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Animorphs

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Animorphs.

Cool friends fighting aliens...more accurately, the pariah of a fascist civilization, minutes before being eaten alive in front of said "ccol friends" persuades and then bioengineers human child soldiers to facilitate an end to an ill-conceived and failing war now reduced to unilaterally exterminating a parasitic, physically disabled species, itself undergoing a violent civil rights movement on their own planet based on their self-recognized flaws, struggling to realize its place in a universe where godlike beings exist and decide not to offer remedy(rules of the god game) and spectate while the parasites overwhelm all vulnerable species in the known universe.

The child soldiers agree to resist the parasites, but at least a minority of them believe genocide is the wrong answer. After being physically and emotionally tortured, shot, repeatedly disemboweled and having their limbs hacked or bitten off by hosts of the parasitic species, however, all of the child soldiers begin taking violent, morally devastating actions that end their lives as they know them.

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Mulling over Morphs #13 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Varyk to c/animorphs
 

I remember clearly when

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Jara slices his head open to prove that he's not a controller, and then later when they use the Hork Bajir's regenerative capabilities to trick visser three, I remember that being the first time foreshadowing in a novel ckicked for me.

This is when the Hork Bajir revealed that their blades, the deadly blades all over their body, are only used to strip bark from trees because that's their food. That was a super cool species trait so the authors can make it known that they're not just these beings created to be deadly warriors, there is some reason behind their hardware.

It's so shocking that he slices his freaking head open and I couldn't figure out why he did that, and then at the end of the book I'm like oh it's a plot device haha. Got it.

And then this also has the ellimist interfering constantly in a world he's not allowed to interfere in.

And Tobias regains his morphing ability and gets to be a boy some of the time again so we're all excited for him and Rachel to date

woop woop!

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