who is your favourite animorphs character?

[SmartGirl333]

Which 1? , , , , , or someone else? My vote is made obvious by my Sig

[Chad32]

My favorites Anis would probably go: Marco, Ax, Tobias, Rachel, Jake, Cassie. Marco is most like me, I believe. I can relate to him the most. Ax is hilarious. I can relate to Tobias being a bully magnet, and he's kind of a woobie. Rachel is strong of mind, and the closest thing to an actual warrior/soldier besides Ax in the group. Jake is kind of boring. Not much really stands out. Cassie is the most annoying at times, especially in the final arc and ending.

There were other interesting characters, but that's my view of the main six.

[Shenmue654]

I may contradict nearly everyone on the site by putting the characters in this order: Cassie, Jake, Marco, Rachel, Tobias, Ax. My reasoning goes like this:

Cassie--- Of all the characters in the story, the only one to remotely resemble me in "flavor" is Cassie. Now granted I only read through #42 or so, so I never saw most of the segments where Cassie gets Mary Sued up. What I do know is that the girl is prone to making ****ty decisions on the basis of morality alone, and going off on a mental tangent when she is most needed. Yet she also functions as the "heart": all of these details are similar to....well, me in most of my relationships.

Jake ---- Jake is the character whose stories bring most to mind the "conflict of the hero"---- what a leader or visionary does as they're forced to be an ideal when their lives, families, and identity are slowly compromised. Since I'm fascinated by this kind of thought process, and by the idea of a hero/supervillain wearing emotional masks to fit the situation...he interests me. He also gets some of the best weird time travel/Crayak-Ellimist incidents, and I am obsessed by that sort of thing.

Marco--- Marco is interesting because his tactics I'm as intimately familiar with as I am with Cassie's. The loudmouth who hides behind his bravado, who is in some way intimately tied to the actual conflict but rarely mentions it among most other people. The bravado concealing a brutally cold and strategic mind that leaps right to the most practical solution. Yep, sounds damn familiar.

Rachel--- Rachel is closer to my sister than me, and so never really wowed me as much as the others. She is interesting as far as plotlines go, but I never really liked being in her head much. I guess because I control my own aggression with the skill of a master and so don't understand how Rachel can falter. Her Will is strong and her mind is fierce, yet her Will conceals her inability to control her strength.

Tobias: I can relate to Tobias' problems but not really his methods. I like his sharp mind though--- reminds me of my own in some instances.

Ax: Ax is just boring. He's too "Spock" for me to relate to, too technical, even though his culture is fascinating. Elfangor I took to much more immediately--- less logical and more emotional than his younger brother that he is.

[SuperBlue]

My favorite is Marco but Cassie comes in a close second. Out of the six main characters, those two are the only ones who almost always do or say things that make me think "hmmm...yeah that sounds like something I'd do/say". And the littler personality quizes that used to be on the official website always went back and forth between labeling me as Cassie or as Marco every time I took it.

Favorites in Order: Marco, Cassie, Rachel, Jake, Ax, David, Tobias

Yes. I added David to that list just to show how much I dislike Tobias. He is to me what Cassie is to the majority of Animorphs fans. And he's just such a bore! There are only two Tobias books I actually enjoyed. The rest I struggled through because they were just so damn boring.

[Chad32]

Some like me think Tobias is the woobie. Others think he's the scrappy.

[Adam]

Other! Toby Hamee. Unfortunately wasn't explored much in the series but was nonetheless a fascinating character.

[SuperBlue]

Some like me think Tobias is the woobie. Others think he's the scrappy.

He's the scrappy because of how hard they try to make him the woobie. It's just too much. I can only be told to pity somebody so many times before I just get pissed. And then there was his forced relationship with Rachel that was more mother/child or big sister/little brother than anything romantic. Jake and Cassie felt more natural than that, and those two barely ever did anything.

[Shenmue654]

Actually, Tobias' forced relationship with Rachel felt like the most natural thing about him. My real problem with him was that he seemed so damn miserable all the time. o__o; I mean, true....Tobias' life was basically ass in a bucket. But as a kid, at the time I read it, it was simply impossible for me to relate to that kind of existential angst. Kid Me, in a demented sort of way, thought that existential angst made you cool and not depressed. ......boy was I a dumb kid. :p

~Well that and all those men you have known have responded to such angst with arrogance and self-aggrandizement. Moping, on a man, seems terribly unnatural to you. Weak and unappealing. Only showing their true fear to those closest to them.

Yep.

[Aluminator (Kit)]

Pre-ghostwriter Rachel is still my favorite, though overall, I'd have to give it to Marco. Rachel, pre-ghostwriter, was a well-developed character-- brilliant, beautiful, witty, ruthless, sort of the more gung-ho yin to Marco's yang. Later in the series she devolved into just a blonde maniac who I could no longer appreciate. Marco, to me, is easily the most relateable character in the series.

Granted, when I was first reading the series, Ax's social awkwardness, ridiculous antics, and "being an alien"-ness made him my favorite.

Chad, you and your TVtropes I had to go look those terms up.

Honestly, Kelly, you raise an interesting point about Tobias-- you were unable to relate to that much existential angst, and therefore, you disliked the character. Whether someone likes or dislikes Tobias likely has to do with how well they relate to him. How well someone relates to Tobias likely has a lot to do with two things: 1) How much cause they had for angst in their childhood (or life prior to whenever they read the series) and 2) How they deal with said angst-making situations.

Basically, I'm saying that Tobias acts as the series' liaison to the downtrodden, but that those who've never really had cause for the type of angst and depression Tobias goes through won't really get it. Whether you consider Tobias to be your *looks back up at Chad's post to remember the words* woobie or your scrappy may say more about you than you realize

That said... I had a reasonably happy childhood, but I can absolutely relate to Tobias's feelings of depression. Even so, I am not a fan of Tobias.

Is anybody else a little in awe of the fact that the same author wrote all six characters, in all their different types of relateability?

[Chad32]

The fact that she made such a varied cast of main characters is one of the best things about the series. Unfortunately the ghostwriters flanderized some of them. There's another TV tropes word. It means exaggerating something about a character that used to just be a minor part of them. Rachel's willingness to fight is a good example.

TV Tropes will enrich your life. TV Tropes will ruin your life.

[Stephquiem]

I feel like my favorite character depends on which book I'm reading at the time. XD When I first started reading, I told people my favorite was Rachel. Because I was 11 and a girl and thought I had to pick a girl. Not that I don't like Rachel. She narrates one of my favorite books in the series (#22) I think my real favorite at first was Tobias. <.< ...Possibly because I like seeing characters get kicked around. That sounds bad. But makes so much sense to me now that I've written that. XD

Jake also takes his turn as my favorite. I catch myself patterning characters I write after him sometimes.

Marco I feel like basically shaped my worldview. XD Like, literally, I can point to a thing I wrote when I was first reading Animorphs where I basically say "I'm going to try to find the humor in everything. Because Marco."

Blargh. I'm just going to take the easy way out and say Elfangor. Because it's technically true. Also books that more directly involve him in some way (for real, in a flashback, or in a weird hallucination thing) are the ones I keep going back to reread. And Andalite Chronicles is one of my favorite books ever, never mind in the series. XD

[itw2009]

i'll stick to my story:

such a tough question~ i admire all of the animorphs...

but i'll stick with jake. the whole 'responsibility' thing- gotta give him credit for toughing it out. wish i had the balls to make half the decisions he made.

oddly, although i believe i have the most in common with cassie, i find it hardest to relate to her. 

which sums it up. when i was in elementary school, i used to believe that i had a lot in common with rachel. honestly, the only thing that i think that i have in common with her is a broken "fight or flight" reflex.

i fight. every time. i'm insane and a moron.

[esplin]

Out of the six main characters Marco is by far my favorite.  Others have already illustrated why he is so awesome already so I wont go into that too much.

Visser 3 has to be my favorite besides anyone in the main six.  I mourn him though, as his potential was killed off pretty early.  His own power crazed ego turned him into a scooby doo villain by the time the Animorphs met him.  In the Andalite and Hork-Bajir chronicles he was smart, dangerous, and full of ambition.

I really did enjoy his 'monster of the week' schtick in the books.  He was just horrible at actually doing his job though, and Visser 1 was much more dangerous.  Its too bad the only fear he actually inspired was turning into horrors from other worlds.

[Chad32]

I really liked V3 in the first few books, but he was overused and book 9 was like the final nail in the coffin.

[esplin]

I really liked V3 in the first few books, but he was overused and book 9 was like the final nail in the coffin.

Yeahhhh that is pretty much true.