What fanfics and series have you run across that you'd recommend in a heartbeat? Please share any you can link directly, with a bit of information about the premise of the fic or why you're linking it. I'm starved for more reading material in this fandom, and I imagine many others are, too.
Dæmorphing by Poetry , hosted on Archive of Our Own, the premise of this series is a crossover from the series
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman: every human being has a dæmon, a talking animal companion who is the physical manifestation of their soul. In the Dæmorphing series, the Animorphs have dæmons, which doubles the cast and gives the reader an abundance of subtler insights into the emotions and motivations of the cast. This series also goes to greater lengths than most, to engage the involvement of the free Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, the Chee and the Yeerk Peace Movement. The way the Animorphs conduct their war is much more pluralistic than in the novel series, with more diplomacy and more playing to the strengths of the alien races who are also part of the war. The total length of this fic series is 720,000+ words at the time of this post. Poetry occasionally adds more interstitial episodes, but the overarching plot is complete, as far as I am aware at this time.
r!Animorphs: The Reckoning by WhatWouldEnderDo , hosted on Fanfiction.net, the premise of this series is to re-interpret the events of the Animorphs novels through a rationalist lens, attempting to answer the question, "What if all of the characters -
especially the villains - were very sensible, rational, and more intelligent than they are in the novels, at all times? How would that raise the stakes, and what would the Animorphs need to do, to survive against extremely competent enemies who never fumble the ball even once?" Naturally this narrative is quite a bit intentionally darker and more mentally demanding upon the reader, compared to most Animorphs fic, as it isn't a power fantasy or a fix-it style narrative at all. Visser Three in this one is genuinely frightening, and Marco's intellect has more opportunity to shine, because his decisions are not written with a child audience's reading comprehension in mind. This fic is just under 686,000 words long, and it is complete. This fic has a particularly strong "rewatch bonus," in that there are many details you can catch on a second reading, which hit much harder and are more obviously important than they were the first time through.
I hope to see what recommendations others would like to share!
