#anivengers

To this day, I still think about writing a really good Animorphs/Avengers story

The ultimate barebones would be:

It's set relatively real-time, meaning that the Ani kids were ~16 in 1999

By 2010 (~Avengers time), the living humans wouldn't even be 30 yet

The Yeerk War went off in secret/was covered up by Shield

Jake never went on his suicide mission/no dealing with The One (yet)

Instead, Jake is employed by Shield for a variety of very secret roles

HONESTLY I MIGHT WRITE THEM.

But like for a preview: 

STAR WARS: General Leia somehow ends up on Earth and has a Very Grim Conversation with Jake that’s mostly about brothers and warriors and how to live through living through battles and loving someone who doesn’t carry that weight half so harshly.  Alternatively, Rogue One is caught by the Death Star’s blast wave and shunted across a universe, and the Animorphs find them broken and bruised and Cassian and Jyn look into their eyes and see themselves.  Chirrut and Baze call all of them ‘little brother’ and ‘little sister’ and it makes Rachel prickle.  The Animorphs go from six to eleven (Chirrut morphs a mountain lion and Jyn morphs a wolverine, I don’t have the others sorted).  K2 doesn’t make it to Earth at all.  Rogue One still dies for the cause.  The End.

AVENGERS: I have two ideas here.

The obvious, in which the Animorphs get a “gift” from the Ellimist (”DOES HE OWN A DICTIONARY” Marco demands) and are sent to a world the Yeerks never touched and pop up RIGHT in the middle of the Battle of New York and handily freak out the Avengers.  Especially Steve, who almost has a heart attack at the sight of a teenaged girl in a leotard sprinting at him and shouting “Toss me”, and literally almost gets his head cut off when he watches her vault off his shield and turn into a fucking grizzly on the way down.  Tony almost throws up when he sees a gorilla get disemboweled and start turning back into a teenager as a bunch of people yell

The one I haven’t really seen yet, in which the War happens a little later (like it ends maybe 2001) and thus the Animorphs are only about 26 when the Avengers are formed.  Still pretty young.  SHIELD kept the whole Yeerks thing under wraps (so. many. NDAs.), so imagine the Avenger’s surprise when the late Phil Coulson is replaced with a young dude build like a football player who tells them to call him Jake, and who introduces his team of equally young people plus one bird as their new backup.

Both of these include Marco and Tony basically talking shit about each other incessantly, Bruce and Cassie talking in soft honest tones about how it feels to be afraid of yourself, Tobias and Clint making horribly unfunny jokes about their childhoods, Steve taking it upon himself to make sure Jake actually talks about the stress of leadership and about how afraid he is of getting someone killed (Bucky and Tom get compared…especially if this is still a thing post-WS) and Natasha and Rachel being really weird friends where mostly they spar.  Oh, and also Ax and Thor bonding about Poptarts.

AAAHHHHH i loved getting this ask because i too love all my anivengers hc but............................... they’re all about Jake Being Cool and have nothing to do with the other Animorphs, or the Avengers really, and completely miss the moral points of both series lol. 

So they’re pure indulgence for me when I just wanna groove on a thought of Jake getting to be a Big Damn Hero or get a Dramatic Reveal. 

That being said, here’s a fun scenario that’s been jammin w my tunes lately:

(warnings for animorphs-typical violence)

Jake is the Avengers’ Handler/Coulson-character, and while they keep being suspicious there might be something more at play, overall he’s just a normal, ordinary human w no special powers to them. And still kind of a klutz. And the dad friend who makes the Worst Jokes which is terrible when you’re a team of deadpan snarkers. 

Anyways Big Boss Fight is happening, everyone’s kinda getting their butts kicked and Big Bad is gonna get The Thing That He Wants, and for a moment everyone thinks he’s gonna get it!!! And then Jake steps in shooting Big bad point blank until he empties his clip, but it’s not enough!!! But an act of heroism!!!

And then Big Bad uses his evil gun/ray/whatever and blows Jake’s skull out. And he drops and everyone’s like ‘oh noooo!!!’ and it’s a big emotional moment like when Coulson died, and everyone’s enraged and finding the spirit to fight again, despite all their injuries! 

Big Bad turns around to gloat at them. He’s won, he’s victorious!!!

And then a half-morphed, skull still growing back in, Jake leaps onto his back and sinks his teeth into Big Bad. And nothing Big Bad can do will dislodge Jake, as he finishes his morph into a healthy, dangerous, huge siberian tiger. 

The other Avengers are doing a lot of internal screaming and whatnot, but rally and jump in to stop Big Bad, and then yay! The day is saved! 

And that’s how Jake reveals that his “superpower” is shape shifting. 

[and also the running “gag” of Jake surviving getting shot in the head from the animorphs series]

Tony was sent by Fury to get “backup” for some fight or smth, and so he goes to this nondescript house in a nice neighbourhood and meets the Berensons and tosses ball with their young son in the driveway, and noticed pictures on the wall that indicate they had another son who passed away (all the pictures w the older son are old photos, there’s no grad pictures, etc)

Long story short something weird happened when The Rachel rammed the Blade Ship, and everyone on board woke up back on earth in the body they originally got their morphing power (aka Tobias, Marco and Jake are stuck as 13yos)

....i’ve never stopped thinking abt anivengers tbh

(possibly body horror warning, but v tame for both animorphs and avengers so not really)

ft the au where Jake works with the Avengers as a liason/contact/point man but the Avengers know nothing about him or the Yeerks, and the whole Yeerk War was kept secret

but i’ve been thinking about Jake having some sort of implant that allows The Military to monitor him at all times and know when he’s in morph/if he’s leaking information to anyone bc Jake Berenson is a bit of a loose canon in that he’ll follow his own ideas before he obeys the orders of his superiors and also bc the Military is paranoid about what someone like Jake can do.

so eventually i thought about ‘why not a sci-fi collar that electrocutes jake if he tries to morph without permission?’. And after several trials they figured out how to embed it into Jake’s skin so that it morphs with him so if/when jake does morph he has a recognisable collar still.

this means tho that the Avengers would be very aware of the collar p early on and probably be informed ‘here’s the release code, it only lasts for 2 hours and i’ll be of as much help as i can, but use at your own risk’ and essentially i thought about setting jake up even more blatantly as a “possible friend/possible enemy, we really don’t know” to the Avengers, but with a hint of Moggat from the Abhorsen Trilogy where he’s helpful while he’s wearing the collar, but when the collar isn’t forcing him to obey, is he still on your side or ????