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"She was like some big tank, and I was like the hood ornament" 62 lol idk I liked this line.
"huge centipedes, as big around as a redwood tree" 80 Jesus
"Taxxon trackers can sense warm flesh from miles away, as long as they have a sample" 81 HOW FUCKING COOL AND SICK IS THAT why did that never happen again?
"My head voice told me to run...Head say, I will send a guide" 885 idk why but this whole scenario gives me chills like no other.
idk. This is one of my favorites now, and idk why. I used to think Tobias was the biggest whiner in the series, but all of his whining here seems justified and he shuts the fuck up when he realizes what really went down. I really like this book and the story-telling capital she invested for herself with it. I really like Tobias' secret, subliminal dilemma, I really like the Hork-Bajir, I just...this book made me a little misty is all, I guess. Of what I've reread so far, I think this book is in my top five. Like you guys
yessssss give in to the hawk side. hawkwangst gets a bad rap, but dude really drew the short straw in life, and honestly, there are a lot more instances of tobias poking wry fun at himself than there are of tobias whining about it.
i also totally agree with you about the ellimist... i think it's maybe because she gives him enough personality to make him recognizable, so he feels like just another character and not an author device, but leaves him mysterious enough to let us buy that he's actually that powerful.
and i completely agree with everything you said about hork-bajir.
"Taxxon trackers can sense warm flesh from miles away, as long as they have a sample" 81 HOW FUCKING COOL AND SICK IS THAT why did that never happen again?
Dude, when I first read about Taxxons when I was 10 I was like wow. They are muy lame. They eat themselves, have uncontrollable hunger, and can be killed really easily. Being heinously ugly was their best quality.
But during my last reread in #4 they were scary bad-ass SWIMMERS too! That plus the sniff-hunting thing - omg. Taxxons are WAY COOLER than they seem, and actually have some uses for the yeerks lol. I am PISSED that we never got a Taxxon Chronicles! With ARBRON. Has someone fanfic-ed that shit yet?
iawtc, the taxxons got way way cooler on this last reread. I mean, even simply the fact that the Yeerks use them for delicate control-panel duty and piloting ships because Hork-Bajir are too big and clumsy is something I totally ignored. Hork-Bajir were scary and Taxxons were just gross, but not anymore.
I'm sure there's a Taxxon Chronicles out there, but I don't know if it's any good. Someone just started a "the only involuntary Taxxon" story on ff.net which could be promising, but seriously, canon should have given us a Taxxon perspective that was not Andalite. I still think there's more to them than just hunger.
I feel like I wouldn't want to read fanmade Taxxon Chronicles unless I knew it was really good :-(
I'm sure theres more than hunger too. They had to be sentient to be infested, right? The only other creature that KAA mentioned had an insatiable hunger with nothing else on the brain was the LOBSTER and clearly, Taxxons are cooler than lobsters.
exactly. I don't know if I said this here or somewhere else, but Taxxons are at the very least capable of choice and disagreement. Which indicates intellectual thought, which indicates sentience. And it's never said that they're intrinsically simple or slow-minded like Hork-Bajir and Gedds, so I always assumed behind all that ravenous hunger, there's actually a sharp mind.
I may be making this up, but in AC (or elsewhere) didn't they mention that the only reason the Taxxons submitted was that Yeerks promised them relief? That just adds a whole nother level to them because wow, how tragic is that? Kind of like the Hork-Bajir, they were taken because they have so many natural weapons at their disposal...but it was just how they evolved to eat trees. If the yeerks took the taxxons because they were easily bribed with relief from hunger, that makes their story just as sad as the Hork Bajir's, because thats just the way they evolved. Yet they get little sympathy. Poor guys.
exactly. I think the series often took kind of an unfair stance against voluntary controllers, I remember reading at least once "How sick and evil do you have to be to submit to the Yeerks?" when the question should have been, "how desperate and hopeless do you have to be to submit to the Yeerks?" I mean Taylor was vain, and the people Visser One recruited were weak and pathetic (or at least that's what she thought) but I can think of at least a dozen scenarios where the Yeerks could make empty promises to pay debts, or cure loved ones, or take away the pain, or any number of things that I think would be really compelling and tragic. And yes, I definitely think the Taxxons fall under that category.
It reminds me of Tobias in Back to Before. He was so desperate and hopeless, I could almost totally see him becoming a voluntary controller. I think I would have believed it if he did, rather than struggling at the end, because his life just sucked so hard, you know?
Interesting dynamic. Tobias as a voluntary controller, hm. I almost wish KA did that instead, because it would have blurred the line just a little more, with a fan favorite giving in because he had nothing left to fight for.
Also, as for desperate situations, Chapman much? He gave everything up for Melissa.
this is another reason i think tobias has a sort of hidden wisdom/maturity, is that by the end of 33 he looks at taylor/subvisser whatever number, who has spent the past several hours torturing him, and feels sorry for her.
Yeah, you're totally right. Taylor was still characterized pretty shalowly (at least I thought), but Tobias still managed to pity her even after what she did to him. I really do like his sense of morality best out of all the animorphs. Forgiving and sympathetic without being sanctimonious.
OH and I just read on wikipedia that in the end, all the taxxons give up their bodies to become snakes. I didnt remember that but jeez, that's sad too.
Also, they are good at digging. I wonder if they were used at all in the construction of the Yeerk Pool. ERGH I need to shut up about the taxxons. I'm gonna end up write a taxxon chronicles myself now, watch D-:
yeah, they were. I just read Visser and the Animorphs and Erek hid Visser One in a Taxxon-built tunnel so Eva and Marco can have their reunion. I think their hunger was played up so much that it made them seem useless, when they weren't at all.
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"She was like some big tank, and I was like the hood ornament" 62
lol idk I liked this line.
"huge centipedes, as big around as a redwood tree" 80
Jesus
"Taxxon trackers can sense warm flesh from miles away, as long as they have a sample" 81
HOW FUCKING COOL AND SICK IS THAT why did that never happen again?
"My head voice told me to run...Head say, I will send a guide" 885
idk why but this whole scenario gives me chills like no other.
idk. This is one of my favorites now, and idk why. I used to think Tobias was the biggest whiner in the series, but all of his whining here seems justified and he shuts the fuck up when he realizes what really went down. I really like this book and the story-telling capital she invested for herself with it. I really like Tobias' secret, subliminal dilemma, I really like the Hork-Bajir, I just...this book made me a little misty is all, I guess. Of what I've reread so far, I think this book is in my top five. Like you guys
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i also totally agree with you about the ellimist... i think it's maybe because she gives him enough personality to make him recognizable, so he feels like just another character and not an author device, but leaves him mysterious enough to let us buy that he's actually that powerful.
and i completely agree with everything you said about hork-bajir.
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HOW FUCKING COOL AND SICK IS THAT why did that never happen again?
Dude, when I first read about Taxxons when I was 10 I was like wow. They are muy lame. They eat themselves, have uncontrollable hunger, and can be killed really easily. Being heinously ugly was their best quality.
But during my last reread in #4 they were scary bad-ass SWIMMERS too! That plus the sniff-hunting thing - omg. Taxxons are WAY COOLER than they seem, and actually have some uses for the yeerks lol. I am PISSED that we never got a Taxxon Chronicles! With ARBRON. Has someone fanfic-ed that shit yet?
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I'm sure there's a Taxxon Chronicles out there, but I don't know if it's any good. Someone just started a "the only involuntary Taxxon" story on ff.net which could be promising, but seriously, canon should have given us a Taxxon perspective that was not Andalite. I still think there's more to them than just hunger.
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I'm sure theres more than hunger too. They had to be sentient to be infested, right? The only other creature that KAA mentioned had an insatiable hunger with nothing else on the brain was the LOBSTER and clearly, Taxxons are cooler than lobsters.
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Interesting dynamic. Tobias as a voluntary controller, hm. I almost wish KA did that instead, because it would have blurred the line just a little more, with a fan favorite giving in because he had nothing left to fight for.
Also, as for desperate situations, Chapman much? He gave everything up for Melissa.
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after what she did to him. I really do like his sense of morality best out of all the animorphs. Forgiving and sympathetic without being sanctimonious.
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Also, they are good at digging. I wonder if they were used at all in the construction of the Yeerk Pool. ERGH I need to shut up about the taxxons. I'm gonna end up write a taxxon chronicles myself now, watch D-:
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...I don't know. Whales are the only other sentient animal we encounter, but the Yeerks infest horses. Hmm.
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