#elfangor

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

ok maybe I'm dumb but why didn't elfangor just morph a khafit bird and zoom away from his crash scene?

Doylistically (out of universe): The mentor who dies passing along his power is a classic SF trope, and Animorphs does a classic job of both playing that trope straight and subverting it. Elfangor becomes the emotional motivation for the team, because now they can't not fight the war — he literally died to give them a chance to save humanity. Given how much the series is baked on the idea of kids having no guidance at all when tasked with saving the world, he cannot stick around to mentor them. He has to die.

It's also not clear that Applegate et al. committed to the idea of morph-healing before #4, because it doesn't come up until then, and the rules of morphing are pretty fuzzy in that first book.

Watsonian (in-universe): Various explanations include:

When the Ellimist re-andalite-ified Elfangor, he never gave his morphing power back (X)

Elfangor has to let Visser Three kill him, or else Visser Three will tear the planet apart looking for him (X)

Elfangor lets Visser Three kill him in order to give the kids a chance to get away (X)

Elfangor is injured with some kind of weapon or radiation poisoning that causes an injury morphing can't heal

Andalites aren't aware that morphing can heal injuries to one's base form (X)

He just sucks at morphing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[church-of-crayak]

bit of a dramatic wip of book 1 minute 5

[lilacnothlit]

Ever saddle your human girlfriend with the magic fingernails and ride towards the intersection of the memories of three planets? Not yet? Hm. Ah, well, I hope the story has the happy ending they deserve.

(His tail says "tooth," his head "music" and his heart "grotesque.")

[sharoscylla]

This was gonna be a piece with Ripley pestering the shit out of him but for now let’s just enjoy Alive Elfangor

[andalitean]

and you cant spell infant without ant!

[ghostofbriggiesmalls]

Remember that one time in Animorphs when a teenager character got stuck in the body of a horrible cannibal worm and begged his friend to kill him and he wouldn’t so he tried to trick him into executing him so he didn’t have live with the ravenous all consuming hunger to devour anything living including himself if he were injured

yeah me too.

[keenadraws]

The Andalites

[severalrodentsdrinkingtea]

Also they moved on from the whole “Elfangor is Tobias’ fuckin DAD” thing WAY too fast—not even a mention of it until Jake recalls it several books later? Absolutely no reaction from Ax to the fact that he has a human nephew?? No snark from Marco about how he always seemed a little alien? No agonized ramblings from Tobias himself about how he’s even less human than he thought? Unrealistic, I say.

[brotoman-exe]

<My latest creation! Gundam Elfangor!>

[fanonical]

my trans animorphs headcanon is that elfangor should be a girl, and her humansona would be elle fangor

[if-you-are-tired-clap-your-hands]

Eyo Guess who came back from the dead

Yeah I know no one listens to Hamilton today but I've read the andalite chronicles 5 times now and cried much more and thought of them on this song and now you got to cry about them too

A bit of rambling about the video under the cut

I wanted to create a cool conversation between elfangor and alloran to switch to elfangor having the same conversation with Tobias

But guess what ? My pencils broke and so did my motivation to do the rest of the song sorry

Also. I love Loren and elfangor sooo much in that book they are so cute so I had to put her in the video as well

I'm not really sure about the thumbnail of the video cause it's the first time I do a serious one but it's past midnight where I live and school is coming up fast and here I am

I genuinely hope you like it !

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What if Elfangor and Chapman fell in love instead of Elfangor and Loren?

This idea is cracky wonderfulness and I need it.

I need help figuring out WHY this would ever happen. Elfangor finds Chapman extremely off-putting, and Chapman hates aliens almost as much as Alloran does.

Anyone else: thoughts?

[church-of-crayak]

been rereading the andalite chronicles.. what a trilogy

[anemictoad]

Old mock-ups of andalites based on grazing animals. Embrace the Andalite Truth http://andalitetruth.org/

[starwolf999]

Yo the animorphs books are batshit fucking crazy.

Why the fuck is this dude explaining higher dimensions in a childrens book??

And it makes sense?! Holy shit!?

[as21-7]

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