Could it be done in a video game?

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No one here had book fairs in elementary school then?

:(

A reminder that Rachel is fucking dead

>>376863075
I did but I never really read Animorphs. I used to buy video games and copies of Shonen Jump with the occasional actual book.

Anyone remember the tv show?

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>>376862040

They already did.

I read this series to death and still have every copy. A videogame would be rad, but I think it'd be difficult to really do it justice.

Twilight princess

WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE

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>>376862040

>he didnt spend his lunch money on the new captain underpants book and runescape guide

>>376862040
Not the way the books described it because it took two to three minutes for them to complete a morph. That's how Rachel died in the last book. You'd either need to keep the characters form-locked for each segment, or just accept that there needs to be artistic license for the sake of game mechanics.

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>That one book where an ant gained the power to morph and morphed into Cassie.
>The first thing it did upon gaining a brain capable of cognizant thought was to start shrieking madly at the top of its newly formed lungs and attempt to kill her.
>Eventually demorphed and was then presumably crushed by Cassie.

If my parents knew what was actually in these fucking books they never would have let me read them.

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This is the relaunch cover.

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>>376865294
TWICE

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>>376865714
Three times, this time lazily reusing cover art even though they're completely different games!

>>376865647
Didn't morphing require intense concentration? How would an ant even think to do that?

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>>376865647
That's nothing, remember when they backstabbed the mercora, condemning them to genocide via asteroid?

>>376865072
W-what happened to Rachel
I never got to finish reading the series

>>376866384
Jake sent her on a suicide mission to fuck up a bunch of assholes. She killed all of them except Jake's brother, who killed her when she was mid-morph and then fucked off into deep space. The incident caused Cassie and Tobias to hate Jake post-war.

God damn it must have been over 15 years since I read those books and I remember, what the fuck was my childhood.

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>that book where Rachel turns into a starfish, gets cut in half, and essentially clones herself.

>then they fight to the death

>TFW these books are entirely responsible for my TF fetish

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>>376862040

What do you mean "could"?

Did each person have a unique transformation or could you transform into anything as long as you took the time to learn how?

>>376862040
people actually read these books?

>>376866593
She killed the brother, but got mauled by a polar bear after demorphing.

>>376866734
Anything they can touch. Although I think there was a limit to how many animals you could have "in storage".

>>376866734
>touch animal
>put it to sleep and copy DNA with said touch
>you can now be that animal

>>376863075
i read the shit out of these

>>376866734
You could transform into anything but characters typically had their preferred forms. Like I think Rachel preferred being a grizzly bear, Marco's was a gorilla, and stuff like that.

>>376866792
Pretty sure Tom was the polar bear, I swear he's the one that got away when they killed or captured every other important antagonist.

>>376863075
I did but I was too poor to afford them, plus I really enjoyed reading Hiroshima (a book) back then for some reason.

Here's a link to PDFs of all of the books.
http://animorphsforum.com/ebooks/
Reviews of all of the books if you're too lazy to read them.
http://cinnamonbunzuh.blogspot.com/

>>376866664
No they don't. One Rachel is a pussy while the other is a psycho. They eventually get fused back together by Erek.

>>376866734
Touch anything with DNA and you could acquire it.

>>376866781
Yeah, they're good.

>>376866796
That was never addressed.

>>376866796
also you got stuck in that form if you didn't demorph after like 4 hours or something

Animorphs was fucking amazing to read as a child.

I still can't forget how Tobias was stuck in hawk-form for the rest of his life.

>>376866952
Man I can't be arsed to remember this shit, that series had so much fucked up plot.

>>376866981
2 hours.

>>376866985
He then tries to commit suicide within two books.

>>376866901
His henchman was the polar bear while he had the cobra.

>>376866901
>Jake = Tiger
>Marco = Gorilla
>Cassie = Wolf
>Tobias = Hawk
>Rachel = Bear
>Ax = Andalite
>David = Lion

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I don't know why this picture has this filename, it was just saved that way, but I am too excited to have a thread relevant for this picture.

Reminder that the author ruined the ending because she was still bitter about the Vietnam War and wanted kids to learn that "wars don't have happy endings".

Except for her Mary Sue Cassie, of course.

>>376866952
>>376867051
Maybe you could help me find another Youth Adult book.

I think the synopsis was that there were a group of kids that when they fell asleep in their own world, they would be transported to a different world. The first chapter had them on Aztec-like pyramid about to be sacrified but ended up running away. Then they ran into buglike creatures with the sharpest metal or something. It's been a long time.

>>376866901
>I swear he's the one that got away

No, he was the cobra. She killed him, then died then talked to god.

Blame Erek.

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>>376867065
>Tobias = Hawk
heh.

Also, you guys remember that guy they let into the club who turned out really selfish and evil, so they trapped him as a rat and left him to rot on an island?

This shit was dark.

>>376866985
Remember when they recruited a bunch of crippled kids to be auxiliary animorphs and sent them all to die?

>>376867065
>David = Rat
ftfy

>>376866985

They were great until the final few books, where it got stupidly dark for no fucking reason.

>Visser Three starts an all out Mars-attacks style invasion of Earth
>Jake uses the Cripplemorphs as decoys and Visser Three lasers them from orbit one by one
>Rachel dies
>Tobias fucks off innawoods and cuts off all contact with everyone
>Visser Three isn't killed, the UN just just gives him a life sentence in jail
>Ax is possessed by some alien monstrosity
>entire series ends on a cliff hanger where it's strongly implied that all the remaining Animorphs all die too

>>376867190

Everworld, by the same author.

>>376867190
No fucking clue. Good luck, man.

>>376867206
That's David, the lion. He was a major cunt.

>>376867238
RAMMING SPEED

>>376867238

see

>>376867151

>>376867276
>Everworld
Yea, that shit was dark as fuck too.

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>>376867227
>>376867296
Why didn't David just turn into something that's not a rat and leave the island?

>>376865647
Series was brutal as fuck. I get the feeling they've been shadowbanned secretly from my public library network as there are zero copies of the original series, which is bullshit seeing how popular this series was.

http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?Ntt=animorphs

>>376867384
He was kept in rat form for over 2 hours and stuck that way. No more morphing.

>>376867384
Once you stay in morph for more than two hours, you're "locked in" and can't morph out aside from very strange circumstances (like interference from what's basically a god).

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>>376867190
>>376867276
>>376867363
>mfw Remnants
Applegate would probably be a god-tier horror writer if she tried.

>>376867384

They trapped him in a bottle or something until the two hours were up and he was permanently stuck as a rat. If he had tried to demorph while inside it he would have crushed himself to death.

>>376867384

You get trapped if you stay morphed for over two hours. They deliberately set up a trap to get him stuck as a mouse because none of them had the balls to just kill him.

>>376867483
>>376867478
Couldn't Toby turn into not hawk shit?

>>376867238
>it got stupidly dark for no fucking reason

Well the entire series is pretty much about war, death and child soldiers.

Also
>Visser Three isn't killed, the UN just just gives him a life sentence in jail
The guy was stuffed inside a box (literally) for pretty much the rest of his life, not being able to talk to or interact with anyone. That's pretty much a fate worse than death.

>>376865045

thanks

>>376867534
Because of direct interference by a god.

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>>376867151
>ruined
I was mad as fuck when I read it, but In retrospect that was a ballsy thing to do, and my anger was less about me thinking it was shit than the injustice of such a sordid end.
Although apparently applegate has hinted that they may have survived, as there was some group of andalites or something in a previous book that did a similar thing and lived.
I think it's a tolerable amount of ambiguity.

>>376867192
ellimist isn't god, just some higher being playing galactic chess against that great big eyeball faggot.

>>376863075
I had this book. Never read it, I just bought it at the book fair because the cover was cool. I'd do the flip animation thing in the corner where the kid turned into a tiger every now and again though.

>>376867534
Toby got some weird-ass god-magic that let him morph again. The catch was that being a bird was his new base form so he could only be a human for a couple hours. He could choose to be a real boy but it would mean permanently not being able to morph again.

>>376867534

The Ellimist (an all powerful character obviously inspired by Q from Star Trek) gave him the morphing power back.

>>376867493

He's not credited anywhere, but Applegate's husband Micheal Grant actually wrote just as much of the series as she did.

>>376867534

Tobias had divine intervention from the Ellemist, a being that had basically attained god status. David had the unfortunate luck of not being one of the Ellemist's vital chess pieces in a game he was playing with another god, so he didn't get his shit unfucked.

>>376865294

wouldn't that just be like, altered beast

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>>376867604
>ellimist isn't god

How would we know?

>>376867276
There's one more YA series I'm looking for. Synopsis was these teenagers gained powers from the unknown. One chick was able to breathe underwater, a guy was able to learn all languages simultaneously.

>>376865294
>>376867664

It was a really shitty Pokemon ripoff, actually.

>>376867604
>some higher being
Some fucking nerd who liked Spore a bit too much then absorbed a moon full of dead beings and fell into a wormhole.

>>376867493
>>376867638
A lot of the series was ghostwritten, as well.

>>376867684
He's a god-boogeyman to the Andalites.

>>376867238
I'm glad I only read like, the first three books. Wew.

>>376867756
>Some fucking nerd who liked Spore a bit too much then absorbed a moon full of dead beings and fell into a wormhole

Best book in the series. I must have read it at least ten times.

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>>376867710
>>376867664
>>376865294
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHdHkbauAOg

>>376867684

There's an entire book dedicated to the Ellimist's backstory. Super trippy and really good, too. I still never liked the character because he's mostly a cheap Deus Ex Machina, but it almost redeems him.

>>376867756
>ghostwritten

What does that mean?

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>>376867684
Because then he would have kicked crayak's shit in immediately.

>>376867816
Another author wrote the book under Applegate's name. You can find a list of the ones written that way, but most after the halfway point were.

>>376867797
I wish his book was twice as long.

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>>376867693
Mindwarp right? Parents are aliens or from the future and the kids inherit powers and fight silver aliens.

>>376867816
it's the professional term for "written by someone that isn't the authoer"

>>376867816

The book was written by someone else, but they're not credited.

You'll still see the original authors name on the cover.

>>376867816
It means the actual writing of the book is done by someone else using plot summaries written up by Applegate.

It's like the difference between writing the story and writing the screenplay in movies and TV.

>>376867816

A book is said to be "ghostwritten" when someone besides the author on the cover actually wrote it. After #26 Applegate would write an outline and Scholastic would outsource the actual books to other writers. That's why the plot barely moves for the second half of the series.

>>376867816
Author would give the outline of the story for another writer to write.

>>376867816
Other people can write it under the name, think the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew for excellent examples.

>>376867816
The creator was too busy, so some other writer wrote it and put KA Applegate's name on it.

>>376867821

Reminder that Ellimist's real form is a giant hive-mind linked fleet of organic/mechanical hybrid starships, and he just chooses to look like this to contrast Crayak being a gigantic, edgy planet.

>>376867950

In addition, you can see the real writer's name on the acknowledgement page in the front, where it would say "KA Applegate would like to thank '_________' for assistance on this manuscript" or something like that.

>>376867973
He doesn't have that form any more since it got sucked into a black hole. He's just an entity lurking in the universe's control room.

Since we're on the topic of books, thoughts on the Ender Saga?

The entire series near the end was fucking wack.

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>>376862040
great thread

>>376867973

That's not his real form either anymore. He exists outside of spacetime and has no physical body. Same goes for Crayak.

>>376867684
Because he plays higher form video games with other 4th dimensional beings. If he is god, god is a neet, getting into online arguments because Crayak is a cheap lamer.

>>376867816
Occasionally after an author dies, his angry ghost comes back to write some more.

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>>376862040
ALTERED BEAST

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>>376868148

Reminder that Cassie is the worst main character and if she didn't have the writer on her side would have got the group killed dozens of times.

>>376868086
The author is kind of a wackjob.

>>376868198
>when she attacks Jake to let Tom go with the cube for no reason

>>376868198

Cassie was directly responsible for everythign going to shit at the end of the series. She let Tom walk away with the morphing cube because she was too much of a pacifist pussy to stop him.

>>376868198
>Reminder that Cassie is the worst main character

Didn't it turn out that she was some sort of temporal anomaly?

Every time she got involved with time travel and alternate universes, she ended up breaking something. I thought that was pretty neat.

>>376868286
>>376868296

Exactly. It's her fault that Rachel dies.

What really pisses me off is that she's the only one that gets a happy ending.

>>376868198

Didn't Ax once outright state that Cassie was more dangerous than Rachel because of her extremely strict pacifist nature and that Jake should keep an extra close eye on her?

I preferred Unfortunate Events and Deltora Quest when I was a kid

>>376863075
Yep, family was poor as fuck so all I could really get were book marks.


The shit I miss is looking through and ordering from the Scholastic catalog when I was a kid. I was ecstatic as fuck when the teacher would tell us it was that time of the year.

>Kind of want to read it
>Feel I'm too old and the book wouldn't grab me like they do for kids
Always seem to happen. Got into more adult shit too early and so didn't stop and enjoy the fun dumb kids shit like this and Goosebumps

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Animorphs were trash and poorly written.

Superior series, passing thorugh.

>>376868385
>It's her fault that Rachel dies

It was Erek's fault - he depowered their ships weapons so they couldn't stop Tom's ship. His only recourse was to tell Rachel to kill his own brother.

>>376868336

Temporal anomaly that resists changes made by gods, natural talent for morphing, the "moral heart of the team", does stupid shit but always turns out to be right in the end (voluntarily letting a Yeerk infest her, deliberately becoming stuck as a caterpillar just to prove a point and getting out of it because of reasons).

Mary Sue if I've ever seen one.

>>376868391
Yep. Cassie was less of a Mary Sue and more of an object lesson in the dangers of being overly humanitarian at the cost of those close to you.

Applegate was redpilled as fuck.

>>376866985
Tobias, he had a hard life

>>376868086
I liked it more than Bean's saga post Ender's Shadow. Felt sorry for Ender when his soul got ripped apart and his original form turned to dust. Spent so long in the universe trying to live with himself. Haven't read the one that was released a couple years back.

>>376868490
Try reading it. I posted a link earlier ITT. The best books are the "Chronicles" books (Including Visser), but they're outside of the main series.

>>376868542
EVERYONE fucked up at the end. Jake flushed the Yeerk pool, Erek did his shit, Cassie decided to attack Jake, Ax went near Kelbrid space for no reason, Marco became a sellout faggot, etcc.

>animorphs
>all this convoluted bullshit

Holy fuck, this is like kingdom hearts tier retarded. And they expect 9 year olds to comprehend this shit? I read alex rider when I was younger though.

>>376868593

Applegate and her husband were liberal as fuck, dude.

Did anyone ever read that other K.A Applegate series about the asteroid destroying earth? I don't remember a lot of it but god it was fucking crazy

>tons of people storm the rocket ship that's leaving and get lit up by the military
>chick livestreaming earths destruction
>space worms eat people in the cyro pods
>marine chick has a psychic baby that's like a parasite or some shit
>they're on some robot planet that hates living things
>puts them through a simulation that basically tortures them
>some russian kid had telekinesis or something and he got tortured by the planet robot by taking layers of his skin off with a laser to where you could see his internal organs

Like I said I don't remember much but what the fuck was that doing in my school library.

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>>376867816

It means they got pic related to do it instead of writing it themselves.

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>>376868520
Posted the wrong series, huh? Don't worry it happens. I know you really meant this series.

>>376868660
>kingdom hearts tier retarded

No where close.

>>376866010

Well, it didn't manage to morph all the way, it just became some kind of horrific human-ant hybrid.

>>376868724

Ya know the creator, years later, revealed Ghostwriter was the ghost of a murdered slave who was killed for trying to teach other slaves how to read?

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>>376868660

You ever play pic related? According to my 3DS I've got like 300 hours in it.

>>376868743
Buddy that's not Encyclopedia Brown.

>>376868701
I abandoned Applegate after Everworld. Those novels sucked ass.

>>376867892
Do you recall another YA book, the plot was something about kids in juvie or some kind of rehab school and some of them claimed to have powers and eventually they got puzzled out and actually had powers.
Like one kid was a mind reader and used his powers to fail his tests to not stand out but he failed so bad it was statistically improbable and that's how he was found out.

>>376868701

Remnants. That shit was my jam in like 4th and 5th grade.

>>376868640
>Marco became a sellout faggot

>wage a fucking guerilla war against alien invaders
>think you shouldn't make money afterwards

Why the fuck not?

>>376868490

Just try it. They're short as fuck, like 150 - 200 pages. You can probably blow through one in an hour or tow.

>>376868830
No. Just read the books. Recently stopped at Scorpia Rising, with the return of liquid Alex or some shit. Did anything happen later on?

>>376868795
That's bullshit but I believe it

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>>376868701

I read the first few books but it was just too out there for me. The ship made environments based on art that was stored on the human ship, including pic related.

I remember giving a book report on one of them and having to be like, "Yeah, it's weird.".

>>376867821
Was there a point to that weird book that sent Jake into the future by like 30 years.

There was some weird voice at the end that Jake said didn't sound like the Ellimist or Crayak, but then they never touched on it again.

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>>376868449
>Unfortunate Events and Deltora Quest
Mah nigga.

>>376868912

Marco was by far the best character and did nothing wrong.

>>376868891
Fuck, I remember that. There was the pyromaniac, the telepathic one, the telekinetic one, two other ones with powers, and then the main character without any.

>>376868912
But he was a fag about it.

>>376869012
That was ghostwritten filler trash.

>>376868449
Count Olaf did NOTHING wrong.

>>376868391
Ax had a serious pride issue, but the dude was probably the wisest fucker in the group. There was some random line from Ax or Elfangor that said that they had to study lots of philosophy when they were cadets, and it shows.

>>376868640
>Jake flushed the Yeerk pool

So?

>>376869076
I need a name man I need a name I've been looking for years

Member that one time the ghostwriter made a whole book about how its good to be vegetarian, and when Applegate found out she changed the last chapter to have them go eat burgers?

>>376869012

Yeah, that never came up again. A lot of people theorize that it was "The One" who they run into at the end of the series, but I doubt it.

Besides, a lot of that book was a retread of when the Ellimist sends them to a future where the Yeerks win back in #7.

>>376869176
I don't remember nothing about Unfortunate Events except for the ending
Can you tl;dr the plot for me?

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>>376868743
best book

>>376869195

Yeah, I never got what the big deal about that was. The Yeerks in there weren't prisoners, they hadn't surrendered. What he did is no more of a war crime than bombing enemy troop transport ships or barracks.

>>376869197
I have no clue and want to know.

>>376868696
Not who you responded to, but obviously. That's why all that shit could go off the rails, but shit still worked out ok.

It never should have happened. Honestly, they figured out Jake was the leader and they DIDN'T just send the cloaked Blade Ship straight to his house, but sent his parents home to shoot Jake from the car?

No fucking way Visser 3 would trust anyone else to remove the biggest thorn in his balls.

>>376869304

But it was like bombing an enemy medical tent.

They were enemy combatants, but couldn't possibly pose a threat at that point.

Does the dude who got turned into a hawk ever become human again?

Are the green aliens ever relevant beyond their standalone book?

Was it ever explained how the yeerks got so powerful when they couldn't do shit without a host? I never got how they could over the green aliens and the blue aliens that were the original morphers when they literally couldn't do shit by themselves.

This thread makes me happy

>>376869425
>I never got how they could over the green aliens and the blue aliens that were the original morphers when they literally couldn't do shit by themselves.

All it takes is for one of them to fall asleep. Then bam. Evil alien slug in your ear using your body like a puppet.

>>376869383

IIRC the Yeerks were still running a covert invasion at that point, and having a spaceship fly by and blow a crater in the middle of a neighborhood would've given them away. Visser Three wasn't promoted to One until later, and that's when he finally said "Fuck it, we're doing shit my way now. Round all the primitive monkeys up and force march them to the fucking pools."

>>376869213
There is nothing that should imply that it was the One. That thing was essentially the Borg, wanting to assimilate everything into him. If he had that kind of power, he wouldn't wait for people to find him.

>>376869249
All I remember was the ending

>basically, count olaf kills these kids parents to steal their inheritance
>chases them around various foster parents
>kids escape from the foster system
>olaf turns out to be associated with this organisation called VFD or some shit
>eventually get sent to an island
>count olaf tries to do some wacky shit
>gets fucked by a harpoon
>dies
>kids sail back to mainland
Eventually, Snicket wrote this other novel series set in the same universe called all the wrong questions, explains the question mark beast in the water

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>>376869313
Fuck
I need to find out, this book had such a big impact on my taste in fiction

>>376867796

Fuck I can't wait to watch this.

The game was so trash.

>>376869304
It was more of a "becoming the very thing you loathed" type of thing. Visser One's lawyers tried to throw that out there to fuck with Jake's head, because they hoped he would feel guilt over it and trip him up. It worked. Nobody else gave a quarter of a shit.

>>376869270
Is there porn of this ghoul?

>>376869549
I get that but weren't the blue horse things psychic? Plus again they'd have to infiltrate and I thought they could only go like an hour outside a body and when they were outside they were basically helen keller tier disabled.

>>376869425
Hawk dude gains the ability to morph again, and gets a morph form of his old human body, but he never becomes fully human again. And yes, the Yeerk's rise to power is explained. I'm pretty sure there was a book that is ALL about how Visser 3 got his Andalite body.

>>376869397

No, medical personnel are protected by the laws of war. Guys just laying around at the base are fair game. It's not like the Yeerks signed the Geneva Convention anyway.

Besides, Jake had no way of knowing that they were going to win. If the Animorphs had lost, flushing the pool would have at least slowed down the invasion. It was absolutely the right call.

>>376869425

The Hork-Bajir book explains it. The Andalites didn't take the Yeerks seriously as a threat, only a minor nuisance. By the time they realized how dangerous the Yeerks really were, the Yeerks had already enslaved the entire Hork-Bajir species and now had a near endless supply of shock troops that also had opposable digits to build better ships and weapons.

>>376869592
VFD murdered their parents and a bunch of other people right?

>>376869552
Like I said, I don't think there would be anyone in the universe that could have stopped him. He would have broken the rules and accepted the consequences just to get them out of his hair.

>>376867493
OH GOD THE FUCKING CHEESE

LITERAL NIGHTMARE MODE

>>376869249
I don't even remember it was that long ago. Something to do with their parents and Olaf being in a secret organization called the volunteer fire department and then the organization split into heros and villains or something. Olaf burns their house down, kills their parents, and the chases them for ages. It ends with them ending up on some island with a bunch of ship wrecked people where they're exposed to a dangerous fungus that was brought to the island in a divers helmet or something. They're saved from this after eating a horseradish infused apple since horseradish is an antitoxin or something to the fungus and that saves them. They're free from Olaf in the end but I can't remember if he dies from the fungus or just gives up or something.

>>376869717

Remember that the Andalites used a biological weapon on the Hork-Bajir so that the Yeerks would have fewer hosts.

>>376869768
What was with the cheese?

>>376869397
>>376869713
It was actually more of a personal issue for Jake.

"Jake, you can't. . ." She took a deep breath.
"You can't equate the victim and the perpetrator."
90
"So as long as you're playing defense it's not
possible to commit a war crime?" I asked. "That's
pretty close to just saying that the winner makes
the rules because it's the winner who writes the
history."
She grabbed my arm and searched for my eyes,
forcing me to look at her. "No, Jake, it isn't.
There are a lot of close calls in history, lots of
wars where the blame is evenly split between the
sides. This isn't one of them. Before they came
to Earth no human ever attacked a Yeerk. No human
ever harmed a Yeerk. This one is clear: We
are the victims. They made war on us."
"That's good," I said softly. "All of that is
good. We have justification. We're the good
guys."
Marco said, "That's right, Big Jake, we are."
I nodded. "That's good for the big picture.
See, my problem is a little more personal."
<What do you mean?> Ax asked.
"Well, Ax-man, you're right, you did call my
attention to the possibilities on the Pool ship.
And when you did that I guess I should have
thought, Well, Jake, it's a harsh, terrible thing to
do, but you're justified because, after all, you're
the victim here. But that's not what I thought.
You know what I thought?"
Cassie released her grip on me. But Marco
just took a step up close, right in my face.

>>376869753
yeah VFD was never explained.

>>376869680
>Visser One's lawyers

Imagine being so much of a fucking faggot that you sign up to defend an interstellar warlord after he butchered and enslaved a quarter of the galaxy.

>>376869682
No, they weren't psychic. They spoke through telecommunication, but couldn't read minds. There was one species that could (can't remember the name, but they were amphibious), and that's why the Andalites abandoned earth for years. That planet was the bigger priority, because it would destroy their intelligence gathering capabilities granted by the ability to morph.

>>376869902
"I know what you thought, Jake. You thought
Die, you filthy worms. Feel the fear, Yeerks. Feel
the pain. Feel the helplessness. You wanted
them to suffer and the idea of them suffering and
dying made you happy. You were thrilled. You
were high."
Cassie winced. She looked away.
I said, "Yeah, Marco. That was about it: word
for word."
"Well, dude, you don't get to be a war criminal
by thinking bad thoughts. It's what was done,
not what was felt or thought. You have to judge
the act. You were acting in self-defense. You
were enjoying the fact that you were winning.
Two different things."
Cassie seemed less certain. Far less. She
seemed ready to join in with Marco, but she
couldn't bring herself to do it. She tried to hide
it, but there was this look in her eyes, this sideways
look at me.
<Prince Jake,> Ax said, giving me back the title
he'd given me long ago, <l am not a human.
But it seems to me that it is up to your own
people to decide the morality of your actions.
Their decision seems clear. My people agree with
that assessment. We, the An'rmorphs under your
leadership, stopped the Yeerk threat. We saved
Earth. We may have saved my people as well,
surely we saved many, many Andalite lives.>

I was suddenly exhausted. Worn out all the
way, deep down. And everyone had run out of
things to say.
After a long, awkward silence I said, "Anyway.
That..." I gestured out toward the water. I
wanted to say that it was the first real joy I had
felt since seeing Rachel kill Tom. But there was a
wall between me and Cassie. And Marco, well,
he's a guy and we guys don't do a lot of emotional
stuff with one another. "Anyway. I'll be
good tomorrow, on the stand."

>>376869771
Olaf got stabbed by a harpoon.

>>376869425
The dude who became a hawk (Tobias) at a certain point relishes his hawk form. When he morphs into a human, its only temporary, but he doesn't like it because human sensory is awful compared to a hawks.

>>376869912
>Imagine being so much of a fucking faggot

Mate, international tribunals guarantee a fair trial and select a lawyer from a pool.

>>376869764
I don't think that Visser Three would do something so damaging to his position, even if he hates them. He always looks after himself.

>>376869768
Google gives me nothing. What do you mean by cheese?

>>376869876

That was one general's decision, and to their credit the Andalite military brass demoted him to supply ship pilot in the ass end of space when they found out.

>>376869876
Remember that the Andalites were going to sacrifice and "quarantine" earth so that the Yeerks would congregate there, and then blow up the planet.

When you are trying to win a war against a parasitic species where 3 of them can combine and turn into thousands of them within seconds, you have to start using the calculus of war.

>>376869997
His life as a human sucked anyways

>>376868851
>encyclopedia brown
>good
shit so full of straight-up bullshit and asspulls, it's not even funny

>>376869912
It was explicitly stated that they didn't want to, and that they fully expected to lose. Due to the courts, the judges compelled the defense to represent him.

>>376869994
I really want to reread this but for some reason I only have 1-5 and 13. I guess I rented the others for some reason

>>376870034
Keep in mind that the blade ship cloaks. At worst, people would have wondered what the fuck happened.

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STEP ASIDE FAGGOTS

>>376869880
>>376870053
The story had a hibernation ship that went out into space when the earth got destroyed. Some of the pods didn't work so well, and the occupants ended up looking like, well

>>376867493

>>376870225
How long is the series? Is it worth a torrent?

>>376864437
how many layers of irony are you on?

>>376869902
>>376869982

The whole thing happened just so Jake could get PTSD, because again, Applegate was really caught up with the Vietnam War. There's obvious Vietnam parallels all over. I mean, Lauren, Tobias' mom and main character in the Andalite Chronicles, even has a wigged out Vietnam vet father.

>>376870153
>"Encyclopedia Brown? What a hack! To this day, I occasionally reach into my left pocket for my keys with my right hand, just to prove that little brat wrong."
>— ericbop

>>376870261
I never finished it myself, probably maybe a dozen short YA length books. I'd give it a spin, it was a fucking weird ass series.

>>376865374
/thread

>>376870220
I never finished this but I specifically remember reading this in 2002 because I was reading it at a 9/11 anniversary remembrance thing.

>>376870118
This. He was mercilessly bullied.

>>376870261
It's 14 books. I never read the whole series but it's pretty fucking weird and the books are relatively short if you're a fast reader.

I'd give it a whirl just because some of the imagery is so strange that it's stuck with me for 10+ years.

Remember when Applegate devoted a whole book to showing that the internet was stupid and had Bill Gates as a serial killer?

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you niggas need to shut the fuck up and recognize the superiority of Goosebumps.

I like the Cool Games Inc segment where they try to develop a game about playing as the middle picture in an animorphs cover

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The book series got fucking dark at times

>Sending Crippled kids to their deaths

Wew

>>376870353
His extended family didn't give a shit about him, his mother couldn't remember him, his father was dead, and he was bullied. There was a reason he elected to stay a hawk and just piss off after the war ended. Jake killed his girlfriend, Marco was a smart ass, and Cassie set off the entire series of events that necessitated thousands of crippled kids to slowly get microwaved (as well as killing Rachel).

He didn't want shit to do with anyone except for Ax (his uncle), and Ax wasn't around anymore.

>>376870459
>>376870342
What's the series called, and where's a good place to torrent it, do you know?

>>376870470
Dude, it was obviously Al Gore, inventor of the internet.

>>376870574
How was Ax his uncle again?

>>376870627
the remnants

>>376870504
Is that series still going? I always found them entertaining, but never even slightly spooky.

>>376870562
It got dark by book 6, man. You know, when they starved a sentient being to death, while that being was in Jake's head, alternating between torturing him with implications of what it'd do to his family and pleading for it's life.

>>376865652
Sick af

>>376870627
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remnants_(novel_series)

>>376870562

That whole thing was stupid anyway. Why would the Yeerks think that the Animorphs would just morph and then walk in a battle line on open ground? What the fuck could an elephant or alligator or whatever even do in that situation? It's just grimdark for no reason.

>>376870675
Elfangor was his dad. The Andalite Chronicles spells out how this happens explicitly.

>>376870675
Because Elfangor was his dad.

>>376866664
Animorphs was sort of juvenile and kiddy kiddy but holy fuck was it on another level sometimes.

>>376870773
>>376870801
Elfangor had sex with a human female?

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So where these guys even in the books? The big yellow guy specifically. I didn't read the series yet I had these toys.

>>376870674
Remember how it was actually Elfangor that help gave Bill Gates and Steve Jobs their ideas?

>>376870857

He went to Earth and intentionally trapped himself in human morph so he could be with her. He didn't trust his own people and had nowhere else to go, plus there was a bunch of crazy time travel shenanigans involved.

>>376870862
I always assumed the red thing was the morph that he used to eat Elfangor.

>>376870757
Yerks thought it was a desperation attack as they were in open war against humanity. They were almost finished forcibly enslaving all of LA (literally millions of people who would be ready to kill without hesitation or remorse, with tech so superior that their ships could literally shoot missiles out of the sky and deflect bullets).

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>>376862040
Ryu is a dragon, but close enough.

>>376870504
The choose your own adventure ones were weird. Had the werewolf mountain one where all of a sudden the protag goes underground and finds dinosaurs.

>>376870857
Yup. Dude was human himself. Apparently, he gave Bill Gates the idea for clicking on icons to execute code.

>>376870862

Yellow is obviously supposed to be a Hork-Bajir.

>>376870857
Yeah, Tobias' mom. Read the Andalite Chronicles.

>>376870862
>>376870862
The one on top is an "inferno beast," whatever that is, and a badly depicted Hork-Bajir. Look up the Animorphs T-Rex "tri-rex" toy.

>>376870757
The whole point of that was to serve as distraction. Visser Three/One even know those animorphs couldn't do anything at that state

>>376870914
I remember him giving Gates the idea for Windows. Don't remember anything involving Jobs.

>>376869982
>>376869902
That is reallly fucking awfully written.

>>376865652

that's cool.

>>376871079

It talks about him giving ideas to his friends "Bill" and "Steve" college.

>>376871160
Fair enough.

>>376871157
Why relaunch the series? Ebooks are a thing.

>>376871069

I understand why, I'm saying that it was a terrible plan that would have never have happened in any of the 50+ previous books and was only there to be dark, because the author was anti-war Baby Boomer trying to make a point.

>>376868795
so you're telling me the guy who made Ghostwriter was a Jew?

>>376871032
No that wasn't Bill, that was Steve Jobs

>I met a lot of humans who were working in the computer field. My human friend Bill used to come over to my room and we would exchange ideas. It was hard for me to simplify my
knowledge enough for him to follow. Everything had to be explained in simple human terms, using words like "window" to explain a childishly simple concept.
>And my human friend Steve thought it was a huge breakthrough to use symbolic icons and a simple pointer rather than a lot of complex language.

How did Scholastic ever approve of this?
>first book ends with one of the characters dad being eaten alive
>body horror galore
>blood and gore describe vicariously
>if not for the war, one of the characters would have grown up to be a psychopathic killer
>psychological and physcial torture described in depth
>race of child like monsters that kill because they don't know any better

>>376871286
I thought that that was way more believable than having thousands of Taxxons that didn't have Yerks in their head, and all of them could resist eating Jake and chose to help him so that they could become big snakes.

>>376871346

It's funny, because Andalite computer technology is always shown as having a mental interface where you just put your hand on a control pad and the computer does whatever you want it to do.

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>Taxxons

>>376871451
Which is even more simplistic than the Ellemist.

>>376871386

The worst thing about that is that they brought back Arbron but did absolutely nothing with him except saying, "Oh yeah, somebody randomly shot him and he died".

>>376871527
Didn't he negotiate the meeting and the demonstration, as well as serve as the Hive Voice with his telepathy since they had been ripped from their homeworld?

>>376871385

>if not for the war, one of the characters would have grown up to be a psychopathic killer

Huh? Are you talking about the Megamorphs were they go back to various battles throughout time, or the one where they don't go to the construction site and never get powers?

>>376871484
Why in the FUCK would some of the members of the Council of Thirteen willingly choose to take on Taxxons as hosts?

For some reason, one of the scenes that stuck with me in this series was the absurdly fast alien fucker that schooled their cheetah morphs and then got BTFO and bitten by a cobra morph.

>>376871656
Secret Yeerk fetishes.

>>376871451
Isnt it more like Protoss technology interface?

>>376871594

He's only there for like one chapter and barely does anything.

>>376871663
Didn't one of the vissers just let him die after that?

>>376871663

The Inspector from that filler book where Jake leaves and Rachel acts as the leader. It was stupid that he was a species that looks exactly like Andalites but weren't related to them in any way.

>>376871706
I'm honestly surprised they brought him back at all.

You can tell the ghost writers tried to tie up loose ends.

>>376871745
Yup. Visser 3 hated that dude. My memory is fuzzy, but he MAY have been Visser 2.

>>376871745
Yeah, he and Visser Three had this passive-aggressive "sure we're on the same side, but I fucking hate you" thing going on, so V3 just kind of sat back and was a smug dick while Speedy Gonzales slurred himself to death under neurotoxin.

>>376871385
Even as a kid I thought Scholastic's editors never read the books, because they were definitely not appropriate for elementary school kids

>>376871808
His metabolism must have been insane. Humans have hours after being bitten by a cobra.

>>376871745

He was trying to make Visser 3 look bad and maybe take his job. V3 was happy to see him go.

You know, it always bothered me how there were supposedly like 40 Vissers or something, but 3 is the only one on Earth. He should have had Visser 27 or something as a second in command.

>>376871656
They have excellent limb dexterity for the handling of various Yeerk technologies and they are also used for building stuff

But mostly its just because what they have and easily accessible

>>376871642

Pretty sure he's talking about Rachel. She was pretty much crazy near the end.

>>376871876
To be fair, they never actually state that he is the only Visser. If memory serves, they never mentioned any sub-vissers, either, but you can bet there were a minimum of dozens on the planet.

>>376871865
Well, something with super speed, it kinda stands to reason.

>>376871840

All they knew was that it was making them a ton of money. I think the only time Scholastic ever meddled in the series was when they insisted that the Animorphs turn into dinosaurs somehow, to cash in on that '90s Jurassic Park craze.

>>376871876
>You know, it always bothered me how there were supposedly like 40 Vissers or something, but 3 is the only one on Earth
A lot of them were either in exploration or inspection. Visser 1 came and went with fair regularity from the middle to the end.

>>376871656
Because some Yeerks really like eating

>>376871935
>>376871976

Yeah I know, but the only recurring villains you see on a regular basis besides V3 are Chapman and Jake's Brother.

Remember the batshit TV self-help guru that beat the shit out of Marco in poodle morph?

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>>376862040
>look at little brother's scholastic book order papers because I remember them from when I was in school
>see this
What the fuck is going on
This cancer is spreading

>>376872051
Well, a lot of the other villains that are seen usually wind up dead. Visser 3 really hates failure.

If the team met someone with power, and that person didn't stop them, the Yerk was more than likely tortured ala Visser 1 when she was undergoing starvation just a few inches from the Yerk Pool.

>>376872079

One thing I did like about KA Applegate is that she loved to take the piss outta stuff like that. The Sharing was a giant "fuck you" to that stuff, which was rampant in the 90s.

>>376872167
You need to realize that Children's books are just like movies. Creativity is pretty much tapped out from the creators of society.

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I only read up to the third book or something but this was my shit.

>>376872079
No, not at all.

>>376865469
>he wasn't a fucking child when Runescape was around

The people that read these books are all pushing or over 30

>>376869982
>>376869902
>I said
>I said
>I said
>I said

Jesus get this guy a thesaurus

This series always fucking oscillated between gritty grimdark of war and lighthearted adventure romp with teenage kids.

If i were to look back, I wouldn't be surprised if this was due to whoever was the writer.

Story could never be taken seriously on its merits, it was just one random shit after another.

Slightly off-topic, but does anyone wish a MMO based off the Saga of Recluse existed?

The world just seems ripe for it.

>>376872202
The gang even prefers Visser Three to stay in power because of his arrogance, 'culling', and evil that you know

Remember the Helmacrons, those microscopic aliens with delusions of grandeur? I guess a lot of people hated them, but I thought they were hilarious.

>>376872363
There is literally nothing wrong with using "said" during a flat conversation to draw more attention to the dialogue lines that don't use it. You probably have the purple prose of a head-up-his-ass college sophomore.

>>376869982
>>376869902
Jesus fuck, I'm a better writer than this hack

https://pastebin.com/M1By6hW8

>>376872281
wasn't that about kids in Disney after dark or some shit? I remember my younger brother reading it.

>>376868635
Ender was decent until they did all the wish powers cop-out bullshit.

>>376872417
Well, yeah. Dude was extremely predictable. He was still beyond dangerous, but they knew where his top loyalty and priority was (himself). This allowed them to manipulate the situation to their favor on more than one occasion (the oatmeal book comes to mind). If they got someone who was more loyal to the mission than he was to himself, they would have been fucked on several occasions.

>>376872495
I don't know of any ties to Disney. There's no mention of it on the Wikipedia page either.

>>376869908
it was very fancy doilies

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>>376872559
sorry, i was thinking of this shit.

>>376872363
Its a kid's book series, despite all the gore and war crimes and tottures of all kind

>>376872628
Yeah, but no humans were ever killed by the team. Not even David (so far as we know - his fate is left rather ambiguous, begging Rachel for death).

>>376872628
Wasnt there a torture based on intense pleasure and pain?

>>376872552

None of the Yeerks were loyal to anything. Their whole society seemed to be built on backstabbing their way to the top.

>>376868743
>Bitches don't do backflips

>>376872757
Yeah, that was some twisted shit. Tobias got put under it because he could trick them with his base form.

>>376872727
Plenty of humans were definitely killed in the serires

>>376872727
>Yeah, but no humans were ever killed by the team.
Until the final few books when all hell breaks loose. Pretty sure I remember Marco shooting down a chopper full of humans, albeit slug-controlled humans.

>>376872757
Yeah. Tobias really got the shit end of the stick in that series.

>>376872757

Yeah, Taylor, a cyborg sub-Visser captured Tobias and did that too him, alternating pain with pleasure to make it so you couldn't get used to it.

Does anyone remember a book about a genetically altered trex that went into a kid's bracelet? I think it was Teddy rex or something.

>>376868520
>Junie B. Jones and her big fat mouth
>superior series
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
http://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=420631

>>376872825
Not by the team until very late in the game.

>>376872837
Fair enough.

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>>376863075
I did but the money I asked my parents for the book fair I spent on other things so I stole things with a few other kids so I could have something to show my parents. We had a legit strategy going on even had kids distract the teacher and librarian

>>376872825
He wasn't sacrificing himself, he was sacrificing the souls of all the nephilim trapped in his tattoo thingy

>>376872870
It was so he couldn't hide behind the animalistic mind. The pleasure was something a hawk couldn't understand, so it forced the human mind out, at which point Tobias got hit with the pain with no defense.

>>376872926
did you give each other codenames?

>>376872941
What?

>>376872493
Saying I said doesn't give us any indication on how a character is expressing themselves. That said, there's nothing wrong with using ""said" a lot; but if there's an overabundance without setting some sort of verbal tone you're not really assisting with the reader's mental portrayal of a scene.

Also my prose is fine, thanks for asking.
It's my punctuation that's fucked.

>>376872951
Don't forget that at the end she was literally hitting him with both at once. Tobias was literally going insane from it, because his mind was interpreting pain as pleasurable.

But yeah, I don't blame him for fucking off at the end of the book. If I couldn't cruise the stars with Ax (which would be hard, as mice are kind of sparse in space), I wouldn't want anything to do with anyone else, either.

>>376872941
This isn't Planet Escape Tournament Thead

>>376865647
>>376866220
Remember when they make that one traitor kid to be stuck as a rat. Then they leave him at some dump to be raped by other rat.

>>376872981
yeah his was huge gay faggot

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>>376869202
You know what goes good with meat? salt

>>376873135

Remember when David literally murdered Jake and Rachel's cousin.

>>376873224
And fucking morphed into him to live up the good life with his parents.

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>>376872981
I wish but we were basically from different social groups but we managed to come together to do these operations, the people who distracted the teacher and librarian were the teacher pets so nothing would seem weird about them bugging the teachers while we stole the items. Man I miss that group

>>376873135
Left him on an island, and the Cryak brings him back to fuck with Rachel.

The last you see of him is Rachel sitting in front of him, while he begs Rachel to kill him rather than bring him back to the island. Rachel says, "I'm a good guy." To which he says, "Then do the right thing. Kill me."

David was a snot-nosed little shit, but nobody deserved his fate.

>>376873224
Well, the cousin was dead anyways. Terminal disease.

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>>376862040

>>376873292
>literal murderer, attempted several times over
>didn't deserve his fate
Internet Rat Defense Force go

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>>376862040
I didn't even read the books as a kid, I just laughed at the covers in the library.

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>This thread
What the fuck
This cannot be a children's book

There are literal fucking war crimes being described here

>>376873370

To be fair, the Animorphs actually treat him like shit after they're forced to bring him onto the team. Doesn't justify anything he did and he was clearly an edgy little faggot before they ever met him, but it sure didn't help.

>>376873370
I have no issue with David being killed. It was being forced to live on an island of rats that sucks. How anyone can think that is the more humane thing is beyond me.

Also, I always knew that the series took place at a liberal hellhole simply because none of the kids could get their hands on a gun to dispose of him.

>>376873516
I always wanted to see gorillas with machine guns.

>>376873338
better plot than the books

>>376873516

None of them had the guts to kill someone, so they doomed him to a fate worse than death.

Should have just had Ax do it.

>>376873505
The dude was always an unlikable cunt, and the team was pretty much forced to deal him in or risk exposure, but even after watching everything that happened, the dude could never figure out that what they were doing was some real shit, and not just a video game.

The dude fucks up left, right, and center, and even tries to turn them over to Visser 3 when shit starts to look like its going sideways. He was a constant liability, and if he had just agreed to permanently morph into Jake's cousin and go back out of state, I imagine the team would have let him.

Too bad the dude thought he was smart enough to fuck with everyone and live.

>>376873389
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>>376873696
Agreed. Ax wouldn't have had an issue with it, either.

If memory serves, he even offered.

>>376863075
I remember crying during book fairs back in elementary school because I didn't have money to buy books which I probably wouldn't have read either way. If I could go back in time to those moments, I would have punched my younger self in the face.

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>>376873454
It was the 90s. Kids shows got away with quite a bit too.

>>376873709

Nah, after he killed their cousin there was no way he was gonna walk away. The cousin wasn't going to die, he may or may not have been a permanent vegetable, but it's still murder.

>>376868743
>skeletons don't play tubas
so
fucking
close

>>376873964
I thought the dude had cancer. I remember Jake's dad saying it was a miracle, and that he had seen the cousin 2 days ago, and he looked like "hamburger."

Also, he was in the terminal illness ward, which freaked Rachel and Jake out, because they were forced to stare at the very real possibility that they would be there if not for dumb genetic luck.

Kids books were pretty fucked up thinking about it, I can remember
>book where kid does a load of bad things and wakes up one morning trapped with a skeleton in a purple smudge on his bedsheets then his mother wipes it off, killing him
>book about some kid who slowly turns into a tiger then gets kidnapped by urban poachers and I don't remember what happened after that but I think he hit the halfpoint between human and tiger then fucking murders them
>the shetland series
>some book about a house that was alive and it killed some kids by slamming doors on them so hard it cut them in half
>short story about some kids playing hide and seek and one of them hides in a trunk in the attic but it locks and no-one ever finds her
>story about some kid who hates his baby brother and he finds out that any kid who dances while wearing a fairy ring gets abducted by faries and replaced with an identical fairy child who behaves so he dances while wearing a fairy ring so they get rid of his baby brother but they abduct him instead
>darren shan books
there's probably more but childhood was a long time ago

>>376874093

Nah, he was in a car accident or something.

>>376862040
So this shit is all Elfangor's fault, right?

>>376868891
>>376869076
I believe it was called 'Hidden Talents'.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-86646-4

>>376874251
The Yeerks were coming to Earth no matter what.

The Andalites gave them an option to fight back.

>>376873454
The book was able to get away with a shit ton of body horror and gore because of regenerative nature of the morphing power

>>376874251
It was Seerow. Retard gave Yeerks Andalite tech.

>>376874297
Fuck, that is it.

>>376874297
Not those two, but yup, that's the book they're talking about. I remember the telekinetic kid cheating at a pinball tournament.

>>376874251

Blame the Ellimist/Crayak.

>>376867238
>for no fucking reason
what did you think was going to happen with an alien invasion of Earth from huge forces being fought guerrilla-style by a small group of teenagers?

>>376874251

It's the Ellimist's fault, really.

Think about it, goddamn Animorphs was darker than Harry Pooper.

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Anyone who thinks that Yeerks do not deserve to be killed is the most painful and drawn out way possible is themselves a Yeerk infiltrator.

Keep sharp, men. They could be any one of us.

>>376874408
>>376874432

Yes I'm dumb, I mixed Elfangor and Seerow in my mind. I remember it was some dumbass Andalite prince.

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>>376874141
How were these books allowed in school?