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Offline Yorick Brown

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What would you trap David as?
« on: August 13, 2008, 02:50:26 PM »
Many people feel that despite David's betrayal, the Animorphs trapping him as a lowly mouse was just too cruel.

Mice don't live long as pets and even have shorter lifespans in the wild since they're way at the bottom of the food chain.

What would be a better morph?

I'd trap him as a mammal or bird. I think a domestic cat or dog is fitting. A dolphin or a raptor too.
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2008, 02:55:11 PM »
Perhaps that would have been better, to trap him as something less miserable than a rat. However, the Animorphs trapped him as a rat as a punishment. They probably wanted him dead, they just didn't want to have to kill him themselves. As you said, rats don't live very long especially in the wild. The Animorphs probably thought that nature would get rid of him.

Not sure what else they could really have trapped him as, since it would have to be an animal they could trap in a container without leaving enough room for him to demorph.
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2008, 03:38:37 PM »
A fish
A small fish

Then take him 100 miles out to sea and drop him.
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2008, 03:47:40 PM »
A fly, stick him out in the woods

yea its way crueler, seeing as how he'd be dead in like a day, but the whole point is needing him dead but not being able to kill him, better make it quick

if you make him a bird or another mobile animal he could go to the yeerks out of revenge
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2008, 03:55:41 PM »
An ant. Then let him come across another ant colony and get torn to shreds.
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2008, 04:16:35 PM »
You guys are really mean
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2008, 04:27:13 PM »
None of us holds a terribly high opinion of David.


I'd probably leave him as either a raccoon or a skunk. Both have EXTREMELY good survival skills, but they are sufficiently small that it would take them awhile to go anywhere, and Tobias or Ax would notice them attempting to go somewhere.

Have you ever seen an angry raccoon? Those things can get larger than 40 lbs. They are MEAN little cusses.

They are also extremely intelligent, dextrous, and talented at obtaining food and escaping danger.
They climb trees and swim VERY well, and they can eat virtually anything. Even wolves hesitate to tick them off. Furthermore, they can live a very long time, in mammal terms.


The skunk would just be funny, and it would also survive well.
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2008, 06:06:19 PM »
Quote from: Estelore on August 13, 2008, 04:27:13 PM
None of us holds a terribly high opinion of David.
uh...I do. a lot higher than anyone else here anyway.

actually I wouldn't want to do anything at all, but if he did turned traitor I guess I'd rather kill him than trap him in morph. trapping him in any morph seems too cruel to me. I'd so hate to be the one that has to kill him but I'd do it because it seems more humane than the other choice.
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2008, 06:40:04 PM »
A dog or a cat. It wouldn't be as bad as a rat, but it would be demeaning and he would constantly be around humans.
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2008, 07:48:05 PM »
I think I would trap him in a morph of a sponge. He won't get far. He won't accomplish anything. He doesn't have to die, because what will he ever do if he lives? Nothing.

No worries. Plus he's underwater.
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2008, 08:04:46 PM »
I think it would be interesting to trap him as a cheetah, so that he could at least rob jewelry stores.  ;)

No, really I think a rat was quite appropriate.  Maybe something slightly stronger though, like a hare or badger or something.
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2008, 08:09:13 PM »
A stoat, weasel, mink, ermine, or pine marten, perhaps? Still, all are a threat to sleeping birds. (Tobias)
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2008, 09:02:57 PM »
Trapping him as a cat or dog wouldn't work. Or really any animal that has good mobility. It would be extremely easy for him to go to the Yeerks and rat out the Animorphs.

Heh. A rat so he can't rat. Heh heh.

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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #13 on: August 13, 2008, 10:27:39 PM »
A Dolphin then. That's merciful. 

He can have fun in the water with the animal instincts, live a nice long life, not be able to rat out on the Animorphs and still suffer as a nothlit for his betrayal.
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Re: What would you trap David as?
« Reply #14 on: August 13, 2008, 10:51:03 PM »
Quote from: Mirienne on August 13, 2008, 08:04:46 PM
I think it would be interesting to trap him as a cheetah, so that he could at least rob jewelry stores.  ;)

hahahahahaha that would be great, i can just picture them trapping him as that and putting him in a secluded area he could never escape from and just being like "looks like you got your wish...jerk"
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