#Alloran

[keenadraws]

The Andalites

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

How do you think the Andalites found out Alloran had been taken?

I've always assumed that — given his entire personality — Visser Three put out a press announcement trumpeting his capture to the whole Electorate and declaring the war won in the yeerks' favor. That man does not grasp subtleties like careful use of intel or attempted infiltration.

[praxcrown5]

More (old) Animorphs fanart. I was going through an art phase where I was combining traditionally colored art with digital backgrounds. Looking back on it 10+ years later, it's cringe...

In hindsight, I should have done the mortrons traditionally. I'm proud of the patchwork sky, tho...

[if-you-are-tired-clap-your-hands]

Eyo Guess who came back from the dead

Yeah I know no one listens to Hamilton today but I've read the andalite chronicles 5 times now and cried much more and thought of them on this song and now you got to cry about them too

A bit of rambling about the video under the cut

I wanted to create a cool conversation between elfangor and alloran to switch to elfangor having the same conversation with Tobias

But guess what ? My pencils broke and so did my motivation to do the rest of the song sorry

Also. I love Loren and elfangor sooo much in that book they are so cute so I had to put her in the video as well

I'm not really sure about the thumbnail of the video cause it's the first time I do a serious one but it's past midnight where I live and school is coming up fast and here I am

I genuinely hope you like it !

[anemictoad]

Old mock-ups of andalites based on grazing animals. Embrace the Andalite Truth http://andalitetruth.org/

[joemerl]

This was no—vecol. This guy was massive. Bigger than any Andalite I’d ever seen. Bigger than Ax’s brother, War Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul. Bigger than Aloth-Attamil-Gahar. Bigger even than Alloran-Semitur-Corrass, host body to Visser Three.

I do not buy that Marco remembered all those Andalites' full names, he clearly had to ask Ax before writing this part.

[autoacafiles]

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

my fancast for visser 3 is idris elba. i think he'd bring a ton of complexity to the role beyond genocidal megalomaniac (not to mention his version of alloran would flat out knock bitches dead. its me im bitches). alloran has so many facets to his personality the esteemed general turned pariah turned abomination turned broken slave, with the right guy and writing this could turn into Shakespearian levels of drama.

[thekinglemingle]

Last night I dreamt I suddenly discovered a new Animorphs book in which, within a day of the war ending, the Andalites court martialed Ax for giving the kids the power to morph despite a) him lying about doing it, it was Elfangor and b) it won them the war. If he lost he'd have his tail removed and sent into exile.

It was mostly written from Alloran's POV acting as Ax's defense, but with Toby and Loren chapters, and was about him having to confront just how horrible he had been during the war.

It was beautiful, widely considered one of the best in the series, and I woke up deeply disappointed to realise that this book does not exist

[onceuponymous]

I'd love to make more Andalite dolls if there's any demand for them

Bonus Dak Hamee

[mac-and-cheezlets]

Crackship Thought;

Post-war Alloran/Naomi

I dunno why

Mr.Stone-Cold-Ruthless-Alien-Killing-Machine and High-Standards-Tenacious-Lawyer-Mom? They can insult people together. They can be dry and witty and argue all day.

[quantumvaudeville]

It was a pleasure working on this one!! Thanks for giving me the freedom to get experimental, and I'm so glad you like how it turned out!!

@quantumvaudeville drew me an Alloran inspired by those medieval tapestries of unicorn hunts. Gosh!

I do so love how varied Andalite redesigns can get, and the fact that at a few points humans in the series who half-glimpse one think they could be unicorns. In the first several books the Animorphs all describe Visser Three's host body as being dainty and delicate, too.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Random idea: what if every time you acquired an animal you got a tattoo of it? How might that affect the number of morphs the Animorphs acquired? (Alternatively, what if instead of touching an animal, getting a tattoo of it was sufficient to morph it?)

How much of a choice would they have about the tattoo? If they're allowed to choose what it looks like and where it is and how big it is, then their personalities could come out. I could see both Marco and Cassie (for very different reasons) committing to getting sleeves with gorgeous zooscape murals, while Jake tries to cram as many tiny tattoos onto his left asscheek as he possibly can.

If the where/how/how big is not under their control, then I could see an even greater imbalance in amount of legwork than we see in canon: Ax and Tobias would be acquiring everything they can since they don't have cover to maintain, while the four human characters would be bracing themselves for catastrophe every time they got a new set of DNA. Also, Marco's dad would be even more convinced than in canon that Marco has joined an LA street gang. Since this is Peter we're talking about, he wouldn't necessarily do anything about it, but he would be extremely concerned.

[andalitean]

and you cant spell infant without ant!

[kooldewd123]

do you think alloran ever saw esplin as his penance? alloran, the disgraced war-prince, now granted the dishonor of being the only andalite lost to the yeerks. alloran, the butcher of the hork-bajir, now cursed to have his face become synonymous with the most ruthless force in the galaxy. alloran, whose reputation is second only to prince seerow himself, now separated from his wife and children for more than thirty years. do you think alloran, a prisoner in his own head, ever thought "this is what i deserve?"

[jodjuya]

Yeah, you're right! It's all in that supremely paternalistic arrogance of the Andalites.

But a further thought: actually, it's all just Alloran?

He's the one-in-a-generation hyper-angry Andalite pessimist who sparks death and destruction wherever he goes, leading the Andalites to their doom because they're too optimistic to see how fucked up Alloran's attitude is. Whatever he initiates, they're helplessly obliged to commit to it.

Alloran-Semitur-Corrass, The Antiseer:

Flips the fuck out at Prince Seerow, escalating the Andalites into a war footing against the Yeerks rather than them attempting any kind of de-escalating diplomacy

Genocides the Hork-Bajir, and is rightfully ostracized from Andalite society for this (but somehow retains his 'War Prince' military rank, even throughout his decades of being Esplin 4966's host (SOMEHOW!???))

Hot-head response to immediately pursue the Skrit Na ship to the Taxxon home world without taking the time to phone home and let everyone else know what's up (but this might have been a valid tactical decision; keeping the Ellimist's time machine out of Andalite hands. I can't remember off the top of my head)

Maniacal compulsion to slaughter Yeerks any chance he gets regardless of the consequences, leading to Elfangor's mutiny, Alloran's enslavement, and the Yeerks becoming aware of humans (but not in that order)

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The Permalites were explicitly the anti-Howlers. The Ellimist created them himself to function as his pro-life, pro-peace emissaries. They didn't arise naturally, they were specifically created to create and uplift life; like how the Arn created the Hork-Bajir as tree-herders.

They're the elves from Santa's workshop. They're not really morally responsible for not halting the Howlers, because they were unable to do violence. Not by choice, but because it couldn't occur to them as an option. They're very much like the Ketran.

And it's a throwback to how Toomin lost all of his games by only trying to win with kindness.

But yeah, thematically, they're a fable about the costs of inaction. You can't appease your way out of somebody who wants to exterminate you.

On this re-read it really sunk in just how utterly wretched and deranged the Andalites are. Scumbag species through and through.

Every time they take a loss their first step in problem-solving is always "...uh idk, should we just genocide the entire species? Yeah, let's just genocide the entire species. If we can't save them, then nobody can! 😈"

(except for that one time on the amphibian planet, where their "solution" instead was to nuke the planet's only continent completely out of existence)

Andalites in a nutshell:

For a species that is supposed to be inherently optimistic—like, unfailing boundless optimism is baked into their very genetics—they fucking suuuuuuuuck at actually BEHAVING optimistically. They're the most pessimistic, gloomy, whiny, emo, sulkingest sore-loser sons of bitches in the entire damn galaxy.

This ONE TIME an andalite was intentionally nice to an alien species it backfired, and so they instantly backflip into being snooty xenophobic cunts to everyone they meet, and that one guy who was nice was ostracized so hard that they marooned his entire family on a distant planet and his name practically became a slur.

Loser behaviour!

Premium tier dunning-kruger dropkicks. Too gobshittingly stupid to even be aware of how stupid they are.

Rolled an 18 for INT and a 5 for WIS.

About as thoughtful as the earth deer they resemble.