#Edriss 562

[church-of-crayak]

various doodles from the past few weeks, including four marcos, two ereks, and a whole bunch of visser ones. also, a re-sketch of my lineup from a while ago, mainly because i didn't care for ax' pose in the first one

[dr-reids-fidget-toy]

Would you still love me if I was a worm?

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

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[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

About the ask about the animorphs being defeated, it seems like the end of 5 could have let them fight their way out.

Okay, okay, a way for them to escape at the end of #5...

• The first thing Jake suggests is that Rachel demorph, and remorph to wolf. Which gets everyone staring at him like he's nuts. If Rachel changes morphs, Ax points out, then a controller will almost certainly see her through the window of their cell and conclude they're human.

«Doesn't matter,» Jake says, «because Marco's about to demorph anyway. We need Rachel able to fight.»

That gets everyone to stare at him in confusion some more.

Everyone except Marco. «Jake, buddy. That thing out there... it's not her. She's gone, and Visser One's in charge.»

Jake looks at Marco, waiting for him to remember, two weeks back, Tom's voice shouting for them to stop and Tom's hands firing a gun at their retreating backs. «I know,» he says at last. «But you're still the best diversion we have. It's that, or die here.»

«What?» Tobias asks, but Cassie's looking between them in growing comprehension.

• So Marco demorphs. And when the door swings open, Visser One's forces find a human boy standing on the other side, flanked by a pair of wolves.

"Hi," Marco says. "My name's Marco Alexiou Encarnacion. And I promise, if you tell your boss that, she's going to want to see me."

The hork-bajir-controllers look at each other, say a few things in a language none of the Animorphs know, and then one grabs Marco by the arm.

"Not without my friends!" Marco cries, and — after another exchange of words — one of the controllers gestures for the others to follow.

«Eyes open,» Jake says. «Ax, where are our exits?»

«The main hatch will be on the bridge, Prince Jake. And we may be able to survive a fall from this height, if we morph birds on the way down. There will also be several drop shafts, translucent oblong tubes that function...»

«Like an elevator?»

«It elevates the user, yes. Or produces a controlled fall.»

«Good enough for me.»

• The controllers don't take them by the bridge, and this time they're not led to a drop shaft. Instead, they're taken to a back office in the ship. One of the controllers raises a tentative claw to knock. Marco's grinning, posture casual, but his skin has a greenish tinge and his hands are shaking.

"Visser? Ma'am?"

"What is it? I told you to get rid of the— The..."

"Hi, Mom."

• Eva's face — Visser One's face — freezes like an old TV set. Then, like a set between channels, it warps: mouth twisting, eyes darting, skin tightening. This lasts for an infinite second, before Edriss's haughty indifferent snaps back into place.

Then her hand shoots out, grabs Marco's arm, and yanks him into the room. She shouts a command, and the doors snap shut between him and his fellow Animorphs.

«Ax, door hinges!» Jake shouts. «Tobias find us an exit — Cassie and Rachel, we're covering Ax!»

They get to work instantly, Ax scything his tail down again and again at the seam between the door and the wall. (It isn't a hinge, but even he knows now is not the time to explain that.) Tobias takes off, fighting hard against dead air, brushing walls with feathertips.

There's no time to watch him, because the hork-bajir-controllers are on the other three. Jake takes one by the throat, gets slammed with a knee blade to the gut, worries his teeth into flesh even as he lets out a cat scream of pain. Rachel and Cassie coordinate as only wolves can, cornering controller after controller with one at the ankles and one at the soft underbelly.

Claaaang! The support strut of the door falls to the ground, along with a chipped-bloody piece of Ax's tail.

«Prince Jake!»

He can't help, claws locked into a controller who has claws sunk into him. «Go! Ax, go!»

Rearing back, Ax slams both front hooves into the door. It falls inward with a ship-rattling BOOM.

• Visser One gets yanked back from the door, out of the path of injury, by Marco's hand on her shoulder. He can't help it. He's helpless not to, even if he knows better.

Ax looks at Marco, then at Visser One. There's no discussion between them, but Eva takes a blow to the side of the head and a gorilla lopes out close behind the andalite.

It's the best they can do, under the circumstances.

• «I've got an exit!» Tobias yells, from deeper in the ship. «I've got a hatch, anyway!»

They run, a juggernaut of muscle and teeth. They don't stop to fight the controllers that get in their way, and they don't stop for the ones that try to surrender either. The halls are narrow, and there's no time for murder or mercy.

«There, right?» Tobias points a talon, when they reach him.

«There,» Ax confirms, and then, «Brace!»

He presses a hand to the pad. The ship screeches a warning, as the hatch slides open.

Six Animorphs, and eight or nine controllers, get sucked into the Earth's outer atmosphere. Those that can morph do so. Those that cannot...

Six birds land safely on the ground, a few minutes later.

• "We have to evacuate our families." Rachel's pacing in the middle of Cassie's barn, a few minutes later. "They're not going to be safe. Connecting Marco to Jake won't take a huge leap, and from Jake..." She chops a hand at the air. "Me. Cassie. Tobias."

Marco pushes to his feet. "I need a minute."

Jake opens his mouth, glances at Cassie for confirmation. "Don't go far," he says at last.

«Ax and I are fine,» Tobias says. «So maybe we start with Cassie's family?»

Cassie looks around the barn. They can all read the expression on her face, much as none of them want to. Even with a phone call to the nearest similar facility, kidnapping her parents will doom every animal in here: the injured deer, the litter of fox kits, the lizards and geese.

There's a sputter of a ripcord being pulled, and the roar of an engine starting up. They all startle, glancing around.

"Sorry," Marco calls, "Just me." He steps out of one of the unused stalls, looking grim. "You think your dad would mind me borrowing his chainsaw?"

"For what?" Rachel says flatly. "We morph, remember?"

"Yeah." Marco shrugs. "Maybe I'm feeling a little vengeful, right about now. Like I want to look that slug in the eye when I..." He flattens his mouth, looking away.

"We have to get our families out." Jake speaks as gently as he can, pulling them back on subject. He's tired, suddenly so tired. It's really hitting him now, headache building between his eyes.

"Then I'm going to borrow your phone, if that's okay." Marco looks at Cassie, who looks as exhausted as Jake. She nods.

Rachel sits down next to Cassie, burying her face in her hands. "My mom and sisters..."

"I know," Cassie says. "I know."

• Marco shuts the door to the barn, walking into Cassie's kitchen. The phone is there in its cradle on the table. There's plenty of time to pick it up, his eyebrows drawing together in concentration as he dials the thirty-digit number from memory.

"Please hold," the automated voice on the other end says, and there's a click.

While waiting, Marco sandwiches the phone between his ear and his shoulder and trails the cord back to the door that leads to the barn. When it eases open a crack, a smile breaks over his face at the sight on the other side.

The gas generator he started a minute ago is still running, and all five free Animorphs are lying on the floor. Good. He'd worried that the barn might be too ventilated for the fumes to build up properly, but it looks like even Ax is now down for the count. Jake gasps weakly, still half-conscious, but it looks like Tobias is already dead.

The phone clicks again.

"Odret One-Seven-Seven," the thing inside Marco says into the phone. "Requesting pickup from Visser One, at the north Carmel Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic."

[gallyg]

Personally, I think it is extremely cool when a story lets a girl become a serial killer, mass murderer, or war criminal with no attempt to make her actions even morally gray, let alone remotely justifiable to a reasonable agent of a coherent ethical framework. I don't need to fix her, just show me how she breaks.

[ninewheels]

Ambien made me forget how I got here but I just want to say that I am once again mourning the non-existence of a 50,000+ word novel about the whole Edriss/Essam/Alison/Hildy situation because a basically harmonious semi-voluntary infestation involving so few people, with no authority or power structure in place to dictate the next steps, everyone out in uncharted waters--good God, just think of how close they got to symbiosis. From an Ellimist's-eye view, the way they lived was right there next to the concept of symbiosis, the philosophy of symbiosis that there has to be another way of living like this. They could have touched it, the four of them together, and found their hands pressed upon a revolution. But they didn't.

[vegalocity]

Can you draw Tripitaka from your Animorph AU please

Gladly, Anon

Behold, the meanest Alien slug to have ever possessed a monk

[i-assign-you-animorphs]

Edriss and Essam in Visser

at this rate i think i could basically be human by the end of the year

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

what if some common medicine for humans was deadly poison for yeerks? like if SSRIs make them explode/discombobulate. is that anything

I don't know too much about medicine, but I'd wager there would have to be some human medications that are poisonous to Yeerks. It would be weird if there weren't - I mean, they're allergic to freaking instant maple and ginger oatmeal! With that in mind, I think it makes perfect sense other things could mess with Yeerks too.

Now, keep in mind I'm not a doctor, I'm only a nerd, so I'm probably missing entire classes of medications that might work. However, if I had to guess which drugs would be most likely to screw with Yeerks, I'd go with things that affect the brain one way or another. It could be something straightforward like SSRIs or sleep medications, but it doesn't have to be. Maybe a host who has to take Benadryl for their allergies or is prescribed Tylenol #3 after a dental procedure finds the Yeerk reacts poorly to those medications. Maybe anti-migraine medication like Fioricet could do something to Yeerks - it's got three different things that affect the brain in different ways, including Caffeine. Maybe a large enough dose of Caffeine is enough to screw with Yeerks, and they avoid drinks and medications with Caffeine as a result.

One thing I am almost certain would mess with Yeerks, though most people don't think of it as a medicine, is alcohol. Alcohol is technically a drug, and it has all sorts of effects on the brain. Other recreational drugs may also have an effect, and we even have one case in the books to look at - Edriss 562 is implied to have been exposed to cocaine, and she certainly deviated from her mission quite a bit afterwards. Maybe there's something in that field which can affect Yeerks?

However, you could also look at things which don't affect the brain. It could be that an anti-parasitic drug might work against Yeerks, although getting the dosage right by accident would be weird. It could be something that doesn't even go in the body, like sunscreen around the ear that gets on the Yeerk as they enter/exit and screws with them.

However, no matter which drugs the Yeerks find they have trouble with, it's almost certain they would find out before the Animorphs enter the war. The Yeerk invasion of Earth is 4 to 5 years old by the time Jake et al walk home through the construction site - plenty of time to figure out which drugs are bad for Yeerks and find ways to limit their hosts' exposure to said drugs. If you're looking for a medication which would affect the Yeerks and happen during the time the Animorphs are fighting the Yeerks, then my best guesses would be either 1. A drug that builds up in or degrades Yeerk tissues over time, or 2. A new drug that just hit the market, sorta like how the oatmeal incident occurred.

[kaftan]

star wars has absolutely nothing on animorphs when it comes to villain parent reveals. i said what i said. anakin skywalker wants what edriss 562 has

[church-of-crayak]

a sillay visser one and eva sketch :3

[littlecrazyhelmacron]

Rivals

Edriss 562/Visser One, Iniss 226, Esplin 9466/Visser Three

Part of an illustration to go with a story idea that was stuck in my head. I wasn't sure about including the other two (Cassie and Esplin in a human host) in the picture because they aren't finished yet, but these three work together (lol) in a picture just fine. Pretty much the only way you're going to get them working together ever :P

[gallyg]

I always loved how Visser spends 90% of the plot telling us about how Edriss had a hard life and made mistakes but has things she cares about just like anyone else and even had a son and daughter that she loves only to go "she's still evil as fuck though" in the end and kill her unceremoniously the next time she appears, to be mourned by nobody.

Hot girl shit.

[fryologyy]

she is very important to me

[aibari]

this is such a good question!

Animorphs wiki says:

Yeerks are genderless, but are generally referred to by the gender of their primary host, or the host gender they most frequently identify as. For example, Edriss 562 and Aftran 942 are referred to as female because their primary hosts were female.

I wonder what the answer would look like if Animorphs was written today, when there is more of a mainstream awareness of nonbinary genders. And on top of that, if gender is at least partially dependent on your embodied experience within a culture, how is Yeerk gender mediated by the experience of being in a host body? To what extent does a Yeerk adopt and come to identify with the host's gender over time? And Yeerks are evolved to use other people's bodies like this - but to what extent is the body a tool (like driving a very opinionated and advanced vehicle) and to what extent is it now your body?

What pronouns do yeerks use anyway? When they are not inside a host? I am defaulting to they over here, but do we ever learn?

[tomberensonsghost]

Edriss 562 and her buddy Essam 293 land on a sunny beach in the south of France instead of the war-torn Middle East:

Edriss: Look at them all, stretched out flat like that. What are they doing?

Essam: They have removed their artificial skin. Now a greater percentage of their surface area is exposed to the radiation from the nearest star.

Edriss: Ah, photosynthesizing like rational beings…

Later:

Edriss: Wait just a ding dang minute. This creature doesn’t photosynthesize!

Essam: They use these grinding holes to consume nutrients!

Edriss: Are you sure? Mine wants some kind of white sustenance to put in her breathing apparatus.