Aximili's name

[Noelle]

It's a shame he didn't choose a female as his human morph because then the Animorphs could call him by the last three syllables of his name instead of the first syllable. Then we'd have 3 males and 3 females in the team whenever they were all human. Jake, Marco, Tobias, Rachel, Cassie and Emily.

Now that you mention it, it does sound sorta like Emily. But Ax didn't exactly choose I guess. I think the morph just ended up male. But if he's female in human morph, then there's like gender switch and I guess it can get sorta confusing

I always thought his resemblance to the name "Emily" was a joke that could have been used in the series.  I mean, after all, it's not like he knows the difference between male and female human names, and maybe he likes his name longer since Andalites naturally have names that are three thousand syllables long.


Although I do think he chose to be male, let me pull out book 4:

""I chose to be-be-be-be-be male."  He stopped suddenly, his eyes wide."



I give kudos to KA and the other writers being consistent with Ax's character playing with mouth sounds.  I think I'd be ridiculously annoyed trying to keep that in for the whole series.

[yunyun]

Yeah, he did say she chooses to be male, but that was sorta after he morphs. So maybe he was already male, then he also chooses to be male.

I guess it is possible that he had a choice and when he said he chooses to be male, he also morphs into the male version of the morph   

[Canicula]

When I started to read the books I read them in German so I always pronounced it typically German: Ux-e-me-lee (I hope you know how I mean it), when I start reading them in English I realized that I always pronounced it wrong.
And Tobias: I also pronounced it like it's pronounced in germany: To-bee-us.
I also wondered why no one ever shortend his name, because I know about five Tobias' and none of them is ever called Tobias, there are always called 'To-be'

[yunyun]

Well, maybe no one ever called Tobias Toby because he was called that by bullies. Also, maybe it's because K. A. Applegate had the idea to introduce a character named Toby, so she didn't shorten Tobias to avoid confusion

[Blazing Angel]

Ax is a nickname. You could have a friend named Bob, but call his shredder, because he's awesome on a guitar. Ax is a short easy to say thing and he pretty much has an ax on his tail

[XtheoniongirlX]

if you can say Maximilian you can say Aximili because well M aximili an

...Dude, you just totally blew my mind. No sarcasm. Can't believe they named him Phil instead of that when they brought him to school.

[yunyun]

Hey, that might be where Aximilli is from. Like Aldrea and Estrid are both english names.

[Noelle]

if you can say Maximilian you can say Aximili because well M aximili an

...Dude, you just totally blew my mind. No sarcasm. Can't believe they named him Phil instead of that when they brought him to school.

They actually called him "Max" in the TV series.