Animorphs

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Animorphs.

Cool friends fighting aliens...more accurately, the pariah of a fascist civilization, minutes before being eaten alive in front of said "ccol friends" persuades and then bioengineers human child soldiers to facilitate an end to an ill-conceived and failing war now reduced to unilaterally exterminating a parasitic, physically disabled species, itself undergoing a violent civil rights movement on their own planet based on their self-recognized flaws, struggling to realize its place in a universe where godlike beings exist and decide not to offer remedy(rules of the god game) and spectate while the parasites overwhelm all vulnerable species in the known universe.

The child soldiers agree to resist the parasites, but at least a minority of them believe genocide is the wrong answer. After being physically and emotionally tortured, shot, repeatedly disemboweled and having their limbs hacked or bitten off by hosts of the parasitic species, however, all of the child soldiers begin taking violent, morally devastating actions that end their lives as they know them.

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Mulling Over Morphs #54 - The Beginning (infosec.pub)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/animorphs@sh.itjust.works

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bold move with the title, but they really pull it off this book.

this is a great final installment.

the entire book is good, but here's a couple moments that stuck out.

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I forgot how it starts, with menderash willingly turning into a nothlit(mirroring tobias in the first book) so that he can pilot the Yeerk ship to take them to investigate the kelbrid space is so exciting!

I wonder how many mirrors of the first book there are that I didn't notice since I was devouring the story.

the extended internal torment where Jake is reckoning with Rachel's death and his responsibility as a war criminal who sends his friends to their death.

That Jake and Cassie don't end up together.

but all the anamorphs are pretty much unfulfilled, carrying on Rachel's legacy.

I can't sing this book's praises enough, it really is a solid ending with room to continue or conclude a limited run if they want to.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I agree with everything you said, every concluding element combines into a truly fantastic ending for the series.

I'd appreciate it if you can throw a spoiler tag around your first and second paragraphs in case anybody else stumbles across the series and these posts for the first time.

thanks.

[–] TheBlindPew@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Can do, how do I format spoiler tags on lemmy?

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I appreciate it.

example:

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should look like this when you type it out:

heading  content

put your heading where it says heading and the content where it says content and you're good to go!

most clients have a button with a little diamond with an exclamation point above the text box, and that'll insert the spoiler formatting into your comment for you.

full markdown explanations: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html

[–] TheBlindPew@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sweet, I appreciate the help. I don't remember exactly what I wrote and the comment is currently removed, but if you can restore it I'll add in the spoiler tags

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

sure thing, it's restored.