But the point of this thread is to flesh out the Characters without the limit that the authors and publishers had, so yeah, the way I read it is that Marco looked at Victoria's Secret catalogues and watched Baywatch with a healthy supply of Kleenex and tube socks handy.
I also like the detail that Cassie gets pissed at Marco for doing well without trying--we know Cassie was like a B student and Rachel won that academic award, but I have the kind of feeling that besides the couple of teachers who didn't buy his BS, Marco did well in school and pretended he didn't.
I kind of think Tobias was driving himself crazy with nothing to do but hunt. I'm sure it took up a lot of time, but with the human intellect I honestly had trouble believing he ever had to resort to roadkill. I think all of that honor-among-predators stuff was a psychological coping mechanism for him to make his life a little more complicated. I dont believe he was suicidal, so if he REALLY was having trouble surviving, he'd have no trouble dumping dignity and taking matters with other predators into his own hands. Or...talons. I believe, like most people here, I think, that most of tobias' angst was self-inflicted.
As far as Rachel, I just reread #32 and though I thought mean Rachel was in character, I didn't think nice Rachel was. Rachel isn't conflicted between her bloodlust and cowardice, I think her Achilles heel, at least opposing her love of the fight, is insecurity. Rachel is gorgeous and "doesn't care," but she certainly spends a lot of time on her appearance if that is the case. I think Rachel has a lot to prove to people--not only that her beauty is not just skin-deep, but that she's not just some blonde airhead. So she overdoes it. She overcompensates, showing that deep down she is not entirely okay with who she is. That is the other half I would have liked to see.
Um, who else...I like the few details we got about Ax, what he does all day. Honestly I can just see him going into town on schooldays and studying humanity in its natural habitat. Like going into a church and asking, "what kind of spirtual temple displays a man being tortured and dying on that primitive, wooden, intersecting device?" lol idk.
And Jake...tbh, Jake is the one I feel like we know the least about. He liked basketball before the war, he was Jewish, he looked up to his older brother...but after the war started, it seemed like his entire life was devoted to it. I guess it's kind of sad. He was always the one with the knowledge about military protocol and combat history, so I kind of picture him up all hours of the night, reading war histories and strategy guides under the blanket. I really think, out of all the Animorphs, Jake lost who he was the most, or at least who he had the potential to be, even more than Tobias. Tobias was already messed up. But Jake could have been totally fine.
