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This meme I just made captures my creative essence.

#you know what I mean #the unexpected #the punchline #the gut punch #the revelation that leaves you staring out the window for a while

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In my world, making hard choices is part of the deal. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. Sometimes I just can't tell, even when the mission is over and we've all come out alive, at least.

Leave the Animorphs. Come back. Trust Aftran, the Yeerk. Trust her again. Take responsibility for the never-ending, always unfolding consequences of those decisions. Say no, I can't be part of this mission, can't be part of the mass-killing of innocent people no matter what the ultimate goal, I won't. Get involved anyway, commit acts maybe much worse. Why? To save some lives, not others. A choice. There's always a choice.

This is the last Cassie book before she suggests recruiting disabled kids and gives up the morphing cubes. Two major choices, neither of which she is fully comfortable with, both of which have HUGE consequences in the end of the war. Cassie is, of course, the person who least wants to live her life in shades of grey. Her life before Elfangor was committed to actively healing other creatures, which has hard choices, but those choices are on the scale of a single animal's life at a time. Not dozens of deaths, tearing people's throats out with her teeth.

The second paragraph where she elaborates on hard choices is also Cassie's greatest hits (solo missions) which bears a different sort of relevance to her finding herself on a different continent to the other Animorphs. Cassie wants to save all the lives, take none, trust that other people want the same. This book actually lets her pull that off once she's in Australia, which is nice this late in the war.

The other things I like about this is that it mentions #43. The fact that that was a watershed moment for Cassie, the first time saying no to an individual mission ending with her massacring the gas station and inconsolable and it carrying over us just really good. Animorphs generally tries to acknowledge the big moments but the scale of the series at this point means some moments are barely brushed on (which in itself can lend to the wear of the war) but I think the fact we get some Cassie introspection right before the start of the endgame is great.

#animorphs #animorphs book club #ani 44 #the unexpected #seriously this book is a logistical mess and the Australia side quest is questionable but 1. Australia mention and 2. I just like this book

He shrugged. “You’re you, Cassie. Anyway, the official story is a UA. Unauthorized Absence. The Marine Corps says two Marines hijacked an armored truck loaded with sensitive Defense Department research.” “Translation: Bug fighter wreckage,” said Tobias. “Right,” Jake agreed. “The Marines, the truck, and the guys who were supposed to be driving the truck all disappeared into the mountains. The Marines dropped the armored-truck guys off in the parking lot of some roadside tourist attraction—” “World’s biggest ball of gum wrappers.” Rachel. “And nobody’s seen the Marines or the truck since.” Jake sighed. “So, I guess that one was a tie. NASA doesn’t have the chunk of Bug fighter, but neither do the Yeerks.”

I'm... honestly not sure what to make of this. Guys. What did you do with the wreckage that we know from both book 14 and from this book that the yeerks can track as not-from-Earth? Guys?

#animorphs #animorphs book club #ani 44 #the unexpected #like I'm pretty sure they tracked Cassie to that particular spot of outback #because they picked up on the bug fighter piece Yami's grandpa #that's the implication of the piece hitting the floor as the blade ship appears overhead right?#like they know the general area the bug fighter went down already but pinpointing Cassie's location that precisely #was due to the alien metal sensors right?

The return of Lourdes the Chee!

#animorphs #animorphs book club #ani 44 #the unexpected #sometimes this series does remember extremely minor characters instead of making a new one each book

The Yeerks had already trampled Yami's homeland and terrified his family. Now I was leading them to the sacred spring of his ancestors. My choice. I had to get them as far away from Yami and his family as I could.

The character arc Cassie's been going through since book 4 culminates in the kangaroo book?!

#animorphs #animorphs book club #ani 44 #the unexpected

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"Yami, it's too late to get a doctor." I swallowed. "If we don't stop the infection - now - he'll die. And there's only one way to stop it." I held his gaze with mine, so he would understand. "We have to get rid of it." Yami nodded. Then the horror registered. "Get rid of . . . his leg."

Yep. It's a Cassie book, all right!

#animorphs #animorphs book club #ani 44 #the unexpected #i love how even though it's morphing that allows her to amputate the leg it's her human experience that allows her to save a life #her background is with animal rehab and she downplays it because it's normal for her #but she has incredible skills and knowledge and training that the other kids don't #that make her stand out in ways she barely registers because she grew up doing it

Cassie gets the first truly solo adventure in this series - sort of a follow up to The Sickness and of her further developing independence from the rest of the codependent polycule in The Test.

Though it also does make me wonder which of the others would handle a solo adventure well and who would... not.

#animorphs #animorphs book club #ani 44 #the unexpected #tobias would probably lean toward being ok on a solo mission because he's used to isolation #maybe Ax as well unless he decides to bring about the MM4 timeline #Jake would suffer without his team #it's a followup to The Sickness in more than one way too! surgery ahoy!