#illim

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I recently listened to "The Sickness" and I was wondering why didn't Cassie just give control to Tildwell and she could have just been there for the ride?

We've seen controllers give control back to their hosts so I was wondering why she had to control him.

I guess for plot reasons, she wouldn't have known how to control that one woman fast enough but still. Just wondering.

I think that this is a Mr. Tidwell quirk. Guy's a voluntary controller, after all, and we know that he continues to let Illim run the show even after they become friends and start sharing. He describes himself as "naked" without a yeerk in his brain, and the memories Cassie gets from him suggest that he was just gonna let himself die before he found a yeerk friend to motivate him. So I read him as hella passive, and having zero interest in piloting his own body under any circumstances.

[tomberensonsghost]

Cassie pretending to be Illim pretending to be Mr. Tidwell

Identity theft theft

[stayatsam]

Ansbach and Thiollier in Enir-Illim

[goji-pilled]

at least they're all dead now.

i hate metyr, i hate the putriscent knight, i hate the scadutree avatar and i really fucking hate commander gaius

[purplezombietumbler]

Gabriel: *outside the door to the kitchen, scared shitless*

Adrian: Morning father. You okay?

Gabriel: Adrian, don't go in there.

Adrian: But I need my breakfast?

Gabriel: There is a vary dangerous animal in there...

Adrian: I mean, Placide is PAID to keep me safe so...

Gabriel: No! It's Nathalie...

Adrian: What did you do to piss her off now?

Gabriel: I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! It's just that.. yesterday we ran out of coffee and I said I'd get it and I um... *remembers getting preoccupied with Hawkmoth shenanigans* Forgot...

Adrian: Oh no...

Gabriel: Why don't you check on her. She won't hurt you.

Adrian: *opens the door*

*the room is completely dark, aside from pure white eyes illimating from the top of the island*

Nathalie:

Adrian: *Slams door*

Gabriel: Well?

Adrian: .......... Good luck with that.

Gabriel: WHAT THE HELL! You're just gonna leave me here with her!?

Adrian: Look I have school. I don't have time to deal with your coffee crypid situation.

[acavatica]

Breaking and Entering (2022)

Ax/Marco, 70k words, Complete

Tags: Friends to Lovers, Family Issues, Canon-Typical Violence, Teenage Antics, PTSD, Sharing a Brain, Awkward Tension, Family Dinners, 90s References, Trans Character Featured: Ax, Marco, Peter, Nora, Cassie, Mr. Tidwell/Illim (& the rest of the gang is there)

Set after #40, before #45. Ax and Marco get together and there are no hiccups or complications. Just two totally not-fucked-up bros who would never manipulate each other and need no outside forces to bring them together.

Structured like an actual Animorphs book with a dumb diversion at the beginning, high-stakes violence and body horror in the middle, and the aftershocks of trauma at the end. But this one also has making out.

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

Had an idea regarding a potential plot by the Yeerks to investigate the forest next to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic. The Yeerks don't suspect Cassie's family per se, they just think it's possible the Andalite Bandits might live nearby. To that end, the Yeerks disguise their investigation as a school field trip to Cassie's barn, with Assistant Principal Chapman and some of the school staff that are Controllers hiding their investigation behind a wall of children who all want to pet an injured mountain lion. Mr. Tidwell and Illim join forces with the Animorphs during this investigation to ensure Chapman doesn't find anything.

[tentacleteapot]

I think Elden Ring needed giant isopods. I recognize that I’m pushing my luck here, given the fact that I somehow managed to make it through something like 1000 hours of the base game and all of the DLC (unless I’m about to be severely traumatized by Enir-Illim) without anything triggering my admittedly very severe arachnophobia, and asking for giant isopods is just begging for Miyazaki to throw in some kind of hideous armored spider instead, but like. I love isopods. they’re so good.

[harley-gayvidson]

enir illim can huff me, this area sucks

i cant wait to play it again

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

@sage-nebula​

If yeerks could move humans while the humans are asleep, does that mean Mr Tidwell could sleep in while Illim teaches his classes? 🤔

I feel like you’d have to be a reeeaally sound sleeper to remain out through your body standing up, moving around, and speaking loudly for 60+ minutes.  But maybe Mr. Tidwell could mentally calculate his tax returns while Illim teaches his class?

The Sickness makes me wonder just how much control Yeerks have over their hosts. Like, Aftran manages to use Ax's thoughts speak while hes knocked out (which I imagine would be analogous for making a human speak while unconcious) and offhandedly mentions she could try SLOWING DOWN HIS HEAR.

Yeah I wonder more about andalite physiology rather than yeerk physiology in that one. Because Elfangor is confused by Loren putting tape over Chapman's mouth and by her hitting him in the head — he says that neither one would render an andalite unable to speak (Andalite Chronicles). There's also the fact that andalites have two hearts and appendix-like organs in their brains, which suggests that neither "heart" nor "brain" is precisely equivalent from human to andalite.

So: maybe andalites' heart rates are like humans' breathing, where it can be controlled or unconscious. Maybe andalites' thought-speak is... Okay, I'm not sure how to square "unconscious" as in "lacking all voluntary action and sensory input" with being able to communicate. But maybe a yeerk would be able to move an unconscious human's arm or leg? We know Eva's briefly able to move when Edriss is asleep (#10) so maybe Edriss could move when Eva is asleep. And maybe Aftran could move Ax when Ax is unconscious because of yeerk powers?

[willowthewiisp]

The fact messmer HID the enir-illim tower tells me that Marikas sin was whatever she did to activate the divine tower. Whatever she did she wanted messmer to hide because it would of painted her as a villain to her people.

Also love how there's more in game lore detailing how absolutely brutal cruel sadistic and unnecessarily brutal the crusade against the hornsent but people still wanna label the hornsent as the villains. ( Their only visible sin was the jars let's be real here)

Messmers army didn't just kill these people they actively tortured took pleasure in murder and culturally cleansed to the very foundation. The furnace golems alone are nightmarish and diabolical. Imagine the face of your Satan adorning these things filled with fire and the screams of innocent people reaching out in a desperate attempt to escape.

[horrorfevers]

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[goingrampant]

I'm pretty sure the Animorphs character Illim/Mr. Tidwell is based on DS9's Elim Garak. The Animorphs series borrows a lot from Star Trek, most notably the Yeerks being the Ceti Alpha eels crossed with the Trills, plus the Ellimist resembling Q, and the pronunciation guides for alien names indicate that the names are meant to be read with romantic phonetics, so it's reasonable to interpret "Illim" as an effort to transcribe "Elim" into the consistent spelling of Animorphs alien names (both, essentially, pronounced as "EE-leem"). Illim is a spy for the imperial alien antagonists, who is also a double agent working for an underground peace movement and helps the protagonists evade detection of their main enemy before recruiting them to help rescue his leader, who happens to know all their identities and is a huge security risk. That sounds like a Garak plotline to me. As for Mr. Tidwell, he's Illim's voluntary host who lost his wife and then found companionship with his alien parasite, commenting that he always feels empty when Illim isn't in his head... Well, he sounds like Illim's domestic partner, like a nod to Garak being telegraphed as gay. Maybe I should have been picturing him as Dr. Bashir.

[goji-pilled]

i feel like if ranni introduced her consort to her brothers it'd be like. rykard looking at them all stoically before becoming strangely cheery because he knows they helped ranni with her stuff so they're cool in his book

with radahn its like. he'd be dead, first and foremost. so you'd have to imagine a scenario where instead of dying again in enir-illim he gets defeated but spared. now i cant decide if his described kind personality would lead him to be chill immediatly (horse bonding playdates for leonard and torrent when???)

or if given the history of marriages in this family (his dad and mom, marika and radagon, marika and godfrey, whatever tf godwyn had going on, his own very weird marriage ((definitely got a divorce btw)) just everything with exception of rykard and tanith lmfao) he'd be a bit on the fence/wary/unsure for a bit

not forever though, even if he were unsure what to think he looks like the type of guy who needs one afternoon and is then all buddy buddy with his sibling in law lol

[v-anrouge]

GUYS IA AM SO ILLIM SO DIZZY