#animorphs eva

[kooldewd123]

edriss judges marco as too sweet and trusting. edriss fakes eva's death. eva's death turns marco hard and cynical. marco's cynical nature gives him the strength to orchestrate edriss's downfall. it all comes back around, doesn't it?

[robylovi]

Just your typical children’s book stuff from Animorphs #15: The Escape

[langefisharcade]

Yikes! That's so true. Cannot believe I didn't notice...

Just finished reading Animorphs #49: The Diversion where Tobias finds out that his mom is still alive and in danger.

It's super stressful because Applegate would murder that poor kids mom right in front of him just to make some kind of point.

But also I think it's interesting to see how the other parents react to finding out about everything: Cassie's parents are instantly compassionate, they hug her, tell her it's going to be okay. It's no wonder Cassie is who she is.

Rachel's mom tries to fight a bear (Rachel) with a spice rack. Very genetics. Much lineage.

Jake's parents are already controllers. He can't save them. It makes sense that he doesn't get to have his parents with him, he hasn't been a child for a long time.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

You get/have to meet one Animorph at any point during the series. There is no risk to either of you. If you attempt to give them advice or warning about the future, they won’t remember it until too late- you cannot change the course of events in even the most trivial of fashions. Who do you choose, and why?

Bonus: Who do you choose from the series who *isn’t* an Animorph?

Me: Thanks for agreeing to meet. First and most importantly: did your parents remain married after the war?

Marco: Say what? That's a very personal question. I thought you were here to interview me about my acting career.

Me: Fine, at least tell me whether or not Nora was a controller the first time you met her.

Marco: What. What. Are you sure you don't want to talk about my TV show? Because I'd be happy to talk about the show.

Me: Actually I want to talk about your mom. If you could summarize her opinion on Jake having flushed the Pool ship in three sentences or less, then— 

Marco: It's a great show. You see, it's about this crime fighter whose sidekick turns into all these different animal shapes depending on the crime fighter's mood — very His Dark Materials — and I play Nick, the sexy shapeshifting sidekick.

Me: If Eva had the ability to morph, which of the following—

Marco: Is this literally all just questions about my parents?

Me: Well, if you have the time, I have an appendix each for Tom Berenson and Toby Hamee, and I'd love to get your unvarnished opinion of Erek King. But, yeah, about... [flipping through several pages] 45% of the questions are Eva-related.

Marco: SECURITY! We got another dimension-hopper here!

Me [as I'm being dragged away]: AT LEAST TELL ME YOUR LAST NAME! PLEASE!

[thelesbianthespianposts]

Augh it’s about how Edriss thinks of herself subconsciously as marco’s mother

RAHhgrgjkk it’s about how Eva never loses her defiance and even knows how to push Edriss’ buttons

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[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

[fanonical]

i don't think i realised the real horror of marco animorphs' mother until i reread it as an adult

like, it's not that his mom was dead. it's not that she was a controller

it's that he has to experience the entirely unique grief of knowing that his mother was taken long before he thought he lost her, and he didn't even notice

[jesperr-fahey]

animorphs update i finished visser last night and just. man. when i started the series marco was probably my least favorite animorph but as the series goes on he has become so so interesting to me... the way that even jake looks to him in difficult situation, the way they all know marco will make the most logical call, even when it hurts him, the way there's not a single moment of doubt in eva's mind that marco will kill her, if it comes down to it. insane stuff. this kid is 13

[church-of-crayak]

a sillay visser one and eva sketch :3

[littlecajunlady]

Visser One reveal

[kooldewd123]

vibrating in my seat remembering that the predator graphic novel comes out soon and we're less than a month away from official artwork of eva

[manfred-volkarin]

never used to be the sort of person to give my ocs kids. used to even wrinkle my nose a bit at the possibility

and then somehow??? i got so attached to Rachel that now i'm envisioning post veilguard child(ren) for her and Lucanis?????????????

[dcstuffiguess]

visser one save me visser one

[thelesbianthespianposts]

there’s so little good lesbian content out there that bitches be shipping women with the evil slug parasite piloting her body

[edorielle]

When I told myself last week, "Hey, what if I wrote an Edriss/Eva fic?" (in response to @thelesbianthespianposts ’s post), I had no idea what a NIGHTMARE it was going to turn into…

Honestly, no matter how I approach the problem, I just can’t seem to pin down the dynamic of the relationship between Edriss and Eva. The information provided in Visser is too fragmented (and I’ll admit, I’ve never read #50, #51, or #52, so I don’t know if we get any insight into Eva’s personality in those books).

At first glance, you might think their relationship is one of contempt/hatred (contempt on Edriss’s side, hatred on Eva’s). But when you dig a little deeper, you quickly realize that’s not the case. There’s clearly "something else" going on.

Edriss can’t feel only contempt or indifference toward Eva. She went to great lengths to hide from Eva, for years, the fact that she had children. By her own admission, she watched them grow up through the eyes of other hosts. Hosts that, to her, were literally just disposable bodies, and whose opinions meant nothing. But with Eva, it’s different. Edriss outright admits that she couldn’t bear for Eva to know.

And yet, I could not let my host see that I was a mother, too. I could stand her hatred. I could not stand the insinuating pity, the appeals to a shared love.

What Edriss confesses here is that she’s afraid of Eva’s judgment. By extension, that means Eva’s opinion matters to her.

As for Eva, she didn’t hesitate to help Edriss on multiple occasions, from the moment she told her, "<I’ll help, Yeerk, but tell me the truth!>" to the point where she agreed to become her host again rather than escaping with Marco and the Animorphs. Sure, the fate of humanity was on the line at that moment. But shortly before the verdict, Eva says something I find very telling about her state of mind:

<I shouldn’t have helped you,> she said. <Even if it did lead to open war, I shouldn’t have helped you. You filthy, evil thing. I thought I’d found something decent inside you. I thought you were a mother, too.>

From this, I conclude that Eva clearly has some empathy for Edriss. Perhaps she even felt it from the beginning, before she knew about the children. Empathy doesn’t preclude a certain form of hatred.

But this is where I get stuck, because I can’t wrap my head around what Edriss and Eva’s relationship could have been like BEFORE all of that. What were their interactions like in the early days, and could those interactions have evolved into what we see in Visser? It’s not a simple question, because I think an important piece of the puzzle is missing: Eva’s personality.

Anyway. All this to say I’m racking my brain trying to piece it all together. Honestly, I don’t know if I’ll ever manage to finish this fic (which was supposed to be a one-shot and is already at 10K words). But hey, I do love a good challenge!

[procrastinating-falcon]

I was just thinking about how similar two characters I really like are. It’s a wild comparison, I know, but wow, Marco from Animorphs and Carol Peletier (TWD) are like two peas in a pod.

“People don’t understand the word ruthless. They think it means ‘mean.’ It’s not about being mean. It’s about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It’s about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it.”

Take that quote from Marco and tell me it’s not Carol.