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replied to your photoset

“c-rowlesdraws: (100% headcanon) Andalite childhood milestones… 1)...”

u reminded me! I recall a portion of the animorphs series talking about using flowers to pray for offspring or something, like I think elfangor had one and spoke really assuredly about how he had a sibling on the way bc of his wish? I wanna know the lore on this so deeply

He sure did! Here’s the passage from The Andalite Chronicles:

In my quarters I have holograms of my father and mother, of course. Plus a wish-flower representing the little brother I’ll be getting in a few years. The Electorate has voted to allow more children to be born since we’re in a war now. They say if the war goes on for long and there are lots of battle deaths, some families may even have three and four children. Personally, I don’t think it will come to that. And even having one sibling is bad enough. Now, in addition to the morning ritual and the evening ritual, I have to do the wish-flower ritual. And you have to do the wish-flower ritual at the wish-flower, of course, which is in my tiny quarters. And you can imagine how impossible that is! My entire back half sticks out into the hallway and people are jostling past while I’m chanting, <We welcome our hopes embodied, we welcome a new branch of the tree, we welcome …> So on and so on.