A nothlit cannot return to their original form, with very few exceptional circumstances, such as natural metamorphosis, time travel or through the intervention of powerful beings.
Wasn't their like plot arc over a few books where they get a new kid to be an Animorph, and over a few books he goes from just cocky to being an absolute psycho so they make him change into a snake and prevent him from changing back, thus trapping him in that body. I think they then left him alone on a small island full of rats. Thanks, your post reminded me of that weird fucking series I read as a child.
Yes! That's The Solution. IIRC David (the sociopath kid) joins the team, fights with Jake (?? maybe Tobias) at the end of the book, and then in the next book they decide to trap him as a rat.
They didn't just trap him as a rat, they trapped him as a rat and then dropped him on an island uninhabited by humans so he couldn't communicate with anyone telepathically. The last book in the arc ended with an anecdote about a girl who was on a cruise or something, and was staring out at the ocean swearing she could hear someone scream for help.
Kids book :chickpea:
The problem they had was that the information David knew was too dangerous. As far as they (the animorphs) knew, they were the only people on the planet who were actively resisting the alien invasion, so if David wanted to, he could go to the aliens and give up humanity's only chance at salvation. I think in the end they just couldn't bring themselves to kill him in cold blood, so they went with that option. Although it actually came back to haunt them later.
Yeah, Applegate didn't mess around. To her credit though, I don't think she tried to diminish the horror of what they were doing
They actually deal with the shitty things the animorphs did. They killed unarmed and helpless enemy combatants out of spite. They recruited mentally and physically disabled kids to their cause, only to later use them as decoy cannon fodder. There’s a time skip in the final book. None of them remained friends, the leader has a form of PTSD and is disgraced, his crimes having been exposed in a trial in The Hague (not his trial, the main bad guy’s, but the leader’s crimes were used as an argument by the defence). The last page ends with 4 of the 5 remaining animorphs implied dying by ramming their a spaceship into a superior enemy.
I legit cannot tell if the people in the comments are doing a bit or not.
I have never heard a single thing about animorphs apart from the covers. I did not expect those storylines coming out of a book with a cover like that.
Bro let me tell you about the time that an ancient race of bird men had their planet destroyed because they were broadcasting fictional accounts of genocide into space, so they traveled the stars looking for a new planet to inhabit, only to be trapped by a planet-sized brain eating super organism mind sponge, which made the mistake of leaving one of the bird men alive, allowing him to absorb the minds of every alien that the super organism had ever consumed, at which point he built a massive ship/body and traveled around the galaxy trying to spread peace until he was destroyed by another eldritch machine god and discovered that his consciousness had ascended beyond the physical form and he could now control time.
If you don't mind spoilers, I'm reciting the plot of
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The Ellimist Chronicles, a side book that explored the origins of one of the most powerful characters in the main series
I followed perfectly well.
(Also I read that book when I was 9 and it blew my fucking mind.)
My grandma used to read me animorphs lol, loved the kid that got trapped as an eagle.
I never finished the serie, but when I googled it, turns out the end is grimm.
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Like the dude from the first book having PTSD/alcoholism and going in a suicide mission.
A children's serie ends up with a fucked up main character pulling a hero-suicide
Spoiler that and yeah it was grim. It's a good series, I need to download them again and re-read them, great work for kid's fiction!
There's the Audiomorphs podcast too, which is a bootleg audiobook of the entire series in podcast form.
I wish I had read them all when kid, some real serious themes directed to fucking 11 year olders
Yeah couldn't the eagle (falcon I think?) still morph but his base form was the falcon?
Lmao I'm dropping Animorphs knowledge all over this thread, but yes Tobias (the one animorph who, since his parents were abusive iirc, decided he didn't mind being trapped in a hawk's body - even when theoretically later on he could morph back to a human and stay in the form for 2 hours and be permanently human again) was a red-tailed hawk.
Loved the series as a kid. The end with Rachel's kamikaze move was brutal, but as an adult I think it was great story-telling. Rachel was the most headstrong/vicious one of them, it makes sense that she'd throw her life away in a suicidal charge towards a Yeerk Bladeship.
Yes, that's Rachel ends, but then her cousin does the same in the epilogue or something like that.
Sir are you challenging my Animorphs knowledge because I can assure you the only causalities from the Animorphs team were Rachel and Ax in the final book.
It's right there what I'm talking about:
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After several months in space, the Animorphs find the Blade Ship, only to discover that Ax has been assimilated into an entity only known as The One, which has given Ax a new mouth that splits open the lower part his face. The One threatens to consume the Animorphs, as it had done to Ax. Jake comments on Marco's earlier call to be "crazy, reckless and ruthless" and, with a smile that Marco notes makes him look like Rachel, orders them to ram the Blade Ship. The series ends with Jake, Marco, Tobias, and Ax's ultimate fates left unknown.
They kill themselves trying to destroy The One
I mean Ax got eaten essentially there's no coming back from that. But they could've survived ramming the blade ship!!+
