#Rachel animorphs

[twotwofroote]

These tags were too good not to include 😭 I 100% believe that Rachel would have been able to adjust after the war. The bar is low on that but I believe she would have done better than Jake did. But if the leader sacrifices himself, who is left to lead?

As an addendum to my previous post on Rachel – another way the other Animorphs misinterpret her that fans sometimes copy is this sense that she thinks her life is worthless because she has gone too far, there’s nothing for her beyond the war so what would she have to live for, that it’s fitting that she dies in the end in this way (see Jake in #22 being like “you are an addict, what would you be without this war?”) But the reality is I think even more tragic, especially in light of others misinterpreting it. The truth is that Rachel wants to live, so much that she doesn’t even understand how anyone could be suicidal (#17), there’s always something worth living for that’s better than death. She wants to live, and even so when she first meets Tobias who really does feel like his life is worth nothing, she is the first to say that he matters to her, even when none of them know him well – but there is always the inherent tension between them in their relationship that as compassionate as she is she really doesn’t comprehend the mindset of someone who doesn’t care much if he lives or dies. She wants to live, and that’s what makes her respect this ideal of a warrior so much, as in Megamorphs #3 where she narrates that those who fight in wars are the best and worst of humanity, with the best part being because they are willing to sacrifice themselves even though life is so valuable. And I think there’s a disconnect in that when Jake sends Rachel on the final suicide mission, he thinks it has to be her because she is always the one sent to fight on the frontlines and destroy herself, who will embrace the war in life and death because she is nothing without it and she would never be happy alive, when really yes it does have to be her, even though she is scared, even though she really does want the life of peace that will come at last if they just survive one more day, but the very knowledge she values life so much makes her push herself to be willing to put herself in front of the others, over and over again, as a sacrifice - physically, emotionally and morally.

[fanonical]

rachel animorphs turns into a bear (grizzly) whereas marco turns into a bear (hairy fat gay man)

[cobaltegg]

so like, what if you were the last surviving animorph but it's been canonically established that you still had your best friend's DNA in your body

[mooskobold]

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

[aposematic-jessica]

it always felt right to me that rachel died in animorphs. that of all the animorphs she was the one who died. not that i wanted her to, i loved her. but because any of the other kids, there would have been a poetic nature to it. jake, the leader, the sacrificial lamb on the altar of wartime—wouldn’t his death have been a kind of mercy. cassie, the bleeding heart, the pacifist with bloody hands—her death a mercy too, a final refusal. marco, the child who would have laughed his way to the grave and who followed his commanders orders to it, too—no more back to the wall, no more dead eyes. aximili, starchild, lost child soldier still fighting his parents’ war—there’s a cruel irony in him dying without ever seeing his kinsmen again. tobias, the inhuman boy, boy with a hawk’s heart—he had no one to go home to, wouldn’t dying have cut his story neatly?

but rachel? rachel, the child soldier who was more at home on the battlefield than she ever was anyone else? rachel, one cousin’s attack dog, one cousin’s murderer? rachel with the filthy, filthy hands that no tears could wash clean? rachel who couldn’t have known what to do with herself after the war was over? there’s no poetry or irony in her dying. it just makes sense. cruel, cold, statistical sense. rachel fought and fought and killed and murdered and did things no child’s psyche could survive but hers, and she died because her violent tastes were useful. and they ended with the logical conclusion! of course rachel died. that’s the thesis of the damn series, isn’t it?

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Yeah, about your boyfriend? Well you know how he's been unwanted and ostracized by everyone who ought to have cared about him? Wellllll he also just watched his secret alien dad die right before his alien dad gave him the morphing power an- you know what, actually, long story short: he's a bird now. He's just...stuck like that. Yeah I mean he's stuck stuck. We might be able to fix him if we got a space goose from the edge of time and space involved but, honestly? I wouldn't hold my breath.

[lettersfromaplatypus]

Rereading Animorphs #12 (The Reaction) for research purposes for the first time in YEARS and already by page 2 it’s reminding me why these books held me in a death grip back in middle school

[juspart]

mighty morphin' sadness kiddos

[thelesbianthespianposts]

bored, have some of my favorite animorphs quotes

[jesperr-fahey]

going. crazy. about this. the whole thing, obviously, the reminder that jake is just a terrified kid under it all, that they're all just terrified kids, but especially that line "the mask came down and he was jake again." this is rachel's pov, and to her (and maybe to all of them), the mask is jake. that's the real jake, the jake they know best. the terrified kid isn't jake- the leader is. the mask is.

[dr-reids-fidget-toy]

animorphs quotes that. i... those poor kids

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Edit: I made an animorphs gimmick blog: @i-assign-you-animorphs

[robylovi]

Just a couple traumatized kids

[solsticat]

tfw the child soldier starts child-soldiering a little too hard

[kaitoleen]

Another funny scene from Animorphs 24: The Suspicion! 😂

When Cassie's dad meets Ax for the first time! (but Cassie was just miniaturized! 😟) Ax's response makes so much sense, I can't even fault him, haha. 😅

[edenlouiseart]

My bf finally broke me and got me into Animorphs. These damn books have taken over my brain and shattered my heart.

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