>>22031344
hell yes!

hell yeah, always disappointed me they never explored the one Ax more and what he thought, that was speculatively interesting

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>>22031344
It's like you asked me "would you like a free blowjob from a smoking hot chick or a beautiful trap."

Do you REALLY have to ask?

Yes, of course.

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you know we would

so long as we get plenty of alien species to choose from

>>22031344
Oh shit, sure. The fucking Visser book has been in my bathroom for years, and I loved the books when I was younger.

>>22031406
>aliens
>not playing as a bunch of kids with morphing technology slowly losing their humanity in a guerilla war against the Yeerks

>>22031432
I re-read some of the books again lately actually. I'm surprised they got away with how "dark" some of the concepts were and how violent some of the fights get for a "childrens" book.

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K.A. Applegate made some very, VERY /tg/ friendly material when you think about it. Animorphs, that one where the space shuttle contains the last humans, the Everworld series... woman knows her stuff

>>22031432
>thats kinda the point in a setting where you can change species for two hours

>>22031453
I need to watch animorphs at some point... wait, is it a show or a book?

>>22031469
It's a series of like 40something books.
There was also an attempt at a tv series made but it was fucking awful.

IIRC K A Applegate specifically designed some of the monster descriptions to annoy people who might want to make a TV adaptation.

>>22031453
Sure was grimdark as fuck, though.

>>22031448
Applegate got away with a LOT of shit. Everworld was even more blatant, rife with sexual sadism and all sorts of other oddness.

>>22031469
It was an excellent book series and, temporarily, a really shitty TV series. I was a huge fan of the books and couldn't even look directly at the show.

>>22031469
read the books, stay away from the show. Far away. Like, don't even go near it

>>22031448
dark doesn't begin to describe it

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I love how the series has a Frodo.jpg ending.

"Why don't we just give the Yeerks morphing technology so they don't have to live life as horrible brain parasites?"

>>22031406
>Animorphs game
>Players roll up some human kids, business as usual
>That Guy with vore fetish wants to be a Taxxon
>GM says no
>That Guy eventually concedes, rolls a slutty nudist instead
>Later, fighting against some yeerks
>One is a taxxon-controller
>That Guy acquires it
>Morphs to a taxxon for more than two hours
>This is the third fucking time he's done this

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>>22031527
>forced to kill him with a can-opener

squishy Taxxon is squishy

>>22031527
That guy would be easy as fuck to deal with.
Next battle he gets seperated from the group.
>Oh no, a 1 on 1 fight with a Hork Bajir!
>Oh no, his blades rip right through your fragile skin. You die almost immediately.

>Roll a new character

>>22031420
the one where the fighter lands in the middle of a Gulf war battle and the yeerk-controllers abduct some arab solders to infest?

>As I broke into his mind, amidst the flurry of his memories I could hear him screaming for his god to save him

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>Marco and Cassie.jpg

>>22031601
Oh fuck.

>>22031344
anymore Andalites? I need them for my "blue space centaur" folder

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I accidentally more than two hours. Is this bad?

>>22031656
Maybe.
You don't seem to be having that hard of a time with it tbh.

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>>22031646
Okay

>>22031344
Ah, Andalites. I've always loved me some not-just-humans-in-rubber-suits aliens.

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>>22031656
I sure hope you like telepathy and platonic relationships.

>>22031656
Tobias your life was shit and you were nearly infested with an alien parasite who would mock your dysfunctional life every hour as he used your body to indoctrinate more victims

instead, you became a killbird who can turn into other animals

>>22031682
Awwwww that's too fucking cute :3

Maybe a game where you play as a Yeerk and slowly rise through the ranks o become a powerful Visser would be pretty fucking cool

>>22031682
that's fucking cute

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>>22031682
>>22031736
>>22031763
I know

>>22031656

Goddamnit Tobias. Get your shit together.

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>>22031682
Keep Going


You know what would be cool? Advancing the morph tech a little and letting players aquire a skill that lets them make impossible creature style abominations once they morph.

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An Animorphs thread? On my /tg/??

>>22031730
>>22031808
I am positive it was implied several times through the series that he DELIBERATELY got himself "stuck" because of how shitty his human life was.

>>22031812
Didn't they pull some wierd shit a few times? At least Ax did? Where he took the DNA of a bunch of people and somehow mentally "merged" them together?

>>22031830
Holy shit, the time they game morph technology to an animal accidentally was eldritch.

(I had to try hard to not type INSANE. Also my name is Marco. I love this series)

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>>22031656

>>22031830
Yes, but I imagine that it wouldn't work so well with different species being merged.

Incidentally, Elfangor did it as well during that doomed timeline stuff where he moved to Earth and became Tobias' dad. And then he helped invent Windows.

>>22031849
Oh shit guys, my dad died and I never saw his body. Visser One shit is going on.

>>22031849
Oh god the one where an ant or something got it?

>>22031856
Yeah, I presume it was something to do with having multiple "templates" from the same species.

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>>22031830
Yeah Ax did specifically. He managed to create a human form of some sort by mixing the kid's DNA together, that at least was the implication.


and the girl... Rachel? and that guy... Marco?

They both wound up with wierd useless mutations caused by emotional issues.

I was thinking of having a human user who for some reason, mental trauma, genius, whatever who always created wierd mix&Match creatures when he morphed.

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>>22031812
<<Mother told me you humans can "taste" things with your mouths! What's a "taste"?>>

>>22031869
Chapman/Cow running around the streets. Nightmare fuel, and it was implied that he was naked

>>22031898
<<It's like smelling, but more tactile.>>

>>22031849
They gave an animal the ability to morph? I rally have to reread the series, I can't remember anything.

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A game could have so many different approaches and the universe is more than developed enough to support it, it's wonderful!

Also, I found these on Deviantart

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>>22031929

>>22031881
from memory, Rachel was actually "allergic" to something she acquired, so her body kept rejecting it and making her morph weird stuff uncontrollably.

but sweet jesus I used to have like all of these, even the shitty CYOA ones, and now they're just all gone. Is there a place to read them online?

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>>22031898

>>22031432
>Not playing as aliens with morphing technology/Not playing as kids who have access to alien morphs

I would love to play it but running it would be a pain in the ass. You would have to have a stat line for every living thing you would ever introduce as well as any that the players would go and seek out.

>>22031928
The one I was thinking of, it wasn't "given" as such. it was just like, an ant crawled up someone's arm while they were holding the Cube.

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"You make marking on rock and call it Hork-Bajir? It not Hork-Bajir, you Hork-Bajir, I Hork-Bajir, it marking"

>>22031969
I have a zip of all the books, especially the shitty CYOAs. Uploading shortly.

I'm trying to remember; did the kids ever get Andalite forms at any point? If not, why the fuck not? Those things were always described as combat monstrosities, Ax could've loaned a little DNA, couldn't he? I'd take an Andalite to a straight-up fight over a wolf or eagle any day of the week.

Rachel was mai middleschool waifu.

Also, fucking Andelite Chronicles man. Shit was dope.
I enjoyed Viser more.

>>22031969
No idea, I quit somewhere around the one where they infiltrate Area 51 because I was a poor fag and my local library stopped buying them. Now that I think about it Applegate got away with a lot of "questionable" material for a kid's book.

eh anyway.

So lets say you decided to do a game in the Animorph's universe.

We had cosmic entities who were playing some form of game a sI recall, the Yeerks and the Andalites... any other cosmic level conflicts PCs could get involved in?

>>22032012
They never did, from what I remember, except for Tobias once he gets the morphing power back

>>22031992
Well, I think the game would have to be broken down into having various templates--Flying, Strong, Predator, Prey, Small, Large..things like that, and they would all modify a base statline.

Obviously it would make duplicates, but hey, what more do you want?

>>22032011
I look forward to dying because I failed to morph a giraffe in a violent situation, thanks anon!

>>22032022
Luckily the books put forth an easy cosmic-level event generator. Occasionally the god-guy, whathisface would get in a pissing match with the devil-guy, like in that one book with the Skroot and the Howlers (jesus fucking christ, the Howlers.)

Animorphs introduced me to fan fiction. And then to erotic fan fiction. Not that I sought it out myself, but along with me there were three nerdy girls in 8th grade who were Animorphs friends. We then started referring to one another by character names. I was Ax, of course, because they were all characters who were dating a human male.

this series was like X Files meets Doctor Who Meets Star Trek meets a whole bunch of other wonderful things and to top it off it was set in the late 90's

it practically got me into RP

>>22032072
...you got interspecieszoned, dude? Wow.

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Fuuuck, so many childhood memories about this book series. Thanks a lot /tg/.

I think I read something like the first 12 books before I got into high school and reading those novels wasn't cool anymore.

I'm sorry I bowed to peer pressure guys!

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>>22031992
>>22032037
>>22032064
Well there we go. If we just use cosmic entities as an event generator of sorts there's all sorts of shenanigans we can get into. So who wants to do Animorphs Game brainstorming?

>>22032011
You sir are a magnificent bastard and have provided me with an excellent christmas present, thank you.

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>>22032064
>the Howlers

just get them to kiss, they hate nice things more than Khorne

>>22032121
Wait, I thought that Jake inputting his memory of kissing Cassie made them start trying to make out with everything instead of killing it, because they were basically stupid children who thought everything was a fun game?

Rolled 11

>>22032121
Untrue. It's just that their maker is a little bitch.

>'They know something other than pure hate and destruction and shit! Obviously they're now one hundred percent useless and defeated.'

>>22031344
>would /tg/ play a game based on Animorphs?
No, even the nerds like me beat the Animorphs nerds up in Junior High.

>>22032152
Cryak WAS a bit of a bitch.

You know, for an all-powerful god of evil.

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>>22032092
SHAMEFUR DISPRAY, DOWNROAD ANIMOLPH CORRECTION IMMEDETRY AND FINISH ARR CHOOSE YOUL OWN ADVENTULE NOVERS!

http://filesmelt.com/dl/MyZip.zip

Someone wanted all the books, here you go. Formatting gets terrible around 30ish though and slowly gets worse.

Rolled 56

>>22032160
You are alone in your faggotry.

>>22031898
><<cigarette butts and Oreos, child. Only then will you understand>>

Only if we can remove Andalite kebab.

>>22032080
I wish I could not imagine how bad "freeform RP chat rooms" would have been for ones based on these books.

>andalite players in human form must make a Hard (+10) Willpower check when speaking to prevent repeating the same word over and over again because it sounds funny.

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>>22032163
didn't the Emilist get a backstory?

>The Ellimist's true form

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>>22032168
have a basket of puppies for your trouble, anon

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>>22032064
Holy shit that issue was fucking awesome.
>dat first encounter
>dat impossible architecture
>dat "fuck you I need you here so I can win a bet"
>dat Howler morph
>DAT ENDING
Ellimist was a magnificent dick.

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>there never was a 90's Animorphs animated series

Rolled 22

>>22032250
A whole book dedicated to it. Sadly the only Animorphs book I still own.

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>>22032265

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>>22032265
I just imagined it as being animated/written by the Samurai Jack team.

>mfw

>>22032265
Truly the greatest crime against mankind.

>>22032288
Oh god, it would be glorious.

>>22032252
The original host was requested to remove them once the reprints came.

also guys, they reprinted the first few books but updated for the 10s.

>>22032308
How did they even do that? Tack in the word "iPhone" in a few places?

>>22032308
...they did whatnow

>>22032308
what does Marco call Rachel, if not Xena: Warrior Princess?

>>22032016
So much truth in this post.

>>22032323
Probably changed justin tumberlake for bieber but I don't know, haven't read them.

They have pretty covers

Rolled 20

>>22032269
I'm a liar. I just found Animorphs: Megamorphs 2: In The Time Of Dinosaurs. Broccoli is alium food.

>>22032308
>also guys, they reprinted the first few books but updated for the 10s.
I am already simmering with rage! I look forward to Jake looking at his friends and bellowing <<YOLO!!!>> as they charge the Yeerk battlelines.

Okay so Andalites crashland on Earth somewhere in the 50s to late 70s.

They wind up in Asia or the middle-east all the Andalites are either dead or there's one or two of them still alive. (depending on whether or not you have andalite players) Natives, Tourists, Insurgeants, or American GIs, possibly a combination of the four stumble upon the crashed craft, but not before the local warlord loots it and over looks a small, glowing blue cube.

The rest of the game is spent fighting a psychotic warlord backed by Ex-Nazi scientists and Soviet money who use retroengineered alien technology to fight elements of the US Government/Opress the native peoples.

would you play this campaign?

>>22031344
Anyone else get turned on by that sweet xeno mouth?

>>22032353
Applegate herself oversaw the process. I doubt she would fall to such tomfoolery.

>>22032363

You mean that makeshift trivagina?

>>22032346
is that the one with friendly crab people and hive mind ant swarms? Fond memories of spending hours at the library reading because it was too cold to walk home

>>22032353
>>22032341
As far as I know they just changed the covers. Could be wrong though.

Thinking back the references were a bit dated. Doom is certainly not a game I'd be taking for an indefinite space journey.

>>22031344
i feel like the goal has to be set much higher than it was in animorphs. giving PCs the ability to perfectly duplicate the appearance and abilities of anything and everything they can physically contact, as well as heal all wounds after a short transformation? didn't shapeshifter damacy or whatever quest end up with the player going for world domination after only a few sessions?

Rolled 92

>>22032346
Ah, and #26, The Attack... I used to have a TON of these.

>>22032375

the friendly crab people Ax and Tobias genocided.

fucking andalites.

Rolled 82

>>22032375
Yup. And Tobias geeking out remembering all his old dinosaur books and toys.

>>22032346
I fucking loved that one. smashing your way out of the belly of a dino-fish. Truly Rachel was hard-core.

>>22032362
Nope. Not 90's enough. It is my firm belief that the 90's are just as important to Animorphs as a setting as the 80's are to cyberpunk.

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>>22032363
>Andalites

>mouth

I....I have to run this. Soon.

>>22032363
You mean its nose? Andalites don't have mouths.

(No, I don't remember how they eat either.)

>>22032376
Are you kidding me? Doom would be the first game I would choose.


Provided I get a massive collection of WADs also.

>>22032410
That slit, maybe it's their nose?

>>22031406
I always thought that Hork Bajir looked more like Space Pirates.

>>22032422
Through their hooves.

Fuck, Applegate was on some shit when she wrote those books. One creative bitch.

>>22032422
through the hooves, man! they eat as they run through the grass! they have like 3974y3278539753238725983^12 flavors of grass on their home planet.

>>22032422
I think they absorb shit through their hooves.

>>22032422

they absorb grass through their hooves. Just like any civilized creature would.

>>22032405
seconding this

>>22032363
Goddamnit if you're going to perv on Andalites at least get your shit right.

The face has breathing slits, its nothing more than a nose. The real mouth, or rather mouths, are located in the hooves and each foot as its own orifice intended for grazing so I doubt those would be good for oral.

It's either intercourse, anal, or hand jobs when it comes to andalites.

>>22032438
>>22032439
does anyone know how that works? do they have some kind of acid seeping out that dissolves the grass? are there little openings for tiny mouths that take it in?

>>22032453
The Andalite equivalent for kissing is stroking each other's face with the palm of their hands, if you want to get REALLY perverted

>>22032435
Yes, in fact. It's a nostril.

>>22032462
She never really described it. You just kind of accepted the fact that they ate through their hooves.

>>22032438
Somebody get Wayne D. Barlowe on this shit, STAT.

>>22032453
It looks like theres a vagina on its face, dick goes there.

>>22032462
It was never really covered. I always assumed they had flexible openings lined with cartildge or bone that would snap the grasp, either that or a sphincter running along their leg that just tears the grass up with sheer muscular strength.

Don't know how flexible the opening would be though...

I do recall at least one andalite drinking doctor pepper by pouring it in a bin that he found in the back of an abandoned car.

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>>22032422
<<by absorbing sustenance through one's hoof of course! Surely the most refined way of consumption>>

>>22031763
Excellent idea for a social game.

Ax does accidentally eat a snail in one book, so i assume its some sort of mouth, not an acid.

>>22032500
it's only one set of angle brackets you fucking ghafrash

>>22032453
>tail -jobs

that blade? they plate it for strength, but by itself it can cut open a car. And the tail is all muscle

>>22032152
That was how Crayak used them. Hive mind racial memory. Great to quickly disseminate new killing techniques, but it did have that achilles heel.

But jesus fuck, the Howlers were fucking insanely powerful. ONE of them turned the entire Animorph crew into mincemeat without even trying, and the only reason they survived was because Erek was organising them and let them escape.

I never understood why Jake didn't continue using that Howler morph. It's so much more devastating than any of the other morphs they had (even the temporary T-Rex ones) that it'd be like pushing the win button.

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Andalites need Democracy.

>>22032492
*drinking it by pouring it in the bin and then sucking the liquid up one of his hooves.

Fuck. Where'd my sentence go.

>>22032482
That's his/her nose you moron. I doubt their nasal passages would feel very good on your dick.

>>22032471
Huh, I'd forgotten that. Well now I know that if an andalite rubs your face she/he's being really forward.

why dont they wear clothes

>>22032519
An Andalite tail-job would be fucking lethal.

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>>22032516
<<<<<<<come at me, two-legs>>>>>>>>>>>

>>22032492
That was Elfangor, when he was driving through the weird multi-world he created with Visser Three and Lauren.

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>>22032500
>stupid sexy Aximili

>>22032531
>why jake didn't use the howler morph
i think all the megamorphs were only semi-canonical
that or the ellimist pulled some timey wimey bullshit where going back home made it so jake never had it to begin with

>>22032471
T-too lewd.

>>22032531
Could he actually control it? I always assumed that it's urges were too strong to use reliably.

All plotholes/real world inconsistencies can be rationalized because in Andalite Chronicles they make an imperfect Earth from that one girl's memory.

>>22032539
imagine putting on clothes when you are a centaur with a tail as long as your body. One of the books mentions Andalite space suits and how it takes them a long as time to put one on

>>22032539
because they never lost their coating of fur. they never really developed shelter and still lived outside. they're one of the oldest races in the galaxy and that's the ONLY reason they have space travel because their advancement in technology was slow as shit.

>>22032575
Not Megamorph. Issue 26 - The Attack,

>>22032531
He didn't get to keep it. Ellemist hand-waved it away. They didn't get to keep anything from that little blood-bowl.

>>22032584
i thought it was totally dead inside the brain because of the hive-mind thing, or innocent like a child's brain, i remember him not having any trouble at all.

>>22032519
You know that's a damn good point. A girl could ride the tail and get off by having her clit rubbed and the andalite could wank off a guy's penis.

Just have tohave to watch out for that blade...

>>22032619
Huh. Well shit.

>>22032584
He had no problem controlling it. The mind was described as like that of a dolphin. It thought killing was a game, and liked to play.

>>22032596
Wasn't the Andalite advancement partly because the Ellimist accelerated their growth and technology?

>that one book where Cassie has to give Ax brain surgery

how many times does she save everybody's ass?

Didn't the series end with Applegate breaking the 4th wall and not resolving the plot?

For those anon who got far enough, you are now forcibly remembering the island of the screaming rat.

>>22032648
It was an unresolved ending, where they are about to fight a hopeless battle. Then, letter from KAA apologizing in advance. Really.

>>22032669
>>22032648
I thought it ended with them ramming their ship into another one because fuck you?

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>>22032539
>why dont they wear clothes
wearing clothes when you are this cute is a galactic crime

>>22032648
It ended with "All hands brace for impact, w'e're ramming the bladeship!"

>>22032662

they realllly should have just ntted up and killed the guy.

>>22032662
Oh shit.

Also, everything on http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Animorphs

Warning: tv tropes

>>22032662
Faggot fucking deserved it.

>>22031822
would be 40% cooler is tobias was a hawk with his human form in the background

>>22032645
Cassie's a badass. No moral qualms about trapping that guy who lost his parents to the Yeerks as a vermin for 2 hours and setting him free/killing him.

>>22032645
About as many times as she whines like a bitch. Which happened more often than her quitting the team, though.

>>22032566

Speaking of the Hork-Bajir, I vaguely remember them having something weird about the claw on their thumbs, but I can't remember exactly what and it's bothering me.

>>22032701
AllI can remember is that they used the blades and claws for climbing and were actually quite peaceful in their native environment.

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>Seriously. What kind of kid is this? He has a cat named Megadeath and a snake named Spawn.
>A kid with bad taste in music and good taste in comics?
Goddamnit this was much more funny than it had any right to be. David was a fucking prick

>>22032645
More than I can fucking count.

>>22031822
>Jake likes Cassie

>Tobias likes Rachel

>Marco likes... oh

>>22032701
They use it to cut off tree bark, their main diet

>>22032701
i remember how they were 7-foot tall bird monsters covered in blades and claws but none of them natively knew how to fight and they all just used their sharp bits to peel bark off trees.

>>22032727
>Megadeath, Bad.
>Spawn, Good.

Ten years to the day that line still Rustles my Jimmies.

>>22032662
Guy had it coming.

Then I think Rachel killed him in a later book. Or didn't. It was really unclear. Poor Rachel.


>"Answer this, Ellimist: Did I... did I make a difference? My life, and my... my death... was I worth it? Did my life really matter?"
>"Yes. You were brave. You were strong. You were good. You mattered."
>"Yeah. Okay, then. Okay, then."

And then you see it from the Ellimist's perspective...

>A small strand of space-time went dark and coiled into nothingness.

;_;

>>22032701
these guys have blades on their blades, look at
>>22032265
>>22032010
>>22031406

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>>22032753
Is that what they look like? I always imagined them as something like Khangaskhan...but with more spikes/blades. Definitely bulkier.

So was it ever said if the elementalist was a species or a singular being?
I know it is stated time after time it isn't a god, and has limited powers, but other than the cryak does anything compare to it?

>>22032735
i just remembered the hork-bajir chronicles
when they taught the natives to fight back and felt terrible for turning the peace-loving race into violent soldiers
that moment where a hork-bajir is carrying the virus with the canister already opened

>>22032788
he's onbe guy who kinda got out of hand, there was a book explaining his backstory. At one point I think he was a space-train or something weird

>>22032788

hes just some guy from a birdlike species, who got into a series of improbably situations and wound up ascended. whole book about it.

>>22032788
Since the Ellemist got his power by lodging himself into the fabric of reality by accident, probably not.

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>>22032623
>>22032536
>>22032519
>>22032492
>>22032453
Now I feel the desire to write terrible fap fiction about a female andalite and her dirty woman lust for the human male she lives with.

>>22032784
I seem to recall them being described as very long, sleek creatures. They were genetically engineered to live in trees, so being long and light makes sense?

>>22032801
I loved that one part where it goes through his thought process as he tries to comprehend the idea of violence. That was just..so amazingly done.

>Reading the tvtropes page
Holy shit, all of the protagonists were sociopaths. Can't blame them for it, but fuck.

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>>22032819

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>>22032685
this whole page man it's all coming back to me

I can immerse myself in violent novels all day, but something about the fact I read this all as a kid and never really thought much of it scares me

>>22032809
>>22032802
I vaguely remember there being a book about it, and would already have it from a torrent with the complete series i used to have but apparently it is gone.
Should i go and read it or would footnotes from here suffice?

>>22032827
Yeah, I pictured them much like those images, only with their "blades" being longer for some reason in my mental image.

>>22032835
In different flavours, even!

>>22032835

even visser three was stunned that they flushed the yeerk pool into space.

fucking terrorists.

>>22032841
Did anyone think anything of it as a kid?
I hardly even remembered the fights but it was gorier than any horror movie i have ever seen.
Or horror novel for that matter.

>>22032854
>terrorists
GUYS
GUYS
THAT FUTURE SECTION

>>22032016
I hold andalite chronicles and Visser in the same high regard. Only difference between them is, the Yeerk never really understands love, whereas Elfangor is dragged away sobbing from his life with his wife and his to-be-son. Reading that passage again as a young adult is soul-crushing.

>>22032864
Which one?

>>22032877
The dream one shines brightest in my memory because of the "we ain't in kansas anymore" vibes

Can we all agree that Visser fucking 3 was the best bad guy ever?

>ambitious
>cocky
>cold and analytical, yet passionate
>HE GOT AN ANDELITE FUCK MAN
>Describing his morphs and what they can do
>Straight up calling out Jake on war crimes during his own trial

This son of a bitch...

>>22032604
Fuck, Ellimist removed a great weapon.

Imagine if Visser Three managed to get a Howler morph.

>>22032855

When I was in 3rd grade I used to draw comics of people trapped in a building slowly filling with a highly acidic blood-like substance that was excruciatingly painful to the touch so I'm not qualified to say what I thought was violent as a kid.

Rolled 10

Someone tried to archive this on suptg. And failed. Linked the wrong thread.

>>22032897
Visser Three kind of got dumber and dumber as the series progressed, though.

>>22032827
>They were genetically engineered to live in trees
Holy shit, that's right! I had to google that, I had completely forgotten they were an engineered species. They're like Orks if the Brain Boyz had made them to be gardeners instead of warriors.

I was always impressed with the alien design of the series. It pretty much entirely averted "all aliens look like humans wearing shitty stage makeup and with different coloured skin, and all have mono-cultures" as far as I remember.

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>>22032257
This book was in my opinion the best book. Because awesome alien culture, God-level dicker, and it first introduced younger me to the concept of shipping.

Right, so, looks like I'll be using some version of Dark Heresy/Ad Eva. Holy Mindfuck psychoman. I can't believe I read all of this with no real emotional reaction.

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>you will never slowly give in to the PTSD while fighting for humanity

>>22032917

he was always dumb. He just kept getting promoted and competent subordinates kept dying.

>>22032845
The Ellimist Chronicles was one of my favorite books out of the series, so I say read it, but if you just want the origin of the Ellimist go for the footnotes.

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>>22032835
>War. War never changes.

>>22032950
Maybe you should use a point buy system for morphs, like as a character levels up they're allowed to take stronger and stronger morphs.

Justify it the same way pokemon did with the morphs being too bestial to control. (Or whatever.)

>>22032897
>torturing another yeerk for WEEKS, then torturing their host for weeks to set an example

>>22032917
crazier and more psychotic is what I would call him. Doesn't he mock Jake over human history being full of monsters like Hitler and not being worth defending?

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>>22032398
She was pretty much a Goddess of War, Getting your arm ripped off, then beating someone to death with it? That takes solid steel balls.

Jake comes in second, for "Just as planned" in the end, even he did become a dick, winning out over at least 3 separate gambits by the Andalites, rebel Yeerks, Visser 1, and inter-group conflict is an achievement.

>>22032405
Agreed. I can't really imagine it in the modern era. The complacency and relatively serene time before 9/11 allowed the Yeerks and Animorphs to get away with so much that never would fly in the modern world. Rachel crashes a plane into a building at one point.

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>>22032981

>Buried beneath tons of sagebombs, the 4chan chapter of /tg/ was no more. Those few who weren't on the board when it was destroyed settled into new lives, or headed west to find a new board to frequent.

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>mfw I read the wikipedia page on this and it talks about how Tolkien influenced Applegate

> One of the author's favorite books, The Lord of the Rings, lent several words and images to Animorphs: the elvish word for Orc, "yrch", became Yeerk; the flaming red Eye of Sauron inspired the Crayak, and Ax's middle name, "Esgarrouth", is based on a town in the books called Esgaroth. The human name of Ax's brother, Elfangor, is Alan Fangor and his last name is in reference to the Fangor region or Fangorn Forest. Also there was a minor reference to Gondor, in the form of a fictional company named "Gondor Industries" in the 14th book. (It may also be significant that Visser Three's host is named Alloran, a rough homonym of Gandalf's Valinorean name "Olórin", and that one of the minor alien races is called "the Five", which is also a term used in The Lord of the Rings for the Istari.)

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this guy has drawn most if not all the described races in the series

http://monster-man-08.deviantart.com/gallery/12275291

pick out your favorite!

>>22032927
i remembered there were lots of engineered monsters to keep them out of a huge trench around the equator.

oh yeah, weren't they made to cultivate the trees because the planet needed massive photosynthesis to maintain a breathable atmosphere for those bioengineers? what did they even look like?

>>22032662
Death would have been a mercy. David was terrifying. Watching Rachel in the shower, stealing Jake's cousin's identity.

>>22033071
Yeah I have to back this up.

Animorphs covered a lot of subjects, not the least of which being the sheer brutality of the acts that insurgents have to perform out of necessity but the Yeerks would have been noticed after 9/11 thanks to the almost dystopian security measures we've come to accept as a part of every day life.

I mean think about, lets say you waled up to some guy in 1991 and told him that we would have cameras on intersections in american cities that record the license plates of people who run red lights in the near future. They wouldn't believe you.

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>>22032747
i cry every time. Seriously.

>>22032819
write it. We have nothing to lose.

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http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4865150/Animorphs_ebooks_pdf

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>>22032005
It was accidentally given morphing power and spontaneously started morphing into Cassie (I think).

It was screaming.

>>22032897
He's classic 90's villain, but veers between being easily defeat able and Run Away! Run Away! Towards the end of the series, he completely loses it, and it is terrifying.

aren't dogs and wolves all de-evolved descendants of an advanced species who also created dog-androids?

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>>22033192
Okay its been years since I read the books so feel free to point out poor use of terminology.

H-Here I go!

>>22033242
No.
They remind the dog-androids of their masters, and thats the reason they stationed on earth.
>that time they turn the 'do not kill' switch off

>>22033242

only dogs. the dog androids monkeyed around with wolves to preserve some portion of their creators, making dogs.

>>22032819
Suprise!

Tobias's biological father is an Andalite

>>22033278
Elfangor was in human form though.

>>22033086
engineers were some sort of birdthing iirc.
They thought they'd fight off the yeerks by making themselve unable to be hosts. That did not work out well

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>>22033267
>"Jake...I killed them...tore them apart...I...killed...them"

>>22033085
there's one i never could properly visualize.
visser 3 had two pets, i believe in the andalite chronicles, that had biological wheels
and when attacked they each split into two forms, one with wings and the other rolled around.

i have never been able to properly visualize the concept of something that naturally has wheels.

>>22033267
When they remove the "Thou shalt not kill" law, the fact that they never outright state what happens, and the speed at which it is done, is terrifying. I can't comprehend that level of carnage and destruction, at such a speed. Just: Suddenly, giblets, giblets everywhere.

>>22033315
OH FUCK I REMEMBER THAT
I always thought of it like some cartoon I can't quite remember, with simply a blob with a vague head with sticks with wheels on the ends sticking out of either side.

Imagine how much faster shit could've gotten GRIM DARK if they'd kept the things in the first book they never used again.

>thoughtspeech in human form
>retaining the knowledge your 'acquired' animal had when you morph them

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>>22033315
One artist's impression

>>22032064
The Ellimist and Crayak.

Interesting story, the Ellimist. An alien whose species was exterminated because the Spore-like game popular on their world was mistaken as real, he and a few other survivors eventually were captured by a sadistic world-mind that really DID play god for 'lesser beings.' The Ellimist would apparently learn nothing from this cruelty and go on to escape and become just such a being, albiet a reasonably benevolent one.

>>22033267
the series was so grimdark they managed to give a machine PTSD

now that's a story!

>>22033315
It doesn't really seem possible, does it? there'd have to be some kind of break or disconnect in the body somewhere, and that just doesn't seem right.

I do remember in The Amber Spyglass, there was species that had wheels, when actually they just used fruit as wheels.

>>22033349
Weren't the wheels square?

>>22033349
seriously. the fuck?

>>22033360
maybe if it forms like an antler, rigid and fized to the bone, when at some point it just snaps off inside a closed loop?

als HDM trilogy, respect

>>22033360
yeah, but they just grabbed it between their hands and lubed up. that whole weird planet where all the animals had diamond shaped bodies.

i've still never tried marzipan.

>>22033387
There was a line, in the book where they faced the howlers, I think, where the Ellimist shows Jake the species lost when he and the Crayak had fought sort-of face to face. He described himself wanting to laugh in sheer wonder at the bizarre things the universe had come up with.

>>22033360
Seed pods, they were seed pods.

The species had a sort of diamond shape for a body and claws that fit into axel like grooves in the seed pods that allowed them to use the things as wheels on naturally formed roads caused by volcanic activity.

they were kinda like elephants actually.

>>22032152
The Howlers were children, not pure hate or destruction. Combat to them was a game, something they had no understanding of.

Jake and Cassie ruined Crayak's little illusion, and because of their hive-mind, they became effectively worthless. Because, again, retarded children.

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>>22033085
>Emilist vs Cryak

>>22033428
wasn't the use of wheels supposed to be their version of original sin? i kindof lost track of what 'dust' was supposed to be.

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>>22033081
>mfw Cryak was Saron and the Emilist was Tom Bombadil

IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW

>>22033502
Crayak was Morgoth; the Drode was Sauron.

>>22033502
But there is one flaw with this hypothesis.
The Elilist gives a fuck.

>>22033528
Emilist* FUCK

Eederranell briefly reflected on her existence, and she was forced to come to the conclusion that she was disgusted with herself. She wasn't an elder by any means but aside from a few disastrous attempts at choosing a mate initiated by her mother she had yet to experience anything a sane Andalite would refer to as a "Healthy Relationship." Her eyestalks and tail drooped in self pity as she stalked through the grasses of the Ship's recreation room. A female of her years and she had yet to even begin so much as foreplay, the closes thing she had to a male worthy enough to be considered mate material (in her eyes anyway, her parents couldn't stand humans) didn't even have a tail!

Even so Eederranell had to admit that mating season was swinging around and there was just something so very unsatisfying about supressing her heat with chemicals. Eederranell exhaled through her face slits and stomped on the grass flat beneath her hooves. Clearly there was only one sensible option here.

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> why is /tg/ so pumped about Animorphs?

> it turns into a full blow space opera towards the ends

W... wuh.
When does that happen?
I rememebr the books loesly, and that t.v. show on Fox, and I got to the point where they were like, "idk, maybe we should quit." and then that one guy was like, "I am the lion!" and it was very after-school super heroes.

But apparently it gets awesome later, with back-fluff and shit.
Holy hell.

>>22033538
you're still wrong...

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>>22032819
you are now imagining how wild the sex would be when you and your partner both have a variety of morphs and an egg timer set to go off every hour as you both change gender and species on the fly during intercourse

>>22033550
>t.v. show
...Oof.
>David
...Ooof.

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>>22033315
This is absolutely not what you were thinking of, but have Barlowe's impression of wheeled alien from Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials.

This may be the first time that Piers Anthony has led to something awesome to people besides middle-schoolers.

(That ball on top is the eye and the genitalia. Their mating process is complicated. One of them unsticks from their wheel, and latches on to the wheel of the other one. The wheel becomes an egg, and one participant recovers the other wheel so they can move properly, and plants his eye-ball in the other's empty socket where it will eventually grow into a new wheel, blinding himself in the process. It eventually grows back)

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>>22033499
Dust was supposed to be some wierd fucking element responsable for sapience. I dunno the guy writing it set out to do a sort of "Athiest Answer to Narnia" and his cutting off all worlds from ever interacting again killed my interest in the mythos.

TL;DR
No idea, sorry bro.

>>22033549
IT BEGINS

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>>22033573
>how wild the sex would be

>how wild

>>22033550
The last 10 issues are fucking nuts.

You should read the whole series.

>>22033582
how does it even stay balanced on top of the wheel?

>>22033597
>"Atheist Answer to Narnia"
But God exists in those books. He's just kind of a jerk. And he dies at the end.

>>22033597
His Dark Materials, the triology of The Golden Compass, the Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, by Phillip Pullman.

>>22031379
they had entire books written from a single characters point of view, Ax got at least three to himself

>>22033315
Mortrons

>>22033634
I assume it stays balanced pretty much like the Segway does.

>>22033644
In Narnia God is the "Emperor over the seas" which i don't think is ever mentioned other than in passing.

>>22033644
Well the christian conciet surrounding god is that he created the universe. In the trilogy it's revealed that he just sorta...pops into existence and is made of pur sapience dust and just took credit for creating the second life form, which if I recall correctly, was metatron.

>>22033672
Oh, thanks. I liked the books don't get me wrong but the whole "All worlds must have dust flow through them and portals screw with that" thing rubbed me the wrong way.