#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?

[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.

[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."

[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.

[ruthiesrambles2]

Would you ever read an animorphs book? What about an animorphs/Snowpiercer crossover fic?

Ideas for the crossover:

I imagine the crossover starting with Edriss 562 (Visser One/Eva), who lands on the planet just pre-freeze. The yeerks are responsible for developing the train, using the limited infrastructure on earth to create an ark for the last vestiges of society.

Edriss develops the idea of the drawers to bring extra hosts while they build up the number of yeerks.

There's a yeerk pool in the nightcar, and the yeerks go for experiences once every 3 days, to avoid starvation.

Melanie and Elfangor would be mixed into one character. I imagine Elfangor used a human morph (Jennifer Connelly) to get close to Edriss, and leave her trackside.

The animorphs come into it because they discover that yeerk pool in the nightcar. They know they have to destroy it, but they can't figure out how, until Melanie (a nothlit at this point) gives them the blue cube.

There would be very little non human morphing. Flies, cockroaches and rats would be the most common morphs, after morphing passengers. I can't figure out how they'd get morphs to leave the train, but polar bears, Arctic wolves, etc. Would be useful.

Let's talk battle morphs! My fave pick is the cattle for this. You can acquire a steer and morph a bull, so that's probably the best bet for combat, or a he-goat. Maybe they could get the Komodo Dragon(?) that is in first.

My HC for the animorphs is that each is in a different class. I picture Rachel and Jake as FC, Cassie is SC, Marco is TC, and Tobias is from the tail.

Anyways that's been my rant.

This means nothing to me and I have no idea what most of that means but I know I've got some animorph enjoying moots who will appreciate

[fryologyy]

she is very important to me

[grilledcheese-savage]

I wanna rant about something I love so much.

Marco and Cassie’s relationship.

The reason I wanna talk about this is because their friendship is a double edged sword. Marco and Cassie both want to protect Jake and keep him from making dumb self sacrificial decisions (for example in Elfangor’s secret they made a pact because they were the only two who saw immediately who Jake was planning to sacrifice, himself) but also they are complete opposites.

Cassie is conscious of her decisions and how they effect the line she has placed for herself to never cross. Her books purposefully put her into situations where she needs to make a choice between winning the battle and sacrifice her morality or possibly lose so she doesn’t need to end lives. She’s one of the smartest animorphs and her depth in empathy allows her to manipulate her enemies and even her friends, but we know she does not like or want to do this. She has repeatedly been shown to know the obvious answer and avoid it if it’s at cost for lives or morals. She was the one who first thought of the auxiliary morphs and immediately refuted it because she saw it was the obvious answer but it was at cost to her own morals.

Marco on the other hand, sees the obvious answer like Cassie, that line from a to b and focuses on just that. Ignoring the morals and hurt caused because if he can avoid thinking about the sad, murderous side of it, he can win the war. He is ruthless and so is Cassie although she won’t admit it. He and Cassie are so similar but foils of each other at the same time. Marco needs to be there to counteract Cassie and vice versa. This comes out in their interactions with Jake when planning attacks.

Cassie and Marco both are close to Jake, Cassie being his girlfriend and Marco being his best friend. They are the first people Jake listens to when he plans an attack because they are smart and vicious. They fight the most out of the animorphs because they are both sides of Jake. That’s why he listens to them the most because Cassie is that part of him he wants after the war but he knows Marco is the one who will get them through the war.

In The Proposal, Cassie is the first person to realize what is going on with Marco because her empathy allows her to read people very well. What made their friendship stand out in this book is the scene when Cassie comes over to his house to talk about his problems because she knows he can’t tell anyone else about them. Whilst Jake tells Marco to get over it because he needs “funny, cynical ruthless Marco”, Cassie knows the root of Marco’s problem and wants him to, in short, cry it out. Accept it and move on. Because out of any of the animorphs, she is the only one who could understand him. She’s had those nightmares after she did the “ruthless” thing. After she had to commit the “obvious answer” like in Elfangor’s secret when she prevented John Berryman from ever being born. That was the ruthless “Marco” way. So she knows more than a fraction of what he’s going through and she doesn’t just shove it down and try to forget about it. She feels it in the moment, the sadness and the regret. And then she moves on. And that is why that scene in the proposal is more important than you think.