#Yeerk names

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Where did you get the name “Jim Carrington”?

Visser Two's host in #46. We don't know his first name, just that everyone calls him Admiral Carrington.

Of course, in that AU, the war ended before that yeerk ever got to be Visser Two — we know he gets promoted near the end of the war because he's a kissup to Esplin 9466-01. But he was probably at least somewhat important even before he got ranked that high. So I'm headcanoning him being ranked somewhere around Visser Ten as of the events of #19.

[tomberensonsghost]

I had a dream last night that Rachel was captured and she had to sacrifice herself to end the war, but then she ended up not surviving. Everyone thought she died, though, and since the war was over she didn't think anyone needed her anymore, so she didn't tell the others that she was alive. Instead she left and reinvented her life. She became a travel blogger, and eventually Jake found her blog and recognized her. He arranged to 'bump into her' on the street, and when she pretended not to recognize him, he pretended not to know it was her. But they became friends, and he introduced her to the rest of the team, and they all traveled together and everyone pretended she wasn't Rachel.

Something something how they all need each other even when they're pretending to be someone they're not something something they'll always belong together even if they change something something friendship transcends the self something something

[yalikejazz9]

The ongachic bbeg in my (coming soon) animorphs dnd campaign!

(SHES SO SILLY I CAN'T STOP DRAWING HER)

[saritawolff]

Hey Animorphs fandom this one of you?

[krakendra]

an inniss of the second century?? what does that MEAN you've been spacefaring for less than TWENTY years. you're all BABIES.

oh god the yeerks are all babies

are the chapman's yeerks... friends?? the yeerk controlling mrs chapman is concerned about Innis 226's safety???

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

Silly Idea #13

Marco: "Can we focus? How to we stop the Yeerks from turning New York into New Yeerk if we live all the way across the country?"

Ax: <I don't believe that would be a typical Yeerk naming convention.>

Rachel: "Relax, Ax. It was one of Marco's lame attempts at a joke."

Ax: <Ah, I see. And you employed rhyming for a similar effect?>

Rachel: "Huh?"

Tobias: <Relax, Ax.>

Rachel: "Oh! No, I didn't do that on purpose."

Jake: "Guys, can we focus?"

Marco: "Okay, okay. We're focused. We are so focused. We are incredibly focused right now."

Tobias: <Isn't New York also called the Empire State?>

Jake: "Goddammit…"

[kooldewd123]

The parallels in the Hork-Bajir Chronicles are driving me crazy. Oh, a group of peaceful individuals is forced into guerrila warfare? They're forced to grapple with sacrificing their own morality in exchange for the survival of their race? They're just trying to hold out for long enough for the Andalites to come save them, but the Andalites see them as so low priority that by the time they get around to helping, it's too late? The Andalites ignore a species that the Yeerks see as their greatest asset? Dak Hamee names his son after an Andalite, and his grandson, Jara Hamee, names his daughter after a human? Dak, a Hork-Bajir seer, witnesses the rise of the Yeerk empire, and his great-granddaughter, Toby, another Hork-Bajir seer, is instrumental in its downfall? Holy shit I can't take much more of this.

[justnoodlefishthings]

new animorphs character idea: average american dad named something like Mike Johnson is rendered brain dead in an accident, a Yeerk takes the body as a host. Though the original mind is dead and gone the Yeerk can still access memories and stuff. Yeerk becomes incredibly attached to his wife and three kids and learns to be an all American dad in the 90s and basically ignored the entire invasion thing because just wants to raise his family and get the promotion at work over that jerk Henry Fitzgerald

[dalishious]

Do you have Non Dragon Age examples of Gray Morality done right?

IIRC Animorphs is a good example, namely the last half chunk of the series when readers start to actually learn more about the Andilites vs Yeerks history, and also the kids themselves get a lot darker by the very end of it. But it's been over 15 years since I've read them.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

what if the animorphs got the death note?

Cassie: Would burn the thing. Doesn't care if she dies in the process. It's worth it, to get it out of the world's hands.

Marco: Would go on a fact-finding spree to figure out the names of as many yeerks as he possibly can. Would figure out that some stems (e.g. Iniss) are followed by multiple sets of numbers, and would give himself carpal tunnel writing Iniss 0000 - Iniss 9999 in the notebook. Would claim to his friends that he also doesn't know why a mysterious disease has killed so many yeerks lately.

Jake: Would ask the group what they should do with it. Whether Rachel and Marco would succeed in arguing for it before Cassie and Ax succeeded in arguing against it is anyone's guess.

Ax: Would never use it. Would probably also give it back to the group. Controversial opinion, I know, but he cares deeply about fighting fair and with honor. If he could figure out a way to use it to save his friends he might, but he'd probably vote to bury it in the woods if forced to cast a vote.

Rachel: Would use it. And then stop using it. She fights those who are stronger than her, and spares those who are weaker. Any time she can use it against a yeerk with an involuntary host she will... but those names are hard to find, and she's not going to stop mid-battle to pull out a pen. She'd conclude it's no good as a weapon, but if Marco asked she'd announce she got rid of it because it takes all the excitement out of the war.

Tobias: Even more controversial take, but. If anyone would go full Light Yagami, I think it's him. He's the one pushing to use the Time Matrix to "fix" history in MM3. He's the one who kills Hitler after learning this is just a jeep driver, because he's Hitler. He argues with the Ellimist, and thinks he could do better. He sees the world as injust, and he's angry about it. He would argue it's immoral not to use the Death Note. I could see Tobias writing down every Visser's name... and then Pol Pot's... and then Charles Manson's... and then Taylor's... and going from there.

[tomberensonsghost]

My name is Rachel. I can't tell you about the bitchin' sale at Ralph Lauren because of Scholastic. And I can't tell you my last name or where I live because of the Yeerks. But it's all true. Tops were 80% off, pants 75% off.

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: They can't tell you their real names, or their dæmons' names. The Yeerks are everywhere. But they're going to fight back.

Author: @featherquillpen

Note from submitter: A really really good animorphs rewrite. Also a fantastic look at what a society with daemons would actually look like

[sillylotrpolls]

For the purposes of this poll, assume Elfangor crash-landed in the Shire and met five young hobbits named Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie, and Tobias.

[spongyspingy-rising]

I named them Tallis! I'll do a colored/less mess drawing of them later but I just wanted to get the basic idea out

Tallis is the name of an alien parasite inhabiting an Aether dragon; it's visible in their dragon form, but in their two-legged form the parasite lives in their mouth and esophagus. the dragon they inhabit isn't really in control, but they are alive! think kind of like Yeerks from Animorphs.

they are kind of a little gremlin, and all the other Aethers find it pretty weird that they eat meat.

[drjdorr]

I just realized something kinda hilarious about Animorphs

Every book we are told how they can't tell us their full names because telling us that puts them and everyone they know in danger, then the second book we are told about Melissa Chapman who's father and mother are both controllers and who has been best friends with one of the Animorphs from childhood and whose cat Visser 3 personally knows about. She is the worst possible person to be properly identified. We even know the name of the yeerk in her father's head.

Kinda dropped the anonymity ball there big time

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

In the future there will be Yeerks named Jacob, like Jacob 317, or Jacob 992, and it'll be completely acceptable and no one will think it's weird they're all named after a guy who grew to hate the very idea of Yeerks as a species. Surprisingly, there won't be any Yeerks named Marco, probably because Yeerks spend all their time in a pool and no one wants to have have a conversation with someone who says "Polo" every time you try to talk to them.