#animorphs fic

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rachel/Tobias (Animorphs) Characters: Rachel (Animorphs), Tobias (Animorphs), Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, Marco (Animorphs), Jake Berenson, Cassie (Animorphs) Additional Tags: Body Swap, Drabble, retrowrimay, retrowrimay26 Series: Part 9 of RetroWriMay 2026 Summary:

Something goes wrong when the Animorphs get back from Z-space, and Rachel and Tobias are stuck in each other’s bodies.

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Rating: Teen Word Count: 1473 Characters: Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, Tobias Tags: Book 18: The Decision | Episode Tag | Angst | Grief/Mourning | Near Death Experiences

An episode tag written after re-reading this book for Animorphs Book Club!

<They died to save us,> Tobias said. <Yes,> I responded shortly. <They died for Earth. To keep you from being discovered by the Yeerks.> <They died to save you, too.> I didn’t respond. I knew he was right, but the enormity of that fact was overwhelming. I didn’t deserve that kind of salvation. I didn’t want it. 

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rachel/Tobias (Animorphs), Rachel & Tobias (Animorphs) Characters: Rachel (Animorphs), Tobias (Animorphs), David (Animorphs), (David is just mentioned but is important to the story here) Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Canon Compliant, post book 22, Trauma, Friendship, Developing Relationship, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, reference to canonical character death (Saddler) Summary:

I finally was able to look through a hard drive that I’ve saved for about two decades and found my old Rachel Marco fan fiction. (What is their ship name? Rarco? Machel?)

The writing is a little rough in places (younger me didn’t think anything of changing POVs and tenses or having endless paragraphs wit of one liners apparently) but honestly the idea was solid so I spent this afternoon editing it.

WELP.

GOT MY ANIMORPHS OC'S FIC STARTED.

READ IT IF YOU WANT.

send in a character/pairing and a prompt, and I'll write a three-ish sentence fic!

It's not subtle, not remotely subtle, but--sometimes you need to do things to stay sane more than you need to do things to stay alive, in a war.

That's why they're here, now, exhausted from the fight but too keyed up to really rest. Rachel is pushing the end of her first hour in morph, and she'll need at least thirty minutes to fly home, but--for now, this.

She keeps hearing Tobias scream, as the Dracon beam burned into his wing at the joint and sent him spinning to the ground. So she's here, in his clearing, and it's sunset, starting to get dim, so that no one is likely to notice that a bald eagle has moved into the forest. She's so much bigger than him, in this form, nearly twice his size, and it's--comforting, sort of. She feels like she can protect him. She's letting the eagle run things while they talk, preening Tobias' feathers absently, and she tries not to pick too obviously over his wing, the one that was cut clean off just hours ago.

I wrote a fanfic for the 2020 Animorphs Mini Bang organized by @lilacsolanum​ and co-modded by @acavatica​! 

Summary: Aftran 942 promised Cassie that she would set her human host free, and never take another host again, if Cassie became a caterpillar forever. Now, held in the Yeerk Pool for questioning, she needs to figure out how to keep that promise, or else the Animorphs—and the Earth—are doomed.