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Do you think if a controller gets high does the yeerk also get to enjoy the high

I'm going to say yes, if for no other reason than Edriss's smug confidence that (it's implied) she's keeping Jenny Lines quiet with cocaine, and the contrast to her being way too invested in humanity. I don't think we see yeerks drunk, but we do see that poisoning a host will at least temporarily poison the yeerk (e.g. #21). So I think that yeerks can get high, and tbh I don't think they're protected by the blood-brain barrier.

That said, I love the headcanon that yeerks are confidently wrong about that. Sort of the way that for decades psychiatrists were like "of course I am just a neutral observer, I do nothing whatsoever to influence my clients" until ginormous heaps of evidence started piling up that psychiatrists can accidentally give clients memories or even entire mental illnesses. It's easy to assume that you're superior and just an observer, even in the face of contradictory evidence, and I think the yeerks would have that assumption.

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How would things change if the time limits switched? Yeerks need kadrona every two hours (so way more portable generators or have them installed in yeerk run building bathrooms maybe? ) But the Animorphs can stay in morph for up to three days (way more surveillance opportunities/longer battles...)

I think that in a world where yeerks need kandrona every two hours, the invasion can't happen like in canon. We know a kandrona generator is "the size of a small car" and that yeerk pools don't work without it (#7). The yeerks might have to take a few decades and improve kandrona technology (i.e. #41) and then invade Earth, because an invasion would be too risky without that tech.

That said, the yeerks are fleeing the andalites as much as they are colonizing planets — the andalites control their homeworld, part of why they're stealing everyone else's. So maybe the yeerks try to make do, for lack of time. Probably they'd equip humans with thermoses of kandrona à la AniTV, and then help controllers create excuses to slip out every two hours. The thermoses might have to be refilled often, but there's a system for that in canon.

However, as anyone who's ever raised an infant can tell you, humans do not function well if their sleep is constantly interrupted every two hours. So lots of tired/confused controllers. And all kinds of other issues — work shifts with an "on" component, long tests, driving really far, needing a security team 24/7, being in hospital, etc. It'd preclude taking most important people as hosts, including anyone who regularly flies on airplanes. Animorphs can go for weeks without morphing, and can pop briefly out of morph in a pinch (even underwater and in the yeerk pool as needed). Yeerks literally die without kandrona, and they can't leave their hosts unattended for even a second; Mr. Pardue gets like 10 seconds of freedom in #8 makes a huge mess.

Ergo, I don't think they could pull off an invasion. There are too many humans with too much weaponry to launch an open attack from Day 1, but a quiet attack won't be able to get those with social power. And it'd run up against a thousand instances of (for instance) Jean and Steve taking Tom to deprogramming therapy because he hasn't been sleeping and has been carrying a thermos everywhere for weeks so clearly SOMETHING is wrong. So the yeerks are already quite underpowered, before we touch the issue of the andalites being wildly overpowered in this universe.

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