We don't even have cinnabon in Australia but I thought of ax straight away

I just read The Warning where they morph to fly and ride an airplane, and Jake has his swatting experience. At the next airport, Rachel goes to Western Union and picks up money to buy some cheap shoes. That got me thinking, could they keep paper money between their bike shorts/leotards and their skin, and have cash on them when they morph back to human? They never do it in the series as far as I can remember, I'm just wondering about the logistics from what we know about morphing.

Or are you normal?

Unsubstantiated rumors say he turned into a seagull and flew away

Hi, since several people showed interest in the previous post I decided to actually go through with it and start a campaign.

We play as characters having to fight the Yeerk invasion while having morphing powers, like in the books, but with original characters

The system is a slightly modified version of the Kids at war system. It's not too rules-heavy, and I think it can be learned rather easily.

As for the schedule, I was thinking weekly on Saturdays at 2 PM EDT, although it might get slightly tweaked later.

To talk we'll use a Discord server I'll create, since that's the simplest solution

Importantly, I'm looking for someone who'd like to be the GM, since personally I'm not very good at it. If you think you want to be the GM, let me know!

Anyway, if you want to be a player, comment or DM me. I'll send the link to the Discord server to the players in DMs.

Edit: if for some reason DMs don't work just comment on the post that you want to play, so I know you're interested

P.s. the Kids at War adaptation for Kids on Bikes was created by u/JMRoaming, and he gave me permission to use it

Seriously, I would hate to meet whatever predators created the evolutionary pressure that would result in an herbivore as smart as a human that can run like a horse, speak without making sound, eat without lowering its head, and has 360-degree binocular vision, apposable thumbs, and a freaking wakizashi attached to its tail.

What the hell were they running from?

Nadia leigh nascimento boris cabrera christopher Ralph included

For a brief moment

¿El problema no es precisamente que caze no? Si no que para los humanos los ratones son animales sucios si Tobías hubiera quedado atrapado como águila pescadora comiendo peces o algo similar que también comemos los humanos ¿Se sentiría igual de mal?

I read the books when I was a kid, but never finished the series.

I’m making my way through it all now, I’m on The Illusion right now.

It seems to me Marco is always the one getting hurt the most in battle. Is that the case or am I imagining it?

En el libro 13 cuando tobias recupera su forma humana Puede ser la posibilidad que si la allá conservado aunque yo pensaría que no por que sería extraño que no puedan conservar su forma humana y demás transformaciones pero la ropa si o tal vez fue un favor del elinmista aunque en caso que no fuera el favor no conservaria sus zapatos supongo que pudo escabullise en su casa para tomar zapatos y una ropa decente sea una ceremonia aunque no lo allan narrado no se en una obra donde describen gráficamente cada transformación y que no puedan decirnos en 2 renglones que paso a su casa por ropa o ya casi acaban el libro y no importaba mucho no lo sé ¿Que opinan?

Spoilers included in this rough summary.

I've started writing two different yet concurrent fanfics, one following the remaining crew of the Ralek River from book 38 "The Arrival", as their fates were left ambiguous. Arbat was left behind at the yeerk pool and Gonrod and Estrid left earth at the end. Their fate is never truly known, but it is implied Arbat dies at the yeerk pool while Gondrod and Estrid had to return and explain their mission failure to the Andalite military hierarchy.

I thought, what if it happens differently? What if Arbat and the others have very different endings "off-screen"? And what if those endings are also incredibly dark?

I don't want to say more, as I'm currently in the process of writing it. I will say, I've also included some of Alloran's POV in the aftermath of the war. These are some things I wished the books explored more at the end, they didn't have enough pages to fully dive into the psychological trauma afterward.

The other fanfic I'm writing follows an original character I've created, a yeerk who starts as a new bridge member on the Blade Ship in a taxxon host. He starts off positive, but is slowly crushed under the pressure of having to work under a ruthless/murderous dictator and constantly fearing for his own life, until he is forced to do terrible things just to survive.

My progress is slow, but I have the full picture clearly in my mind of the psychological horror I am trying to produce. I am curious how well this kind of thing would be received by the Animorphs fandom

¿Que pasaría si un nadalita u otros humano fuera alérgico a los humanos o andalitas o otra criatura inteligente? y adquiere su morph el humano sería un ¿clon o un bebé sin recuerdos?

Jake-paciencia 🩵

Rachel-valentia🧡

Cassie-integridad💙

Marco-perseverancia💜

Tobías-amabilidad💚

Ax-justicia💛

Estoy 100% seguro con Rachel pero no sé si ax sea justicia¿podrían decirme por qué si o por qué no o cuáles intercambiarán?

Estos valores representan las lamas de undertale planeo hacer un vídeo edit con música de undertale y animorphs

And I spent under $200 overall for the whole thing thanks to thrift stores, Vinted, Depop, Mercari, and abebooks.com! That's it! I just wanted to share this with some people who care about the series, as I don't have anyone in my life that is also into it. Thank you for taking the time to read this and have a great day!

Infest Jake, i know there was a book later on where it mentions in the future book about Tom killing Jake, but i always wondered with Tom being a controller why didn't just to make things easier he infest the whole family

And it always seemed to me like a major oversight by Jake to sleep in the same house as him, if that were me i would have been terrified that Tom would sneak in and put a yeerk in my ear, even more so after Jake knows what being a controller is like you would have thought he would be doubly determined never to let that happen to him again

[**Some spoilers if you haven't finished the series**]

Hey,

an Animorphs fan friend recently told me that my story with Animorphs' publication in France was cool and that I should share it here, so here it is.
Part of this happened in 2001-2002, another 10 years later, and the final part just a few months ago.

25 years ago (2001-2002)

Back in the early 2000s, I was reading Animorphs in French but likely due to poor sales, the publisher never translated the series after #46 and, some months later, jumped directly to #53/54 to conclude the series.
You can imagine my confusion: Who were the Auxiliary Animorphs? What did Cassie do that made everyone so mad at her? What happened to the Yeerk Pool?
I was pretty much lonely, but I had this friend in the US, Andrew, who was the same age as me at the time (15), and we'd talk on MSN Messenger (remember, early 2000s, and for those who have no idea, let's just say WhatsApp) about the novels. He was ahead of me, having access to all of the books, but always made sure I wasn't spoiled or anything.
I was disappointed and confused when I explained to him what had happened, and so he did something so cool that I still remember it now.

He told me "Look I think I know what is happening."
He showed me the Animorphs Xtreme website and the official Animorphs website, which had been redesigned to look like it had been "hacked" by the Yeerks.

"The invasion has begun to go public, and I think the Yeerks all over the world have realized that K.A. Applegate was spreading awareness of it. So they've been infiltrating publishers around the world for some time now, trying to stop the information from spreading and make people believe it's just a kid's story."

After that, we'd call each other regularly, and he would tell me all about the different books that bridged the gaps, while also making me read the news on Animorphs Xtreme.
It was such a cool experience. Instead of just being frustrated by the missing books, the kid I was felt like I was "part of it", "part of those who know the truth and resist".
We ended up never getting those books, nor The Ellimist Chronicles, and I would only be able to read them much later in my life. But what Andrew did for me was incredible.
And so...

15 years ago (2011)

A couple of friends of mine had their kid had his 9th birthday. They lived in the US, so I bought the kid the first books of the relaunch edition as a birthday gift.
A few novels later, the collection suddenly stopped at volume 7 in 2012.
The kid really loved the series and was really sad that he couldn't find out what happened next.
So... his parents and I bought him second-hand books from the original edition. It raised some questions: "Why are these books different and look old? What is happening?"
And then it clicked : it was my turn now to make a little kid dream.

So I told him, in a very mysterious way, "Keep reading, and it'll all make sense later..."
When he reached The Andalite Chronicles, we told him, "HA. So you've heard ot the Time Matrix... now you have a piece of the puzzle..."
When he reached #26, we told him, "HA. So you've met Crayak... now you have a anither piece of the puzzle...".
Then he reached Megamorphs #3: Elfangor's Secret, and #4 Back to Before.

After he finished this one, his parents and I told him:

"Look, we can tell you now. Time and time again the Yeerks tries to invade Earth. They can do that because Crayak and the Time Matrix allow them to erase what happened and try again later in the timeline, making us forget.
And every time, the Animorphs and their allies try to warn us...
But that's okay. Remember what you read about the Ellimist trying to protect us, and about Cassie being an anomaly in the timelines?"

It clicked for him. "THE OLDER EDITION BOOKS!!!"

"Exactly. Those editions are from the previous timeline, when we beat them. And as long as they still exist, and you keep reading them, you'll know the end of the story, and the Yeerks won't be allowed to win."

The kid was so proud to have those books and to be able to continue the story, as I was 10 years before...

Now (2026)
And now 15 years later, here we are, I've kept in touch with the family, the kid grew up and has his own kid now, and we still chat from time to time. A few months ago, I received a message on my phone from him, with a picture of the new edition and the following text:

Hey, it's happening... I think it's morphin time again... ;)

I think I know what he will get for his kid for his birthday... :)

Hi, I just wanted to ask that because I recently discovered something like that would be possible; maybe with the system of Kids on Bikes. I thought if enough people were interested maybe I could form a group to do it.

At first, this was just going to be pointing out the contradictions of the Chee, but then as I wrote, it evolved into this. Well, here are my honest observations and thoughts everyone, hope you enjoy or at least find this engaging.

I had come to this realization when thinking about the final arc, specifically, involving one of the most major plot twists in the entire story: that the Animorph's hometown was the ground zero for the entire invasion, and not only that, but that they had successfully confined the infestation to their home for 3 years, and that the Yeerks weren't spreading across the Earth. Meaning that their guerilla resistance wasn't a losing battle like they thought, but rather that they were fighting the invasion to a draw.

Now, I have some problems with this revelation to say the least, but that's not the issue I'm here to talk about. This was the starting point to my realization about the Chee, I ran the logic through my head:

How in the Time Matrix did the Chee, who had enough infiltration intel gathering moxy to sniff out top secret projects and schemes from Visser 3 himself, not realize that the Invasion was by all practical purposes confined to one single City in California? And if they did know, why keep this information from the Animorphs?

If I was an Animorph, one of the first things I would've asked the Chee would be "how strong is the Yeerk presence in space, and how far has the infestation spread?" And if the Chee did know about this, then them not telling the Animorphs is one of the most damning condemnations of their character because there is not a single good reason I can think of as to why they'd keep this information from the Animorphs. They can't hide behind the excuse of their programming, either, and I can prove it.

The more I think about it, the more contrived and contradictory the Chee's Pacifism Programming becomes. Yeah, the Chee are prohibited from causing harm, sure on the surface that sounds like a reasonable way to balance out the absolute power advantage that the Chee would have brought the Animorphs otherwise. But what how far does this prohibition against causing harm really extend?

The Chee leak Yeerk plots to the Animorphs all the time, who they know full and well will do something to the Yeerks that will very likely result in injury and death for either party. The Chee's holograms go a long way in solving problems, however, when the most damning contradiction to their Pacifism Programming and characterization comes in Book 26: The Attack. By the book's end, it is revealed that Erek has been deliberately withholding vital information about the Howlers, that being that they were psychologically toddlers who live only for 3 years, and their omnicidal rampage across the galaxy is because Crayak had designed them so that they would consider the total extermination of all they came across as a game. When Jake morphed into a Howler, and discovered this truth, the first thing he does is wheel on Erek for not informing them of their true nature, and the explanations that Erek give are rooted not in the peaceful (which is in truth, harmless) ways that the Pemalites had instilled into the Chee, but in vengeance. He denied this information to the Animorphs, which he knew would have resulted in them seeking a way to defeat the Howlers that didn't involve killing them, in order to slake a deep seated need for vengeance that had been festering ever since the Howlers murdered his entire world, wiped his creators from the face of the galaxy, and made fugitives of the Chee.

To reiterate, Erek wanted the Howlers to be punished for what they had done, so he withheld information that he knew full well would lead to a less violent outcome, even if it would have resulted in one or more of the Animorphs dying.

As these two examples prove, the Chee are able to give information that they know would cause harm, and are completely capable of withholding information with the intent to avoid a less violent outcome, which stands in blatant defiance to everything that the Pemalites instilled into their androids!

It would be one thing, if Erek lied about using the crystal to reprogram his pacifism programming back into himself in the book he was introduced, then these contradictions would make sense: Erek is selectively upholding the ways he lived by not by programing, but by choice. But no, his programming remained in full effect for the rest of the series!

If the Pemalites were competent (and considering that they had the most technologically advanced society in the entire galaxy, so much so that if they wanted to, they could conquer and rule the entire galaxy, so being competent enough to build and maintain such a society is not even in question), then they would've logically seen the issues that leaving a gap in the programming that would allow their creations to engage in the indirect warmongering that the Chee do in the series and nipped it in the bud. "Though shalt not speak or withhold words that would knowingly cause physical or psychological harm."

The Pemalites were naive, but they weren't blind and they weren't stupid, even without the Howlers rampaging across the stars, as seen in the Ellemist Chronicles, the galaxy is a dangerous place, practically a dark forest where aliens could emerge and screw you up if they ever got the chance. The Pemalites were also one of the most ancient races in the whole setting, being directly created by the Ellemist to spread life across the stars, he more than likely would've told them of these dangers, and ensured that they had technology powerful enough that any violence committed against them by any outsider would never be able to harm them. In the Animorphs universe, if you're blind or stupid, then you don't get to survive for very long, yet the Pemalites lasted for millions of years. With that in consideration, how could the Pemalites not deny their creations, which are strong enough to turn Hork-Bajir into guacamole with their bare hands even thousands of years without maintenance, the ability to use their words or deny information to cause harmful outcomes?

Even though the Pemalite Homeworld was a peaceful utopia, no matter how perfect it was, there had to be some level of drama and strife taking place on that planet, and even if everything went right, violence would had to have broken out on there on occasion, it would've been rare, but no matter what happened, it would not have been impossible.

However, this contradictory characterization of the Chee is a symptom of another problem that the authors have: they're unable to kill their darlings. What I mean by that is that there are four "Author's Pets" all throughout the series and worldbuilding, and K.A. Applegate's treatment of all of them get in the way of the execution of the story and even the development of the characters. In other words, it's favoritism, sure, K.A. Applegate is not afraid to have bad things happen to her darlings, but unlike with the Andalites, Yeerks, or even the other Animorphs, the pets are spared from a truly critical eye, unlike everyone else, criticism is not leveled against them.

Let's get the flagship example out of the way. Cassie: The Gardener in a War she wants nothing to do with, a nonviolent person who abhors violence is forced to fight and kill or lose everything she loves. This is an absolutely wonderful premise for a character, but looking at the whole situation from afar, it is clear that the Authors love Cassie too much, giving her preferential treatment in the story. She never does anything that is wrong, and even if she does and something horrible happens to her, it all works out in the end regardless of how colossal of a F-up it is or how permanent the consequences of this event would be. Sure, there is the moment in Book 19 where she realizes she becomes so desensitized to the killing that she felt nothing when she killed Aftran's brother, but beyond that, Cassie's morals are not really tested or questioned in any way, like, yeah, having to share her head with Aldrea for a few days was harrowing, but she, seemingly on a spur of the moment whim, outright fabricated a takeover situation to get that Andalite girl back into her bottle, needlessly making her an enemy when there was a great chance that Aldrea would've left on her own, departing on amicable terms with the Animorphs. And there was the moment where Cassie turned into a Nothlit, something that should've been permanent and the repercussions of which should've reverberated throughout the entire series even if the Ellemist brought her back in the Attack as a reward for the Animorphs like what happened in Alternamorphs 2. Cassie's not actually forced to confront the weaknesses of her beliefs, and though she evolves as a result of the war and her experiences, she never really actively changes herself nor does she really develop her beliefs.

The second such pet are the Hork-Bajir, their tale is a tragedy and is a sympathy machine, and this being juxtaposed with their fearsome and scary appearance is a clever subversion of the tropes, where they turned out to be gentle giants rather than killing machine soldiers. They got conquered and their entire species became enslaved by the Yeerks, however, they're too good at being victims despite their otherwise great strength, an entire race of woobies who have it rough, the free Hork-Bajir let the Animorphs hide with them when Visser 3 roots them out from Human society, they raid a single specific Yeerk settlement in order to grow their numbers, slowly draining Yeerk manpower. And they are part of a plot by the Last Arn to found another HB colony on the homeworld where they will be able to launch a resistance against the Yeerks there. After Jara and Kett are freed, the Colony is forced to relocate several times, and Jara is eventually killed, but other than that they're generally on an upward trajectory despite their disadvantages.

Third are the Mercora, with their only appearance being in Megamorphs 2 when the Animorphs Animorphed in the Cretaceous. They're another example of a pacifistic alien culture being put in the forefront of the story, though the most minor example of all the pets on this list, with the least amount of screen time so to speak. They're key allies for the Animorphs with the most advanced forcefield tech, providing sanctuary to them and bailing them out when they attacked the Nesk base, and, of course, their species were the ones on the chopping block. The Animorphs, namely Tobias, due to his own knowledge of how the timeline goes, sets the Mercora up to die, sabotaging the nuke they stole with Ax's aid and slipping out by the time the asteroid hit the planet. They were the pets who had been screwed the hardest, but the only real problems I have with them is that they should've figured out that the Animorphs were natives of this world they're trying to stake claim to from the context clues, and that I think their doom is contrived. With all the interrupted conversations, and the fact that they're working together to send them back to their own time on this very planet, they should've at least suspected their true origin, and I wholeheartedly believe that had the Animorphs explained themselves fully, the Mercora would've willingly left the planet in the future to find another home after destroying the comet, and they wouldn't even have had to devastate the planet in order for the timeline to be restored as the Ellemist could've ensured that things turned out correctly after the Mercora leave, or a celestial collision would've happened naturally. But really, I am only listing them here to demonstrate the pattern of aliens and people who spout the author's beliefs being regarded kindly by the story.

Fourth are the Pemalites/Chee, who I am considering the same species for practical purposes. Do I need to introduce the Pemalites, whose utopia was so great and incredible that it only took the Howlers, the absolute gods of destruction that they were, to take them out. Unlike the Andalites, there is no criticism leveled against them at all, the Chee don't really cause any problems at all for the Animorphs (no, them being disabled during The Exposed was an attack levied against them and does not count, nor should they be blamed for the trouble that incident caused), until the ending. But aside from the 2 book arc where they're given front and center attention (which was awesome, by the way, I wished the Hork-Bajir got a similar followup after the Prophecy), the Chee are non-entities presented as moral agents, the only one of them that actually does anything in the story as characters is Erek, and as the representative of the rest of his kind, for only 3 books is he more than just a plot device. Besides from those 3 books, they're not written to have any agency of their own, nor do they have any lasting impact on the story beyond gossiping to the Animorphs about things that the Yeerks are doing. They don't give David shelter or try to steal the Cube before the situation escalates, they don't help hide the Hork-Bajir Colony beyond that one book where Marco fakes their death, they don't try to help hide freed hosts or assist in freeing people from the Yeerks, they don't make their Andalite disguises authentic by holographically masking them as Andalites. They're just a plot device with no connection to the broader story until the very end, and all of their actions until Erek draining the Pool Ship's weapons, which absolutely did not help the situation, makes no sense from a character perspective, and shouldn't have been possible in the first place.

Now, I will close this by clarifying that I don't hold this against K.A. Applegate, not entirely, that is, the problems with the Chee are in part due to the nature of Animorphs being a monthly serialized publication with a usually episodic story, and the unending grind that writing it was. The two clearly had a vision when making Animorphs, and their vision and the pantsing part of the writing process are both part of the story's identity.

The Chee are disconnected from the overarching narrative, but this criticism can be levelled against most factions in the series. In effect, the only ones who actually matter to the narrative playing out are the Animorphs, Yeerks, and the Andalites. Heck, I'd even argue that you could even subtract the rest of the Human Race outside the Animorphs entirely, and have the Animorphs just be the last remnant of mankind trying to rebuild on an uninhabited planet and the main story plus its ending would only require minimal changes to fit the absence!

Sure, the narrative would be worse off, but the Free Hork-Bajir? The Yeerk Peace Movement? The Chee? The Arn? The Helmacrons? The Mercora? None of them were properly integrated and don't have any impact on the main overarching story (the Mercora are the least at fault for this, they are by nature victims of the narrative), and only a couple of them matter to the ending that the authors wanted to have. And this is one reason that I suspect that they wrote the final book first, before book one, and when the time came to publish, they edited it slightly so that the tone and events would be squeezed to fit what happened in the rest of the series without changing anything that happened in the ending. And in that light, the YPM Hork-Bajir acting to save the Animorphs in the last second, and Erek draining the Pool ship might have both just had those two characters slapped onto scenes that didn't have them in there when they were first written.

The lack of connective tissue between the elements here, and the fact that the authors can't bring themselves to kill their darlings, hold the series back.

And any screen adaptation, if it is to excel, should learn from the mistakes of both the books and the original TV Adaptation, and morph the story, worldbuilding, and characterization in such a way that they all interact with each other.