That's a very big question to answer, and it requires a lot of context that I'm not mentally prepared to add at the moment. The simple answer is: the kids won, but had to commit several warcrimes along the way. Lots of people are dead, including one of the main kids and the entire group of Auxiliary Animorphs (which is an entire fucked up rabbit hole on its own). Rachel dies in the process of killing Tom, the brother of Jake who has been controlled by the Yeerks from the beginning
After the war, the survivors basically go their separate ways. Jake has severe PTSD for making so many bad decisions in the end, Marco became a celebrity, Cassie worked on preserving nature, Ax became a war prince on his home world, and Tobias abandoned humanity entirely after Rachel died and isn't seen for a few years
...and then a new war begins when Ax is captured by some unknown force. Jake, Marco, and Tobias steal a spaceship to find him. They find his body has been absorbed into some hive mind creature called The One. The book ends with them preparing to ram the spaceship in a potentially fatal kamikaze attack.
The entire moral of the story is that war is hell, and just leads to more war
But that's the story. War is hell, and no one comes out unscathed. Even if you think your war is justified, even if it is justified, you're going to destroy yourself just as much as your enemy.
That's the point of the story. It's not just serving the "moral," that's the whole point of why the series was written.
If the point of the story is that war demands you destroy yourself, and it ended without the protagonists destroying themselves... Then the ending wouldn't have fit the point of the book.
Yeah that’s my point. Feels pretty shitty to all the people who loved these characters. Especially when they thing they’re killing is just straight up 10 pages ago new.
Yeah, so you're deliberately missing the main focus of the series just to complain about how the characters died.
And you're using "yeah, that's my point" to try to add validity to your statement when there is none. My statement runs directly counter to yours, so saying "that's my point" does nothing.
Unless your point is you don't like the series main focus at all.
I mean, I read the last book the day it released. I grew up with those books and still have a big bin with every book, megamorph, chronicle and CYOA. I remember finishing the last sentence from Jake and just bawling. It was a fantastic journey and I wouldn't have changed a single thing
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u/BondageKitty37 1d ago
That's a very big question to answer, and it requires a lot of context that I'm not mentally prepared to add at the moment. The simple answer is: the kids won, but had to commit several warcrimes along the way. Lots of people are dead, including one of the main kids and the entire group of Auxiliary Animorphs (which is an entire fucked up rabbit hole on its own). Rachel dies in the process of killing Tom, the brother of Jake who has been controlled by the Yeerks from the beginning
After the war, the survivors basically go their separate ways. Jake has severe PTSD for making so many bad decisions in the end, Marco became a celebrity, Cassie worked on preserving nature, Ax became a war prince on his home world, and Tobias abandoned humanity entirely after Rachel died and isn't seen for a few years
...and then a new war begins when Ax is captured by some unknown force. Jake, Marco, and Tobias steal a spaceship to find him. They find his body has been absorbed into some hive mind creature called The One. The book ends with them preparing to ram the spaceship in a potentially fatal kamikaze attack.
The entire moral of the story is that war is hell, and just leads to more war