#Andalite Chronicles

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What if Elfangor and Chapman fell in love instead of Elfangor and Loren?

This idea is cracky wonderfulness and I need it.

I need help figuring out WHY this would ever happen. Elfangor finds Chapman extremely off-putting, and Chapman hates aliens almost as much as Alloran does.

Anyone else: thoughts?

[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...

[kooldewd123]

I decided to swap the location of the Hork-Bajir Chronicles and the Andalite Chronicles on my reread and I really feel like these positions make a lot more sense than release order.

Hork-Bajir Chronicles: Comes right after the introduction of Jara and Ket, so we get the Hork-Bajir backstory at the same time as our Hork-Bajir characters. Introducing Toby at this point right after the establishment of the colony shows immediate growth and hope for the Hork-Bajir. The name "Esplin 9466" works much better as a twist reveal here than it does in 16, not that it's a super surprising twist here, either. Placing this one first means that the first three Chronicles are in chronological order, so we get the backstory of the Andalite-Yeerk war in stages as the story progresses.

Andalite Chronicles: I'll be honest, I always thought it was weird that this one came so early. The backstory of the Andalite prince that gave them their morphing powers feels like it should be more of a centerpiece. Putting it right after the David trilogy seems like a much better spot to put it in to me, since it's a good turning point in the series. And then it's next to 23 (Before or after, your pick. I've seen opinions either way) so we get the big reveal at roughly the same as Tobias. It's not like there's any sort of dramatic irony that ever comes from the audience being aware of the twist before Tobias, so pushing it back makes it feel like less of a lingering plot thread.

[tobiasmasonpark]

Reading the chronicles books from Animorphs

[smoldragonblood]

Why didn’t anyone tell me Visser 3/Visser 32 had fucking living mini batmobiles as pets

[lilacnothlit]

Ever saddle your human girlfriend with the magic fingernails and ride towards the intersection of the memories of three planets? Not yet? Hm. Ah, well, I hope the story has the happy ending they deserve.

(His tail says "tooth," his head "music" and his heart "grotesque.")

[ghostofbriggiesmalls]

Remember that one time in Animorphs when a teenager character got stuck in the body of a horrible cannibal worm and begged his friend to kill him and he wouldn’t so he tried to trick him into executing him so he didn’t have live with the ravenous all consuming hunger to devour anything living including himself if he were injured

yeah me too.

[ramonahblog]

I’m up to the Andalite Chronicles in my re-read and so far I haven’t been enjoying it but this take? Love it. Infinitly more interested in reading the book now. Thank you.

andalite chronicles is a great book because every time elfangor has a thought im like. you know who would totally get what you just said? and its always his fucking brooding daddy junior child . who is exactly like him but not blue

[morphseagull]

me crying on the floor watching elfangor’s usual jaded cadence emerge from his child narration after (massive animorphs 12.5 the andalite chronicles spoilers) causing his war prince to become the first andalite controller through his entirely preventable actions. that’s it. there’s our boy. I’ll never be the same again

[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 !

[auntphibian]

Since y'all really liked my other animorph art, here's one from the Hork Bajir chronicles.

The more I read these books the more I hate the Andalites, which I think is suppose to be the natural progression of the reader.

First off, Seerow's kindness is just tragic all around. If I was super advance and saw intelligent life stuck living in mud puddles or monkies I'd want to help them as well. But at the same time I understand the Yeerks. If my choices were mud puddle/monkey or I could take a host and experience the joys of sight and sound.... i think I'd take a host. It's all around such a tragic situation and it's such an amazing story to hear play out.

And man, the Hork Bajir. Poor Dak, you learn your entire species was specifically made to be less intelligent and now every other species looks down on you for that. I feel bad for Aldrea too of course. Seeing your entire family killed then forcing a war on peacful species because it's that or enslavment.... just... man.

I love these chronicle breaks but it's really not much of a break when it's so much freakin sadder. But I do love Aldrea and Dak, they wefe adorable. Very Tarzan and Jane but with way more war and way more tragedy.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Hi, here's an easy question for you that I can't find online for some reason. How exactly was Alloran enslaved? Every wiki article seems to gloss over this and it's been far too long since I've read the books to remember.

Also, what's your take on it? I remember always feeling vaguely disappointed because I couldn't figure how a yeerk would overpower an andalite, but do you think it works within the narrative, or is it just kind of a plot device to create The Abomination?

Compared to how things go down with Alloran, I think Aldrea's dramatic capture in Hork-Bajir Chronicles is way cooler. Esplin 9466 being ecstatic about finally being inside an andalite mind, only to have his abandoned host body attack him and rescue Aldrea, is one of my favorite scenes in the series.

But yeah, how it happens with Alloran (Andalite Chronicles p. 174 - 180) is deliberately obscured. Elfangor brings Esplin 9466 onboard the Jahar as a hostage, inside a hork-bajir. He gets distracted driving the ship, but returns to that hork-bajir to toss him out the door. Alloran tells Elfangor to flush the Pool ship, killing 1000s of defenseless yeerks. Elfangor refuses. They argue. They're interrupted "Chapman" punching Alloran and knocking him over/out. Elfangor thanks Chapman and starts to fly the Jahar back to get the Time Matrix, only to be shot at by "Loren."

At that point Elfangor realizes Chapman, Loren, and Alloran are all controllers — Chapman put yeerks in his own and Loren's heads as part of his bargain, and Esplin 9644 escaped his hork-bajir host, into the body that "Chapman" conveniently placed ear-down on the ground for him. Elfangor realizes he can't win against three controllers. He dumps Alloran/Esplin on the planet and flies off with the two humans locked in a back room to starve out their yeerks.

[jellyfishxxi]

Daily remind that animorphs exists. I used to be obsessed with the series.

Like. Religiously. I would read them.

I think I dropped off after that one book where the 'good guy' alien prince masquerades as a human and gets this other human pregnant before he dies in like the first book in the series

What weird memories of this series do you have, because I think that one's the weirdest

[kooldewd123]

the weird matrix world that elfangor, loren, and visser three make together is one of my favorite concepts in all of sci-fi. i mean come on, it's just such a good story prompt on its own: three different aliens are trapped in a mish-mash dimension made from their own imperfect memories of home. it looks familiar on the surface, but when they give in to that familiarity, they find that some pieces of it are missing and other pieces are just wrong. there may or may not be some greater power responsible for creating this world, and the only chance they have at escaping it is through a time vortex at the world's center, which would displace them from home temporally as well as physically. you could make an entire story out of unraveling this place. it feels like an scp horror story and i mean that in the best way possible.

[starwolf999]

Yo the animorphs books are batshit fucking crazy.

Why the fuck is this dude explaining higher dimensions in a childrens book??

And it makes sense?! Holy shit!?

[quasi-normalcy]

Thinking about that one Andalite who got stuck in Taxxon morph and spent the rest of his life consumed by an uncontrollable urge to commit cannibalism.