Do you think the Gedd might have a way to know if someone is a Controller? Like a hunch or instinct from evolving on the same world as the Yeerks, not actually seeing that person infested? Like how humans have the uncanny valley?
1. The Uncanny Valley is such a baller concept that I certainly hope so.
2. However, I don't know if gedd specifically would have it. Gedd seem less sentient than humans or hork-bajir or whatnot, in the sense that they don't seem to communicate or do abstract-thinking stuff without yeerks. I've heard the theory before (and I like it) that the yeerks and gedd were on their way to true symbiosis, with both minds working together to use a single body, before Seerow happened and everything went to hell in a handbasket.
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Okay but it drives me crazy when people say that the Gedds and the Yeerks are symbiotic.
They are not mutually symbiotic. They are parasitic. The Yeerks themselves admit that. The text states over and over that the Gedds are enslaved, that they are afraid and abused by the Yeerks in just the same way that the Hork-Bajir and the humans are.
Some examples...
"The Yeerk had been excited at getting his first host. He had subdued the Gedd mind with ruthless ease, crushing it with his superior intelligence and will.
The memory made me sick. The Gedd’s bewilderment. His fear. And the Yeerk’s fierce arrogance." (The Capture)
"I felt a resistance. A mind within the brain. Stronger than the tired, beaten Gedd." (Hork-Bajir Chronicles)
I do get the confusion, though - the text very rarely focuses on the Gedds (we never get a Gedd narrator, or a Gedd speaking/thinking of their own free will) and sympathetic, intelligent characters Want to believe that the Yeerks and the Gedds were symbiotic.
Seerow even says they're symbiotic in the Hork-Bajir Chronicles, but we are told over and over in that book that the Andalites - Seerow included - value 'intelligent' beings over 'simple' ones.
And the Yeerks mirror their arrogance! We hear from Edriss in Visser : "Gedds are barely sentient, Taxxons are mad beasts. Hork-Bajir, you take them, you see them from the start as intellectually inferior, primitive."
But we know that's not true! We learn that the Hork-Bajir had a rich culture that was stripped away from them when they were stolen from their home planet and they managed to rebuild a semblance of it on a planet far away. We learn the Taxxons 'mad' hunger is a product of their environment and that on their home planet they have a sense of community, they can plan and hope and come together to try and improve their lives.
So why do we trust the Yeerks and the Andalites when they tell us that the Gedds are better off slaves to an 'intellectually superior' species?
