Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Havoc6379 on April 02, 2012, 01:09:43 AM
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I am sure there are a million "Which Character is Your Favorite?" threads. SO, my question is: Which character do you most identify with? Or, which one would you most like to be like?
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I hold many of Cassie's ideals (big believer of the interconnectedness of everything + the importance of diplomacy) but with Marco's more pragmatic personality/demeanor. I don't take myself seriously at all and probably never will. I'd rather spend the day being lazy, getting drunk with friends and watching terrible movies than doing something serious or productive. Also, I tend to hide behind humor b/c like Marco, I'm not big on focusing on emotions.
So basically, Marco is my spirit animal :P
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I'd say Marco, maybe. Among the Animorphs, anyway. The character I identify the most with is the Ellimist, oddly enough.
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Interesting topic, I'd have to go with Tobias because I'm more of a loner in life.
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When I was younger, I'd probably have said Tobias. Now I'd say Marco. I've pretty much taken up his life philosophy. XP
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Tobias and sorta Cassie. I'm sorta a loner like Tobias, but I love animals like Cassie
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Jake and Tobias, with a pinch of Ax, I suppose.
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Tobias and Ax, for a number of reasons.
I've always been the isolated one. A target for bullies and at times I grew up in very abusive situations. Like Ax, I grew up not always knowing the appropriate way to interact with other humans and I could be very arrogant and pompous.
Like Tobias, my solution to problems might full well have led to me winding up in a mental hospital if not comitting genocide to an entire species. (Yes, I know I'm borrowing from Pop's views here, but it really does cement my decision more.)
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[...] Like Ax, I grew up not always knowing the appropriate way to interact with other humans and I could be very arrogant and pompous. [...]
I suppose all Aspies can identify with Ax in some way.
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Its hard to pick just one. Probably a mix of Cassie/Tobias/Marco. I like animals, and helping people who aren't jerks, but like Marco when people's lives are really on the line I'd always take the pragmatic approach to protect them, even if it ended up with me feeling guilty. As for Tobias, if I had the chance to escape my family at that age with morphing power, I definitely would have done it and just hung out in the woods with the cool aliens until the war was over and I was old enough to live on my own. Though I don't think I would have become a nothlit, I like keeping my options open.
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I think Jake. At least that's what I got from this: http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=7380.0 (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=7380.0)
Although, I think the scholastic site has probably changed in all this time.
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I'm more of a mixture between Cassie and Tobias in the personality department. I am the peacemaker when it comes to my family and my circle of friends. I am kind of shy and treasure the few people I consider friends like Tobias. But I can have a serious side like Tobias can and I am not a fashion person like Cassie.
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I think Jake. At least that's what I got from this: http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=7380.0 (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=7380.0)
Although, I think the scholastic site has probably changed in all this time.
Yeah, a few questions changed. I think one was about what pets you have...? Sorta forgot
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The character I'm probably most like is Cassie. I love animals, have a complete lack of fashion sense and I do believe in trying to see things from other people's point of view. But I didn't agree with all her morals in the war and am way more lazy than she is.
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I find it interesting that many people identify most with Cassie, the most generally disliked character.
Maybe we don't want the heroes in the stories we love to have "regular" human characteristics?
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Tobias for sure.
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Some really great responses! (Since I started the topic I guess I should say) I have to say I identify most with Marco. I try to keep problems away with humor, try to discuss something serious with me and I try to crack jokes. Also, I can identify with the loner tendencies of Tobias!
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I find it interesting that many people identify most with Cassie, the most generally disliked character.
Maybe we don't want the heroes in the stories we love to have "regular" human characteristics?
I think a big part of the Cassie dislike is that we all wish we could stick to our principles when the going gets tough like Cassie, but we're not sure we could. As a combat veteran, I understand that more than most. I couldn't swear that's what going on with Cassie, but it might be. It could be something as simple as "I don't like Cassie's views"
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*Removed long anti Cassie rant, cause we've threads for that too...*
I notice no one's said Rachel.
And neither will I.
At the moment I would say....and I hate myself for saying it, so maybe it's not a good fit.....David.
Not so much the murderous a$$ part, but the looking out for me part. All the others live and breath for their friends, family, the world etc. David's just looking to keep himself saturated. Ambition searching for the right opportunity to act on.
Smart. Smart enough? That we'll find out.
Feel like that's where I'm at right now
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Ax.
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gonna have to say rachel. that tearing apart feeling between what you think should be one way yet you feel should be a different way. not sure if that even made sense, but it did to me.
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I find it interesting that many people identify most with Cassie, the most generally disliked character.
Maybe we don't want the heroes in the stories we love to have "regular" human characteristics?
I think a big part of the Cassie dislike is that we all wish we could stick to our principles when the going gets tough like Cassie, but we're not sure we could. As a combat veteran, I understand that more than most. I couldn't swear that's what going on with Cassie, but it might be. It could be something as simple as "I don't like Cassie's views"
For me anyway (who could probably totally identify with Cassie if it weren't for this one difference) it is all about big-picture thinking vs. small-picture thinking. Despite her vast knowledge of nature and it's cycles, she could simply never see past the morals to see the need to kill to survive. In a peaceful world, her values are good, but she just couldn't adapt to fill the need, even though she did kill a few.
(Just my opinion of course)
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A combo of Cassie and Tobias. I'm a huge animal lover, who's also a loner and used to be a bully magnet in school.
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I think a big part of the Cassie dislike is that we all wish we could stick to our principles when the going gets tough like Cassie, but we're not sure we could. As a combat veteran, I understand that more than most. I couldn't swear that's what going on with Cassie, but it might be. It could be something as simple as "I don't like Cassie's views"
For me anyway (who could probably totally identify with Cassie if it weren't for this one difference) it is all about big-picture thinking vs. small-picture thinking. Despite her vast knowledge of nature and it's cycles, she could simply never see past the morals to see the need to kill to survive. In a peaceful world, her values are good, but she just couldn't adapt to fill the need, even though she did kill a few.
(Just my opinion of course)
This is an inconsistency I mostly blame on the ghostwriters. There were several instances Cassie learned how to balance her pacifism w/ reality (stripping apart that T-Rex for food/clothes like a boss, realizing that the true color of nature was red, making it clear to everyone when they were in the Arctic that they had to eat and/or kill whatever seals they could find, saying point blank that killing in self-defense was always justified) but it's like some of the writers would rehash this motif over and over again until it was almost impossible to like the character.
It's probably why I'd say I identified w/ Cassie the most up until say, book 26, beyond that point it would be Marco.
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tobias. I read book 13 about 15 times before I got the rest of the series, cause it was the only book I had. and, like I would like to believe I am, he is kind, reasonable, and one of the few not prone to... random rage and going totally psycho. It's almost like he is me. like he represents me in the series. I can trust him to have the opinions that I would have myself. if you want a book to seem more real, it needs to be almost interactive. and tobias always does what I want him to, because we always want to do the same things. mostly.
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Cassie.
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Ax.
For a long time I felt like an Andalite in a human body.
That's right
I was otherkin before I even knew the word.
Without the pretentious tumblrite part.
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