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Resentful human-controllers
« on: January 16, 2011, 11:43:08 AM »
Ok, after the war is over, do you think there'd be any resentful human-Controllers who were angry at the Animorphs? I mean, come on! Some of the things they did to Controllers were horrible! The fact that there are some things worse than death (like being crippled) is something they will never understand.

Tobias, in part, has ripped open Controller's eyes, Ax has slashed off fingers or hands, and they've scarred people so horrifically that they're only barely alive (like Cassie in the book where Taylor returns).

Do you think any of these former Controllers might feel angry? Furious? I know if it was ME, I'd find the sonofa**** who damaged me and have it out. That was why I thought of the idea of using morphing power as healing for former Controllers, until one of the users (coughphoenixcoughha ckwheeze) pointed out that no government is going to want too many humans to have morphing power, no matter how wounded they are.

So, anyone have any thoughts?

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Re: Resentful human-controllers
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2011, 12:13:09 PM »
     Would they be mad? Sure, a few people may be mad. But let's face it, the Animorphs were trying to free these controllers. The only way they could defeat the Yeerks was by fighting. The Animorphs also had to defend themselves against the many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many many many...many human, Hork-Bajir and Taxxon controllers that were attacking them every other book. I think a lot of people would be grateful for what these children did to save them.

     It's like in book 23, the Pretender, where Tobias is talking to a recently freed Hork-Bajir. This Hork-Bajir was blind in one eye because Tobias clawed out his eye. Tobias felt bad for it, but the Hork-Bajir told him not to worry, because he was free. And I think that's all a person controlled by a Yeerk could hope for; freedom. Maybe they don't care that they lost an eye, or a finger--in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter. Besides, I think the Hork-Bajir were the ones who suffered the most, physically. The Human Controllers mostly shot Dracon beams fromn afar.

     As for what you said about the morphing thing, I agree with Phoenix. There's no telling what a person will do once they're given incomprehensible amounts of power. Sure, a few people would use it responsibly, but what's stopping that one person with financial problems? I'm talking about the really desperate people who not only need a lot of money, by have the means of taking it by force--becomming an elephant and trampling through a bank, or stealing bills through cracks in walls in rat morph. The government would be really picky about who they give the morphing power to--but that's not to say that the govenrment (any government) won't abuse the power.

     Basically, the Andalites made a huge mistake.
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Re: Resentful human-controllers
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2011, 12:23:56 PM »
I have two theories about this:

1) The Yeerks 'disposed of' Controllers with too great of injuries. We saw in #50 that Yeerks didn't consider handicapped people suitable host bodies.

2) Most humans understood that their injuries were collateral in a war, or primarily blame the Yeerks for putting them in that situation. Possibly counseling and anger management resources started springing up after the war for former Controllers, but this is a big part where the books dropped the ball. The series never seemed to address the fact that a sizable chunk of the CA population, some for up to nearly a decade, some of whom children, had been enslaved, mindscrewed, violated beyond belief, and probably desperately in need of psychiatric and job placement services.

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Re: Resentful human-controllers
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2011, 12:35:26 PM »
     Yea, all we got from the last book was a depressed Jake, a messed up Tobias, a rich Marco, and a Cassie Cassie.
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Re: Resentful human-controllers
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2011, 12:44:27 PM »

Maybe I'm just more grudgeful than others... I admit I have a problem with blind hate.

Well, at least I have that comforting thought: All crippled Controllers are killed. At least it's comforting to me. I'd rather die than lose an eye, ear, finger, etc.

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Re: Resentful human-controllers
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2011, 12:48:23 PM »
     But you can live without a finger or an eye. Losing minor limbs as opposed to entire arms, legs, or organs is no big deal. And it wouldn't make you disabled, either.
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Re: Resentful human-controllers
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2011, 12:49:11 PM »

I know my grandmother lost her leg. It always astounded me that she wasn't bitter and could live so peacefully without it.

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Re: Resentful human-controllers
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2011, 11:23:56 PM »
Being crippled is certainly not worse than death. There are plenty of crippled people who live their lives out perfectly happy. One of my friends growing up was deaf, and she certainly wasn't resentful about it - it was just a part of her.

I think if you woke up tomorrow without a leg or an arm or something you'd definitely be pissed, and maybe for awhile you would think that death is the better option. But humans are built to adapt, and eventually you learn to live with what you've got. We're amazingly resilient creatures, especially in our ability to remain optimistic.

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Re: Resentful human-controllers
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2011, 06:34:28 PM »

What I have in mind is where Tobias gouges out somebody's eye in #9. That always pissed me off. And he yells Yee-hah while doing it, suggesting that he ENJOYED it! No wonder Rachel likes him so much... he's just as insane as she is.

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Re: Resentful human-controllers
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2015, 11:19:32 PM »
Ok, after the war is over, do you think there'd be any resentful human-Controllers who were angry at the Animorphs? I mean, come on! Some of the things they did to Controllers were horrible! The fact that there are some things worse than death (like being crippled) is something they will never understand.

Tobias, in part, has ripped open Controller's eyes, Ax has slashed off fingers or hands, and they've scarred people so horrifically that they're only barely alive (like Cassie in the book where Taylor returns).

Do you think any of these former Controllers might feel angry? Furious? I know if it was ME, I'd find the sonofa**** who damaged me and have it out. That was why I thought of the idea of using morphing power as healing for former Controllers, until one of the users (coughphoenixcoughha ckwheeze) pointed out that no government is going to want too many humans to have morphing power, no matter how wounded they are.

So, anyone have any thoughts?

I expect that Andalite medical technology might be able to regenerate missing eyes, fingers, hands, arms, and legs, using the "cascading cellular regeneration" Ax mentioned once.  Perhaps a morphing cube could be rigged to regenerate damaged body parts without giving the patient morphing abilities.