#the answer may just be that the ghostwriter for book 28 phoned it in. not a very good book anyway woops
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hey. hey. ever think about how ax knows how to combine DNA on the fly and only does it once to create his humansona. and then as far as I'm aware this is never brought up again.
(also do you think K.A.A. was Aware they were creating a straight up intersex character, or)
the frolis maneuver is actually brought up one other time, when elfangor makes his human morph and becomes a nothlit to stay with loren on earth. i do think it's weird that i'd only have two nickels, though, because you'd think this kind of insane tech would be explained more or used in other contexts, but i guess there were just. not enough applications for it to matter??? i guess??? even though ax's human morph is commented on in pretty much every book he uses it in.
i feel like, using the frolis maneuver, you could pose as a random controller pretty easily for like, spy-work, at least outside the pool, but who knows. i also wonder how the gleet biofilter exactly works in the books, because from what i'm seeing from a gloss-through (i meant for it to be brief, but it just left me with more questions and now ive been at this for an hour), in the tv show it can sniff out the lack of yeerk in your brain, and in the books the biofilter can't actually detect anything inside the body of anything else??? even though cassie goes through the biofilter with tidwell in her brain, and says it detected "only yeerk and human", exactly ONE book before that the animorphs, confusingly, successfully negate it by sneaking in through the nostrils of a cow...! which seems weird, to me. if the biofilter can detect a yeerk through the scalp and skull of a human, why can't it detect a fly in a cow nose??
anyway, i think you could make potentially infinite random guys to morph into and pose as to sneak past the biofilter. depending on whether it allows non-infested humans through or not. which seems to be a big fat question mark. if so, more "fun" missions to drag tidwell and aftran into!
and as for applegate Knowing she was creating an intersex character, i think that's something you'd have to ask her. super cool that it turned out that way though!
#ask#animorphs#andalite#txt#the answer may just be that the ghostwriter for book 28 phoned it in. not a very good book anyway woops#and the frolis maneuver just never got super explained or used anytime else because that would require EVEN MORE rules#and there are already so many to keep track of. two hour limits and allergies and distractions and exhaustion and#not to mention all the bullshit that had to be made up for scenarios you'd never ever find yourself in. like looking through fly eyes#or morphing a flea when you've been hit with a shrink ray#or seeing erek's metal chassis through a hologram with spider eyes Y'know. theres a lot going on here#andalite tech#tagging because i might want to do a proper deep dive into the inconsistencies of andalite tech and its yeerk offshoots
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