Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: wolfev on January 17, 2009, 02:58:44 PM
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Okay, I was thinking about this. Melissa should be an animorph and it really makes sense. Think about it, Chapman keeps showing up in the story, he's a main character in TAC. David got to be an animorph because his parents were controllers and because he had no where else to go. He didn't even want to fight the Yeerks. Melissa would have, as seen in MM3. Also, if the animorphs had memories of that alternate timeline and knew that Melissa was an animorph and good at it, why didn't they bring her on afterwords? It just doesn't make sense.
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Oh, was that Melissa Chapman who was that Melissa in MM3? Cool.
Anyway, the idea of a third girl in the Animorphs would've been very cool. Maybe she would've been the one to go with Marco? lol
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hahahaha. ka-ching! score for marco! lol
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It would have been good to do something with her. Maybe originally she was going to be in the group. I heard that in the original brainstorming, Jake was going to be an older brother, and he and his younger brother would both be animorphs. So Mellissa would be the one with immediate relatives being controllers.
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making Mellisa an Animorphs would've been awesome. I think they should've done tht in the book where they rescued their parents. they could've rescued her too
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In that alternative timeline, Melissa was a slave and not an Animorph. Way too dangerous to trust Melissa with their secrets and let two suspicious controllers finding out the truth. Rachel would never invite her friend into such a nightmare.
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Mellissa wasn't the slave, was she? I forget, but there was a sixth member that replaced Rachel. Since she didn't know her place as a woman, Rachel needed special teachings. Can't have any female uprisings, can we men?
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oh man, i really need to reread that...haha
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I think I remember the Ellimist saying in one of the books that Melissa replaced Rachel in alternative time line.... or was that in a fanfic? -_-
Regardless, I think Melissa would of made a good Animorph. Of course, it might of been a little dangerous since both her parents were controllers. Hmmm.
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wouldn't that make her less suspicious? She could come and go at sharing meetings as she liked.
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wouldn't that make her less suspicious? She could come and go at sharing meetings as she liked.
Wow, I never thought about that. Yeah, I suppose it would.
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Yes she could have gone into Sharing meetings to spy, until she was forcibly infested and then the whole team is screwed. ::)
The Animorphs would never have made Melissa an Animorphs by choice. It was too great a security risk and Rachel especially would never want her friend to go through that nightmare.
What I would have liked to see is a book where Melissa somehow finds out about the Yeerks on her own by eavesdropping on her parents (or maybe Visser Three finally insists on her being infested) and so she could end up joining the Animorphs that way.
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She wouldn't have been infested at a sharing meeting because Chapman ran it. The agreement was that she wasn't going to be infested.
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Yeah, because we can always trust Yeerks to keep their word...
Besides, if Melissa did find out about the Yeerks then they would have no choice but to infest her. And that happening might force Chapman's Yeerk to become part of the Yeerk peace movement and getting the Animorphs to save Melissa. I sense a fanfic in the making! ;)
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In that alternative timeline, Melissa was a slave and not an Animorph.
Mellissa wasn't the slave, was she? I forget, but there was a sixth member that replaced Rachel.
no, mellissa was not the slave. the slave was...september 16 or something...mellisa was an animorph...
Edit: reread the book, it's Sempter Twelve, not Sixteen...
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wouldn't that make her less suspicious? She could come and go at sharing meetings as she liked.
No Sharing member is left uninfested indefinitely. Melissa would have eventually been infested after awhile and monitored closely beforehand. There was no need to make her anything more than a minor character.
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Ya know, even if Mellissa wasn't an Animorph, it would've been cool to see her more in the series. Kinda sad that she only showed up, what? Twice, was it?
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Why would that have been cool let alone necessary?
No point in hinting that this minor character was anything more than...minor.
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*shrugs* idk, just thought it woulda been cool ;D
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The way book 2 played out, made me and possibly many others think Mellissa would become a more prominent character. She wouldn't even need to be an Animorph. She could have just been an ally that helped them, but not neseccarily knowing their identites.
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Well, one question I have is, when is MM3 in relation to the main books? If it was after David, it would make sense, they might be suspicious. If it was before David, I don't know.
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im pretty sure it was after the david trilogy
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it was around book 30
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Melissa did have a lot of unused potential. I would have liked to see her used, but after Rachel sits in cat morph comforting Melissa it makes sense that she was never used. For that one book, it wasn't about yeerks versus humans, it was protecting one girl, and making her an ally would have endangered that protection.
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Well, if it was after the David trilogy, then they probably didn't want new animorphs until after they were discovered.
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They couldn't have made her an Animorph before the David trilogy in any case, since he was the one that brought them the morphing cube.
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True. So either way, they had a reason not to recruit her.
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The character did have potential to participate more to the series. I always thought if Melissa had been an Animorph she would have felt somewhat at fault for her parents being voluntarily infested and would have fought to free them.
Jake and Marco's relatives were Controllers, but not voluntary, like the Chapmans. It would have been interesting to see how Melissa would have fared amongst them.
Was she ever physically described?!
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I think she was in book two. Shorter than Rachel, and a different hair color.
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i always pictured her as my type of girl. XD
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Melissa was described as small with a gymnast physique and pale blonde hair. I know because I asked the same question not long ago.
And I think my feelings on the matter are clear considering I made her an Animorph in the fanfiction so there you go.
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yep, my type of girl. ^^
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Hmmm... there seems to be a real significant core of Melissa fans.
Wonder if KA would have predicted this many would connect with her.
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she said she didn't. originally, she was supposed to be just some irrelevant character...
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If Melissa had been introduced in a much later book, say... any time after the first ten, then I'm sure not as many people would have connected with her because everything would have been established. As it was, she was introduced in the second book of the series, so most people didn't know what would stick around and what wouldn't and were still getting connected to the characters. They had no way to know that Melissa wasn't someone they should get attached to.
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Applegate also didn't go real much to her character though, so I didn't have a chance to get close to her.
I'm sure she would hold something interesting, with a family background like that. I can see drama and irony and those Hollywood stuff potentially go around her but then, maybe 6 member is enough. Maybe.
Personally I kinda regret she was THAT irrelevant.
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If Melissa had been introduced in a much later book, say... any time after the first ten, then I'm sure not as many people would have connected with her because everything would have been established. As it was, she was introduced in the second book of the series, so most people didn't know what would stick around and what wouldn't and were still getting connected to the characters. They had no way to know that Melissa wasn't someone they should get attached to.
Yeah, that's how I felt. I mean, there wasn't much point in that book at all if they weren't setting Mellissa up to have a bigger role. Like as a nonmorphing Human ally or something. Has anyone ever wondered if it would be better for her to be the Erik of the series?
You know, if she wound up being the android, instead of a guy from a different family.
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hmmm..i dunno. now that she is who she is i like her role there.
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I'm Melissa, I just remembered! In the audiobook project.
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Well for her to be the Erika she would have had to be yeerk resistant or a human who could control yeerks of course that brings the problem of why the yeerk's would go in her head in the first place.
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No, I mean her being an android. Not actually Human at all.
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yea but then what about chapman being human and all?
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Yeah. Maybe she would have been adopted. That's about the most realistic thing I can think of. If his wife was an android, he'd eventually find out. I would think.
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I'm Melissa, I just remembered! In the audiobook project.
you JUST remembered? :o