icarusfalls:

I guess this can count as my first post for the thirty days of Animorphs meme I’ve seen floating around for a while. After years of searching, I finally found the entire series, and last weekend I finished all the books and was left overwhelmed. Everything that I suspected remained true: that Animorphs wasn’t just a YA series about kids turning into animals and fighting aliens, it’s a very realistic depiction of what happens to people when they fight in a war.

Unfortunately, there are dark sides to this as well.

I’m not writing an excuse post for Rachel: this is just my interpretation of her character’s arc, and how I see her progression throughout the series. I have a tendency to exaggerate (which is why I always refer to her as a flawless queen, if anything Rachel is the character whose flaws are most frequently pointed out).

Spoilers for the entire series.

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