man this was an iconic one for me. they go to the artic and at one point most of them are fleas and drink marco's blood when he's a wolf (and learn that you can eat in one morph and it feeds the rest, p sure) plus like, as a kid, one of my main reoccuring fantasies was being somewehre sandy/snowy and sleeping all snug in a hole. don't ask. the plot was like. i dunno how they got to the artic, but once there some kind of previously thought extinct ice alien was stalking them and they eventually tricked it into going into the water which killed it cuz it melted. and i don't know how they got back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ hi yes hello, guess whose laptop died and they went through withdrawl for like a week while it was fixed and had like, five sim ideas and banged out three of them and is in the middle of working on a fucked up "online dating sim" that isn't what you'd htink and forgot about animorphs but remembered now it me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ i am so tired. moving is so hard. its even harder when you're not fully abled. i'm enjoying making JackElope but i'm too brain dead to even do the last lil bit (news integration) it needs so read??? maybe my brain will let me read. i've done nothing but code and browse tumblr and work and pack and obligations ever since i got my computer back. im so tired. i guess i'm also listening to a podcast, but thats while my comp charges so its not like i could read. i mean i guess i could read on my phone but i physically can't lift my phone for very long. not having my laptop drove that home to me . its not that its heavy. its staying in a single position, with my arm raised is. not great. in any case. read. more than any of them, marco really does still care about the normal things in his life, it seems. cassie is too burnt out to love animals, rachel describes herself as USED to liking the mall and gymanstics. tobias can't even remember what being human was like and...jake is an anxious mess who thinks he's personally responsible for everything ever. but here marco is, celebrating getting a date. lets see how it goes wrong / reveals marcos faking being happy even to himself. ```. It was there that he gave us the nightmarish power to become any animal whose DNA we could acquire. Our one pitiful weapon. ``` more than any of them, marco *hates* morphing. which is why its so funny he makes it his career after the war. ```Something else bothered me. Jake had asked Cassie to tell me this. Obviously. It was a good choice. Typical Jake. He knew that Rachel would just ridicule me. He knew that if he talked to me himself it would seem like he was meddling. But Cassie had the gentle touch. The diplomatic skill to let me know, without making me mad, that they had watched my temporary girlfriend behind my back.``` she wasn't a yeerk, it was just a bad date. what a mundane disapointment for him. ```The Chee, being androids, weren’t affected by the disease. To honor the spirits of their former companions and creators, they infused the essence of the Pemalites into the bodies of wolves. Now you know why your dog is always in such a good mood.``` see. i call bullshit here. i know at least ONE dog who is almost never in a good mood. duncan the pomernain who lives in my house is a right bastard. voice acted fenrir and everything. ```“Our sources tell us the Yeerks have been trying to develop a way to broadcast Kandrona rays using human satellite technology,” E``` on the one hand i wanna say, surely humans don't have even decent sattelite tech compared to literal intergalactic empires. but then i remember that the yeerks have gotten: * bio engineered tribal horkbajir * hivemind no tech taxxons * literal monkey gedds * a handful of Leerans. Yeah. Okay. Yeerks might be starving for tech right now and any port in a storm. ```Ax’s human morph is a combination of DNA from me, Jake, Rachel, and Cassie. Together we make one disturbingly beautiful person.``` ax being pretty is just ALWAYS pointed out ```Jake got his “Jake look.” The sort of weary, worried expression he gets when he’s faced with some decision that may result in all of us ending up dead.``` ```It was an absolutely perfect day for flying - sunny, warm, and so clear you could see for miles. The surface of the highway absorbed the sun’s warmth, creating some really nice thermals, which are pockets of rising warm air.``` the absolute most important thing animorphs thought we should learn is how birds fly and especially what thermals are okay for some reason being reminded of cassie being good at morphing makes me suddenly remember HOW we see alrdrea (or whatever her name is) the andalite horkbajir nothlith in canon she is POSSSESING cassie (somehow? i think it was bio tech from the hork bajir creator species)i. i remember cassie doing a crazy stunt involving being both a giant whale and a bird at the same time and aldrea being like "this shits impossible you're all crazy, i'll make you stop" and i SPECIFICALLY REMEMBER cassie feeling like 'weak hands holding back a tide' or something like that but from aldrea's perspective cassie was insurmountable steel. and i loved the shifting perspective. no clue when we'll get to see that but suddenly memory. i love how the venbar are basically dinosaurs to ax ```The Visser laughed. He had reason to laugh. Three doors open and filled with Dracon-armed Hork-Bajir. Rachel whispered. ``` rachel always ready for the desperate last stands god rachels bear foot just snaps off in the liquid cold and she has to walk on the stump to escape. ``` Tobias said. I muttered. Rachel demanded. I guess she was shocked that I’d dare to make any remark suggesting she and Tobias were more than just friends and Animorphs. Like that was some big secret. ``` canon confirmation they're already dating them being wolves really ups the horror cuz they can SMELL The monster hunting them even if it is too far away to be a threat. if it were even in eyesight it'd be shooting. lol you can really tell they didn't have wikipedia and the internet in todays form back them. humans having the most complex dna is laughable. its bread man. the wheat we use for bread. by far. also they really have gotten better at morphing. theyve gone from two or three in a row being EXHAUSTING to being able to morph continusously all night. ~~~ ``` Ax was aboard the nearest Bug fighter. I snapped out of my horrified trance and realized they all were. All but Cassie and I. We waited till all eight of the Venber at the base had destroyed themselves. I don’t know why. With all the danger, all the terror, someone still needed to be a witness. Someone needed to be able to tell the world someday about this Yeerk atrocity``` for once cassie and marco are in agreement done