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Applegate: here is my phenomenal amazing book about trauma and war. what does it truly mean to be human when you've lost your humanity. how much power do we have as individuals when we are trapped in authoritarian regimes that force us to harm others to survive. what does family mean in times of war where sacrifice and pain is necessary for the greater go-
reading animorphs sequentially instead of in whatever random order you can get your hands on them is such a trip because you can see these kids getting progressively better at war and worse at being happy, you can see how traumatic events from one book echo into the next ones but never quite get dealt with because these kids have no real way to take care of their mental health, you can see their relationships deepening but simultaneously gaining friction and faultlines as they learn just how far they'd go for each other but also how far they'd go in general...
obviously this series was meant to be episodic in nature, and i actually think that might be the better way to first encounter it, but the arc of the series in publication order is extremely well-crafted
I made an Animorphs meme because I saw Tobias admire geese for their powered flight early on and every single instance afterwards of them flying towards a mission felt painful