#esplin 9466

[kooldewd123]

the whole "andalite bandit" thing is actually pretty laughable when you take step back and look at it. because when you compare the animorphs' actions to the way that andalites actually act - they don't really do that good a job of selling it. "if we never talk, we won't give them any hints we're human!" meanwhile every single andalite who comes face-to-face with visser three immediately starts cursing him out. "let's fight them with earth animals!" as if any self-respecting andalite warrior (ax included) wouldn't just use his tail blade given the opportunity. "we must never let them see us demorph!" the andalites have basically no reason to worry about hiding their identities - as far as they're concerned, there's no way the yeerks could ever hurt them in a way that matters, anyway.

and the biggest irony of it is that visser three is the single yeerk who should have the easiest time seeing through this, seeing as how he is the yeerk's foremost expert on andalite behavior even ignoring the fact that he is currently infesting one, but he's such an arrogant blowhard that once he gets the idea of "andalite bandits" into his head he absolutely refuses to entertain the notion that he's wrong.

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

Visser Three to Aftran in #29

[tomberensonsghost]

Deadnaming Visser Three

[clitoris-maximus]

the visserrrrrrrrrr

save me cunty alien centaur save me

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Out of all the characters (animorphs, yeerks, and literally everyone else) who would you say is the biggest drama queen? And out of the adults (aliens included) who is the biggest 'manbaby' (toddler in an adult body)

I mean, Visser Three is RIGHT THERE.

A few favorites:

He scanned the room like the Queen of Hearts, looking for someone to behead.

— #33

«Strange place to meet for our final battle, Andalites,» he said. «But battle we must.» That was pretty calm for him. I think maybe the fact that he was the size of a dandruff flake depressed him.

—#24

«You'll lose Leeran for us yet, you half-human fool!» "Like you've already lost Earth, despite the fact I handed it over to you in perfect shape?" It was bizarre. You have to understand that there was a huge, roaring battle going on between my friends and the Hork-Bajir. And I was standing there, having just punched out a Leeran. But all the two vissers seemed to care about was trashing each other.

—#15

[pixelsilver]

Welcome to reality, there's no way back

[tsartistry]

did someone say Carnageized Visser Three???

(it was me, I said it)

[jennydyn]

“average yeerk murders 3 subordinates a year" factoid actually just statistical error, average yeerk murders 0 subordinates per year. Decapitations Esplin, who has an andalite host and kills over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

[littlecrazyhelmacron]

Happy New Year

[aristhmetic]

And Visser Three is there. Visser Three is always there.

[vegalocity]

Can you draw Tripitaka from your Animorph AU please

Gladly, Anon

Behold, the meanest Alien slug to have ever possessed a monk

[kooldewd123]

Honestly the Hork-Bajir Chronicles gives such an interesting spin on Visser Three's character. He comes off as a bit of an arrogant buffoon most of the time, but actually getting a look at where he started, it's easy to see why. He's surprisingly smart, but insanely ambitious, and the latter tends to overtake the former. He researches Andalites endlessly before getting a proper host body, and seems like the most tactically knowledgeable Yeerk among his crew. And the big thing is - he keeps getting proven right. He knows that destroying Seerow's scoop is foolhardy. He starts out with a silent invasion of the Hork-Bajir, but his pivot to a guns-blazing attack is a major factor in their eventual victory. He successfully predicts Aldrea's actions multiple times and would have infested her had his ambition not gotten the better of him. And later, in the Andalite Chronicles, he quickly analyzes Elfangor's weakness and is able to exploit them to misdirect him and finally infest an Andalite, which was his goal from the very beginning. But because he's been right so many times, his arrogance has become so overinflated that by the time the main series actually starts, he can't even begin to fathom the idea that he's wrong.

[princeseerow]

somehow ive never considered this before. when visser three thoughtspeaks in alloran's body, whose voice do people hear?

[brightsuzaku]

Visser 3 (Esplin 9466).

OK SO THIS MAY NOT BE "POPULAR" BUT, AM I WRONG?

You know a character has really hit their gender out of the park when they're popularly hced as transmasc AND transfemme

[clitoris-maximus]

tobias and HIS MOM!! VISSER THREE IS HIS MOM.

basically just a like what if visser actually did adopt tobias in that one book

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

ships u don't ship: dak hamee/esplin 9466

You're right I wouldn't ship it, but I would have loved to see those two interact during Hork-Bajir Chronicles. The sheer contempt that Dak would have for Esplin would probably be powerful enough to destroy Mr. Andalitekin on the spot.