#jakemarco

[theidiotabides]

Just two happy teenagers to whom nothing bad has ever happened.

aka I'm teaching myself Krita and there is not enough art of Jake & Marco for my liking, so: birds, stones, etc.

[forlay]

anything jakemarco + fluffy please--

just having a nice time <3

[theandxlitebandits]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Jake Berenson/Marco, Jake Berenson & Rachel Characters: Jake Berenson, Marco (Animorphs), Rachel (Animorphs), Tom Berenson, Cassie (Animorphs), Tobias (Animorphs), Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, Auxiliary Animorphs Team Members Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hurt No Comfort, past Jake/Cassie, takes bits of book 53 & 54 Summary:

Jake sealed his fate the moment he looked Rachel in the eyes and realized he couldn't ask her to die for him.

[bayofwolves]

i think axmarco is my life now . oh no. i’m sorry jakemarco nation

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

have you written any jakemarco?? and if so can you link it please god its so cold out here /lh

I have here!

[ratknight]

Hi there I am shaking both of your hands for your Animorphs takes they are just so 👌👌👌 like that comic about Jake telling Marco to cope it was such a GUT PUNCH and that moment on the books is so representative of their toxic dynamic I feel but people don't TALK about it and I feel like I'm going CRAZY thinking of it.

YES. YES. GATHER AROUND MY ANIMORPHS FANS WHO WILL ANALYZE THE FUCKED UP IMPLICATIONS OF JAKEMARCO…

And even how this dynamic extends out to the rest of the team, too. Off the top of my head, the way that roles and archetypes are played upon, brought up, and beaten INTO the characters themselves, by each other, to such an extent that it’s obvious how incongruent the real character is vs. the Archetype. I wrote a college paper on how Jake’s dialogue in one of the final books played on the stoic nationalism often found in male sci fi heroes. All the characters have some shit like that. And marco is, imo, the BEST character to explore that through. Because he is constantly molding and reforming himself. Because he is in control. Because despite that, he still can’t escape who he actually is, and how he feels.

[thecooler]

i dont think i ever posted this but fuck.............. post-war jakemarco man. i think most ani fans see Jake as het and Marco is usually shipped w Ax but.......... it’s smth that really struck me while reading the kids’ post-war logs.

if you read between the lines of marco’s narration, you realize that marco isn’t actively talking to jake. he tells cassie he sees him regularly and is worried about him but he never actually mentions talking to him. we know marco has spied on him in bird form too, so im leaning towards “is actually always in bird morph and never actually talks to him”

and i found myself dwelling on what if marco actually did talk to jake? what if cassie had realized he wasnt telling her the whole truth and made him do it?

jake lost all sense of normalcy post-war. he couldn’t cope with what his life has become because, very arguably more than all the others, his life had been viciously torn to pieces, beyond repair. he ordered his cousin to kill his brother, killing her in the process, very likely killed his parents in the process of slaughtering the yeerk pool, and if they are alive, they likely dont- can’t- talk to him any more. 

cassie won’t talk to him- can barely look at him- tobias, who was always first to question him, hates him openly and viciously, and ax is on a different planet. marco has been there since the start. he’s the only thing jake has left from when this all started- the only one who was close to him from beginning to end

i really believe so much could have changed for both of them if they had just... talked. theres a lot of strength in solidarity, and neither of them had that. they emerged from the war horribly traumatized child soliders. jake was herelded as a hero, but constantly regrets the decisions he made as the groups’ leader, and regards himself as a war criminal and isolates himself. Marco pretends to be okay and drowns himself in luxury but if you know him at all you can clearly tell that he has no direction in his life any more, that the war sucked any normal track his life could take away and he’s stuck walking in circles

i just. its the little things. if marco had pushed himself back into jake’s life, yknow? they both start meds [marco’s idea], and go to therapy [jake’s idea], and eventually they live together- it starts when jake has a major down period and marco is worried for them. they spend a lot of nights passed out on the couch together because one of them knew the other would spiral that night if they weren’t by their side. 

eventually, things get a bit better. not all the way, never all the way, but bit by bit, jake is able to talk to people again. the two of them get back into video games and they play together, jake starts doing occasional interviews and talk shows and the like, though he requires a lot of emotional support through the process. marco finds an outlet through city planning. its not the same, and he sometimes becomes frustrated, but they’re managing, theyre coping

eventually marco sort of awkwardly asks if they’re uh, yknoiw?? dating? and jake is sort of awkward because he’s had feelings for marco for years now but hes never known how to express them 

i just want. the traumatized kids to be marginally ok

[matrose]

mini playlist ask game: jakemarco?

THANKYOU SOOOO MUCH but i actually already did that hehe ill repost the songs just for youthozgh<3333333

me and michael - mgmt

godspeed - shayfer james

the edge - panicland

where the sidewalk ends - sidney gish

the king - sarah kinsley

[searching-for-synpathy]

Kill me im gonna make an animorphs destiel scene redraw for the LAUGHS except i ended up reading the actual dialogue and IT WOULD KIND OF UNFORTUNATELY BE INCREDIBLY POWERFUL WHEN APPLIED TO JAKEMARCO LIKE FUCK

“You see yourself as a weapon but everything you do is for love”

“I cared about the whole world for you” THATS LIKE REALLY JAKEMARCO RIGHT THERE!!!!!

[gregorvorbarra]

i’m listening to a jakemarco playlist i made 2.5 years ago and i want to die of sadness 

[theidiotabides]

I started to pull away, but then I hesitated. It was a strange moment, because right then I realized what I was doing. It hit me. This tiger was becoming part of me. All that power and confidence was becoming part of me.

"He's beautiful, isn't he?" I said.

I expected Marco to say something sarcastic. But he said, "Yes. He's magnificent."

-#1: The Invasion

Listen. LISTEN.

You know that trope where one character goes "isn't this a beautiful sunset?" and then the other character looks directly at them instead of at the sunset and says "Yes." ?????

This is Marco doing that to Jake, about Jake's battle morph, and god I have so many feelings about it

[forlay]

dont worry marco. kiss for you

[theandxlitebandits]

them on the brain

[tomberenson-blog]

HMM your choice pairing with 25 + 16 + 44?

not in a shippy way but this absolutely screamed marco/jake to me so..let’s see where this takes us

16 - “It could be worse.” 

25 - “I can’t believe you talked me into this” 

44 - “If you die, I’m gonna kill you” 

“If you die, I’m gonna kill you,” Jake hissed at me. 

Hold on. Let me explain. 

You know the drill - I’m Marco. Just Marco. The yeerks are here, they slither into your brain and turn you into a muppet, the only defense against them is a group of teenagers that can turn into animals, and yeah, the world is probably going to end. 

But let’s forget about all that for a second. We’re still freshmen in high school; I still get into dumb shenanigans, and I still have a best friend who gets roped into all of them with me. And that is exactly what happened when I talked Jake into egging our math teacher’s car in the school parking lot. 

“I can’t believe you talked me into this,” Jake said wearily as we crouched in the bushes outside of the school. 

It was dusk. We’d taken our bikes and made our way to the school in time to catch the teachers in for a mandatory meeting. And there, under the lamplight, was Mrs. Nacker’s ugly silver Honda. 

“She’s a homophobic jerk,” I muttered, shrugging my backpack off my shoulders. I fished out a carton of eggs and placed them delicately in the soil in front of us. “Didn’t you hear her going off today at Mr. Johnson about the new prom policy? She’s a bitch.” 

“I know, and I agree that she’s a bitch - I really do - but we can’t just go egging our teachers’ cars, Marco!” 

Jake had that look about him - you know the one. The one where he looks all in pain and his eyebrows get furrowed and he bites his lip a little bit. Kind of adorable, if I’m being honest. It was just one distraught look away from the face he adopted post-battle. 

I patted his cheek. “If you wanna leave I don’t blame you. I’m a big boy. I can handle this by myself.” 

He scowled and batted my hand away. “You can’t handle anything by yourself. I’m staying right here.” 

Grinning wickedly, I handed him an egg. “Then let’s do this.”

In retrospect, I should have factored the car alarm into the equation, but I’m also a huge dumbass. Within a minute of the first egg being thrown, it was ringing off the hook, a sharp knife through the otherwise silent twilight. 

“Shi - “ Jake scrambled away from the bushes and grabbed my hand, yanking me to my feet. 

“I’m an idiot,” I gasped as we ran for the bikes hidden at the end of the lot. 

“Hey! You!” sounded a stern voice from the side door of the school. It was none other than Mrs. Nackers and - you guessed it - Chapman. The one and only. 

We were almost to the bikes. And then, in a painfully in-character move, I tripped over my own feet and ate asphalt. I skidded to a stop and took note of the rather vicious pain in my right leg. 

“Go on without me,” I told Jake dramatically as he stopped to groan in frustration. “You can make it if you go now.”

“Oh - shut up, Marco,” he said through clenched teeth. He sprinted back toward me with his hand out. 

It was no use. Chapman and a few other teachers descended upon us in moments. It was tragic, really. Even my drama teacher was there, wearing a slightly stern yet ever amused expression. 

So, that’s how we ended up in the main office the next morning: me, covered in band-aids, and Jake, his hands wringing nervously. As I stood in front of Chapman’s personal office and ran Jake’s words through my head (if you die, I’m gonna kill you), I nodded. 

“It could be worse,” I said weakly. “At least Mrs. Nackers’ car was successfully egged.” 

The hand gesture he shot me as Chapman opened the door earned us another week in detention. 

[politicalbloodtea]

I’m so alone in the Jake/Marco ship.  It’s more like a paddle boat with five other people

[ratknight]

HERES HOW JAKEMARCO CAN STILL WIN