Memoirs, has last book spoilers

[dolphin4077]

It's mentioned in the last book that Jake, Cassie, and Marco all write memoirs, but I doubt they told the public whole story; they couldn't if they weren't going to mention the Chee.  What else do you think they left out?  My guess: most stuff involving Ellimist and Crayak, time travel, David, and that part in #35 involving Hanson.

Side note on David: Assuming David's parents survived the war, do you think they ever tried to find out what happened to their son?   

[Chad32]

I never thought about it, but if I were David's dad I would go to Marco or whoever I could get to easiest to ask them about him. I wonder how his parents would feel about their decision.

[CDJV]

My guess is that they said David was either killed in action or made into a controller and...killed in action.

And Marco might have said that they were helped by robots, but he also might have said they left. or that they don't know where they're hding now.

I think that they wrote about different stuff. marco probably wrote about the power and fun of being an Animorph, while Cassie would have more of an educational book, since the title sounds like something about controlling insticts and such.

Did Jack right a book? I don't remember that.

[dolphin4077]

Jake had a book.  He said he hated writing it and that it made him more money than he needed.

[JFalcon]

I'd imagine they told David's parents that he died in combat, I highly doubt that they'd tell them what really happened. More for their sake than to preserve David's good name mind you.

As for the rest, they could very easily leave out the Ellimist unless they want to found a new religion, which is exactly what would happen if people knew the Ellimist existed whether or not the Animoprhs wanted it, and as for the Chee they can simply say "Yeerk colaborators" since that's essentially what Erek would be seen as, after all he still had a Yeerk in his head, it just never knew what was going on. 

[EmberGryphon]

My guess: most stuff involving Ellimist and Crayak, time travel, David, and that part in #35 involving Hanson.

*snickers*

I agree they probably had to leave out pretty much everything about Ellimist and Crayak, as well as the Time Matrix and all Ellimist-aided time- and space-travel. Sario rip-related time travel, a la #11 and MM#2, they probably could have included, although I don't know whether they'd want to mention being directly responsible for the death of the dinosaurs and the evolution of mankind. ^^()

Didn't Marco mention ghost-writing his memoir, or am I imagining that? =X Anyway, I imagine his would have been the best read. A more light-hearted take on things, and if I remember correctly, it sold better than Cassie's. =P

As for David... I doubt they mentioned him. If they did, his parents would know what happened to him; if not, I don't know whether "He died in battle, but we didn't write about that in the book because it was too sad to remember" would really work if his parents asked one of them what happened. =X I'd assume they would at least have to tell part of the truth, or deny having ever made him an Animorph in the first place.

[Terenia]

I'm sure Jake's memoir was downright depressing.

[DinosaurNothlit]

My guess: most stuff involving Ellimist and Crayak, time travel, David, and that part in #35 involving Hanson.

*snickers*

I agree they probably had to leave out pretty much everything about Ellimist and Crayak, as well as the Time Matrix and all Ellimist-aided time- and space-travel. Sario rip-related time travel, a la #11 and MM#2, they probably could have included, although I don't know whether they'd want to mention being directly responsible for the death of the dinosaurs and the evolution of mankind. ^^()

Didn't Marco mention ghost-writing his memoir, or am I imagining that? =X Anyway, I imagine his would have been the best read. A more light-hearted take on things, and if I remember correctly, it sold better than Cassie's. =P

As for David... I doubt they mentioned him. If they did, his parents would know what happened to him; if not, I don't know whether "He died in battle, but we didn't write about that in the book because it was too sad to remember" would really work if his parents asked one of them what happened. =X I'd assume they would at least have to tell part of the truth, or deny having ever made him an Animorph in the first place.

Denying that David had ever been an Animorph wouldn't work . . . because the Yeerks knew he'd been made an Animorph, and thus David's parents, having been controllers, would have known at least that much, too.

Also, depending on what happened at the end of #48, there's at least some chance that David survived till the end of the war.  How would David's parents have reacted if they ever actually found him?

[EmberGryphon]

^ True enough. ^^() I suppose telling them the truth, or at least most of the truth, would be their best shot....

Although really, rats live for, what, six years at the most, in captivity? *checks wiki* Between two and five years, averaging three. Not knowing how old David's rat already was, or how much time passed between his Nothlit-age and the end of the war... if he survived meeting Rachel at one last time (which I have my personal arguments against ^^()) he was still prolly a senior citizen rat by the time any of the Animorphs became celebrities. (Assuming about equal time between each book, he'd have spent about a year and three quarters as an adult rat by the end of the war...) I don't honestly know what the chances would be of his parents finding him before a predator got him, or he died of old age.

[DinosaurNothlit]

^ True enough. ^^() I suppose telling them the truth, or at least most of the truth, would be their best shot....

Although really, rats live for, what, six years at the most, in captivity? *checks wiki* Between two and five years, averaging three. Not knowing how old David's rat already was, or how much time passed between his Nothlit-age and the end of the war... if he survived meeting Rachel at one last time (which I have my personal arguments against ^^()) he was still prolly a senior citizen rat by the time any of the Animorphs became celebrities. (Assuming about equal time between each book, he'd have spent about a year and three quarters as an adult rat by the end of the war...) I don't honestly know what the chances would be of his parents finding him before a predator got him, or he died of old age.

Yeah, that occurred to me shortly after I'd posted.  When you think about it, it's really a wonder he was still alive by book #48 . . .

Still.  It would be great fanfic material.

[Starsword]

Help me please. Tobias says something to Marco (I think it was them, but I'm not sure.) And he says "when this war is over, and people ask us about our experiences, lets not mention this." Something along those lines. What was he referring to?

[Chad32]

I don't know. Maybe when he first morphed fly, and got trapped in a toilet bowl?

[Starsword]

Nuts, now I'm gonna have to reread the series again.

[Horsefan1023 (Seal)]

I'm rereading it, I'll see if I can find it and tell you, Starsword.

[dolphin4077]

Help me please. Tobias says something to Marco (I think it was them, but I'm not sure.) And he says "when this war is over, and people ask us about our experiences, lets not mention this." Something along those lines. What was he referring to?

It was during the Hanson appearence in #35.