Wait, is that....?

Fuck, it is.

high-five him OP. While facepalming.

>>8160529

High-five him with your face.

>>8160553

Make out with him?

Also, what would the level adjustment be for these guys as a PC race?

>>8160568

Not what I meant, but sure. So long as I get to watch.

>>8160568

Probably LA +2, +2 STR, +2 DEX, -2 INT, -2 CHA, natural weapons and armor up the ass.

>>8160505
>hork bajir

holy shit i nostalgia'd hard

FFFFFFFFF

These are my FAVORITE

holy shit. awesome.

Oh man. I loved the Hork-Bajir.

What the fuck are Hork Bajir?

Interesting...I was just thinking about how I needed a servitor race.

Hork-Bajir have to be one of my favorite alien races ever. They're just barely humanoid, but not genocide machines like most non-humanoid aliens. Plus, you gotta give respect for a people who can rip their skull apart, exposing their brain, and then press it back together like nothing happened.

>>8160845

Animorphs. Race [enslaved?] by the Yeerks.

Earth-tree still good!

>>8160867
And Yeerks?

Actually, all of the alien races in Animorphs were pretty cool. I especially admire that KA Applegate specifically said that most aliens are NOT humanoid, which a lot of writers go with and it usually feels cheap.

>>8160845

Aliens from Animorphs. They're over seven feet tall, look like somebody attached several razor blades to a giant velociraptor, genuinely frightening in combat, but are peaceful and eat bark. They were genetically engineered to eat bark and force plants to release CO2 to thicken the atmosphere of their planet, and were naturally given a low IQ also. However, once a generation you have an anomaly called a Seer, who's a Hork-Bajir smarter than most humans.

>>8160876

Brain slugs that control your mind. Need some sort of special radiation every three days to stay alive.

Klendrona...Klendagon...Klaymora...something to that effect.

>>8160876
Parasitic slugs that can take control over your body when they are able to get into your ear canal and then envelop your brain.

Oddly, by the end they were NOT all evil.

>>8160639
you mean -4 INT. These are folks who didn't even understand what a drawing is.

>>8160902
Kandrona, motherfucker!

>>8160876

Parasitic slug-people who crawl through your ear and wrap around your brain, making you their host. They leave once every three rays to absorb a special radiation their sun gives off.

>>8160911

Sure, let's go with that.

>>8160905
The -2 is for PCs. Remember, they get special Hork-Bajir every few generations who are as intelligent as people are.

What were the other guys? I forgot their names. The centipede guys who are always hungry.

I always felt sorry for those guys.

>>8160951
Taxxons. And don't feel too sorry. They'd tear you to pieces in a fucking second if they got the chance.

>>8160951
Taxxons.


I believe one of the Andalites morphed into a Yeerk and took control of one of em or something, and it as all sad and shit. I don't remember.

The Howlers were deadlier than the Hork Bajir.

Taxxons: 4e minions as characters.

I didn't realize it at the time but do you think that Applegate based the Andalites a bit of Star Treks Andorians? Both are blue militaristic aliens with stalks on their heads...

>>8160994
The Howlers were created from the ground-up to be killing machines by the bastard offspring of Sauron and Cthulhu. Of course they'll be deadlier.

>>8160986
An Andalite morphed into a Taxxon but stayed in that form too long so he was stuck like that forever. Sad story, bro.

>>8161010
Except that Andalites look completely different otherwise.

>>8160986
You're thinking of the Andalite that got stuck morphed as a Taxxon. He had Andalite intelligence, but massive Taxxon hunger that he couldn't control, only hold at bay for a short time.

The Andalite Chronicles was one off the better books.

>this thread

>>8160994
FUCKING HOWLERS DAMNIT

>>8161010
Except the Andalites are fucking Centaurs, have no mouths, are telepathic, absorb nutrients out of plants through specialized organs in their hooves, and have fucking *Scythe Blades* on their tails for close combat.

i'm from yuropp and what is this

>>8160967
I think there's still room to feel sympathy for them. They actually agreed to serve the yeerks because the Yeerks told them they would find away to control their hunger. They never did, if I remember correctly. After the war the Taxxons were all given their choice of one morph to spend the rest of their lives in. That ended up doing the trick.
>>8160986
It was Arbron, Elfangor's buddy, who morphed into a Taxxon and got stuck as one.

the howlers were mary sues

>>8161044
Animorphs.

>>8161043
I can't even remember all of the weapons that the Howlers had. That's how heavily armed they were.

Taxxons as a whole got a happy end. Except Arbon T_T

>>8161048
Oh yeah, you can feel sympathy all you want, but you still kill those bastards. Don't let sentiment stop you, because they won't.

I remember reading this as a kid.

Looking back on it, seems that the series went waaaay darker than most teenager stories would ever go.

I stopped at like.... book 31 or something. Kind of regret it, not seeing the ending.

Now I have to go back and read all of those fucking books.

Also, a miniatures game based on the Animorphs universe would be dope as shit. Like 40K without all the grimmdark.

>>8161073

The main ones they used were their Dracon Rays, flechette guns, and of course the Scream.

>>8161099
Dude, the Animorphs is ALL ABOUT GRIMDARK.

HOLY SHIT nostalgia'd SO FUCKING HARD

>>8161099
Oh fuck yes.
I've always wanted to do an RPG using that series too, for that matter.

>>8161091

The ending was a bit of a clusterfuck. You're not missing much.

Although the crippled cannon-fodder conscript "Auxilliary Animorphs" is a deliciously grimdark part of the endgame, I must admit. As is the genocide, sicide-mission assasinations agains *family members*, and so forth.

>>8161110
And they can just tear you the fuck in half with their bare arms, and they had retractable blades on their wrists. And the most messed up thing?

They weren't actually vicious or hateful at all. They had no idea that other species were real. They just thought that they were playing a game.

Those books certainly had a lot of "Your life is ruined and fucked up forever."

>>8161110
Also, they could regenerate. And they have a hivemind, so combat experience is shared amongst every single Howler.

Andalites > Hork-Bajir

Jake, the leader? He suffers from PTSD and is almost suicidally depressed from the guilt over what he had to do to win, including allowing Rachel to die and dumping tens of thousands of Yeerks into space. Keep in mind that this was after we found out that Yeerks were NOT always evil.

>>8161144
Kids getting into a violent game is a sight I do not wish to remember. Now imagine if those kids were killing machines with no empathy.

>>8161157
being a young adult is all about scary changes. And sometimes, its about horrifying aliens. Oh god, run kids!

>>8161177

Didn't the designated protaginist love couple take advantage of that by morphing into them and teaching them "Love"? For the sole purpose of fucking over their boss?

>>8161245
Yep.
The next planet they went to, the Howlers tried to kiss everyone instead of kill them.
So Crayak wiped out their entire species.

>>8161224
They might've had empathy, they were just always taught that what was going on wasn't real. Remember, the Crayak is an evil bastard.

OOOOOOOOOOOH MYYYYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!

DETAILS ARE NOW REQUIRED.

DETAILS ON THIS GAME.

Man, the Crayak was creepy as hell, especially when Jake sees it while having a near-death experience when he was a Controller

>>8161259
Crayak always was a giant douche like that

could do a campaign where the PCs are involved in the war between the Ellimist and Crayak

One thing that always bothered me about the series was that Ax got his human body by merging the DNA from the human kids. If that were possible, then why didn't the kids turn into awesome combinations of badass animals? Bear plus Pistol shrimp plus Elephant.

>>8161099

Summary-

*Visser Three becomes Visser One after the Animorphs rescue Marco's Mother and kill her Yeerk. Soon he declares open war.
*In a stroke of brilliance, using all of the blood the kids have spilled in battle over three years, the Yeerks do a DNA analysis and determine that the Andalite Bandits are not, in fact, Andalites. The Animorphs then fake Marco's death, find Tobias' mother, give her the morphing power, and try and get everybody else out as well. Tom gets to Jake's parents first though
*They increase their forces by about 30-40, conscripting crippled kids and giving them the morphing power.
*The Yeerks steal the Blue Box.
*The Animorphs blow up the Yeerk Pool and about half the city
*They also get assistance from the army. Along with every auxillary Animorph, the military makes a suicide charge at the Blade Ship and Pool ship, while the Originals and Erek sneak on.
*Rachel is the only person on the Blade Ship. She fights Tom, who betrayed Visser One, and kills him. However, she has to de-morph, and is killed in human form.
*Jake, in a WHAT THE FUCK MAN? moment, flushes the Yeerk Pool aboard the Pool Ship, instantly killing aboyt 17,000 Yeerks. He forces Visser One to surrender, stops Andalites from destroying Earth, gets Ax promoted to Prince, and becomes HERO OF THE IMPERIUM, to the point they consider putting his face on Mount Rushmore. He falls into a state of depression, as does most everybody else.
*They get a message three years later that Ax has been captured by an unknown entity. They go into deep space, and find the Blade Ship, being controlled by renegade Yeerks, and Ax, who's being possessed by The One (presumably Crayak).
*"Ram the Blade Ship."

>>8161308
The Ellimist book was awesome too. He basically starts out as a gamer on his own planet and then through a series of shenanigans ends up being omnipotent.

>>8161320
Because Ax's human morph was combined from three members of the same species.

>>8161320
He just was a mixture of different people in the same species. I'd assume that trying to become a mixture of species would be way difficult. Plus, you'd need to get a Pistol Shrimp and a bear together at the same time to get their DNA.

rolled 13, 13, 10, 9, 1, 13 = 59

>>8161354
he was dealing with the same 48 chomosones.

If you add 1, just 1 chomosone, you get downsyndrome, or worse.

Unrelated, Twilight has bella being pregnant in about 2 weeks because edward just gave her 1 chomosone sperm or some shit.

Animorphs dealt with the horror of war and the gradual inhumanization of slavery in a mature way for small kids to understand.

Why the fuck don't we have an animorphs movie? Goddammit, we're past the shitty TV show, we can move on to a kick ass movie. The entire fucking series SCREAMS ACTION.

Awesome morphing scenes, like Cassie-angel?
Check
Fucking Centaur, giant Maggots, Fucking Lizardmen bladegons ?
Check
Romance, real life problems, grimdarkness ?
Check

Goddammit, now i want a movie.

>>8161328
Um.

Holy shit. That's depressing as fuck.

>>8161445

A movie wouldn't do the amount of material justice. Seriously.

>>8161445
goddamnit now I want to read it all over again. only problem is there were like OVER 9000 books, so i barely scratched the surface

>>8161277

Evidently the Hork-Bajir are native people in the DM's world, as are the Andalites, Taxxons, and Gedd. Yeerks are aberrations from the Far Realm, and have been possessing people, slowly taking over everything. Evidently about two-thirds of the Underdark is theirs now.

>>8161445
They'd obviously try to kiddy it up so you end up with the Lightning Thief instead of GRITTY CHILD SOLDIER ACTION

Also, Erek was a jackass. If he hadn't depowered the Dracon Beam, Rachel wouldn't have died.

>>8161445
don't you remember the TV show?
>>8161468
this anon does

>>8161463

Why aren't children's series this fucked up nowadays? Only recent one I can think of with a somewhat equally depressing ending was The Pendragon Adventure, and at least they still sorta won.

>>8161529
I would think that it would be more fucked up if the Animorphs did all the same shit and DIDN'T get emotionally damaged along the way. These are just kids, maybe not even teenagers yet.

>>8161529
I don't remember many series being that fucked up when I was a kid. Just Animorphs... and the other series the author did. Maybe she just hated kids staying sane?

What happened in the other series? I only read to like.. book 4, but I heard that was a short series.

>>8161328
I don't remember any of the characters by name, Tobias was the alien guys half son or some shit right? Ax was the alien helping the kids who loved cinnabuns, right? And Crayak was the yeerk controlling the alien/Tobias's dads brother or some shit right?

rolled 4, 14, 3, 3, 3, 3 = 30

>>8161468
Make it a trilogy. Cut out some downtime issues. For example, keeping the issue where cassie realises she's a bloodthirsty cunt, dropping the one where they're just dicking around a forest.

BTW, the cassie sacrifice was both the greatest plot armor bullshit i've ever seen. And i loved every minute of it.

>>8161553
What? Only thing I remember is Tobias being the hawk, because he got stuck in that form. Well, then got morphing ability back, but hawk was still his default form then.

Which made the Tobias-Rachel relationship really awkward. Yay semi-bestiality?

>>8161566
I think you're talking about Rachel. Cassie was the nice girl.

>>8161553
Crayak is the bastard offspring of Sauron and Cthulhu.

>>8161553

Tobias- Elfangor's son, trapped in Hawk form.
Ax- Cinnabon-loving Andalite. Elfangor's brother
Crayak- cosmic horror. Combination of Sauron and Nyarlathotep

>>8161552

I stopped reading Remnants after 6. Like, half the cast dies, and the other half becomes fucked-up mutant people.

rolled 6, 2, 17, 1, 2, 9 = 37

>>8161591
Tobias is Half Andalite, Half Human, Half Hawk. But he gets nothing special.

See, you remember the first issue? Prince Elganfor or something? Yeah, that way his FATHER.

And elganfor knew it too.

Later, he gets morphing powers back from elminister for helping the hork bajir.

Also, anyone play the videogame?

>>8161591
yeah but in the prolouge book about the alien who gave the kids the cube in the first book it mentions how his brother or dad or firend or some shit was the first and only one of their kind to be taken control of by a yeerk.

Also he morphs into a human and totally taps some chick he saves from yeerk slavers, who turns out to be tobias's mother. He even addresses him as "my son" in the end as he gives them the cube.

>>8161628
>I stopped reading Remnants after 6.
Remnants? I was thinking of Everworld, I believe it was called. What's Remnants?

rolled 15, 10, 7, 11, 6, 2 = 51

>>8161631
Teddy rosevelt, Charles Darwin, and H P Lovecraft are fighting robot patriots? Awesome.
>>8161641
Yeah, he learns it when Visser 3 tells him. Also, in a briliant example of wanting to see the innocent in people, he watches her for four days efore going with the woman who said she knew his father, Checking that she wasn't a headworm, but IGNORING THE BATHROOM STOPS EVERY 2 HOURS.

(Staying in morph over 2 hours = Staying in that form)

>>8161646

Meteor destroys Earth, about 500 humans escape on spaceship in deep-freeze. Right at book 2 300 of them didn't wake up since the process was flawed, and more die from there. One kid's body shut down during the trip, but his mind was active for the next 400 years, causing him to go crazy and develop psychic powers. More people start manifesting powers, the planet they land on is a ship, more people die, etc.

>>8161646

Another series. Asteroid hits earth, ghetto-rigged space shuttle saves 80 people. They are taken aboard this big intelligent ship capable of terraforming called Mother, then Bad Things™ happen.

Then everything calms down and they find earth which looks like a rotten baked potato. They crash Mother into it. More Bad Things™ happen, but then they finally fix Earth with the ship.

>>8161646
Meteor hits earth, people escape on a shuttle, land on crazy fucked up planet, really weird shit happens. I read about five books before the series got pulled form my school.

>>8161693
Wow. Where's shit like that nowadays? Everyone seems to just want happy thoughts.

Fuck that, have some child soldiers with cancer being hunted down by society.

ITT: People forget that the yeerks were utterly addicted to cinnamon apple oatmeal.

Seriously, Visser Three had to confiscate it like crack cocaine from them.

>>8161754
Becaue even grim dark drug addictions can be funny when its apple cinniman instant oatmeal.

>>8161754

And the Prawns were addicted to Cat Food. Doesn't make it any less fucked up.

>>8161794

>>8161778
I think I still have the book where that's found out. The Yerks would do stupid shit for it.

Read the Animorph series for a loooooong time when I was a kid, sort of fell off of it when it got to the oatmeal addiction stuff and the "choose your own adventure" books though.

I did grab the last book though and read the end where Jake says, "We're going to ram the Blade Ship."

;_;

>>8161820

Didn't the Animorphs break into the Yeerk pool and try to get into the giant warehouse they yeerks had been stockpiling the confiscated boxes in so they could pour it into the pool and get every yeerk hopelessly hooked?

it really didn't seem that grimdark when i was reading it when i was younger. but now, looking back, it's pic related.

Shit. I have like, every fucking book in the goddamn series still, except megamorphs 2 and 3, and a few of the ghostwritten ones.

Are there pdfs/ebooks of these floating around? If not, I may go on a scanfest this spring break or summer.

fuck yeah animorphs

these books were what got me started with sci-fi and by extension, grimdarkness, way back in 2nd grade

we were one fucked up class of seven year olds

some things ive always wondered, when the andalites were still in their medieval phases how do you think an andalite army would have acted since they are all cavalry all the time?

Any of you read the book where the Animorphs sneak into the house of the principal? I think his name was Chapman? He and his wife were being controlled by yeerks but their daughter was still human. She lived in a silent hell because she was unpopular at school and at home her parents made no attempt to keep up the human facade. Father would sit on the couch and stare at the TV, mom would robotically chop carrots in the kitchen. They'd never hug her or tell her they loved her or ask her how things were.

God damn, those books were sick man.

>>8161863

Andalites rode andalites into battle!

>>8161863

Probably go all Mongol and charge while firing bows. The fact that they have virtually no blind spots, telepathy, and natural weapons being described as too fast to normally see, they'd probably have some huge advantages. I don't think that Andalites feed all the time as they walk, otherwise poisoning the ground would be a viable tactic too.

>>8161863

They had a pretty Eastern type "warrior-poet" mindset, so probably a mix of chinese/japanese warrior culture and Mongolian-type horseback archery/melee combat.

Wasn't their medieval period like a thousand years? I remember Ax commenting that he was shocked at humans' ability to develop and use new technology so quickly.

>>8161875
I think I still have that one to, and yeah his name was Chapman and I'm surprised that girl didn't go completely nuts.

>>8161646
All the depressing shit and mindfuckery from the last animorphs books condensed into a postapocalyptic surreal survivor series. Shit had a happy ending, but GOD DAMN was it fucked up.
Almost everyone on earth dies at the end. Of the first book. Mutant baby becomes an evil alien, psychologically unstable teenagers at each others' throats, there's a body count like you wouldn't believe, and there was surreal shit out the wazoo that turned out to be a giant alien spaceship with an insane AI. They retardify said AI, take it to Earth, find survivors, there's some shit with a conspiracy where three of the mutants evolve into slime creatures, they get eaten by a lesbian, then some time travel in the middle and crazy psychic jesus sacrifices himself to restart the world.

rolled 7, 14, 6, 5, 19, 6 = 57

>>8161844
It's like talking with that nice germanic fellow with a moustash who has a love for small kids and art

Then growing up and cracking open a WW2 textbook...

When you're a kid
"Cool! They're helping out all the crippled kids!"

When yo grow up
"Holy shit! They're using gimps as cannon fodder to save themselves! From fucking mindrape slugs!"

Yeah, the series just gets darker and darker as you grow up and more of it is pointed out for you.

Like the fact the andalites use criminals and convicts to do assassinations. The yerks are mindrape slugs as previously mentioned, humans ignore the cries of their breatherin while watching Full House as they await their brainslug reinsertion...

You know who the only good guys are in the series? OP's Pic. And that's just because they're too retarded to know what evil is.

>>8161932

>implying the Chee are evil

>>8161932
Hork Bajir: Proof that ignorance is bliss.

>>8161979

If Erek hadn't disabled the Pool Ship's weapons, Rachel would still be alive.

>>8161979
Oh, right, forgot about the Chee. Though they're more neutral than anything, IIRC. They don't really fight, just hide themselves.

Though a small group of Chee could probably wipe out most of the Yeerks. Weren't they stupidly advanced even compared to Andalites?

>>8161979
a sin of omission is as bad as a sin of commission, and the chee's militant pacifism(if that makes sense) definitely qualifies

rolled 7, 16, 3, 11, 14, 1 = 52

>>8161979
Good point. Forgot them, sorry.

Yeah, the dog guys are pretty rad. They even let their killer cyborgs who are too horrible and efficient at killing they make MARCO sick to have a soul thing.

That's making the kid shoot old yeller, and making him watch while he does it.

>>8162015
>>8162019

Erek reprograms himself to allow killing. He massacres a room of Hork-Bajir well over 100 strong, restarts Marco's heart, then grabs all of the Animorphs and pulls them out of the warehouse and brings them about a mile away all in under a minute. If it weren't for the limiters, he'd probably be able to keep up with WH40K power levels.

>>8161931
Ah Remnants nothing beats reading that series as a kid of 10 years old and it going into fine detail about how being impaled by a piece of metal feels, what a body goes through in 400 years of rotting in a cyrogenic chamber, what happens when someone is perforated by micrmeteorites, and a guy who's skin gets ripped off and replaced with a clear plastic like substance.

funny you should mention that. b/c in one of the books, the one where they go back in time and create an alternate history, they stumble upon Der Fuhrer. Except, in this history he's just a grunt. I'm pretty sure Tobias goes nuts and kills him.

pic is from the description for Remnants. which is also incredibly GRIMDARK for "young adult novels."

i think we've found a new Black Library author.

>>8161846
Cryakspeed, my son.

rolled 2, 20, 6, 16, 4, 6 = 54

>>8162084
Dood, if they release a necron withthe name Erek, i wouldn't be surprised.

And yeah, think about that. He has to live with it for the rest of his life. It's like when Dresden, with the True Sight. He has to live with himself for ever.

Fuck, i think it'd be easier to stat him in M&M then in DnD. As a fucking PL X

i still have every single one of these books packed away

now i want to go find them and read em again

fuuuuu

i had no idea what op was talking about until i took a close look at those arm blades

then i nostalgiad

>>8162094

Tobias tries, but cassie stops him. In hindsight, it was pretty bizarre having a black chick defending hitler.

>>8162167

Cassie is well-read enough to know that ANY time that somebody tries to kill Hitler, things get worse.

>>8162182
thanks, Einstein

>>8162084
It was awesome. Too bad he couldn't just reprogram himself to, y'know, FORGET the horrible slaughter part so he could remain badass and annihilate the Yeerk.

>>8162013
Well, what else could've happened if he hadn't disabled the weapons?

rolled 4, 16, 6, 18, 5, 1 = 50

>>8162182
She's sub temporaly grounded.

In M&M terms, she's immune to time travel fuckery. She knows when somethings fucked up. She remembers, for example, the time Jake decided to give up and be a normal kid, in one of the books, where they ended up winning (At a huge expense)

Turns out eltimister had things planned from the beginning. Marco's mom, Jake's bro, Tobias's dad, all these things meant they'd end up fighting Yeerks sooner or later, no matter what.

So, in more grimdarkness, she remembers a time when their leader gave up and let the HP Lovecraft Eye god get his way with the entire group. No one else does.

Too bad all the "good guys" in the Animorphs had some seriously fucked-up morals. If they got to choose between A), defend themselves against their attackers and kill them, or B) do nothing as the attackers enslave and/or kill them, then go on to do the same to countless other races - they'd usually choose B.

The worst ones were those FUCKING robots. One was basically indestructible and had superman-levels of strength - a single one could've wiped out the entire Yeerk invasion force if it was clever about it ,but doing harmful things to toher creatures was too eotionally scarring for it to stomach doing so. Yeah, asshole, let all those other people fight and die defending themselves while you sit around and cry like the little bitch you are - and the worst part is that nobody ever though this was a morally corrupt position to take.

I hate people who think like that.

>>8162395
ummm....

that was the point

I was scared for the longest time the Yeerks existed. I would never go with anybody alone, or even without a group. I'd feverishly trying to decode the location of the Animorphs (turns out it was California or something) and planned escape routes in case they came for me.

Of course I don't do that anymore, but sometimes, sometimes I see something and I wonder if I'd lost that suspicion too easily...

>>8162432
It still pissed me off.

rolled 12, 9, 9, 17, 2, 19 = 68

>>8162395
>>8162395
We covered that allready. Taking out 100+ Hork Bajir and bringing someone back from the dead, and moving a five party team of animals, in under a minute counts as God Mode with Infinite Stats.

Fuck, why doesn't he just cure global warming? Or World Hunger? Or Fucking war? He could go around catching bullets out of the air and telling people to be nice.

>>8162472

His creators were peaceful and they programmed their robots to be peaceful. They all got wiped out by the Howlers, but hey, sucks to be peaceful.

rolled 5, 9, 11, 4, 9, 18 = 56

>>8162512
Then why give them God Mode that makes them Terminators on Crack, Meth, and PCP

Why make them so powerful they can kill everything alive, split the planet in two with supertech, and fly off to mars by jumping off the planet hard?

>>8162532

They didn't give them God-Mode, they were just that advanced that this was their normal capabilities. I don't think Eric had weapon systems necessarily, he was simply impervious to weapons-fire, super strong, and super-fast. The programming simply allowed him to use those abilities in a manner that would do maximum damage.

>>8162532
They were super strong because they were from a planet that had very high gravity I believe.

>>8161334
Saddest story ever. Made me cry when i was little.

>>8162579
Yup, the race that created them were a squat group of manchildren basically who just enjoyed playing. So they made robotic playmates for themselves and they had to be strong enough to handle the immensely high gravity. Hell the ship Erek crashed landed onto Earth is deep in the ocean where nothing can get to it or else it'll be crushed and Erek says that he can't feel it at all.

Obviously, having the Chee go about in their super mode would've ended the series way too quickly.

>>8162472
>He could go around catching bullets out of the air and telling people to be nice.

"YOU! YEAH, YOU FAGGOTS! STOP THIS BULLSHIT."

>>8162668
it would still be several books long. except that it all takes place in 1 day.

>>8162733
"On the first day, there was Chee.

On the second day, THERE WAS NO SECOND DAY"

>>8162733
Also, Crayak would probably be pissed.

One Chee would be his own 2000-point unit in 40K. And he'd still win 9 times out of 10.

Wait wait wait...Animorphs was actually good?

>>8162976

Fuck yes, it was always good.

Well, apart from some of the ghostwritten shit.

And oatmeal.

And maybe bits of the ending.

But it was pretty good overall, yeah.

>>8162976

Except a few of the ghostwritten ones (the cow one for example), I'd say so.

>>8162976
You gotta admit, it's a hell of a Sci-Fi setting.

Don't forget the souls of the Pemalites were put into wolves to make dogs or something.

Animorphs? Awesome, albeit depressing for a children's series.

>>8162976
Animorphs was awesome and will make your brain implode from grimdark.

Even 40k doesn't have squadrons of cripples being used as target practice by the enemies, which are bait used by the actual main characters. Shit's fucked up.

>The following books were ghostwritten:

>* #25: The Extreme - Jeffrey Zeuhlke
>* #27: The Exposed - Laura Battyanyi-Weiss due to an editorial oversight, Battyani-Weiss was uncredited for this book
>* #28: The Experiment - Amy Garvey
>* #29: The Sickness - Melinda Metz
>* #30: The Reunion - Elise Smith
>* #31: The Conspiracy - Laura Battyanyi-Weiss
>* #33: The Illusion - Ellen Geroux
>* #34: The Prophecy - Melinda Metz
>* #35: The Proposal - Jeffrey Zeuhlke
>* #36: The Mutation - Erica Bobone
>* #37: The Weakness - Elise Smith
>* #38: The Arrival - Kimberly Morris
>* #39: The Hidden - Laura Battyanyi-Weiss
>* #40: The Other - Gina Gascone
>* #41: The Familiar - Ellen Geroux
>* #42: The Journey - Emily Costello
>* #43: The Test - Ellen Geroux
>* #44: The Unexpected - Lisa Harkrader
>* #45: The Revelation - Ellen Geroux
>* #46: The Deception - Elise Smith
>* #47: The Resistance - Ellen Geroux
>* #48: The Return - Kimberly Morris Due to an editorial oversight, Lisa Harkrader was mistakenly credited for this book
>* #49: The Diversion - Lisa Harkrader
>* #50: The Ultimate - Kimberly Morris
>* #51: The Absolute - Lisa Harkrader
>* #52: The Sacrifice - Kimberly Morris
>* Alternamorphs #1 - Tonya Alicia Martin
>* Alternamorphs #2 - Emily Costello

pic is what my reaction looked like when i found out.

>>8163070

I was a fan of when shit got real at the end. Things started happening, let's set up a fortress and start getting the army in on this. Don't let them steal the show, but get some mechanized backup, you know?

>>8163070

>40k doesn't have squadrons of cripples being used as target practice by the enemies, which are bait used by the actual main characters

Kroot.

>>8161875
I-I never knew.

;___;

>>8163083
>The Return

...wasn't the return the one where the little shit extra guy they recruited later on comes back and torments rachel? David or something?

Awww maaaaan, that had some great stuff in it too.

>>8163143
Indeedy. On the other hand, David is arguably one of the book's more realistic characters; the guy loses his parents to aliens, then gets drafted into a war he knows barely anything about. While being in middle school.

>>8161875

I don't see the problem.

>>8163083
Yeah, the series was half ghost written. I wonder how much Applegate had it preplanned, or had oversight?

>>8160505
I want to stick my penis in one of them.

>>8163143
I always liked David, he almost took out the entire team after being an Animorph for like 2 weeks.

>>8163143
the new kid who turns out to be a psychopath? I hated that little shit.

Come to think of it, that kind of insert is pretty common in the fanfiction. Maybe it was a way for the ghostwriter to get back at some of the shitty mary-sue fanfiction out there.

http://animorphsforum.com/ebooks/

To those saying they wanna re/read them.

I still have every single one of these fucking books on my shelf right next to me (Including chronicles/megamorphs/alternamorphs). Every couple years I read through the whole thing again.

>>8163229

>>8163229

>>8163174
She had most of it outlined, but she needed people to ghostwrite while she was working on Everworld and Remnants.

>animorphs thread
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/tg/, I am proud

>>8163114

Yeah and It was in the SECOND book!

I swear this series fucked me up. Anytime I read something with a happy ending I think "This aint how shit goes, everyone needs to be depressed or dead!"

>>8163273
to bad BOTH OF THOSE CRASHED AND BURNED

>>8163171

That's because you have the emotional range of a rock.

>>8163083

One of these was the one where Tobias got tortured I think. Probably the most extreme scene in the goddamn series. Sure it was a "clean" sort of torture, what with the plain clear torture cube and all, but it was extreme torture anyway. Tobias flapped around so hard in that box that he broke his bones and shat himself. SHAT HIMSELF FROM PAIN. IN A BOOK FOR CHILDREN. And there was no "Tobias was still a good soldier and resisted the torture" in that book either. He was about to spill his guts to the Yeerks. The only reason he didn't was because he was either too weak for thought-speak or his torturer was too bat-shit insane at that point to care what he had to say.

I thank all of you for making me remember all these things. When i saw the picture i was liek "OH SHI- THAS A HORK BAJIR" Then i didn't tl;dr and got to relive the awesumness that Animorphs was when i was a wee little lad. That shit was so awesumpossum.
Yours truly,
-Semper Fi Animorphs fan.

>>8163287

>implying that's a bad thing.

>>8163295

Was that the book where they mentioned that Rachel and Tobias had found a little cave on a cliff that nobody could find unless they were in morph? And that they spent some time alone in there? Ah yeah, they were totally doing it. They were probably 16 by the time that happened, no way they weren't using that cave for anything else.

Here's a homebrew Hork-Bajir I made a while back for 3.5

Hork-Bajir Characters
Hork-Bajir characters possess the following racial traits.

* +4 Strength, +4 Dexterity, +4 Constitution, -6 Intelligence.
* Medium Size.
* A Hork-Bajir’s base land speed is 40 feet and its climb speed is 30ft.
* Darkvision out to 60 feet.
* Racial Hit Dice: A Hork-Bajir begins with 2 levels of monstrous humanoid, which
provides it with 2d8 Hit Dice, a base attack bonus of +2, and base saving throw bonuses of Fort +0, Ref +3, and Will +3.
* Racial Skills: A Hork-Bajir’s monstrous humanoid levels give it skill points equal to 5
× (2 + Int modifier, minimum 1). Its class skills are Balance, Climb, and Jump. Hork-Bajir have a +8 racial bonus on balance and climb checks, and a +6 racial bonus on jump checks.
* Racial Feats: A Hork-Bajir’s monstrous humanoid levels give it one feat. A Hork-Bajir
receives Multiattack as a bonus feat.
* +3 Natural Armor Bonus.
* Natural Weapons: 2 arm blades (1d6) and tail (1d6)
* Automatic Languages: Hork-Bajir. Bonus Languages: Common, Galard.
* Favored Class: Fighter.
* Level Adjustment: +2.

>>8163220
Thanks for reminding me.
http://animorphsforum.com/ebooks/20/
http://animorphsforum.com/ebooks/21/
http://animorphsforum.com/ebooks/22/

Animorphs: Okay, we taught the howlers that killing is wrong, love and peace is the way to go, and saved the Iskaroot.
Ellimist: That's nice. Crayak is gonna kill them all now that they're useless.
Animorphs: FUCK. Okay um... the Iskaroot are what Yeerks SHOULD be, right? Genetically modified symbiotic beings? how long until they meet up?
Ellimist: 300 years. good luck with that whole war thing faggots.

I love you /tg/, if only /lit/ would do something besides troll about ayn rand and gamer girl.

>>8163386
my question: how come jake never USES the howler morph again after that? I mean, god damn

>>8163401
I imagine Ellimist probably quietly removed it.

>>8163401
Either plot convenience, or the possibility that Crayak screwed with Howler genetics so that if Jake did do that morph, he'd die instantly.

>>8163401

Probably because Cryak would destroy him out of spite. At least it wasn't the retarded reasons why they couldn't use their morphs they acquired when they were having time travel shenanigans.

>>8163401

I think I remember him getting pretty sickened after realizing that the howlers were mentally 3 year old. Maybe unwillingness to mentally dominate 3 year olds or just bad memories.

>>8163454
no, time travel was a result of undoing the sario rip (sp?)

speaking of, WAY TO COMMIT GENOCIDE ON THE PEACEFUL ALIENS HEROES

>>8163386
Ellimist: Hey, i'm kind of a big deal - y'know, like a god. maybe you should come with me and be happy and safe. i can tell you that this isn't gonna end well.
Animorphs: no, it's ok. we got this.
Ellimist: I'll be back to say i told you so.

I liked how they didn't gloss over how difficult it was for them to get some morphs. Like if they needed to get a dolphin morph? They've got spend awhile planning how to break into that Marine Land place in the dead of night.

>>8163478
they brought broccoli to earth. THEY GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED

rolled 1, 1, 10, 5, 15, 2 = 34

>>8163504
More like

E : Hey, DON'T LOOK THERE! SEREIOUSLY, DON'T LOOK OVER THERE AT THE PLOOOOT DEVICEEEEEEE
Animorphs : Hey, Elevator! Ohhh, Yeerk holy site! I bet it has something important!
E : *Whistles* So, want to be part of my Zoo where you'll be imbred in 2-3 generations?
Animorphs : Fuck you. Maybe...No, fuck you. We're gonna win

Sereiously, remember, for everything he did, Crayak did too. SO he couldn't come out and TELL THEM shit like "Hey, check this out", But he could subtly guide them. Overall, LG. Very restrictive LG.

>this thread

>>8163460
I can only imagine what the hivemind would be full of after Crayak genocided them. Maybe he didn't use it cause he'd go insane from the memories?

Don't forget the time Cassie had the Buffalo version of her killed.

>>8163558
Oh man, they should've done more with Crayak, he was scary as fuck.

>>8163613
It saw me...IT SAW ME!

>>8163594
it wasn't buffalo her. It was buffalo principal. The ant was her.

Also IIRC she nearly got chopped to pieces by the helicopter in the end, but deus ex machina had a seagull jammed it up before she became whale sashimi

>>8163613
"you saw the eye?"
"yeah... and it said something to me."
"what did it say?"
"Soon."

we really need to get Applegate to writefag some 40k. can you imagine the GRIMDARK?

>>8163668
Nah, different style of grimdark. Hers is more internal then external. About the nasty shit people *DO* rather then the crapsack world around them.

Remember when Jake and Cassie kissed for the first time?

I-I-I got emotional...

Remember when Rachel died, Tobias became a hawk in mind for three years, Jake and Cassie broke up, and Marco became a movie star?

>>8163724

Remember how Jake was an emotional wreck after the war and they drifted apart and she married some random faggot, while he went on a suicide mission?

I do. Every night.

Everyone in this thread needs to read "Tomorrow When The War Began"

its very similar, but darker, and modern (no sci fi)

ah fuck, I just remembered the Nartec. The radioactive fishmen who kidnapped surface-dwellers for breeding fodder then killed them and sewed them up for display in their ship graveyard

Remember how Ax got turned into a slave by the Crayak? I do.

>>8163739
except he wasn't a movie star. he was an extra and occasional stuntman who was just there so the shows could get their viewership up by having his name on em

What was that other book series she wrote? It didn't last long but it had a god who ate other gods WITH A TONGUE MADE OF A MILLION BITING BUGS

>>8163702
exactly. she should write Chaos

>>8163806
Holy shit, what? I must've missed those guys.

>>8163799
Read a few of those two, one of the things the later parts of animorphs reminded me of.

Did John Marsden ever name the country that invaded?

>>8163889
*those too

>>8163853
Can't remember, loved the series other than how Fenrir was so easily beaten by machine guns.

>>8163853
Everworld.

I liked how the Elimist always appeared as some blue glowy guy (I always pictured him as looking like Obi-Wan) to the Animorphs, but was actually originally some kind of legless bird-thing and then some kind of hivemind over an entire fleet of ships and then WHARGHABLURG.

Ellimist was awesome.

>>8163980
No, he had legs: 2 + 4 = 4 + 2 and all that.

Two pods, four wings, four eyes, two arms.

This thread is incredible.

Never change, /tg/.

>>8164053

I always had serious trouble wrapping my head around what that race looked like, and I'm usually damned good at that stuff.

>>8164053
how do pods = legs?

I saw something vaguely arrowhawkish. Maybe just the four wings thing hooked me towards that.

>>8164097
I'm guessing she got it from the latin root, pedis.

>>8164143
also, podiatrist.

The 'pods' could produce and project pheromones, and yet they could grip onto things to perch, so I guess its just a matter of we dont have a proper word for what those are.

btw, check this awesome gallery out. This guy is drawing pictures of all the different aliens from Animorphs.

http://monster-man-08.deviantart.com/gallery/#Animorphs

>>8163877
the one with the orca on the cover. can't remember the name... it was in the mid-30's, I think

>>8164205
It was Jake, so 36?

>>8164179

FFFFFFFFFFFF-
Mind blown from fuckawesome.

ISKOORT ALL UP IN YOUR GRILL

>>8163889
i think it was indonesia, i remember someone talking about it when the australian government sent indonesia a blank check for disaster relief, knowing full well that they would spend it on weapions and troops.

Motherfucking Hork-Bajir, motherfucker.

ANTS KILLED THE DINOSAURS

>>8164507

BROTHER

Thank you /tg/

You've made a horrible night wonderful.

Was anyone else seriously freaked the hell out by the book with Rachel's multiple-dreamsequence hallucination and subsequent Crayak-induced berserker rage?
I was young. I had nightmares.

>>8164575
I don't think I read that one.

>>8162999

>You gotta admit, it's a hell of a Sci-Fi setting.

Christ, yes. I always liked the large scale plot from the Chronicles books: The proud and technologically advanced Andalites accidentally release a race of mind-raping parasites on the galaxy which start expanding faster than can be contained, forcing the Andalites to begin using biological genocide weapons and outright preemptively killing entire planets to keep other races from being turned into mind-slaves. All of this being part of an eternal, universe-scale chess game between a pair of omnipotent superbeings who can only use subtle manipulations to try and tilt events in their favor. Fuck yeah!

>>8164903

Crayak recruits (rat-morphed) David to his cause, kidnaps Rachel. Several horrific mindrape scenes ensue. A quarter of the way through the book, you realize that it isn't just Animorphs meets Higurashi; it's a series of nightmares. Rachel wakes up. The rest of the book is Crayak doing MINDGAEMS and tempting her to fight for his cause. She outwits him (somehow) and escapes. It's left ambiguous as to whether she kills David or not.

... Yeah.

>>8165240

Is that the confrontation where she stabs him with a fork or was that a previous book?

>>8165076
Andalites are itty bitty smalltime compared to the Ellimist's backstory. I can safely say that it is the most epic thing I have ever read, in a literal sense. From nerdy alien /v/irgin to sentient intergalactic nation/armada to a reality warping god. Makes Paul Atreides and the Emprah look like babies playing in sandboxes.

>>8165282

No, previous book. This one comes a lot later in the series, just when you've finally forced yourself to forget David's horrible fate as a rat on a desert island. The funny thing is, Rachel never mentions this experience again, not even to Tobias. Crayak doesn't try to follow up either, and Ellimist doesn't care. Of course, that could just be attributed to LOLghostwriting.

i love you guys so much

>>8165321
In fact, I'm going to ask right now if there's anything else like it. The story of ascension from a lowly mortal to a science-fiction god.

Preferably with less "psychic powers are real and I have a lot of them" and more "I have long ago switched to using artificial bodies, my consciousness is spread out across and controls this entire solar system. Nothing less than a supernova could truly kill me."

Do we want a new thread, guys? This one's kind of dying.

>>8165653
Fine by me.

>>8165397
Abraham Valmik/The Spirit of the Air from house of suns. A human who slowly replaces his brain with non-organic parts until he is eventually a massive distributed consciousness spread through the solar system's oort cloud.

Eventually he scales himself down (since light-speed limits slow down his thought at that massive size) and moves to atmosphere of a single planet, where the locals worship him as a kind of god.

Has this thread been archived yet?

If not, someone get on that.

>>8165780

New thread.

Hey, anyone remember the book where Cassie got a Yeerk in her head, and managed to convince the Yeerk to let her go, and so the group gave the Yeerk the choice to morph into whatever she wanted, and she picked a whale?

I liked it.

>>8165740

I submitted it, it's up to the mods