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cluelessrebel1988 · 6 months

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If I Ran The Zoo (or how I would plot out an Animorphs TV/streaming series if I had the time/ability/resources)

So this is something I've been kicking around in my head on-again, off-again for a couple years now, and I thought I'd put it out there, just for the lols (do people still say that?)

My thought process is for a 5 season arc, with each season being somewhere in the neighborhood of 13-15 episodes long, give or take. There would be a few changes with the order of things, and a few minor characters would play a bigger role. I'm not going to go episode by episode, but just sort of outline the big arcs for each season. I'm not in any way suggesting that this is the best way to do it, just that this is how I would do it.

Season 1

This season obviously would start the events of The Invasion and would primarily incorporate events/plot points from the first 10 books, including finding Ax in his crashed ship (though I would move that to either take place in the first episode, or in the second half of the two-part premiere), Tobais getting stuck in his hawk form (and getting an episode or two dedicated to him coming to terms with that), and introducing Erik and the Chee (Erik would be introduced as a friend of Marco's early in the season, with his identity as a Chee being revealed in the second half of the season).

The only major plot point from that run of the series I wouldn't put into play just yet is the reveal of Marco's mother as Visser One (although I would be very much establishing her through flashbacks, dreams, etc., so people will recognize her when Visser One does show up).

The main arc of the season would involve the Kandrona Ray and the events of The Stranger, with the team meeting the Ellimist and learning about the ray and its significance and plotting to take it down to try to end/expose the invasion. Erik and Ax tagteam providing info about the ray and its use, but it's the vision from the Ellimist that gives Rachel the final clue, again, as in the book, with that occuring at the end of the penultimate episode. The season finale is solely focused on devising and executing the plan to destroy the ray. The plan would succeed, which would prompt Visser One's return, revealing her host to be Marco's mother as the cliffhanger for the season.

Obviously, we would be exploring the kid's home lives more, with the relationship with their families and friends and the whole 'work-life balance' thing that comes with fighting a guerilla war against an alien invasion. Not to the point where they're having to fake illnesses to skip school every episode, but enough to show that it's putting a strain on their relationships. I would also explore Rachel's relationship with Melissa Chapman more and have Melissa be a bigger supporting character in the show. We'd also introduce Karen and Aftran in this season, revealing her to be a controller early on, but something that Cassie doesn't find out until the end of the season

Season 2

Season 2 would pick up a few weeks after season 1, as The Alien did with The Stranger. The kids learn that their hope that the invasion would reveal itself with the Kandrona ray destroyed were in vain and that Ax knew that. The premiere would largely follow the plot of that book, with the Animorphs attempting to integrate Ax into society and attempting to take the fight to Visser Three with the help of a Yeerk traitor, and Ax telling the others about the Law of Seerow's Kindness. Ax would get a lot of development this season, with the events of The Deception coming into play.

Tobias would help free the Hork-Bajir as in The Change and get his human form back as a morph, and the reveal that he is Elfangor's son would be included in this season as well (Obviously we're tapping into the Andalite Chronicles for flashbacks in at least one episode this season to help set that up).

Marco's main character arc would revolve around learning that his mother is Visser One, keeping it a secret, only to have the others find out later, thus incorporating The Predator and The Escape. Also Visser One is the big bad for the season, delving more into her conflict with Visser Three. The season would end with her supposed death following the Animorphs' thwarting of her plans

For Cassie, we cover the utilize adapted versions of The Departure and set up for The Sickness, with Karen/Aftran and Cassie perhaps getting trapped somewhere and forced to work together to get out of it, laying the groundwork for Aftran to be captured by Visser Three. The season finale would also center around the efforts to rescue Aftran.

Jake and Rachel will have arcs and roles to play in each of these stories as they each start to fall into their respective roles as leader and fighter, respectively. If they get their own arc, it would be around trying to save Tom specifically.

Additionally, Melissa is still around in her expanded role, but with a new friend: David, who would be introduced fairly early in the season in a recurring role (Melissa is also recurring at this point). She and David will have a B-plot where they become friends and are together when David finds the morphing cube, the discovery of which also occurs in the finale.

Season 3

Obviously, the primary source for the main arc of season 3 is the David Trilogy, with The Discovery in particular serving as the source for the season premiere. It plays out mostly the same, with the Animorphs learning that David and Melissa have the cube and plans to sell it online. They try to retrieve the cube before the two of them can attract the attention of the Yeerks, but ultimately fail, leading to the battle at David's house. They manage to get Melissa and David out of the house before they can be captured, and are forced to reveal themselves and tell them what's happening, essentially recruiting them into the Animorphs.

The events of the rest of the trilogy, with the threat to the UN summit or some similar event involving world leaders as a target that they have to keep the Yeerks from taking advantage of -- as well as with David and Melissa's reactions to being Animorphs -- would take up the majority of the plot this season. Obviously Melissa becoming an Animorph opens up some new potential for her arc, especially around her relationship with her dad and trying to come to terms with him being a controller (and the fact that Rachel has been keeping this a secret all along). She and David would have similar arcs around their parents being controllers, but while David ultimately turns against the Animorphs, Melissa does not (although David tries to convince her to). The season ends with the gang trapping David in a rat morph, as the books do.

One of Melissa's major character traits is her interest in technology, something she used to bond with her father over (working together to take things apart and then put them back together before be became a Controller to try to keep her safe) and I imagine her and Ax developing something of an awkward friendship as she tries to ask him about the morphing technology and other Andalite technology, with him being reluctant to share due to the Law of Seerow's Kindness. But, as he's grown closer with the Animorphs, he would eventually acquiesce and they would begin to bond. The two big relationships (Rachel and Tobias, and Cassie and Jake) also take major steps this season

The other major arc for the season involves other Andalites, incorporating The Arrival and The Other, with the reveal that other Andalites are on earth and some are there to help...or are they? The season would also end with Tobias getting captured by the Yeerks to begin the laying of the groundwork for the discovery that the Animorphs are not, in fact, Andalite bandits.

Season 4

The events of The Illusion and The Test would be adapted for the season premiere, including the introduction of the Yeerk resistance (led in this series by Karen/Aftran) and Tobias's capture and torture, with the main difference being that it is Tom (who has largely been a secondary or tertiary villain thus far) being the one who conducts the torture. During the interrogation, Tobias lets something slip that most of the controllers in the room don't pick up on, but Tom does, leading him to investigate and setting up for the finale, which would be largely and adaptation of The Diversion, with the race against time to save their families taking up the majority of the episode. Melissa is able to save her parents, her father proving to be an asset in the final season with his knowledge of how Yeerk technology works.

This season as a whole would focus on escalating the war between the Animorphs and the Yeerks. The stakes become higher, as are tensions following David's betrayal. Visser One returns, learning that Marco is one of the Animorphs and we incorporate the events of Visser, seeing the Animorphs rescue her.

Following Tobias's capture and torture, Rachel becomes more angry and vengeful, setting up for her arc over the final season (we've seen hints of her violent streak over the series up to this point, but it gets more intense this season).

Season 5

With their secret out, the Animorphs regroup in the Hork-Bajir valley and try to figure out their next move. The final arc of the series would play out largely how it does over the course of the final books, with the team recruiting more Animorphs to help them with their mission, and even trying to recruit government and military officials to aid in the fight. Tom gets the morphing cube, adding controllers with the ability to morph (other than the newly appointed Visser One) to the threat against the Animorphs. The final battle would be a multi-pronged attack, with the bombing of the Yeerk Pool being part of the final assault and not a separate battle.

Rachel gets aboard the blade ship and kills Tom before being killed herself. In an effort to make up for the harm he caused, Hedrick Chapman sacrifices himself to both ensure the Yeerk Pool bomb goes off and to save Melissa one final time (the pair of them were in charge of building/detonating it, along with Ax), and Jake orders the flushing of the Yeerk Pool on the the Pool ship, alienating Erek and the rest of the Chee going forward. All of this is in the penultimate episode.

The series finale follows the aftermath of the war in The Beginning, and, as the books did, the series would end with Jake, Tobias, and Marco (and probably Melissa) being recruited to help save Ax from an as-yet unknown threat.

And there you have it, my outline for how an Animorphs series could/should play out. As I said at the start, this is just my idea and others might have different thoughts about what order the arcs should go in and what significant changes (if any) would be made. Please be kind with any criticisms, and if you'd like to share your thoughts with me, my inbox is open. I also did a fancast for the series a few years ago if anyone's curious about who would play who

#animorphs #series outline #just my ramblings #Jake Berenson #Rachel Berenson #Marco #Tobias #aximili esgarrouth isthill #Ax #Cassie #Melissa Chapman #David

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auntphibian · 1 year

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Since y'all really liked my other animorph art, here's one from the Hork Bajir chronicles.

The more I read these books the more I hate the Andalites, which I think is suppose to be the natural progression of the reader.

First off, Seerow's kindness is just tragic all around. If I was super advance and saw intelligent life stuck living in mud puddles or monkies I'd want to help them as well. But at the same time I understand the Yeerks. If my choices were mud puddle/monkey or I could take a host and experience the joys of sight and sound.... i think I'd take a host. It's all around such a tragic situation and it's such an amazing story to hear play out.

And man, the Hork Bajir. Poor Dak, you learn your entire species was specifically made to be less intelligent and now every other species looks down on you for that. I feel bad for Aldrea too of course. Seeing your entire family killed then forcing a war on peacful species because it's that or enslavment.... just... man.

I love these chronicle breaks but it's really not much of a break when it's so much freakin sadder. But I do love Aldrea and Dak, they wefe adorable. Very Tarzan and Jane but with way more war and way more tragedy.

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thejakeformerlyknownasprince · 7 months

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I don't know if someone discussed this before, but do we know if there were any gedds on earth during/by the end of the invasion? If there were, what do we think happened to them after the war?

Maaan, I wish we had more intel on the gedds. It's possible that Aftran and Edriss are correct in their perception that gedds lack higher-order brain functions and genuinely benefit from symbiosis with yeerks... and it's possible that this is the same flavor of lie as humans telling each other that insects don't feel pain.

I sorta prefer the idea that it really is symbiosis, because then Seerow interrupts a fully-functioning ecosystem by infecting the yeerks with Andalite-Style Imperialism. And that fits with the themes of the series better. Whereas "there's no non-harmful way for yeerks to inhabit hosts" feels less on-brand.

That said... where does that leave the gedds? Maybe as hosts for yeerks who want to remain yeerks, but also want to leave the pool at times? Maybe they return to the homeworld? Maybe in some kind of protected Earth space, like the hork-bajir and taxxons? (If so, and if they don't have their own Toby or Arbron, I shudder to think about the risk of exploitation.) I'm torn, because the question of their sapience and independence is so unanswered.

#animorphs #gedds #aliens #as always: there's an ideal answer and there's a realistic answer #and animorphs always hews pretty close to the realistic answers #soooo...#gedds as a new type of lab animal it is!#*shudder*

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kooldewd123 · 1 month

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I really wish we could have gotten a book about the Ax/Elfangor dynamic because the way Ax talks about Elfangor in book 4 is fascinating to me with the added context of the Andalite Chronicles. Ax is shocked that Elfangor broke Seerow's Kindness? He thinks Elfangor would be upset with him for explaining Andalite technology to the humans? Elfangor? He's nearly as sentimental as Seerow himself, especially when it comes to humanity! He constantly disobeyed orders to defend them. He broke Seerow's Kindness to be with them. He considered himself as much human as he was Andalite. He abandoned the war entirely to live on Earth instead and had to be dragged back, kicking and screaming, by the Ellimist. And clearly there's no way Ax knows any of these details. But his perception of Elfangor is so much more militant than the personality he displays in the Andalite Chronicles that I would love to see how much of it is actually Elfangor straightening up and how much is just Ax projecting the image of the perfect warrior onto his big brother.

#animorphs #animorphs elfangor #animorphs ax #elfangor sirinial shamtul #aximili esgarrouth isthill #idiot teenagers with a death wish #koolmathgames.com

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tunashei · 7 months

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First Impression of Animorphs!

I'm listening to the Animorphs series while I work, through Animorphs Aloud - a fan made reading of the series. Here are my first impressions/random thoughts about them! Spoilers below if you haven't read them.

Book 8: The Alien

OOOOOOH AX POV! Ax Pov! This is not a drill! I am so hype

Oh the mental imagery of Ax watching the space battle above him while sitting alone in this artificial dome is so...so emotional. The strange disconnect of watching helplessly in a veritable garden of eden as your brother and others fight above you in the cold vacuum of space. I'd like to draw it

And then the absolute terror of being ejected from your ship and falling into the ocean of the nearby planet. Stuck beneath miles of water pressing down on you. Chills

Also now I'm really curious what the surface of the sea looks like if you're looking up at from below many miles

Ooooh we got little diary entries! Very amusing! This book is starting off so strong

Loving the amount of planning for taking Ax to a movie, they've learnt from previous times!

One of the reasons I was so excited for Ax pov is stuff like learning all these Andalite words, and bits of biology, the different ways of observing things. Alien perspective is so interesting

Confession time, I listened to this book before Megamorphs 1 which is before this book in the timeline. So I had no idea was a Veleek was and was rather confused they'd beaten one

I love the regular forays into Ax's Adventures with Food. Please don't eat cigarettes baby

I was cracking up at work for this whole sequence. Got some funny looks.

Going to make a prediction. Seerow's Kindness is referring to Andalites helping out the Yeerks somehow. Also Seerow is Visser Three's Andalite Host.

My man eat with he feet

I'm so here for Ax and Tobias best buds friendship

Ax confirmed canonically hetero this is a sad day for us all :(

Ok why after the semi-disaster of the movies would you take Ax to school, that is one of the most stressful confusing environments for anyone. Also schools have registers they're not going to just let you bring in a new kid

Unless maybe the teacher won't care because they've got a bloody Yeerk dying in their head! The book has predicted this predicament!

However, very unrealistic that the kids fled the room instead of crowding around the freaking-out teacher. You'd spend 20 minutes chasing them out the room and they'd still crowd around the door peeping in.

Oh this is...a bad thing to have hidden Ax. Poor Jake. This whole conversation is very tense. Ax bringing up his brother as if to remind Jake he's already lost HIS brother to this war

Ax is always described as blue-and-tan, implying he's more blue than tan. I have a hard time believing people would think he's a deer from a distance considering his colours

Huh...wouldn't it be weird to never have moonless nights? The stars are always brightest on those days, great for stargazing. I wonder how bright the night would be if you had multiple moons. Or would it not be additive?

Fascinating evolutionary implications from a species having a biological clock that makes them war every 62 years. Some kind of mass population cull? Ensuring only the strongest breed?

Ok this is pretty funny but actually made me reconsider how we appreciate stuff?? Actually kind of mindblowing. We really don't appreciate food as an art form. After I'd listened to this bit at work, my boss gave us all a tin of chocolates. Ate them on the way home and took some time to really savour the flavour. My life is being enriched by these books.

'He was a male-as all human fathers are' Implication Andalites can have female fathers??? Maybe. Would be cool.

Ax totally winning at social interaction

Aw Ax, you are being very brave :(

Huh so this Yeerk controller loved another Yeerk? I could have sworn in a previous book it said they were incapable of love, I think the one where Jake gets infested

Poor Ax. You really feel his struggle in being compared to his brother, now having to take the blame

The yeerk just fuckin bailed out the andalite?! I was not expecting this. You beat Visser Three?!

Aight so the Visser's andalite was not Seerow. He's just...some guy. Ngl was hoping for a bit more info on that, I've been very curious how Visser Three got an andalite which no other Yeerk has acomplished

Although...they're on the home world? Maybe there are other andalite controllers. Ruh roh

You guys are absolutely going to regret not putting this andalite out of his misery. He's literally begging for death and you know the horrors of being infested, and will be an incredibly powerful enemy again if you leave him. I mean, you couldn't even try to lug him out of there? How many people are going to end up killed in the future because Visser Three remains an andalite?

Called it on Seerow's Gift being helping the Yeerks. I kind of get it though I'd feel sorry for any sapient species that had to life it's entire life as a slug in a pool

Winced when Ax confessed his fears of giving humans help that would lead them to be conquerors, and Marco brushing it off. Humans would absolutely become conquerors, it's in our history

Wow. This is definitely my favourite book so far. I expected it would be, I'm very into xenofiction (when a book is written from a non-human perspective) but I think the emotional journey was also great in this. The ending was a bit quick and weak. But overall great.

#animorphs #animorphs aloud #audio book #book #first impressions #reading

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featherquillpen · 2 years

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Animorphs Universe Timeline

This is a timeline not about specific books, but about major events in the history of the Animorphs universe. Shoutout to the Animorphs timeline makers who have come before me (1, 2, 3) for giving me a basis for this one.

10,000 BC: An asteroid strike causes an ecological disaster. In response, the Arn create the Hork-Bajir to terraform their planet into a place where the Arn can live sustainably. (1)

2,000 BC: The Chee arrive on Earth after the genocide of their creators, the Pemalites. (2)

~1965: The morphing technology is invented by an Andalite named Escafil. (1)

1966: Seerow's Kindness. Prince Seerow provides advanced technology to the Yeerks, and the Yeerk Empire is born. (1)

1968: Aldrea and her family arrive on the Hork-Bajir homeworld; the war between the Yeerks and the Andalites over the fate of the Hork-Bajir begins. (1)

1970: Alloran unleashes the quantum virus on the Hork-Bajir; Aldrea becomes a Hork-Bajir nothlit. (1)

1981: Alloran is infested by Esplin 9466; Arbron becomes trapped in morph as a Taxxon; Elfangor becomes trapped in morph as a human. (3)

1984: All six of the Animorphs are born; Elfangor returns to the war. (3)

1985: Loren loses all her memories and becomes disabled in a car accident conveniently arranged by the Ellimist. (4)

1991: Edriss 562 and Essam 293 arrive on Earth. (5)

1992: Edriss 562 as Lore David Altman founds the Sharing. (5)

1994: Edriss 562 takes Eva as a host. (6)

December 1995: Edriss 562 fakes Eva's death. (6)

Fall 1997: Tom is taken as a host. (7)

Fall 1997: Elfangor is killed at the construction site; the human Animorphs get the morphing power. (7)

Fall 2000: The Yeerk War ends. (8)

I really wish I knew how many years Aldrea lived with Dak as a Hork-Bajir before her death, and when Seerow Hamee was born, but I couldn't find anything in book 34 that specified it.

(1) The Hork-Bajir Chronicles.

(2) Book 10: The Android.

(3) These dates are arrived at by a series of inferences. First of all, let us grant that the Animorphs are all the same age, as implied by Elfangor's vision of the Animorphs' timelines at the end of the Andalite Chronicles. Second, let us grant that they are all thirteen in book 1, as told to us by Jake in book 54. Third, let us grant that the events of book 1 take place in 1997, as argued here. Fourth, the Andalite Chronicles tell us that Elfangor is whisked back to the war three years after the main events of the book, and Loren is pregnant at the time.

(4) In book 49, we learn that Tobias was a baby when Loren had the car accident.

(5) Visser tells us that Edriss and Essam landed in the middle of Operation Desert Storm; Edriss's first human host was an Iraqi soldier in that conflict.

(6) In book 5, Marco says it's been two years since his mom's "death." If we assume that book 1 is in fall 1997 (as argued here) then it makes sense for book 5 to be in winter 1997, and for Edriss to have used the reason of Eva boating in December for some godforsaken reason to fake her death. Peter also says in book 10 that his relationship with Eva drastically changed a year before her death.

(7) I'm accepting this timeline, which helps align the events of the war with certain pop culture references made by Marco, but Fall 1996 is not a bad choice here either.

(8) Jake says in book 54 that he is 13 when the war starts and 16 when it ends, so the war has to end about three years later.

#animorphs #animorphs meta

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holodeckprotocols · 1 year

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seerowpedia is amazing. i havent really read any animorphs since i was a kid so i looked up who visser three's host body was because i thought i remembered something (turns out i was wrong) but seeing things marked in human earth years is suddenly SO fucking funny to me??? like Seerow's Kindness happened in 1966

it's SO bizarre like what do you MEAN a foundational moment in galactic history happened during beatlemania!!!

#animorphs

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sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel · 2 years

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Ax: <That's not the speed of light.>

Marco: "Yeah yeah, aliens have access to advanced technology that lets them make better vacuums and measure things more precisely, tell me all about it space boy."

Ax: <I can't. That would violate the law of Seerow's Kindness.>

Erek: "Well you can tell me what the number the Andalites came up with is. I'm from an advanced civilization."

Ax: *tells Erek in private*

Erek: "...That's not the speed of light either."

Ax: <Of course it is. Andalite vacuum technology is far superior to Human vacuum technology.>

Erek: "Did you purge the vacuum of virtual particles? Account for the gravitational pull of the walls of the vacuum chamber on the photons? What about the minute differences in gravity that occur across the length of the chamber? Can you even be sure your photons were going straight and not doing that weird corkscrew they sometimes do?"

Ax, panicked: <NOT IN FRONT OF THE HUMAN!>

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pretty-rage-machine · 1 year

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fic author self recs

incredibly touched by @meikuree tagging me! I'm struggling to think of mutuals that I know write fic, haha. I'm a tumblr hermit. Uhh... tagging @misfitmccoward, @applesofthemoon, @yeoldesouthpole, @lostboywriting, @kitkat-bar, @transversely, and @mme-yersinia!

Five of my own fics I’d rec.

🐻🌠👋🗻FRIENDS🍦💎🔪🏄LEND💞🦆🕵️😲A👊👌🤟🙌HAND🤝🧙🔎💖- Gravity Falls, Mabel & Multi-Bear & Hand Witch and a smidgen of Ducktective... sorta.

This fic was a stretch for me but to this day I’m pretty proud of it! There’s a few rough spots I might massage out if I went back to it, but this story marked the first thing I’ve ever written for Gravity Falls. It’s a comedy story and the jokes seem to have landed well with people. It’s also a casefic! It does a lot of things! I feel like this story has good energy. Gravity Falls compels me as a canon because even when it gets dark, there’s always a joke around the corner, and I was trying to go for those vibes here (though this is not what I’d call a dark fic). I think it holds together and I’m still just really proud of it.

Chimera - Gemini (archive-locked), Heather/Sierra.

As always, on the reread I can see spots I’d smooth out or adjust. Still, I think this does what I set it out to do: it’s a creepy sexy horror story, written for an exchange and on a deadline, for a fandom I’d never touched before (kudos to the requestee for their incredible prompts tho). I had a lot of fun writing this story where the MC having killed her stalker only compounds her problems... readers seemed to really get what I was going for with the ending of this too. How else can you really know your thing has landed?

Incidental Violations of Kel Fraternization Code - Machineries of Empire (archive-locked), Cheris/Jedao.

Someone in the reviews described this fic as ruthless. Someone else said service top Jedao was living rent-free in their bread after reading this. Someone else on another website wanted to discuss the fic! I’m always the moon when someone likes a thing I wrote, but someone wanting to discuss what I wrote? My heart...! There is meat on those bones, there is. There is some staying power in there.

Anyway it’s a Cheris/Jedao missing scene set during the siege in Ninefox Gambit, and it felt like a risk to write and still retrospectively does tbh. My favorite smut fics also function as character studies, and character relationship studies, and by that benchmark this one feels successful. I think I wrote this over the period of a few days? As someone whose writing pace has slowed to a crawl in the past few years, I long to return to the groove.

A Season Under the Kandrona - Animorphs, Aldrea & Alloran & Seerow & Garoff.

This is set while Andalites were living on the Yeerk homeworld, a really underexplored time period in canon... I’m kind of obsessed with Seerow now tbh? I love him. He’s my almost complete nonentity background character blorbo. I also love Aldrea, with all her vicious, terrible flaws... the Animorphs holiday exchange landed me with a challenge to write a story solely focusing on the aliens. Yeerk/Andalite politics have always fascinated me. Aldrea is really young in this story, but I’ve always loved a tale where you know more than the narrator does, and can connect the dots independent of what they think or feel. Youth and naivete makes for its own type of unreliable narrator. It was a pleasure to dig back in a canon time period that remains mostly unwritten.

long still sea - Blade of the Immortal, Rin & Anotsu & Hyakurin & Magatsu & Manji, but mostly about Rin and Anotsu.

Written for Yuletide in the space of an afternoon. How DID I do it? This was written at a time when I was maximally embittered at the BotI ending, and this is my fix-it, which I still think is a pretty interesting story and an ending I wouldn’t have minded seeing - “more adventures await” is always an implication that, when it appears at the end of a beloved story, heartens me... These days I feel a bit differently about Rin’s final choice in the manga, but at this time I wanted to explore alternative options, and how whatever choices she made, she was going to lose something. Making the merciful choice - if it even was merciful - was never going to be easy, or unpainful. I still regard this as a really cohesive piece.

#my fanfic #gravity falls #blade of the immortal #boti #animorphs #machineries of empire #gemini (movie)

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transingthoseformers · 2 years

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I didn't forget about my Transformers x Animorphs crossover au (in my notes it's called Why Earth; Always Earth?, or WE;AE?) My mind just likes bouncing around projects far too much.

Anyways, more or less the attitude in it is the various human friends of the autobots meet the animorphs through slightly hilarious but in the moment harrowing shenanigans. i think it will be the autobots and friends mistaking Yeerk sketch shit for Decepticon sketch shit, the friendlies getting themselves in DEEP, animorphs come in thinking they're saving completely random civilians, shit goes sideways to the wall, and BAM autobots drop in to save their human friends. The animorphs would be probably in animal morph, idfk Visser Three would probably recognize that Oh Shit Cybertronians, so there would be a mutual dispersal. Now, the animorphs would likely be freaked the fuck out, and instead of asking one of the friendlies they do the typical animorph thing and morph small insects and hitch a damn ride. Once accidentally inside the base, they morph and play scary because for all they know it could be a new kind of controller species. Lots of "wait a minute, there's more than one interplanetary war going on on Earth? What is the Fucking Luck?!?" And the animorphs probably get caught demorphing or whatever and the autobots and perhaps government will figure out they're kids, blah blah retell events of the first book and Elfangor and the morphing, and there's an agreement that "earth is our home now too, we should help, ..." and basically that's how the autobots and animorphs start working together.

We get words from Ax about how andalites (and likely yeerks, hork-bajir, taxxons, and other non-terran species) think about Cybertronians considering the MASSIVE lifespan difference, the animorphs get the government's help finally, Optimus says kind words to Jake, perhaps the introduction of a MAJOR advantage against the Yeerks, idfk how the Decepticons might fit into this...

Megatron and Visser Three are pretty similar, though i do feel like there are a few key differences between the two and ultimately, Megatron would likely see through whatever bullshit V3 is doing and has more reason to stat neutral between the humans v yeerks. Not his circus, not his monkeys. Visser three would definitely see the Decepticons as a potential weapon against the humans and as a threat to the Yeerks plan, and have more motivation to perhaps steal some Cybertronian technology, find a way to infest them, or perhaps try to eliminate or drive the Cybertronians off of earth entirely.

Who knows? From the Visser chronicles, Earth and the humans were really the perfect fucking target for the Yeerks, so maybe a Cybertronian presence on the planet wouldn't be enough to scare them away. Would MECH have motivation to work with the yeerks? I say definitely, probably especially through a lower tier visser or sub-visser. The promise of yeerk technology would be too sweet for MECH to resist.

Anyways, this au has serious potential for alien and human shenanigans and i feel like the discussion between the differences in the Great Cybertronian War and the Yeerk War (okay yes for brevity's sake I'm gonna call the Yeerk's entire attempted conquest of the universe from the moment they betrayed Seerow until the moment it ends on earth "the yeerk war", because well it is their war.) will be very interesting.

#animorphs #transformers #tf au #we;ae? au #word vomit #tf megatron #visser three #look it was tfp in my mind but this can apply to so many continuities #also guess what Therapy should get accomplished in it because i say so

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rays-animorphs · 1 year

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so, I lost track of the order the non-numbered books are supposed to go in and am reading the hork bajor chronicles relatively late.

I am…really not happy with how Seerow’s Kindness is going. Why that particular narrative. Why. “Oh, guess the prejudiced people were right, and the obviously evil race is in fact evil and should never have been treated like people.” Why.

Granted I’m on like chapter 2. So it is possible the rest of the text will shed a different light on things. For now it’s somewhat painful to read though.

#Hork-bajir chronicles

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rebrandtdebibls · 2 years

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Gewete

ek staan met skrefiesoë voor die spieël

om te kyk hoe ek lyk wanneer ek slaap

ek is dieselfde as ek

want die lippe in die spieël roer

sonder myne en my vriendelike stem sé: jy lyk soos 'n lyk lyk

en tog behoort my sintuie nie meer aan my nie miskien slaap ek wel

en ek lyk anders, half-dood maar daardie vleis is nog lewendig

'n vinger roer, die ribbes gaan op op en af.

Here binne sal jy na die Middeleeue naby die jaar 1000 geprojekteer word.

Die apsis en die versierings dateer terug na die agt-en-negentigste pous, Pasquale i. Selfs die groot sentrale skip toon die teken van die millennia, dit word ondersteun deur 'n reeks antieke kolomme wat almal van mekaar verskil, duidelike herwinning van die ruïnes waarvan die gebied baie ryk is. Maar die uitstaande element, die gewildste en eienaardigste een, is die elegante beeldhouwerk van 'n antieke oorlogskip wat die ingangsplein versier. Dit is ook 'n waarskynlike herwinning waarvan die oorsprong 'n raaisel is. Toe ek as kind so verbygegaan het, het die ruimtetuig vir my soos 'n groot speelding gelyk, ek het my verbeel dit vaar tussen die branders, seil in die wind en gelaai met matrose, miskien besig om die beleg van gevaarlike seerowers af te weer. Kinderdrome eenkant, ons weet dat dit in die sestiende eeu daar geplaas is deur die wil van Pous Leo X, en ons vermoed dat dit by daardie geleentheid gerestoureer is met vorms tipies van daardie era. In elk geval, sy oorsprong is beslis in antieke Rome. Daar word gedink dat dit 'n soort eerbetoon is wat die antieke Romeine gebruik het om hul beskermers te dank.

Wat de hel van dankbaarheid kan 'n marmerskip ooit wees! Die hipoteses is baie, maar die mees geloofwaardige is dat dit 'n huldeblyk was aan 'n gevaarlike reis wat suksesvol was. Trouens, in die omgewing rondom die kerk was daar, benewens die brandbestryders, die castra peregrinorum, of die barakke van die soldate wat op die grense van die ryk gestasioneer was, mense wat dikwels baie riskante reise in die gesig gestaar het. Nog 'n suggestiewe hipotese is dat die skip deur die matrose van die Capo Miseno-vloot naby Pozzuoli gebeeldhou is. Hierdie spesiale afdeling van die Romeinse vloot is, benewens die verdediging van die grense op see, gebruik om die Velarium, of die ongelooflike mobiele dak van die Colosseum, gebou met 'n ingewikkelde weef van seile wat hierdie matrose hanteer het, te maneuver. Hulle barakke was reg in hierdie area, naby die Colosseum.

Seile wat die bekendste monument in Rome dek? As jy verbysterd was, laat ek jou twyfel oplos deur jou op 'n kort besoek te neem waaraan jy met 'n bietjie goeie verbeelding sal moet deelneem.

#afrikaans #poeta #dutch language #vangelo

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