Animorphs really loves to play with themes of creation and what the relationship between creator and creation are.
The Ellimist & The Pemalites
And they're all such different stories, but it's always this sort of dialogue of A People Created With A Purpose. The relationship can be as distant as tending trees while never knowing their creators to literally sharing the same body. It can be as cruel as being made as disposable shock troops or as noble as spreading life throughout the galaxy.
It can be as simple as wanting to make a friend.
I think it would've been interesting to have more of a dialogue between those created peoples.
Obviously Erek, as a Chee, has a deep hatred for the Howlers based on the slaughter they committed on his creators (even though he knows from their memories that they never saw it that way). The Pemalites and the Howlers are deliberately set up as an extension of the dichotomy between the Ellimist and Crayak, extensions of their will being exercised within the universe. The Chee are a great example of this - this idea that creation begets creation, whereas the Howlers are a manifestation of destruction before eventually being destroyed themselves.
But like - What would a Hork-bajir think of an Isk, created by another sentient species to serve an essential purpose but deliberately made dependent on their creators? Would the Arn see a kindship between themselves and the Yoorts as creators of new biological life meant to improve their own existence, or would the closeness of the relationship to their creations make them deeply uncomfortable?
