It’s old stuff and not well proportioned, but whatever. My tablet won’t cooperate tonight and I haven’t posted Animorphs things for a while, so have a bunch of alien OCs. (it’s from the future and that taxxon got their(her?) constant hunger genetically removed or something, so it’s cool)
Kay but my favourite thing about Elfangor is that when you meet him in The Invasion he’s this mysterious, noble, powerful alien with this aura around him that lets the kids know that this guy is a Big Deal
and then you see him in the Andalite Chronicles and he’s driving across a Taxxon planet in a bright yellow Mustang drinking Doctor Pepper and blaring the Rolling Stones
I love Elfangor a lot
Somewhere there is a universe where Tobias’s dad has been Marco’s dad’s eccentric coworker for ages, so when in, like, Book 20, when ‘Al’ is finally revealed to be a Majestic Alien War-Prince in disguise, nerdy little Tobias is basically bluescreened from the unbelieveable awesome and Marco’s like “this dude almost got fired for hacking a vending machine and eating all the strawberry Pop-Tarts during a code push.”
One of your yes-prompts was ‘friendship stuff (especially Ax and Tobias), and this was the first image that came to my mind, so I stuck with it. I know it’s more of a ‘these two characters together’ than a ‘the characters doing friendship stuff together’, but I hope that’s alright!
I’ve always liked the idea of the andalites smiling with their eyes, and that’s what I tried to convey here uvu;;
I really wanted to do a small portrait-ish picture of Eva for you too, but because I’m so bad at getting my mental image of the character’s looks down on paper, I dropped it – but maybe one day I’ll try again and hopefully succeed :>
I hope you enjoy my gift to you, and I hope you enjoy the holidays!
See? I did it, okay? I put the mission first. I saw the big picture. So don’t ever doubt me again.
i’ve been so focused on my own original stuff for the past few months, i’ve totally been neglecting animorphs and subsequently, my first love: tiny traumatized 13 yo war criminal with alien superpowers and mommy issues.
Eva is like if Marco were turned up to eleven and also a suburban mom.
Except that’s not entirely true. There are a few important differences. Like the dark reckless streak in Eva that cautious Marco would never really entertain. Marco’s terrible driving we can excuse on account of he’s a fourteen year old, but in #30 we learn that Eva also drove like a maniac and she was an adult-ass woman with a small child. She went out sailing by herself on the regular, presumably because she liked getting a fun and exciting break from her life. And let’s say nothing of her insistence on crushing Edriss to death even though she was beat to shit and needed to clear out of the Pool yesterday.
Also I get the strong sense that Marco is entirely irreligious, while Eva is a religious Catholic – in her own particular way, of course. Hands down my favorite Eva line is from Visser when she tells Edriss, <You infested me at random, so you believe. But I believe in higher powers, Yeerk. I believe I was taken so that my son would grow strong and wise and someday destroy you.> GOD I’m tearing up just TYPING that line. I mean holy SHIT. That’s Eva’s Catholicism right there: she believes she was taken so that Marco could become a FLAMING SWORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE HAND OF GOD TO SMITE THE EVILDOERS. That’s how she sees her son. WOW.
(I mean lbr Marco would be totally weirded out that his mom thinks of him that way, but this is about Eva, not about him.)
No but seriously that is all so important to me. There are so many fictional moms who are broken up to see their hero sons are no longer the sweet innocent boys they once were. And that’s valid. But I love so much that Eva’s response to finding out her son has lost his tenderness and become a hero is, “Oh, sweet, now he’s a badass like me and he can help me bring the wrath of God to our enemies. Right on!” But it’s not in a shallow way, because she knows just how much the war takes from you. She cheers him on knowing exactly how much he had to sacrifice to get where he is.
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