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Re: Name 5 Characters You wouldn't want to be.
« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2011, 12:52:44 PM »
David- for the reasons everyone has mentioned.

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A Taxxon- man, being in that body must be living hell.

Cassie- to me her decisions were mostly wrong and to make it worse, K.A made the other characters eventually accept her choices as some form of insight or something when normally tose guys would never have accepted them (Ax and Rachel precisely). To me, it went against what those characters believed in, which is what made me dislike Cassie more.

And........ Jake. I would have gone mad Under all that pressure. How did he put up with Cassie? Pttf
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Re: Name 5 Characters You wouldn't want to be.
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2011, 02:31:33 PM »
I can think of one, and only one. Cassie. Everyone is jealous of her, and hates her. Poor chickadee.

Cassie's really the only one of the original Animorphs to make it all the way through to the end relatively intact. If anything she'd be the only character in the series that I would want to be.

Anyway, if I'm reading the replies correctly, this looks like a "Which 5 characters had it the worst in the series?" question. As for David, I don't feel any sympathy for him at all. He got dealt a crap hand; so did Tobias. One tried to make the most of it (despite all the angst) and the other handled it in honestly the worst way imaginable. He couldn't control what happened to his parents and the target the Animorphs put on his head, but everything beyond that was purely his own doing. I don't know what made him think taking out all the other Animorphs was the best idea (although admittedly he did come rather close). The whole rat nothlit solution was only as horrifying as it was not purely for the idea that somebody was force-trapped into a rat morph, but mostly the fact that the Animorphs would have to live with the guilt of doing that (especially Ax and Rachel), even if they were justified. You're entitled to your opinions of course, I just have trouble imagining David belonging on the top 5 list when you consider characters like Arbron.

But I disagree, somewhat, about pitying the other Animorphs. I mean, try to imagine the kids without the Yeerk Invasion, what kind of lives would they lead? Tobias gained freedom from the war, Rachel loved the thrill of battle, Marco not only got his mother back, but also became a millionaire after the war ended, Ax became a high ranking soldier in the Andalite military, Cassie ended up doing what she always wanted, [...]

Tobias was really the one who profited in some ways after becoming an Animorph; sense of purpose, becoming romantically involved with Rachel (something that wouldn't have lasted very long at all if they never met Elfangor), and eventually meeting his mother. But the others? Sure, Marco did reunite his parents, but even if he didn't, Nora was a sweet woman who legitimately made his father happy and would've done a decent job in his mother's place. Not exactly worth the cost of a lot of things he had to do in the series (planning his own mother's assassination? That took a huge mental toll on him, and let's not forget when he almost got trapped in mid-morph as a roach). Rachel could've found that kind of thrill in other ways (ie extreme sports, workan' fo da poh-leece, counter-terrorism, etc.).

and Jake found purpose in his life--no longer needing to live in his brother's shadow.

...lol ._.
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« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2011, 08:39:52 PM »
Rachel the counter terrorist? *daydream*
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Re: Name 5 Characters You wouldn't want to be.
« Reply #18 on: December 30, 2011, 10:15:02 PM »
Rachel the counter terrorist? *daydream*

Aww yeaaaaah! Just imagine;

One young, blonde pretty girl VS a legion of highly trained terrorist snipers. You had to feel bad. For the terrorists, that is.
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« Reply #19 on: December 30, 2011, 10:45:58 PM »
*Rachel to male partner*

"Next time, you seduce the rich guy."
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« Reply #20 on: December 31, 2011, 06:51:00 AM »

One young, blonde pretty girl VS a legion of highly trained terrorist snipers. You had to feel bad. For the terrorists, that is.

Hm...that sounds like Artemis Fowl. Do you read it? Just wondering...

And would that be Rachel with morphing or without?
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« Reply #21 on: December 31, 2011, 07:15:50 AM »
Hm...that sounds like Artemis Fowl. Do you read it? Just wondering...

Oh wow, is that what it's from? And here I was thinking I was being original and clever ;_;

(And yes I did read the series years ago, although I stopped after the 5th because I didn't feel the later releases were as good as the first 3)

And would that be Rachel with morphing or without?


With our beloved Rachel, does it make a difference? I'd go as far as to say non-morphing Rachel would actually be more terrifying. At least when you watch in horror as a grizzly bear mauls a group of terrorists to death, you can think, "Yeah, well, it's a freaking grizzly bear, they didn't stand a chance." But when it's a young blonde teenager? It's laughable when such a girl thinks she can take down a team of grown men. It's downright disconcerting when she actually does it.
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Re: Name 5 Characters You wouldn't want to be.
« Reply #22 on: January 01, 2012, 05:58:37 PM »
I would not want to be (1)Tobias, (2)a host to a yeerk , (3)any of the auxiliary animorphs, (4)Crayak, (5)Cassie.

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« Reply #23 on: January 01, 2012, 06:19:14 PM »
I think Crayak got to have a good amount of fun though
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« Reply #24 on: January 01, 2012, 06:21:14 PM »
But doesn't Crayak keep on getting beat by the Ellimist? And lots of people hate him too...
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« Reply #25 on: January 01, 2012, 06:23:01 PM »
I think when you're crayak, you can livee with being hated and feared. When does it ever say he loses to the Ellemist besides over the yeerk war? Tehy could have had hundreds of games going on at once. He has to win SOME, at the very least.
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« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2012, 06:47:07 PM »
I sorta remember reading somewhere that he often gets beat by the ellimist... Maybe I'm wrong though.
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Re: Name 5 Characters You wouldn't want to be.
« Reply #27 on: January 01, 2012, 09:00:54 PM »
I think Crayak got to have a good amount of fun though

The Drode maybe, Crayak is too absorbed with the games to truly enjoy himself.
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« Reply #28 on: January 01, 2012, 09:02:38 PM »
Oh contraire. I think every "wake up in the middle of the night sweating" nightmare the animorphs had would have been the quivalent. Of a schoolboy punching his teacher in the face with no consequence.
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« Reply #29 on: January 01, 2012, 09:20:19 PM »
I think Crayak got to have a good amount of fun though

The Drode maybe, Crayak is too absorbed with the games to truly enjoy himself.
Yeah, the drode seemed to have tons of fun. Crayak seemed too serious to have fun
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