#animorphs book 19

[toshitophchan]

I think this might be my best animorphs fan art ever

[itstimeforstarwars]

I think animorphs is my longest running fandom tbh. I got into the books in third or fourth grade, and then was turning in animorphs fanart for a grade by the time I was ten years old.

[shernb0t]

QUESTION

is it ok to me to watch THE animorphs musical. currently I finished reading the hork bajir chronicles and I dont really mind spoilers... unless a character that I really like DIES but besides that I'm fine

[maturefruitboy]

okay so like looking at the bigger picture cassie is in the wrong, reading it from anybody else's perspective she would be in the wrong, reading it from her perspective i can see her reasoning, and this book has made me like her a lot

[emeraldmew]

Animorphs Bookclub schedule

Let's do a tumblr book club for Animorphs!

The idea is to read one book a week and post about it with the tag Animorphs Book Club.

March

March 2-8: #1 The Invasion

March 9-15: #2 The Visitor

March 16-22: #3 The Encounter

March 23-29 1: #4 The Message

April

March 30-April 5: #5 The Predator

April 6-12: #6 The Capture

April 13-19 #7 The Stranger

April 20-26: Megamorphs #1 The Andalite’s Gift

May

April 27-May 3: #8 The Alien

May 4-10: #9 The Secret

May 11-17: #10 The Android

May 18-24: #11 The Forgotten

May 25-31: #12 The Reaction

June

June 1-7: The Andalite Chronicles

June 8-14: #13 The Change

June 15-21: #14 The Unknown

June 22-28: #15 The Escape

July

June 29-July 5: #16 The Warning

July 6-12: #17 The Underground

July 13-19: #18 The Decision

July 20-26: Megamorphs #2 In the Time of the Dinosaurs

August

July 27-August 2: #19 The Departure

August 3-9: #20 The Discovery

August 10-16: #21 The Threat

August 17-23: #22 The Solution

August 24-30: The Hork-Bajir Chronicles

September

August 31-September 6: #23 The Pretender

September 7-13: #24 The Suspicion

September 14-20: #25 The Extreme

September 21-28: #26 The Attack

October

September 27-October 4: #27 The Exposed

October 5-11: #28 The Experiment

October 12-18: #29 The Sickness

October 19-25: Megamorphs #3 Elfangor’s Secret

November

October 26-November 1: #30 The Reunion

November 2-8: #31 The Conspiracy

November 9-15: #32 The Separation

November 16-22: #33 The Illusion

November 23-29: #34 The Prophecy

December

November 30-December 6: #35 The Proposal

December 7-13: Visser

December 14-20: #36 The Mutation

December 21-27: #37 The Weakness

January 2026

December 28-January 3, 2026: #38 The Arrival

January 4-10: #39 The Hidden

January 11-17: #40 The Other

January 18-24: Megamorphs #4 Back to Before

January 25-31: #41 The Familiar

February

February 1-7: #42 The Journey

February 8-14: #43 The Test

February 15-21: #44 The Unexpected

February 22-28: #45 The Revelation

March (again)

March 1-7: #46 The Deception

March 8-14: #47 The Resistance

March 15-21: The Ellimist Chronicles

March 22-28: #48 The Return

April

March 29-April 4: #49 The Diversion

April 5-11: #50 The Ultimate

April 12-18: #51 The Absolute

April 19-25: #52 The Sacrifice

May

April 26-May 2: #53 The Answer

May 3-9: #54 The Beginning

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Relating to this post, if animorphs was greenlit for an 8 episode PJO style series, and you weren’t sure if more seasons would come up, what books would you adapt? Would Ax even be there? I would probably introduce him in episode 2 but I know less about animorphs.

To answer the second question: Ax would indeed be hard to solve. I think all undersea adventures would be off the table for budgetary reasons, even today, but you wouldn't want it to look like AniTV's thing where Ax just stands around in the woods yelling "Help!" until Cassie wanders by.

I'd solve this by simply having Ax be on the fighter with Elfangor when he crash-lands. Two issues I foresee here:

It makes the fact that Elfangor should morph to escape glaringly obvious.

It begs the question of how Jake ends up leader if Ax has more yeerk-fighting expertise.

For #1, I think the most interesting resolution would be if Elfangor's shot dead by a yeerk sniper midway through explaining the invasion. The scene would have to engineer a reason for him to be apart from the kids at the time — maybe he steps back into his fighter to return the morphing cube, and then a Bug Fighter shoots it from overhead? — but any exposition he doesn't cover could be taken up by Ax.

For #2, I think you could do a little humor and characterization with Jake and Ax playing hot-potato over responsibility for the team. Maybe Jake speaks for everyone when it's just the humans, but once Elfangor dies he starts asking Ax what to do, and they go back and forth for a while with "I thought YOU knew what to do!" "No, I thought YOU knew!" before Marco or Tobias suggests a vote and Jake gets elected to lead.

To answer the first question: I'd make the following 8 episodes:

Roughly the events of #1 (AKA Jake's story): Elfangor lands, the kids learn to morph, they infiltrate The Sharing, they fail to rescue Tom, Tobias gets stuck.

Parts of #7, MM1, and #17 (AKA Rachel's story): The kids learn about the ground-based kandrona and destroy it, but there are all kinds of downstream consequences. Rachel gets injured during the battle and wanders off with no memory, Ax recruits disgruntled yeerks to help him contact his dad, Jake gets his hopes up about Tom, and a whole bunch of yeerks end up dead or addicted to oatmeal.

Combo of #13 and #23 (AKA Tobias's story) (AKA all of AniTV's good ideas): Tobias stumbles on a group of escaped former human-controllers, who help him plan a mission to break into the yeerk pool and free some hork-bajir. While going through their files, Tobias finds intel about Elfangor's hirac dilest. He saves Jara and Ket, retrieves Elfangor's CD, and discovers it has some kind of baked-in genetic override that restores his morphing power. With Ax, he reads Elfangor's life story.

Some of #19 with most of #29 (AKA Cassie's story): The team falls ill with an alien virus, forcing Cassie to venture into the yeerk pool alone in search of a cure. She ends up trapped in (the woods? a back room? a quicksand pit?) with Aftran and Karen for a few days, long enough for them to become friends and reconcile their differences. Aftran helps Cassie escape with intel that will save Ax before she herself returns to the pool sans host.

Mostly #30 and #45 (AKA Marco's story): Marco is out in public when he spots his dead mom, and follows her as a bug long enough to realize she's controlled by Visser One who is plotting an attack on the hork-bajir valley. Through letting Visser Three in on her plot, Marco discredits her and gets her charged with treason. As Visser One is about to be executed, the Animorphs grab Eva and drag her off to starve out the yeerk. The last scene is Eva and Marco telling a very surprised Peter that they need to talk.

Parts of #37, #46, and #51 (AKA Ax's story): Eva, Peter, and Ax build a radio that will let them talk to the Andalite Navy. Ax learns that a mission is already on Earth — he finds Gonrod et al. and offers to help them, with most of that plot playing out. Ax prevents Estrid from using the quantum virus by threatening to drop a nuclear bomb on the yeerk pool with her crew inside. Estrid reveals that the virus was a last-ditch attempt to save humanity, and that after this the andalites are writing off Earth entirely.

Combo of #49, #50, and #51 (AKA The End): The Animorphs' human DNA gets discovered, probably matching Jake to Tom for simplicity's sake. They evacuate Cassie's and Rachel's families, and start to notify the authorities. At a key moment, Ax reveals that he stole a morphing cube from Gonrod. Jake suggests making more Animorphs, but is acting reckless about it in the aftermath of losing his family — sure enough, after recruiting James et al., Jake walks into a trap and Tom's yeerk gets the morphing cube. The episode ends with Tom's yeerk popping up in the hork-bajir valley, offering to make a deal.

Mostly #54 (AKA The Beginning): Rachel dies, the Blade ship escapes, Cassie becomes the alien-human ambassador, Marco gets famous, Tobias lives in a tree, Jake teaches the next generation how to morph, and Ax hunts the Blade ship. To give a little more resolution than we get in canon, maybe Ax himself comes back to Earth and recruits the boys to help him battle The One in the outer reaches of space.

A lot would need to get cut, for the sake of taking 63 stories down to 8 — no Ellimist, no David, no Loren, no Crayak, no Toby, probably no taxxons or chee. But I think that my version preserves most of the overall story, while still being (hopefully) easy enough to follow for people who haven't read the books.

[kooldewd123]

The juxtaposition of horror and comedy is obviously a pretty essential part of Animorphs but I really wanna give a special shout-out to the sequence of books that goes

19: Cassie is lost in the woods with a Yeerk she refuses to kill and risks everything they've worked for in the naive hope of forming a peace.

20-22: The Animorphs bring in a new recruit, only to trap him in the body of a rat and leave him on an uninhabited island after realizing he's too much of a liability to keep around.

Hork-Bajir Chronicles: The tragic story of how the peaceful and innocent Hork-Bajir were lost to the Yeerks due to the Andalites' arrogant indifference.

23: Tobias is finally offered the promise of a real family but has it yanked away when they discover it's all a ruse.

24: YEEEAHH, IT'S THE FUCCKIN HELMACRONS, BABIY!!! YOU WANT MORE SOUL-WRENCHING CHARACYER DEVELOPMENT? NAH, WE DOING "HONEY, WHO SHEUNK THE ANIMORPHS" IN THIS BIYCH!

[i-assign-you-animorphs]

Animorphs #19: The Departure

[andhumanslovedstories]

we just finished recording our podcast episode for animorph books 11-19 and I feel comfortably guessing that twenty solid minutes of it is me talking about how much I love my precious baby girl Cassie who has such a good heart and that will probably be fine for her going forward in the series. there can't possibly be that many devastating life-or-death moral dilemmas. surely. she's 12.

[thelightfluxtastic]

I want to preface this by saying there is not a single character in animorphs I don't like. All of them are well-written and complex and understandable and I love them.

Also, all of the kids struggle with their role (leader, moral center, fighter, etc.). These roles are inherently black-and-white in a way no human could perfectly uphold, and a bunch of traumatized middle schoolers are going to make bad calls and irrational decisions and be swayed by different things at different times.

But I have to say, I'm feeling defensive of Rachel. She seems to be the one that gets the most pushback from her fellow animorphs, while they still expect her to fulfill her role.

Like, Jake internally struggles with leadership, but the others tend to feel more comfortable when he's in the reins and only fight over leadership when he's not there. The others might disagree with Cassie's moral stances, but when he makes a potentially life-threatening call in book 19, even Rachel isn't willing to bad-mouth Cassie for having those ideals. Marco is ruthless, but doesn't get the same extent of negativity about that trait.

But Rachel? Everyone is constantly telling Rachel how disturbing they find her and how worried they are about her inner evil, her inner darkness, that there's this deep, inherently horrible thing in her.

A good example is, of course, is Book 22, which focuses a lot on this aspect of Rachel. And at the end, the group makes a token acknowledgement that they all made the decision, that they all bear responsibility for what happens to David, that it's not just Rachel's choice or Rachel's cruelty...but in the end, Rachel is still the one that has to go through with it.

I feel this especially strongly with Jake! In book 22, he expresses concern that Rachel is literally addicted to violence, comparing it to alcohol abuse. And then in book 26, when Jake is morphing howler, he asks Rachel to stand by him in grizzly morph, ready to behead him if he can't control the morph.

He tells Rachel he's worried she is engaging in violence too often and too deeply, and then asks his cousin to be ready to kill him! I'm sorry, but no! "You're an addict and you need to think about other things in life, but also, please take another hit of the drug so you can do this job for me". And yes, I know, the point is that Jake is learning to use his friends, and this isn't good for Jake either. But I find it hypocritical and frustrating how the other animorphs will be openly judgemental and act like Rachel has a dark passenger...while still asking her to do the ugly parts.

[princeseerow]

animorphs #4: the message, ch. 19 - 25

rachel thinks ax is cute haha. she has a thing for nonhuman boys i see

it's fun to me how quickly rachel turns on ax for keeping secrets. she establishes early that she doesn't trust him and doesn't have much faith in the andalites, and iirc this opinion of hers never really changes

would love to read more about ax being all alone at the bottom of the ocean and acquiring a shark for the first time

actually speaking of rachel again, cassie has taken note a few times now of rachel being shaken up or scared and still masking it behind her toughness, which is both such good characterization for rachel and really goes to show how perceptive cassie is of her best friend. good stuff

the reveal that yeerks are here not just to enslave humanity but to destroy all natural life on earth to make it more hospitable for yeerks, good way to raise the stakes. 10/10

thank god they finally have someone with them that can naturally track time

ax being afraid of visser three, admitting he doesn't pay attention sometimes in class... sometimes it hurts to remember these are just kids

brb while i cry

i want to judge visser three for eating all his problems but... man it's pretty relatable

loooove love love the scene of the whales fighting back against visser three, especially in the context of this being the book where we find out the yeerks want to wipe out the rest of the earth's species as well. they might not know what's at stake, but they can certainly recognize a hostile invasion.

oh, sure, he's just joking. suuuure.

cassie climbing into the dolphin tank because she feels guilty and wants to apologize, but ending up just playing with them instead, is such a sweet way to end this book

we're never told definitively whether she's wrong or right to feel uneasy about morphing intelligent creatures, but it sort of doesn't matter if there's a definitive answer. cassie trusts her own feelings, and will continue to do so no matter the situation, and i think that's beautiful

[zarohk]

Funny, my reaction was “Wait that was a whole decade ago? That can’t be right.”

Rationalimorphs Launch: Wednesday 25 June

That’s right, the 25th. Or… possibly 24th-26th, depending on your timezone. In a few days, anyway. Also wanted: better title than Rationalimorphs. Let me know if you have any suggestions.

R-morphs is an Animorphs AU in which Cassie has been rewritten as a rationalist, much in the style of Luminosity or Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It will be released on AO3, Fanfiction.net and probably Livejournal. If anybody has an another site they’d recommend, please let me know.

The whole of book 1 will be released on Wednesday 25, and the books will be released bimonthly. Have fun with life, and never forget — you matter.

[wandringaesthetic]

Some Animorphs thoughts, and some general violence in media thoughts:

So the majority of yeerks the Animorphs have to face, have innocent slaves as their hosts. So, taking Animorphs as a metaphor for IRL wars, KAA is communicating that many people fighting in a war simply aren't there by choice and also that collateral damage in war almost inevitably hits some unambiguously innocent people.

BUT ON TOP OF THAT

You have the yeerks, who have very limited senses and mobility in their unhosted state. There's a species on their home planet they can parasite into, but their capabilities are not so great either, and they're not very numerous. (Though, as I'm writing this, I wonder if the Yeerk distaste against Gedd hosts is more of a social thing cuz it signals low status or if this is maybe even the result of propaganda) If they want to have full sensory experiences and if they want to go to the stars, they're going to have to enslave other races.

(or..... Do something more complex, like some bio-engineering, but that's going on a tangent)

Early in the books, the yeerks are perceived as unnuanced evil. From at least #19, you get their perspective, which imo doesn't make them justified, but it does make them understandable. If they want to see and hear and run and feel the wind on their face, if they want that for the majority of their peers.... Let's find a low tech alien species with a central nervous system and enslave all of them. Add to those desires, pressure from your imperial/extreme meritocracy government where the "merit" is determined by people who are empire-pilled....

Understandable.

AND THEN YOU ALSO GET VOLUNTARY HOSTS

The books don't really elaborate on this aspect much, because I think it got into some territory even KAA was uncomfortable with tackling for juvenile readers.

Some of these are "voluntary" in the sense Tobias was in MM4, i.e., he didn't really understand what he was getting into and was like "oh God no" and then it was too late.

For the others.... You gotta ask yourself why a person would choose to give their lives over to a brain slug, and my answers for that are various situations of desperation: addiction, severe mental illness, severe poverty etc. But I think a few were probably promised, well, something like illuminati membership, and found even what they actually got to be acceptable. I make none of my own decisions and am a passenger in my body, but I *am* living in wealth and comfort!

The Animorphs view these people as traitors to humanity and basically incomprehensibly evil, and there's SOME of that happening imo, but I think mostly not. I think, maybe if you are living on the street and you get a brain slug but you are no longer living on the street some would see this as acceptable terms.

So anyway, my point is the majority of hosts and at least a significant minority of the yeerks would not be on earth trying to enslave all humans if they had better choices. So with each controller killed, you're killing one innocent and one "well, they made their choices (sort of)"

And through this all, I want to reinforce that while the Animorphs sometimes make some questionable moral choices, their overall fight is always portrayed as just. And I would argue that it is. Earth is being invaded. The stakes are most life on earth and the freedom of all humans. Worthwhile to crack some eggs for that omelette. Some of the moves Cassie makes towards some reconciliation with the yeerks were incredibly strategically dangerous. Ended up being key to ending things! But risky! My point is, some of the "good" "morally pure" choices, while ultimately portrayed as correct, got people killed!

VERSUS

More common and acceptable portrayals of violence. Bloodless displays of violence . Violence where there is a clear good guy and bad guy. Our society (especially, if that's, yanno, US Americans) does not disapprove of violence. We quite approve of it, actually. Violence is all ages entertainment. We disapprove of realistic or even semi-realistic portrayals of it.

Most fantasy violence, Especially fantasy violence in children's media, isn't ugly, and moreover isn't messy. There isn't friendly fire. Either the bad guys are inhuman monsters or they're ostensibly human but faceless (like stormtroopers). And don't get me wrong, some media that I love operates like this. There are good guys who do violence and they are mostly held up as heroes for it. Not always in universe, some superheroes have complicated or negative public images, ....but definitely they are portrayed as Unambiguously just to the audience. Versus IRL, where even for justified violence, someone is probably going to be mad at you about it.

Is it more damaging to portray an ugly, fucked up violence? Or a sanitized violence? Nearly all irl violence is messy and I'm not just talking about gore when I say that.

[bluefox4]

So, I'm reading the Animorphs books for the first time. This is not a blind reading though. My older sibling is @emeraldmew so I have heard a lot about this series from her already. I know the shape of how things go.

Oh, I have seen the Animorphs TV show, too. Some as a kid on TV and later as an adult finding it on YouTube. I can see why the TV show had um issues making the aliens for the show.

But the thing that I wanted to post about is actually the descriptions that we get of the aliens and their spaceships within the first 6 chapters. Just since they are interesting. And it helps me actually have an idea of what they are supposed to look like by transcribing and pointing out details. So the aliens.

Let's start with the good alien species: The Andalites.

The spaceship is the first thing that we see.

First of all, it wasn't all that big. It was about as long as a school bus. The front end was a pod, shaped almost like an egg. Extending from the back of the pod was a long, narrow shaft. There were two crooked, stubby winglike things, and on the end of each wing was a long tube that glowed bright blue on the back end. The little spaceship looked almost cute. You know, kind of harmless. Except that it had a sort of tail -- a mean-looking tail that curved up and forward, coming to a point that looked as sharp as a needle. (p. 9)

I like the design details that we are given about the spaceship. It is clearly not made by humans. Interesting to give your spaceship a tail. How does that affect flight?

Now the alien themself

My first reaction was that someone fused a person and a deer together. The creature had a head and shoulders and arms that were more or less where they should have been, though the skin was a pale shade of blue. But below that he had fur, a mix of blue and tan, covering a four-legged body that really did look like it belonged to a deer, or maybe a small horse. He ducked his head out of the doorway and I could see that even the fairly normal-looking parts of him weren't all that normal. For a start, he had no mouth, just three vertical slits. And then there were his eyes. Two of them were where they should have been, although they were a glittery green color that was kind of shocking. But the real shock was the other eyes. He had what seemed like horns, only on the top of each horn was an eye. The horns could move, twisting to point the eyes front and back or up and down. I thought the eyes were bad, until I saw the tail. It was like a scorpion's tail, thick and powerful-looking. On the end was a wickedly curved, very sharp-looking horn or stinger. It reminded me of the alien's spaceship. It had seemed kind of cute and harmless, till you noticed the tail. The alien seemed kind of harmless at first glance, too. Then you saw the tail of his and you thought, Whoa, this guy could do some damage if he wanted to. (p. 13-14)

He knelt beside the Andalite and placed a comforting hand on the alien's narrow shoulder. (p. 19)

Then a sixth hand, different from ours, with too many fingers. (p. 25)

Visser Three walked confidently toward the wounded Andalite. The Visser seemed so much like the Andalite it was hard to tell them apart at first. (p. 34)

Ok, I know I wasn't expecting Jake to use the word cute; twice during his descriptions of anything relating to the Andalites. I don't know just cute didn't feel like a word Jake was going to use from what I knew of him.

Anyway there are some subtle foreshadowing into the nature of the Andalites that we get in these descriptions. I'm sure that for the intended audience it probably flew over their heads. If you know what that foreshadowing is you know it.

But I like how Jake doesn't notice everything about the Andalite upon first seeing him. He didn't at first notice the mouth was off and the horn eyes had been hidden out of sight until the alien came out of the spaceship. Then there is the fact that we don't hear about Andalites having too many fingers until page 25 well after we got what was assumed to be all the important details pages ago. It leaves a nice opening to add more little details later if needed.

Also, I like the detail that it is hard to tell the Yeerk controlled Andalite apart from the non-Yeerk controlled Andalite.

Though the tail blade; are they born with that? Does that come in later like teeth? Are they live birth or hatch?

But also we get to see how fast that tail blade can move on page 37.

His tail whipped up and over, so fast you couldn't really see it. The Visser twisted his head aside. The Andalite's tail blade missed the Visser' head by a bare half inch. But it sliced into his shoulder. Blood - or something like blood - sprayed from the wound. (p. 37)

The tail blade really isn't just for show. How would the series of turned out differently if he hadn't missed? But also, Jake what do you mean something like blood? Is Andalite blood different in some way or did you not want to assume that it was blood like Earth creatures have?

Also, the Animorphs TV show was never able to do an Andalite tail blade battle justice.

And hey let's go to the other aliens the not as friendly ones for the kids.

First, we only get a little thing for what the Yeerks look like.

Suddenly a bright picture popped into my head. I saw a gray-green, slimy thing like a snail without its shell, only bigger, the size of a rat, maybe. It wasn't a pretty picture. (p. 17)

Only a mental projection of what a Yeerk looks like because as we've been told, the Yeerks have to live inside of another being. We won't get a proper look at one for a while.

Then we get the two types of ships that the alien invaders have.

Slowly the Bug fighters descended. It was easy to see where they'd gotten their nickname. They were slightly larger than the Andalite fighter and shaped like legless cockroaches. There were small windows like eyes on the forward-thrust head of the bug. And on either side of the head were two very long, very sharp, serrated spears. (p. 27-28)

The larger ship began to descend. I don't know what it was about that ship, but as it got closer I started to feel like I couldn't breath. I tried to suck in a deep lungful of air and couldn't. I tried to swallow and couldn't. I wanted to run, but my legs were jelly. I was shaking from a fear so deep it was like nothing I'd never experienced before. It was the same fear that the Andalite has shown when he'd realized Visser Three was coming. The ship settled toward the ground. It looked like it was going to land directly on a big rusted earthmover parked there. But as the Visser's ship descended, the earthmover just sizzled and disappeared. Visser Three's ship was built like some ancient weapon. It reminded me of one of those battle-axes the old-time knights used when they were hacking off the heads of their foes. There was a main part, like the handle of the ax, with a big triangular point on the front. That part had to be the bridge. At the rear were two huge scimitar wings. It was eight or ten times the size of the Bug fighters. (p. 28)

I like the descriptions for both of these ships. Not only are they also clearly alien but they are set apart from the cute almost harmless Andalite ship. Both are bigger than the Andalite's ship and they look like a threat. Jake doesn't have a single moment that he thinks of them as cute and potentially harmless.

I also like just the way that the ship that they make the Blade Ship, not sure what the official name of it is but that is clearly the name that Jake dubs it with here, on its own a threat. Jake hasn't seen the aliens yet, but just this large overwhelmingly big ship is freaking him out. Also, being destructive just for the sake of it already. They didn't have to destroy that earthmover, but they did.

Next up are the Hork-Bajir.

They leaped from the ship, whirling and thrusting and slicing the air -- creatures that looked like walking weapons. They stood on two bent-back legs and had two very long arms. On each arm there were curved horn-blades growing out of the wrist and elbow. There were other blades at their bent-back knees, and two more blades at the end of their tails. They had feet like a Tyrannosaurus rex. But it was the head that got your attention -- a neck like a snake, a mouth that was almost a falcon's beak, and, from the forehead, three daggerlike horns raked forward. (p. 29)

The Hork-Bajir Controllers are just showing off their mobility it feels like. There is no need for whirling guys. You're just showing off.

But it does paint a nice picture that these guys look fierce and until you know more about them you are probably going to be more in agreement with the human kids initial reactions. Why would you need to pity something that looks like a walking killing machine? Which is again, a nice little detail. They look dangerous but we are told by the Andalite to pity them.

Also, there are like one Hork-Bajir in the TV Show and barely moved. If you watched the TV Show you would not realize that these are are supposed to be fast and agile.

And now the final alien that I want to talk about; the Taxxons. They never made it into the Animorphs TV show (I think) and I can see why.

But our attention was drawn away by a new form that crept and slithered and shimmied out of the Blade ship. (p. 30)

They were like massive centipedes, twice as long as a grown man. So big around that if you tried to hug one, your arms wouldn't make it even halfway. Not that anyone would ever want to. They had dozens of legs that supported the lower two thirds of their bodies. The top third was held upright, and there the rows of legs became smaller, with little lobster-claw hands. Around the top of their disgusting, tubular bodies were four eyes, each like a wiggling globule of red Jell-O. And at the very end, pointing straight up in the air, was a round mouth, ringed by hundreds of tiny teeth. (p. 30)

Jake doesn't know about the monster-fuckers. But on a more serious note, these are the aliens that the Andalite says are evil and well most humans are probably going to agree based on that description. Giant bug for most people aren't going to invoke a positive reaction. And it is clear that these are some sort of predator. You might not know their hunting patterns yet but these guys are clearly dangerous.

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

Series info:

Book 1 of Animorphs

Book 2: The Visitor

Book 3: The Encounter

Book 4: The Message

Book 5: The Predator

Book 6: The Capture

Book 7: The Stranger

Book 8: The Alien

Book 9: The Secret

Book 10: The Android

Book 11: The Forgotten

Book 12: The Reaction

Book 13: The Change

Book 14: The Unknown

Book 15: The Escape

Book 16: The Warning

Book 17: The Underground

Book 18: The Decision

Book 19: The Departure

Book 20: The Discovery

Book 21: The Threat

Book 22: The Solution

Book 23: The Pretender

Book 24: The Suspicion

Book 25: The Extreme

Book 26: The Attack

Book 27: The Exposed

Book 28: The Experiment

Book 29: The Sickness

Book 30: The Reunion

Book 31: The Conspiracy

Book 32: The Separation

Book 33: The Illusion

Book 34: The Prophecy

Book 35: The Proposal

Book 36: The Mutation

Book 37: The Weakness

Book 38: The Arrival

Book 39: The Hidden

Book 40: The Other

Book 41: The Familiar

Book 42: The Journey

Book 43: The Test

Book 44: The Unexpected

Book 45: The Revelation

Book 46: The Deception

Book 47: The Resistance

Book 48: The Return

Book 49: The Diversion

Book 50: The Ultimate

Book 51: The Absolute

Book 52: The Sacrifice

Book 53: The Answer

Book 54: The Beginning

[bluemoonrabbit]

Or maybe Book 17 is just when it starts getting good?

Animorphs 17 is the "City on the Edge of Forever" of the series, I see.