Cassie

[CounterInstinct]

What changes should be made to Cassie so that she would be a much more likeable character? A dark side perhaps? She was known to be a hypocrite in her morals, but was never elaborated more on in the series. Early on, she was also pointed by Marco to have the capability to be the most manipulating of the Animorphs. Do you think a side like that should have been played with a bit more?

[Chad32]

I don't know if I would really change that much about Cassie, so much as change how the plot acts around her. It's really lucky that Karen, Aftran's former host, was not killed or reinfested to the point of being a plot hole. I would also not give her so many solo missions compared to the other Anis. I would have Rachel tell her off about David in 48 and make her come along to see what her choice at the end of the trilogy did. I would also not have Tobias tell Jake it was beyond wrong of him to (accidentally) exclude her from a group meeting after she gave the Yeerks the morphing device.

She does have faults, and that's good, but it's just that I feel she isn't really called out enough on them, and the plot swings her way when it really shouldn't.

[dolphin4077]

I'd change her luck.  No matter what things always work out for Cassie.  I really want her to be wrong about something

[Aldrea Hammee]

I would make her a little less perfect, as well. In some books I found her to be borderline Mary Sue, to be honest. Come on, the sub-temporally grounded estreen who is practically psychic? And her biggest screw-up, giving the Yeerks the escafil device, magically turns out to be something that works in the Animorphs' favor a book later. (But you know, it kind of indirectly gets Rachel killed, but nobody mentions that.)

[Gyt Kaliba]

Basically what everyone else has said. Sure, she's annoying with her morals, but that kind of character definitely has an important place in the Animorphs story. We needed Cassie to be there. But it would have been much cooler to have something not work out for her, some kind of point in the story where she realized that she had to put her ideals on the backburner for a while if they were gonna win this war. It seems like KA wanted her to remain the untainted soldier, which is a cool idea to play with, but it's just not very realistic. It's war, every soldier is going to become tainted by what they see and do sadly.

[Alic]

I would change the fact that she existed

[Chad32]

Naw, you can't hate her enough that you wish she was never there. She's not that bad, and this is coming from a guy who considers her action in book 50 to be nothing less than complete betrayal, and doesn't give her any credit for the final victory against the Yeerks.

[Alic]

no.. really..

it wouldn't make a difference. *shrug*

[Phoenix004]

I don't think she needs changing; she had her role and she played it well. The reason she was able to manipulate so well is because she was so skilled at reading people. She didn't enjoy using that talent to her advantage, but sometimes she was forced to do what was necessary.

[SuperBlue]

I wouldnt change a thing about Cassie, but that's probably cuz I'm one of the few Anifans to like her enough to call her one of my favorites I realize she's probably the biggest Mary Sue I've ever seen but she has her moments where she makes me wanna stop reading and just start clapping for her. Like when David attacked the Anis in the middle of an underwater mission and she comes out of nowhere and saves them in her Whale morph. I'm still a little uncertain as to why she felt the need to let Tom get away with the cube, or why she thought Jake would kill Tom when he could have easily subdued him in his Tiger morph without hurting him, I think that whole bit was just KA not thinking

[Funky Poacher]

What would I change? Absolutely nothing. I liked her character a lot, and would go as far as to say she's tied for my favorite character with one other. I appreciate all that weird 'karma'/'luck' of hers: it's something metaphysical in a world of science-fiction. Her morals don't bother me at all. Hypocritical? Face it, everyone is. To me it just makes her more believable as a character.

I just don't understand how people don't like her. And I certainly don't get why everyone is in love with Rachel.

[Chad32]

I think rachel has become kind of a woobie because of her death.

[ThinkAgain]

I'd change her luck.  No matter what things always work out for Cassie.  I really want her to be wrong about something

Same. I couldn't stop raging, even as a kid, when he trapped herself as a caterpillar to save one person, when her life could save countless others. Then she gets out of it for something that I knew to be scientifically inaccurate in grade school, and on top of that, has the yeerk become an important ally. If I had that kind of luck I'd have hit the lottery by now.

[Alex Oiknine]

I agree with dolphin4077 and ThinkAgain. But I'd have settled for her to not just have all these totally amazing superpowers...

No wait. Y'know what would have really helped? Cassie got lots of cool plots and Rachel always seemed to get stuck with books I was bored with. I mean, okay, they both got Helmacron books and OF those two Rachel got the better one, but Cassie had lots of plot-essential or development stuff (rescuing Ax, Aftran being rescued from the pool) and I can't think of a single Rachel book I was apt to read over and over and over.

And I mean, Rachel's not my favorite character either, but as far as book plots go she had some of the most boring ones ever IMO. Cassie had a lot of the cool ones. Ax got short-changed in book plots sometimes too - kinda unfair because like Tobias he didn't have tons of awesome books.

[roguebluejay]

The last one in the David Trilogy was a pretty cool Rachel book.

Rereading the series Rachel is actually one of my fave characters. She basically is suffering from what we might all suffer from, she just wants the war to be over, and is prepared to do much worse stuff than the others.