Surviving Civilians who were the worst off.

[Fwahm]

Civilians counts anyone that didn't interact significantly with the Yeerk wars (for example, rank and file controllers count).

I'd say David's parents had it pretty bad.  Right after moving to a new town, their house is destroyed, they get turned into controllers, and their son vanishes.  Even after the war ends, they would have no idea whatosever about what happened to David.

Honorable mention to Jake's parents; niece died killing their son, and other son goes into depression for three years before leaving earth (presumably) forever.

[DinosaurNothlit]

How about Nora?

She fell in love with the love of her life only to be turned into a controller at about the same time that he disappeared to 'die.'  Not to mention that she had to have learned about Visser One from her Yeerk, so she knew that the wife of the guy who thought he loved her was still alive.  Boy, that had to have been an entangled emotional mess for her.

Then, the war ended, and Marco's dad presumably lived happily ever after with Marco's mom, and forgot all about Nora completely.

Hmm . . . That sounds almost exactly like the plot of that new movie, "Brothers," except in reverse and Eva and Nora are unrelated.

[SuperBlue]

Yeah, I always wandered how they'd explain things to Nora once the war was over lol

"Well Nora, it's been fun(really fun) but it turns out my baby-mama is still alive sooooo you're fired"

[anijen21]

Rachel's dad

no one cared about him and he lost his favorite daughter!!

lol actually I agree with Nora but this is kind of a fun brainstorm

[Chad32]

Nora and David's parents do end up pretty bad. I'd also give Loren some mention. She loses her son, and when she finally reunited with him finds out he's a bird. Then after that his girlfriend dies and he leaves her to live in Yellowstone or whatever.

[SuperBlue]

yeah I found it funny how Rachel was really close with her dad but never really freaked out when they couldn't save him

[DinosaurNothlit]

Nora and David's parents do end up pretty bad. I'd also give Loren some mention. She loses her son, and when she finally reunited with him finds out he's a bird. Then after that his girlfriend dies and he leaves her to live in Yellowstone or whatever.

True, but I always got the impression that Loren had never felt terribly attached to Tobias.  Aside from the time she save his life, she never really acted like a mother to him.

Then again, given the fact that that was probably because she lost her memory of everything she ever cared about, her life still sucked pretty hard.

Has Melissa been mentioned yet?  Even after going through this big emotional episode in book #2 about how her parents didn't love her anymore, all she ever got in the way of closure was "Oh, they love you more than you could ever know."  To which she was almost certainly like, "WTF is that supposed to mean?"

I'm sure she had a better time of it after the war, though.  Then her parents could finally explain what had happened.

[anijen21]

also Ax's parents

they lost both sons as casualties to a war, and collectively have about 4 lines in the entire series.

[Phoenix004]

Although we never find out what happened to them, two minor examples leap to mind. Captain Torelli (the military guy from #14) is presumably held responsible for allowing 3 teenagers to trespass on a restricted military area and for letting a bunch of horses stampede the same restricted base. He was then almost captured, infested or killed by hostile aliens, then embarrassed on national TV. Somehow I doubt he got a promotion...

Another person is the nameless woman saved from the Yeerk Pool in #1. Who was she? What happened to her? She must have been on the run for the rest of the war to avoid the Yeerks.

[DinosaurNothlit]

Another person is the nameless woman saved from the Yeerk Pool in #1. Who was she? What happened to her? She must have been on the run for the rest of the war to avoid the Yeerks.

I think it's pretty widely assumed that she's the same person as the crazy lady from MM #1.  In which case, I can't feel too sorry for her.  On the run from Yeerks or not, she does try to kill Rachel just for the random possibility of her being a controller.

Hey, how about the kid from #16?  The one who finds out about his dad being a controller, and then is told to do nothing about it?  That has to suck.

[ThinkAgain]

I would think the families of the Auxiliary Animorphs probably had it bad.

So, you have a child that's either severely injured or permanently crippled. That's pretty bad. Then you find out they were brutally killed. That can't be nice.

[Chad32]

I don't think the kid from 16 has it as bad as some other people. At least he knew why his dad wasn't the same anymore, as opposed to Mellissa.

[DinosaurNothlit]

I don't think the kid from 16 has it as bad as some other people. At least he knew why his dad wasn't the same anymore, as opposed to Mellissa.

True, but in some ways, it might almost be worse to know, if you're powerless to do anything about it.

[Shark Akhrrana]

What about Eslin in book 8
The love of his life is killed off by starvation he tries to avenge but totally fails. Who knows what happened to him after the war or if they found out.

[Chad32]

Obviously if he ever made any more attmpts, they failed too. He either gave up and drifted into obscurity, or was killed one way or another.

Or perhaps the guy that came to earth with Visser One and died because he had become too attached to Humans. And his poor host that went insane because the Yeerk didn't get out quickly enough.