Animorphs what ifs

[MoppingBear]

How would the series have gone if various things in animorphs had/had not happened?

For example, what if Tobias never got trapped as a hawk?  There were various times in the series where his default shape being a birth played a major role.

Post your own questions andor answer others.

[anijen21]

What if Elfangor had gotten to spend a couple of years with Tobias before being spirited away by the Ellimist?

[Chad32]

What if Erek had not been reprogrammed, and just simply restrained himself by his own will instead of his programming?

[VisserZer0]

What if they never found Ax? His knowledge was definitely useful at times.

[Agent 128]

What if the Animorphs were actually able to get the time matrix and they used it to save Elfangor?

[Alic]

what if they all failed at the beginning?

[Terenia]

Um, are we supposed to answer the what if's or just post possibilities? o.O

What if Marco's mom was actually dead, not a Controller?

[Acalio-Laron-Jaham]

what if elfangor crashed and exploded straight away?

what if seerow was more strict and vigilant with the yeerks?

what if k.a decided not to write animorphs?

[Chad32]

I'm not sure if we're suppoed to answer the what ifs or not.

[MoppingBear]

i thought i did put ask and answer in the first post...  ill take on the erik one.  as shown in 26, he definitely has a mean streak to him, i think that without his programming restrictions, he would be killing controllers left and right, and he knew that which is why he reprogrammed himself again.

the way i imagined this going was a person answers the question above them and then posts their own, but i didnt want to set forth a rigid structure in case some questions bore more discussion than others.

[Chad32]

Yeah, he probably already knew there would come another time when he would kill someone. Not that he knew he'd be seeing Howlers again, but maybe he's taking a stroll at dusk and sees some guys grab a woman with intent to rape her.

[ThinkAgain]

What if Visser Three was as smart as he was in the Hork-Bajir Chronicles and Andalite Chronicles throughout the series?

[Terenia]

The Animorphs would have been doomed. No way a non-villain-decayed V3 would have let the events happen as they did in cannon.

What if Tobias had chosen to become a human nothlit when he regained his morphing power?

[Cloak]

He would have been a liability in those days.  Wouldn't he?

What if Cassie wasn't sub-temporally grounded or whatever?

[powertrash]

What if Jake was named George?