Animorphs: Rachel / Tobias (Epsilon)

[teremala]

Fandom: Animorphs
Pairing: Rachel / Tobias
Theme set: Epsilon
Rating: PG

These're in more-or-less chronological order, and though there's not a coherent story, I kind of like how it worked out.

SPOILERS! for the whole series, and a couple of the Megamorphs - as would be expected, given the pairing.

Comments

[nyonyo]

You are awesome.

My favorites:
-"So," he says casually as they walk together, hand in hand, through the darkness, "do you suppose there's life on other planets?"
-He kisses her because she's alive, because her body is whole again when he had thought her gone; she kisses back because he looks cute in that sweater, ignorant of the fate she was spared.
-Rachel never cries, of course, although he's seen her do so more than all of the others combined. (Favorite of the whole batch, as this is something I've said myself about Rachel.)
-Each thinks they know of their own weaknesses, but does not realize that seeing only strength in the other is a weakness, too. (R/T summed up in one sentence perfectly.)
-"They're all about hope," he observes afterwards with a smile, but Rachel's eyes are sad when he turns to look at her: "Yeah," she mutters, "I need to change that."
-He will die inside of Rachel and it seems fitting, somehow, since that was where he had lived.

This whole thing is wonderfully done. Every sentence packs a punch, and you just nail those two and how screwed up they are. I loved it.

[teremala]

Thank you! And, whee, you've picked a bunch of favorites, too - the "weakness" one is basically what all of the others are based around, that way they make their own little worlds where things seem better than they really are. I'm glad you liked them, and especially that you got picked "hope" because I was half-worried it was too obscure to go over well.