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The Animorphs books begin with a tale of Evil Yeerks invading Earth and the Andalites the distant heroes who can come save everyone if our young heroes last long enough for them to arrive.

And it keeps that facade intact for our young heroes for, oh, about five and a half books.

Then Jake, after boiling a hundred Yeerks in a Jacuzzi without a second thought, watches Temrash 114 die slowly and painfully while controlling his own body. Even knowing Temrash will doom Earth if he escapes, even knowing that Temrash has broken his own brother into a shadow of himself, Jake feels real sorrow.

Then Ax calls his people for help and is given the blame for his brother's crimes because the Andalites can't tarnish a hero's reputation in the middle of their long-running war.

Now here's Eslin Three-Five-Nine. Not an "ally" by any stretch, but he hates Visser Three more than he hates the Andalites. Because Visser Three lied to him. Because he lost Derane Three-Four-Four.

It's just the beginning. Just the cracks.

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i can be your angle,or yuor devil...

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Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!!!

(I made this a couple years ago, inspired by a tweet from the podcast Animorphing Time.)

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like father like son like uncle like brother ???

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what’s your favorite megamorphs/supplementary book outside of the core numbered series? i liked the one that dove into elfangor’s backstory

To the polls!

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First attempt at an Animorphs battle scene for todays warm-up~

Sketched in ink and added some shading and stuffs in clip.

[axjake]

may i offer you a crumb of nostalgia? or a refreshing sip of vinegar?

some friends & i ended up talking about animorphs a while ago. at some point in the conversation i was explaining andalites to my partner who never read the books, stopped & went ".........you know what i'm gonna do?" to which people responded with "make an andalite bjd?" and yes. they were absolutely correct.

this also finally motivated me to sculpt a centaur body with more joints. i'm very happy with the range of motion in this, especially how nicely it lies down. need to work a little bit on stability, but the poseability is where i want it.

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My favorite part of Animorphs is how Elfangor literally never has a good day ever.

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Ax: I must study these humans and record my findings for when I return to the Andalite homeworld. This research could be important.

Also Ax:

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Big brother

Elfangor and Ax redesign no one trillion

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every animorphs book

chapter 1: my name is jake. I can’t tell you my real name, because I’m the leader of a special group of kids… we’re called the Animorphs. Because we morph into animals and fight aliens.

chapter 16: ‘god, please don’t do this,’ i begged on my knees. Visser Three had all of my loved ones hanging from his claws in his multi-armed alien morph and was slowly squeezing the life out of them. ‘you must either choose them, jake, or the rest of your planet.’ i couldn’t take it. i started to morph into a cockroach.

chapter 23: as i felt my own brain slither down my throat and into my torso to reform into my digestive system, my bones also began to dissolve into dust inside my skin. my eyes shrunk back into my skull and i could see into eternity- i could see my own mind, taken over by the yeerk. i had already taken my last breath as a free creature, now i saw my last vision as a being of this dimension. suddenly, i was gone. and my parents would never even know i had died. was saving the world worth this? i wondered, if anyone on this planet could be forced to prioritize one life over another, what choice would they make? how can any decision be right, or wrong? i closed my mind off, and fell into eternal sleep, my last echoes of thought being of how humanity continued to live on, but not truly alive.

chapter 26: ‘hey, bro, wanna go to mc d’s and grab some fries?’ marco asked, riding by on his skateboard. ‘yeah, that’d be totally radical!’ i answered, whipping out my own razor scooter. as i pulled a nasty kickflip, i felt eyes watching me. turning around, i saw my own dog, and thought of the horrible truth only i knew. we went to the mall to get big macs. it was a good day to not be dead.

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don't believe everything you see

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Space fight

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they won't feel anything, they won't be hurt. if you don't wanna watch, you don't have to.

thinking about Cassie and the frog scene from e.t.