battle: lion (yes, like his name. also he's the mc so he's gotta have the coolest morph. + male lions are symbols of courage and leadership)
air: crow (i just think it suits him. crows are incredibly intelligent and social! Leo's morphs all have the theme of "this animal isnt the strongest/fastest/wtv but they draw their strength from their friends" bc thats really the core of Leo's character.)
sea: bottlenose dolphin / small shark. they probably all morph to sharks or orcas for naval battle.
battle: grizzly bear (Adam's the tank of the group so all of his morphs are huge. I also think he'd like a wolf morph for traveling.)
air: bald eagle (they're a huge bird. they're also seabirds which suits Adam! i think he'd be the best at marine missions out of the whole group. also bald eagles make cute squeaky noises which i think fits Adam bc like his bite is worse than his bark.)
sea: humpback whale (or a great white shark for battle/maneuverability)
battle: i know what you're thinking BUT cheetahs are actually very fragile and not good for fighting at all, Bree wants to be fast but she also wants to be in on the action. Her main battle morph would be a ram (amazing climbers, can ram things with their skulls) or antelope/gazelle (great endurance/agility, plus they're pretty & she enjoys goring people w her horns), specifically a springbok since they're among the faster species and one of the few where females have horns suitable for fighting.
Bree would definitely be the spy of the group (and shes an estreen) so she has the widest range of morphs in general. Does morph a cheetah at some point.
air: peregrine falcon (fastest bird/animal in the world, reaching speeds of up to 240mph in a dive)
sea: swordfish (they can reach speeds of 60mph!)
battle: jaguar (ik I'm overusing big cats but LISTEN. jaguars are amazing all-terrain animals—agile like a leopard, strong like a lion, good swimmer like a tiger—and i am SICK and TIRED of them being so underrated.)
air: owl (specifically like a pygmy owl or something, cue short jokes. owls have great night AND day vision & are incredibly silent which i think suits him.)
sea: orca (social, intelligent, and vicious!)
sea: hammerhead shark (all these animals are stereotypically 'villainous' but are actually incredibly social and friendly!)
Dani would be an estreen, too, but bc of her condition (see notes at the bottom) itd be unreliable, 50/50. She can sometimes morph hybrid animals half-way, sometimes she randomly demorphs, that kind of thing. Definitely uses the DNA combination trick to her advantage even though its dangerous (when combining DNA from diff species etc).
battle: tiger (either white or pseudo-melanistic, or both. Marcus would be very into the aesthetics of morphing & try to make all his morphs match.), polar bear (to go up against Adam), or snake
air: gyrfalcon (largest species of falcon, they have a stunning black and white coloration)
sea: orca, sperm whale, or leopard seal (depending on his needs)
Marcus' whole thing is that he's always trying to out-do the others' morphs. He acquires a tiger morph to out-do Leo & Chase's land battle morphs and a polar bear to out-do Adam's. Marcus acquires a sperm whale, which is larger and more deadly than a humpback (he acquires an orca, too, after Chase defeats him in orca morph— similar to how he copied Chase's levitation in the Vanishing after he "defeated" him in Bionic Showdown). Bree has the fastest bird morph so Marcus acquires a bigger one. And all of Marcus' favorite morphs are solitary animals.
Marcus morphs into humans the most often. Like Bree, he has a lot of different morphs because he spies a lot (he's also an estreen).
Douglas & Donald would probably have to be Andalites in this AU. Douglas was a disgraced Prince who morphed into a human permanently then had ABC&D (maybe a morphing experiment to try and make the ability genetic?), he ends up working with Krane (Visser Three) afterward. Donald ended up morphing permanently as well so he could raise AB&C after Douglas' "death". Marcus isn't Douglas' biologically but rather a kid he took in and gave the morphing technology to save his life (or at least that's the story he told Marcus, it's later revealed that Marcus' bio mom was the host body for Visser One at the time and Douglas took him in as a slight/threat against her). Marcus works for the Yeerks but isnt a Controller himself.
Dani was infected with a Yeerk as a punishment/ warning to Douglas (maybe a retaliation after Marcus?), however the Yeerk became addicted to oatmeal. Now Dani provides information to the Animorphs when she can decipher her Yeerks' ramblings, but other than that she's only useful on missions 70% of the time.
Leo is the New Guy, he was probably made into an Animorph later like David. He & Chase are the brains of the operation while Adam & Bree are the muscle. Adam & Leo are the moral backbone while Chase & Bree are more ruthless. Giselle is Visser One.
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