The yeerks

[terrence_cu]

actually i kind of feel sorry for them too all they really want is to be able to matter to everyone else. but on the other handthey don't have to enslave people i think that's kind of harsh

[dragonarmy]

It's hard to be unbiased about the Yeerks. From the start, it's "Yeerks are evil, Yeerks are scum, blah blah woof woof", and you do get a sense later on that they ought to be pitied, but I have a hard time pitying them.

Also -- has anyone ever wondered how Yeerks began to enslave hosts? Did some random Gedd say, "Hey, that slimy slug would look AWESOME in my ear" and boom?

[voodooqueen126]

Well it is certainly politically correct amongst the more highly educated end of the animorphs fandom to empathise with the yeerks...
However, I don't think the yeerks really were a species just after the best quality of life for their citizens (and after all a government's only purpose is to serve the best interests of their own citizens) I think the yeerk government was far more sinister than that: my proof the Arn:
The yeerks from the moment they discovered the arn and the arn's technology had absolutely no excuse to continue on enslaving others: it would have been relatively easy to either buy or coerce the arn into giving them synthetic hosts. But they didn't, even worse they committed genocide against the Arn, the only species who could've helped the yeerks out with their awful physical situation.(the arn don't get a lot of sympathy from either fans or the animorphs or aldrea:they are slimy, arrogant, isolationists, hunchbacked (insert unfavourable stereotypes about middle man minorities here)..) Not only do they not take up this fantastic oppurtunity, the yeerks eliminate the only species able to help them. Why? well being able to control access to hosts species gives the yeerk government power over their citizens (that is a zero sum game I think), if access to hosts was unlimited (in a magna sum game) then they lose power and authority. Therefore the Arn (and their technology) had to be destroyed (proof that they destroyed arn technology is Visser 3 primitive understanding of genetics in the orca book and a few others). And before you say "further proof that it was bad government that made the yeerks bad not the individual" remember that the yeerk citizens (who had hosts and we communicated with) helped kill the arn (and I was just following orders is the lamest excuse in history) and went along with their governments plans even if they disliked leaders personally (it seems that yeerk characters met over the series, disliked visser 3 because of his crazyness but did not disagree with the idea of enslaving people) remember that these yeerks that we meet  had hosts and therefor ehad elite positions that they wanted to maintain and did not want to risk everyone getting hosts,

[Unknown User]

I agree with you about the yarn and the Yeerk government, but you can't just say that all or even most of the yeerk citizens were absolute evil. It's not like a yeerk citizen could just declare, "hey,uh,guys, I don't really WANT to infest other spieces and make the my host." Based on the attitude of the yeerk leaders, a person that made a statement like that would be slaughtered. Not to mention the fact that when someone in a position of authority tells you day after day that, "yeerks are meant to infest others, yeerks are meant to infest others," you start to by into it, even if only subconciously. I'm not saying that the yeerks are perfect, not even that they are good, but they deserve your pity. At least the subordinates do.

[BoltxAnimorphs]

This might sound Stupid...
But i actuly think the Yeerks Are REAL!

(My first post!)

[Unknown User]

I'm still brand new myself, only been here for five days, but welcome to RAF. Your post doesn't sound stupid at all, sometimes I wonder myself...

[BoltxAnimorphs]

thankyou ;]
Like..
Last year on my brithday i saw a Slug And I Screamed "YEERK!!!!!"
My Mom was Like O.O

[voodooqueen126]

The yeerks would not evolve naturally.