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.

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yes, that's Rachel ends, but then her cousin does the same in the epilogue or something like that.

        • RNAi [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It's right there what I'm talking about:

          spoiler

          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

            • RNAi [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Then why you be killing Ax in your head, huh

              • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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                4 years ago

                I mean Ax got eaten essentially there's no coming back from that. But they could've survived ramming the blade ship!!+

                • RNAi [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  I don't get the part of "Ax got a new mouth", and don't know what "Ax got assimilated" means. Anyways, he was a prince so fuck him

                  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    Yeah I'm hazy on The One as well. But from what I can remember and this handy quote from the Animorph's wiki, it was just an alien on the same overpowered level as The Ellimist.

                    "It was alien, not Yeerk. That was to be expected from the Yeerks, they were, after all, parasites, so you never saw the Yeerks themselves. But there was something very wrong with this particular alien. The face that filled the screen and more was a shifting image, a slow dissolve from what might be a robot's face, a machine with a rat-trap mouth and steel eyes, into a sweet, feminine, almost elfin visage, and last, and most enduring, into the face of Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill. [...] Jake stared back at the foul thing on the screen. I saw what he saw, and I felt as if my brain was shutting down. In that shifting alien face was every corruption, every evil, and such power that it seemed impossible it could be present in just the narrow confines of the onrushing Blade ship."