Which Animorph Do You Identify Most With?

[Blaise Zebrataur]

Tobias for sure.

[Havoc6379]

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!

[Havoc6379]

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"

[RYTX]

*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

[Ember Nickel]

Ax.

[ko ko]

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.

[Noelle]

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)

[SkyMorpher]

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.

[silverspring]

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.

[Jdorsey314]

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.

[planetstella]

Cassie.

[SmartGirl333]

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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