Hey look! Proper Animorphs fanart! It's not exact, but it was heavily inspired from the books where is front legs slam out of him as he's deliriously morphing.
Do you think there is a version of events where the anti-morphing ray does end up working in the story, but with a twist?
The ray doesn’t work on Tobias because he is a hawk permanently, but during the process of his torture and tinkering with the device….Taylor’s scientist team discovers the cure for nothlits.
Unsure if there has been a fic done under that premise or it is has really been considered before. Would love to hear your thoughts.
I love this idea, because it has so many layers of fridge horror. In theory, this could be canon all along and we just don't know it, because the yeerks wouldn't have a reason to release any such cure during the war. This might just have happened, but Tobias (and Arbron) never got to see the benefits.
My cat ran out into the snow and when I went to go look for her I found that she had morphed into a Mark Zuckerberg lookalike with very metallic skin and I think he was supposed to be my brother??
Decided to post this animation I made from last week.
My objective of this animation was to try and re-create the morphing burst on inque after she jump mid-air.
Fun fact: She kinda looks like the batmobile from batman beyond when I first watched her appearance.
It was fun in the end, maybe I will do more animation practice on shapeshifters.
Someone on a Discord group I'm in has been reading Animorphs for the first time, and they're bothered by the way Ax has trouble with walking/balancing on two legs, compared to how other complicated bodily stuff (e.g. flying as a bird) is always simple when paying attention to the body's instincts. From an out of universe point of view this is obviously to show that he's alien and has trouble fitting in with humans, but from an in-universe point of view it seems inconsistent with other morphing stuff. Sure, humans have to learn to walk, so it's not entirely instinctual, but birds also have to learn to fly (I think? I am very much not a biologist, maybe I'm wrong about that) and yet they can use instincts to fly reasonably well with no practice at all.
We ended up deciding that because he mixed four different bodies in the Frolis maneuver, his balance instincts expect him to be a different height than his body is, which I think is a cool idea even though it's certainly not Applegate's intent. But I'm curious if you have any thoughts on the issue?
So I actually don't think Ax struggling with human morph is at all inconsistent with the rest of the series. There are loads of times the kids struggle to perform actions that a real version of the animal would be able to perform effortlessly.
Marco takes a lot of trial-and-error before he determines how to make web as a spider (#10). He says he doesn't understand how it happened but that the resultant webbing is probably ugly as hell by spider standards.
Everyone nearly gets trapped in morph in #21 because the kids are terrible at orienting as fleas, to the point where it takes them half an hour to land on a dragonfly that's less than a foot away.
The first time a human morphs an andalite (#33), Tobias immediately gets his own tail blade stuck in a tree.
In MM1, Tobias notes the colossal stupidity of Marco and Ax being mice who walk directly across an open field; anyone who's ever released a mouse in the middle of an open lot will tell you that that's the best way to get it insta-killed by predators.
The kids' inability to use echolocation all that well is a major plot point in #4, #10, #17, MM2, and #27.
And then throw in the fact that humans themselves don't pick up bipedal forward motion that quickly. Babies take an entire year to go from sitting to rolling to creeping to crawling to "cruising" (using furniture for support) to standing. And even then, they're not called "toddlers" because their gait is particularly smooth or skillful. There are instances of feral children (Jeannie, Ramachandra) who didn't learn to walk at all with no one to teach them. Walking is natural for humans, but that doesn't mean it's automatic or effortless.