#helmacrons

[tomberensonsghost]

The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy, because they're both jerks.

[littlecrazyhelmacron]

Doodles

Puddle of random doodles of various alien critters.

Yeerk, Andalite, Visser Three slinked in there, Helmacron, Warmaker Iskoort, Vanarx.

I...wasn’t sure what colours the Iskoort should be, I really need to reread 26.

[daphne-dreamcatcher]

My ass that's been going around doing Animorph HC/fancasting for weeks during the reread:

Helmacrons =

I DONT MAKE THE RULES HERE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💯👌✨

[flamedramondapyro]

Extremely off-model Helmacrons and Crayak

[shernb0t]

i dislike blonde people

[lordrataxesofrhinoland]

crash bandicoot bosses crossed over with animorphs aliens

no animorphs spoilers in the comments/reblogs please!

andalite n tropy

hork-bajir dingodile

mercora n gin

helmacron cortex

and yeerk n tranced

[jodjuya]

And they're a fungible species, so therefore unkillable!

<Sentimental Andalite fool,> Visser Three said. <You can't kill a Helmacron. They're a fungible species. Kill one and its mind, if you can call it a mind, is absorbed into another. They never die. Even when they're dead, they're not dead.>

So fucking wild. I love these microscopic Loony-Tunes-embodying motherfuckers! 😁

What does it even mean to be a fungible species??? It's like the inverse of a hive mind?? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Instead of a single mind being diffused across multiple bodies, Helmacrons are a single body diffused across multiple minds?

I guess Pixar's "Inside Out" is the closest analogy:

Except instead of only 5 little guys inside the head, there's some innumerable number.

And instead of Sadness, Joy, Disgust, Fear, and Anger; the only flavours Helmacrons come in are Wrath, Pride, and Contempt. 😂

I absolutely love the Helmacrons. They’re just so weird, but the right kind of weird, the kind of weird that fits right in with the rest of the messed-up Animorphs universe, along with evil Atlantis, time-travel, and whatever the Iskoort had going on.

They’re these tiny little ant creatures who only show up when it is the exact worst moment. They argue about everything. All of their leaders are dead, and not only do they not see anything wrong with this, they have this weird meta knowledge that their leaders are completely useless and their only function is to be used as bargaining chips. They are so absolutely full of themselves, but most of that confidence is earned because they just keep succeeding despite all odds.

They’re the only species in the universe to have shrinking tech! They suck so much that they make Visser freakin’ III team up with the Animorphs! They go on a Magic School Bus trip inside Marco! The only reason they need the morphing cube is to charge their ship.

Gah, I just love the little buggers.

[regallibellbright]

So I’ve been doing an Animorphs Book Club this year, and we just got through the absolute gauntlet that is Books 19-23 With Bonus Hork-Bajir Chronicles. (For those of you who are familiar with the series but not numbers, that’d be Cassie and Aftran having philosophical debates in the wilderness, the David Trilogy, and Tobias being confronted with the idea he might ACTUALLY have a relative who cares about him, only to have it cruelly yanked away.) The club-runners had mentioned that this week would be going back to comedy mode. (Poor, poor Cassie, who got ONE really fantastic book to shine in 19, one that was at least plot-critical in 4, and some good moments especially outside her POV but has mostly gotten pretty mediocre one-off comedy books for her POV so far.) Somehow, that did not prepare me for JUST HOW Wacky this book is.

… Yeah, I’m going to assume the Helmacrons aren’t going to be recurring characters with which to define Cassie’s arc going forward.

[gallium-spoon]

I'm gonna read The Suspicion (Animorphs book 24) aka the one with the helmacrons

10 year old me loved this book and thought the helmacrons were hilarious so I really hope this one holds up

I will report back

[littlecrazyhelmacron]

Background Practise

I wanted to practise background drawing. A certain Helmacron is having none of it, she just HAS to be in the picture if her ship is.

OC Helmacron, she is generally known by those she meets in the roleplay she’s in as “The Little Crazy Helmacron”. Hence the blog name.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I'd be worried someone would morph one and then get lost. Like, they have no way to communicate with anyone in human or animal shape if even thought-speak has trouble with vast size differences. Also I don't know a bacteria could be useful in combat if you only have 2 hours to work with.

hi :) i was just wondering: do you think it’s possible for the animorphs to turn into plants?

I think you can argue both ways. Cause on the one hand, the kids turn into aliens, which presumably are less closely related to humans than plants are. But on the other hand, we only see them turning into animal-like aliens: andalites have hearts, hork-bajir eat and digest food, even yeerks move around and reproduce sexually. So it's possible that convergent evolution (or Ellimist Fuckery) made for andalites really being more closely-related to humans than plants are.

We know that human thoughts and human worldviews remain with the morpher even if they're a dog or a starfish, so you probably wouldn't risk your consciousness turning off entirely if you were a plant. That said, I think maybe the biggest barrier in turning into a plant would be the difficulty in picturing what it'd be like to be a plant, just because their experience of everything is so different from ours. Even someone who's never morphed before can picture their hands becoming paws well enough to achieve dog shape (#1), but it seems like it'd just be harder to imagine oneself into a shrub.

So. I'll vote that Jake probably can't morph a plant — our boy thinks corals are plants and can't tell crocodiles from alligators — but that someone like Ax with a better grasp of botany might be able to. Ax would probably get bored with being a plant, but it'd be one heck of a disguise in a pinch.

[wings-of-flaming-homosexuals]

EVERY CASSIE EPISODE IS A BANGER. EVERY SINGLE ONE. OH MY GOD.

I GET IT SHES A TOTAL BADASS I CANT TAKE IT I LOVE HER

[tomberensonsghost]

Marco after getting shrunk by the Helmacrons: Hello, insurance compnay? I am suffering from just-a-little-guy syndrome and I require compensation.

[thaylepo]

Marco survived the war fueled entirely on being a little shit whenever possible lol

I've been reading Animorphs, so here's some fanart from this funny scene in volume 24 (The Suspicion)! I'm adding the cropped text because it's just so great! 🤣

[quasi-normalcy]

Lower Decks's approach to villainy seems to be "outwardly cute/silly but actually monstrous"; Badgey, the Pakleds, Peanut Hamper, and Moopsy all fit this pattern, so I assume that the mysterious new threat that they're teasing will be, like, the Star Trek universe version of the Helmacrons.