Romance in Animorphs

[Unknown User]

I agree with you to an extent chad, but it wasn't cassie's responsibility to save Jake. I don't think that it is fair for anyone to have to sacrafice there own happiness and there own life just to save someone else. It isn't Cassies fault that Jake cracks like an egg and if she doesn't want to invest the time or think that she can handle doing it, then she shouldn't be faulted for that; she had to think of her own well being.

[Chad32]

But who else was going to do it? Who would be better to do it? I guess she didn't absolutely have to, but I think she should have. She left him because he changed. Well Cassie...work to change him back!

[rebelxluck]

About Jake choosing Cassie over the world... I think it's still ambiguous as to whether or not he made that decision. Actually, between choosing the person you love and the world, wouldn't most humans pick the former? What sets Jake apart as the leader is his ability to make the tough calls for the greater good, and he does sacrifice Rachel like that in the end. The comment about his choice being interesting could be in reference to that rare way of thinking/drive to actually do it. The reason why he calls Cassie afterward could be because he's aware of this side of himself and, similar to how Rachel wants Tobias to be her link to humanity, Jake wants Cassie to be his. I love the similarities between Jake and Rachel, subtle as they are.

Anyway, I'm not saying I disagree that he chose Cassie, I'm just saying it's not all that clear.

I do agree that it wasn't Cassie's responsibility to save him in the end. I did find it a little bit odd, and rather sad, when she didn't help him until later when she had her own life sorted out--but that's fair, I think. You have to help yourself before you help someone else. She didn't leave him because he changed--she just wasn't ready herself, maybe. And she couldn't save him completely, no matter what. The fact that she accepted that in the end showed how she matured and healed herself after the war.

[Chad32]

I guess you could say she helped herself before helping him. That does make sense. I'm just glad he did start improving, which showed he would likely be ok later in life if not for the kamakazi mission.

[rachel91]

I had a thought ~ it seemed like most of the couples mentioned here were brought together by the war. as in without the war, they wouldn't have known each other or in Rachel and Tobias's case, they wouldn't have had the oppurtunity to love each other. the exception being Jake and Cassie because they had like each other before the war. and theirs was the weakest relationship having been unable to survive even tho they could have easily been together at the end.

[yunyun]

probably tobias and rachel, they are pretty romantic(my friend who dislikes animorphs is crazy about that) and all their night time conversations. Jake and Cassie sorta make me bored since jake is the leader and his books are boring and Cassie's books are boring too(except for 19) Ax/Estrid and Dak/Aldrea and Elfangor/Loren was only in one book so yeah.

[LorenF15]

Good thread! I have to go with Elfangor and Loren, because if you couldn't tell from my name, I ADORE them. I am endlessly fascinated by thhe concept of falling in love with this alien who looks NOTHING like you, it defies all the odds. I love how slow their relationship built, but you notice little things that show their attraction right away - the way Elfangor notices Loren's bright golden hair, the way he describes her clothes hanging off her body...it's made even more tragic that Loren had this great love that she is unable to remember.

Tobias and Rachel are a close second. Tobias is my favorite Animorph, period.

Cassie and Jake had their moments, especially in the early books. Cassie walking in on Jake square-dancing like A BIG HOKING GOOBER always makes me smile. I'm a huge romantic at heart, so really, it's what kept me glued to the series more than anything else.

[Inky]

Rachel and Tobias FTW
I always loved Tobias personally, and i liked his relationship with Rachel because I believed he deserved someone who really, truly loved him. I have to admit, the romance between the two was alot heavier and easier to swallow in the tv series(probably because they softened up Rachel  ). Tobias will forever hold a place in my heart, just like Rachel will always be the only thing to ever fill his.
The Cassie-Jake romance was always just complicated, in half way through i was sick of it.
The whole Elfangor and Loren romance broke my heart :'( :'( , but was sweet nonetheless. It's a shame he had to die before they could be together on last time...

[Canicula]

Although I havn't read all books (just 41) but I really love Tobias/Rachel. It is so cute how they act with the other. There are so many lovely moments between them like in #27 when when Tobias cheated to go with Rachel in the whale-morph.
You really notice how much they like each other.

Delurking to throw in my love for the girl/bird OTP for the same reasons everyone else has said.
I'm curious, what do you guys think they see in each other? What do you suppose initially drew them together? I vaguely recall Rachel mentioning that she sort of knew Tobias (at least knew who he was) before the walk through the construction site, and that intrigued me.

I remeber a few scenes in #1 where you can see that there has been something between them before the war started.

#1:
"Don't look," Rachel said to her. She put her arm around Cassie's shoulder and held her close.
Then she reached for Tobias and took his hand

Cassie is her best Friend so it's not unusually the Rachel puts her arm around Cassie but why should she hold the hand of a boy she barely know?
or another one:

#1
obias swooped down and perched on Rachel's shoulder, ft surprised me a little. Why would
Tobias perch on Rachel's shoulder? And she didn't seem at all annoyed. She rubbed her head
against him a little.

She rubbed her head against him. For me that's a gesture of affection. And that Tobias landed on her shoulder makes clear he know Rachel wouldn't mind that and I think  that shows, they have to know each other better than just a little bit.
I doubt that they had a relationship already but there already was something between them.

[Darth Zakryn]

Elfangor and Loren. Their scenes together sometimes were just so nauseatingly cute. Needless to say, I loved it. They were the only romantic couple that felt... well, real. The others seemed more like fanservice or the author's preferred couple, not real couples that actually had any chemistry. Of all those, Jake and Cassie might qualify, but then again, growing up my major crush in a book was Cassie and I didn't really want to share her and yes, I know I have problems... my favorite anime crush was May from Pokémon, BTW, though nowadays that honor goes to Lucy from Elfen Lied.

[Noelle]

I would say Aldrea/Dak and Elfangor/Loren are probably my two absolute favorites, closely followed by Rachel/Tobias.

I was so excited when I started out the Estrid book, thinking that Ax was finally going to get a love interest...then I was mad that she turned out to be such a spineless creep at the end.  -_-  (Though, really, I have a lot of beefs with Estrid's character writing-wise, but I'll leave that for another thread.)  I would have loved to see Ax get with another Andalite chick like Aldrea, someone with more...erm...tail than most Andalite guys.  I was actually kind of sad that Ax never managed to get someone, I bet it would have been a really good romance arc like Aldrea's and Elfangor's was. 

I never really liked Cassie, so it was hard for me to get behind their relationship.  I think in the end where she just ditched Jake was like the ultimate proving moment for me that she was a real creep.  She didn't have the spine to work through the problems like Aldrea/Dak, Elf/Loren or Tob/Rach did, it was like "you have my morals and act like them or its done."  I always felt like she had no real respect for Jake, only respect for herself, and that unlike Rach/Tob her love wasn't unconditional.



Though...I have to admit...my heart did a little fangirl leap in the book where Marco pulled Ax to sit on his lap... *SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!*

[Darth Zakryn]

How do we know what broke Jake and Cassie up in the final book? I think they're BOTH responsible for their ultimate breakup, but again, this my opinion since we never see it at any point.

And like I said, Noelle, I like really dark girls, so are you surprised? Nyeh!

[ryuki]

I guess this is really late but i can't help but add my own two cents. I guess this topic has kinda been beaten and hashed out to death, but honestly favourite pairing has got to be Tobias and Rachel for sure. Why? I guess because i really like how it developed. Many people have mentioned the fact that they probably wouldn't be together if there hadn't been a war, and that's probably true. But what really drew me to them was the fact that in the end, the only person to understand her was not the best friend or cousin that's known her all her life, it was Tobias. It may have started with a bit a pity and her need to protect, but in the end, Tobias was protecting her just as much as she was protecting him.

Besides like Tobias says "its takes a fairly crazy girl to like a Bird-boy". It takes a pretty crazy guy to like a girl who's so perfect on the outside, yet so damaged on the inside. It just works.

[Bealocwealm]

Huh, I'm surprised at how big the Tobias-Rachel pairing is. I never really 'got it'; I mean I understand it, but I didn't feel it as strongly as I felt Cassie and Jake (which I love and which absolutely breaks my heart considering the end they actually got) or Elfangor and Loren (my actual answer to this poll). Though bringing up the poll, Dak and Aldrea is another of my favourites -- not necessarily because I think it's a good pairing, though. I just find it fascinating how ****ed up they, and their relationship, become.

[theyoungphoenix]

I always adores the Tobias/Rachel relationship. I cried in the end and I start to tear up every time I think about it. And no matter how many people say it wouldn't have worked anyways, I loved the Cassie/Jake relationship too. It made me cry when they broke up. The whole end of the series made me sad.... But the Tobias/Rachel relationship will always be my favorite.