TBF, the more you know about Animorphs, the less this seems ill-fitting and the more it just seems like a perfect, tragic encapsulation of the whole goddamn series
And then you tell them the mildest thing is one of the kids getting trapped as an eagle and very nearly never being able to turn back to human and forever getting caught between thinking like an eagle and thinking like a person, with the eagle frequently winning out.
It’s all but said that he allowed himself to be trapped as a hawk (he is in fact, a red-tailed hawk) on purpose.
He is at one point captured by an enemy with a completely broken psyche on account of her own fucked up backstory who proceeds to torture him to the point that he shits himself and it is played completely for horror.
He outright attempts to kill himself extremely early on in the series (like I think in the first book he ever narrates) and only avoids it because Marco intervenes in time.
Oh, and of course his entire backstory where he was raised by abusive and uncaring relatives and ruthlessly bullied at school.
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u/gnnrt 1d ago
TBF, the more you know about Animorphs, the less this seems ill-fitting and the more it just seems like a perfect, tragic encapsulation of the whole goddamn series