#Ax and Xiaojiao are endgame btw

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Can we get more of the Animorph/LMK au pretty please

Anon,

Where do you want me to start?

Let's start wiiiittthhhh Ax-man, bc he's like my favorite addition to the LMK world for this AU, better than both Vissers, better than Elfangor being MK's Biodad (I mentioned that before, right?) Best Boy Aximili:

So for the sake of not being the Team Child since this AU kind of sidesteps the whole 'child soldiers' aspect of Animorphs, Ax is roughly the same age as Xiaotian and Xiaojiao, He's still an Aristh but so was Elfangor around this time.

That said... Ax is doing like, WAY worse in this AU, He's unable to be in Andalite form outside of like, Xiaotian's apartment and Flower Fruit Mountain, so he needs to feed himself and do most work in his human form, so it's kind of messing with his self image and leaving himw ith some fun new identity issues

But onto the fun stuff, dyamics:

Aximili and Xiaotian get on like a house on fire. Ax's curiosicty combined with MK's chaotic energy lead them to a lot of schenanigans involving introducing Ax to Earth customs. MK was the one that introduced him to bubble tea and will refuse to ever regret it no matter how many times they come home with Ax hopped up on 'Meelk Tee Globules'. Since Ax's human morph is based on MK's DNA they look like twins, and they play that up, Ax's 'Human' Name is Qi Aximili and if anyone asks they say it's an American name their parents were wierd.

Aximili has some very fun conversations with Tang over everything. As we all know one of tang's character quirks is being kind of a total Know-it-all which can be annoying if everyone he's mansplaining to already know all of his factoids, but Ax knows nothing about Earth Mythology and History and Literature and happily listens.Tang now makes jokes about Aximili being his favorite child because he's the one that LISTENS

Speaking of adoption tho Pigsy took one look at this lost barely-an-adult a soldier in a war that started long before he was born and said 'well i guess he's mine now' Pigsy is the one doing the primary amount of Ax-rearing, forcing him to spit out the cigarettes or motor oil he stuffs in his mouth for the taste, and is the one mainly trying to get him to pronounce words properly without toying with the sounds they make. They get along well enough but Pigsy's always caught between treating him like he just does with MK and Mei and treating him like a FAR younger child, and that CAN be a little wierd to navigate sometimes.

Sandy has the least amount of interaction with Aximili, as is common with Sandy and his more introverted nature, they get along pretty well and Ax DOES like Tea and is in the process of figuring out which of his cats would be the best to Aquire for stealth missions. Mo keeps trying to get him to Aquire him

SWK is Ax's Prince, he refers to him as "Prince Monkey King" And doesn't understand why everyone sort of chuckles when he does so. As any loyal Aristh is to his prince, Aximili is loyal and a hard worker, He's strikingly common a sight on Flower Fruit Mountain, primarily when he NEEDS to not be in constant human morph he'll morph a bird or a bug and either fly himself or hitch a ride on MK over. He's currently very interested in learning to fight in his human morph. Wukong isn't QUITE sure what to do about Ax most of the time, and while he is very charming and his wierd Alien body is very cute, he's... a lot more different than he's used to. they're still figruing out their rhythm.

Red Son becomes a part of the main team before too long and he and Ax have a very fun Tech Rivalry (they also both have this with Syntax when he ends up in the group) where Red Son is trying to be impressive and Ax is being an Andalite Tech snob like 'oh thats cute Andalites were doing that centuries ago' as if he himself has any idea how half his own tech works. He doesn't fake unimpressed when Red shows off his magitech equipment though, the one thing Earthlings have on any other species is Magic (for now, but send me another ask for spoilers on THAT lmao) It's part of why the Yeerks want demon hosts so badly, and Ax is fully sincerely VERY impressed with Red's Power Gauntlet. Red uses almost exclusively Magitech around Ax before too long. he likes the praise.

And finally his relationship with Xiaojiao is very warm indeed. Mei was actually the one to coin the term 'Animorph' in this AU for them to call the shapeshifting Team (Herself, Ax, MK, Pigsy, Tang, and Wukong are the 'Andalite Bandits' in all of this) and she's MORE than stoked to have a new alien Bestie. She's just as much a crazy enabler as MK but she's also more likely to pull back before there's TOO much chaos, and they've spent many a night in her apartment, just... processing. They both take on a lot of stuff they don't tell others about but i think game recognizes game in that way and they both get very aggresively 'NO DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME LET ME HELP YOU' until they both ended up curled up on the floor in Mei's bedroom crying and processing their trauma together after big missions and such. In Mei, Aximili sees no small part of Elfangor, but also the firey spirit of a War Prince in the making that would make any Andalite proud to serve under her, stigma against girls in the military or not. And in Ax, i think Mei sees a sort of... not 'innocence' not something that makes her feel like she needs to protect him like she needs to protect MK, but something that makes her want to always be there to watch his back. Like Besties, but... different. She wondered aloud if Ax's people had a word for someone closer than a friend, and he described an Andalite word, the word they use for their tailblades, the idea being this person is someone you hold in such a regard that they could hold their tailblade to your throat and you would trust that they would not hurt you.

Shorm.

They're Shorm.