rachel - 02/Heart Of Stone

#animorphs #jake berenson #rachel berenson #cassie #hair headcanons time: #jake's hair started going grey in the final few books #rachel opted to trim her own and her sisters' hair as a gesture of normalcy while at the camp #also post-war cassie likes big warm sweaters when she's at home #had to take a break because i wanted to listen to other music beside this album #might finish the other trio next month #art du chat

[ladytauria]

can I be evil and just yoing the book jaytim we talked about? /j

lol uh how about an au where when Jason goes to test out Tim in the TT a lockdown happens or whatever and they are locked IN together

i will give you both xD

[ au ask game ]

jaytim books as gifts au (insp, ask)

Tim gets it in his head that he's going to woo Jason with books. The idea comes from two main sources--first, Dick causing Jason to go off on a very long, very passionate rant about a favorite book/series, and second, finding out Jason is in a book club. (These things may have come up in the same conversation.)

He immediately draws a blank on what books to get. After some subtle inquiries (and possibly some light breaking and entering; it's fine, Jason aims for non-lethal areas most of the time these days), he figures out what to get, and after some digging manages to find a copy. It happens to be one that Jason's been looking for, so he gets pretty excited to see it and kisses Tim.

For added humor the initial gift exchange happens on Valentine's Day. Thing is, Tim's sense of time is, ah. Warped. Especially after several long nights spent book hunting and then bidding. So he. Has no idea. Jason on the other hand is perfectly aware, and like. He already had feelings for Tim, so he's more than happy to consider them dating now <3

Tim continues to find more books for Jason, which Jason is pleased to accept. In between that, they go out for coffee, lunch, dinner, etc. I also want there to be like... a cute scene where they end up reading each other's favorite books on Jason's suggestions.

Eventually it comes out that they're dating---maybe Jason calls Tim his boyfriend? Or maybe Tim finally actually asks Jason out? And both of them are flabbergasted that... they were not on the same page. (Also I'm thinking Tim's POV, so this is when it comes out the initial exchange happened on Valentine's Day :P)

putting the second one under a cut!

titan's tower lockdown AU

(dub-con ahead~)

Jason waltzes in using his codes & drugs the other Titans so his showdown with Tim is unimpeded, as in canon. During their fight, I think they end up in one of the labs. Maybe Tim had been testing some kind of pollen? The canister is breached, which immediately triggers a lockdown in the lab.

The pollen (or whatever it is) is still new, so there's no antidote. Maybe the pollen isn't immediate acting, so there's some time for them to panic. Tim does try to override the lockdown, but between Jason cutting the power / blocking communications and then the protocols themselves, there's just no way for him to do so. So. They're stuck until the drugs wear off of the Titans.

Both of them are definitely feeling the effects of the pollen, but it's pretty ignorable? At least for the moment. They end up arguing. Tim tries interrogating Jason about his plans / actions, Jason resists answering, maybe insults Bruce and/or Dick, which Tim argues with.

They end up fighting. The spike of adrenaline doesn't mix well with the pollen. Or maybe it's more accurate to say that it mixes too well. And they end up fucking <3

Am split on this last one. Part of me wants them to be released as soon as the initial round is over? But the other part of me wants them to be stuck together for a while after, and have to deal with the aftermath immediately~

#jaytim #asks and answers #deepwithintheabyss #a) the book gifting one reminded me of my recent headcanon that jason was really into the animorphs books as a kid #tbh i think all of the batkids would have enjoyed those #b) the second one... i was GOING to go with 'they achieve some kind of mutual understanding' but u know what #there are many of those #so i did it this way instead ;) #my posts #au asks #<- for easier finding

[unnamedboxvoid]

My animorphs hyperfixation has returned a tiny bit so time for a RANDOM HYPERFIXATION MIX THINGY

(Inside Out + Animorphs) [its a headcanon sorta thing about what if they had morphing powers]

Since they’re emotions acquiring animal DNA would be difficult so maybe emotions probably don’t have to follow that logic (Or maybe in this scenario Riley is an Animorph and she’s acquired some morphs, and her emotions automatically have those same morphs?)

Joy - at least once (probably multiple times) almost nothlit-ed as a red panda, or dog (someone else had to remind her about the morph time limit of 2 hours) [a nothlit is someone who goes past the 2 hour limit in a morph, and ends up stuck in that morph. Tobias being an example of this, he ended up stuck as a red-tailed hawk.]

Sadness - she has a raccoon morph. I can’t explain why. When she’s not needed for a while, she sometimes roams Headquarters as a raccoon for a little while when she’s bored. She climbs on everything when in her raccoon morph though.

Fear - prefers fast-moving morphs, like a cheetah or gazelle. He also likes specific species like opossums and cats. He uses the cheetah and opossum the most. He ends up knocking memories out of the short term memory thing when he zooms through headquarters as a cheetah though.

Disgust - has to tolerate Fear’s opossum morph, to her annoyance. She doesn’t like morphing because the process grosses her out. She usually avoids it unless she has to. When she does morph, her preferred morph is a cat.

Anger - he has a grizzly bear morph. He almost tried to maul Fear while morphed once. Either it was simply bear instinct and he stopped himself, or the others had to physically restrain him.

Bing Bong - no morphing powers for him, he would be a bit of a troublemaker with them, bothering mind workers and other inhabitants of Riley’s mind. (And probably stealing more memories n putting them in his bottomless bag)

Anxiety - almost nothlit-ed as an opossum once. Both she and Fear freaked out during the realization that she had to quickly morph back before she was stuck that way.

(Not including the rest of the IO 2 emotions because we don’t know how they’re like).

#random things #inside out #inside out 2 #inside out fandom #animorphs #headcanons #i guess its headcanons lol #inside out joy #inside out sadness #inside out fear #inside out disgust #inside out anger #inside out bing bong #inside out anxiety