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What if Jake’s not actually bad at basketball?
That is to say. What if the school coach was a Controller who deliberately kept him off the team, knowing there was already another Controller in his household, to try to push him towards joining the Sharing?
Explanations this fandom has now proposed for Jake being cut from the basketball team, in no particular order: Ellimist shenanigans. The coach hates him for some reason. Everyone's expectations for Jake were too high, thanks to Tom. Sharing shenanigans (possibly to help Temrash 114). Jake really does suck that bad.
So. To the polls!
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Marco: What is this?
Jake: That's my birthday card from my grandma.
Marco: It says "To my Number 3 Grandson". That's pretty harsh.
Jake: No, no, no. It's because I'm her third grandson. Tom, then Saddler, then me. Rachel's her number one granddaughter, though, and I never hear the end of it.
YEARS LATER...
Marco, drunk: Well, at least you'll be number one grandson this year.
Jake, drunker: Unfortunately, it does not work that way.
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OH
#WELL. SORRY RACHEL#i think this is worse than the 'no happy endings' cliffhanger of ax (who has no mouth) smiling#animorphs#rachel#jake berenson#tom berenson#crayak#m text
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Round 1, Match 15
Akio Ohtori and Anthy Himemiya (Revolutionary Girl Utena) vs Tom and Jake Berenson (Animorphs)
Poll Runner's Note: Tom and Jake are a tricky entry. Most of what we see of "Tom" is actually Temrash 114, the Yeerk controlling him. I decided to include them anyway, an evil alien that's controlling your brother feels close enough to me.
Propaganda under break. Spoilers for Revolutionary Girl Utena and Animorphs.
Akio Ohtori and Anthy Himemiya
TW for incest/rape/CSA
WHERE TO BEGIN. Major Utnea spoilers, but take a brother and sister who have been alive for god knows how many centuries, one keeps the other enslaved as the Rose Bride so she can be living bait for "Princes", meanwhile he does an incest on her at least once a week. She mostly goes along with things for complex story reasons and aids him in this vast conspiracy to lure in people with the potential to be "a True Prince" to help them bring about a vague conceptual Revolution. Anthy will disguise herself to manipulate the ghost of a dead genius, but get pissed when Akio makes moves on her future gf, but she can't do anything to him so she takes out her anger on a different character by turning said character into a cow. Like seriously this isn't a shallow victim blaming thing the series is all about deconstructing that idea. She does try to get satisfaction in petty ways because that's the only power she has and ultimately she finally walks out on him to go find her gf in the Real World. There's also their movie versions where he drugs her so he can assault her, but when he realizes she's awake and was willing to let him do whatever, he has a tantrum because that makes her not a pure woman and he stumbles off the balcony to his death. Then his ghost(?) tries to crush her and her gf in a giant mobile car wash, so her gf turns into a car and they eventually lounge naked and kissing down the road to the future.
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Akio is a groomer and a rapist and he does not make an exception for family.
Tom and Jake Berenson
Tom is controlled by a yeerk. He is working to enslave humanity against his will. Jake is a child soldier, and at the end of the series makes his (also a child soldier) cousin Rachel go on a suicide mission to kill Tom, which she succeeds in.
#Worst Siblings Tournament#Round 1#Poll#Revolutionary Girl Utena#Utena#Animorphs#Shoujo Kakumei Utena#SKU#anthy himemiya#akio ohtori#tom berenson#Jake Berenson#poll tournament
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Jake Berenson 🤝Katniss Everdeen
Joining a fight with the sole purpose of saving their sibling, only to lose them at the end of it.
#animorphs#the hunger games#jake berenson#jake animorphs#katniss everdeen#tom berenson#tom animorphs#primrose everdeen
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#I am in pain.#percy jackon and the olympians#OMORI#Animorphs#heroes of olympus#Undertale#chara dremuur#asriel dremuur#bianca di angelo#nico di angelo#Thalia Grace#Jason Grace#tom berenson#jake berenson#mari omori#sunny omori
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The Invasion, page 97
I was living a nightmare. No, it was worse than a nightmare. In a nightmare, you have a chance of waking up. But I was already awake. There was nowhere else to go.
Temrash 114 had complete control over my body every second of the day. I couldn't even control what I looked at. He chose what my eyes were pointed at. All because I joined The Sharing.
And now they were trying to do the same thing to my little brother.
Since the thing at the construction site last night, Temrash 114 was more interested than ever in having Jake infested. The Yeerk used my body and voice to invite Jake to a meeting of The Sharing. Jake didn't seem interested at first. But a little later, he came to me and said he would come after all.
It was my worst fear: That my little brother would become trapped in the same Hell I was.
Jake was the very last person on Earth I wanted the Yeerks to infest. Even more than my parents - They were adults, they could look after themselves. But Jake was just a little kid. I needed to protect him. I was his big brother, it was my job to protect him but I couldn't!
Jake came to the bonfire at the beach. He ate the barbeque. He played volleyball with my impostor. He seemed to be having fun. He had no idea it was all a trap. And I couldn't warn him. I could only watch.
"Now you see why I enjoy this?" my mouth said. I tried to force my mouth closed, but I had no control over it. I couldn't stop the Yeerk from operating me like a machine.
"It's cool," Jake said. "I didn't realize it was so much fun."
The Yeerks couldn't have him. They could have anyone else - literally, anyone else - but not him!
"Well, that's not all it is," the Yeerk said through me. "I mean, it's more than just fun. The Sharing can do all kinds of things for you. Once you're a full member."
"How do you get to be a full member?" Jake asked. He was actually interested now.
No, please no. If there was ever a time I needed to get control of body back, it needed to be now. Right now! I had to warn him. I had to say, Don't join! Don't join!!
Instead, the Yeerk used my mouth to say, "Oh, that will come later. First, you become an associate member. Later the leaders will decide whether to ask you to become a full member."
I used all my willpower. I fought so hard to regain control. To send Jake some of warning. To just shake my head, a serious look, a frown, a blink, ANYTHING!
You can't have him!! Not Jake!! LEAVE MY BROTHER ALONE!!
My mouth smiled. "Once you become a full member . . . the whole world changes."
With every last bit of strength I had, and strength I didn't even know I had, I tried to shake my head and scream, "DON'T JOIN THE SHARING!!"
And something actually happened.
My head twitched. Just a little. Just a spasm. Just a tug of my mouth to the side and just a crease of my eyebrows.
But it wasn't the Yeerk. It was me. I did that. For the very first time, I moved my body against Temrash 114's will.
But it was only for an instant. After that split-second, the Yeerk slammed down control and returned my face to normal. I felt his anger. He was furious at me for showing such defiance.
But on the outside, he simply used my mouth to say, "I have to go for a while now. The full members have a separate meeting. You guys stay here and have fun. Have some more of that barbeque. It's great, isn't it?"
I could see Jake looking at me, wide-eyed and innocent. Then my body turned and walked away.
I was exhausted. It was such a strain to fight against the Yeerk. Even if Temrash 114 gave up and allowed me to use my body now, I wasn't sure I'd have any energy left to move around or speak clearly.
And I was more than exhausted. I was miserable. All that effort, all the mental anguish I put into it, and I only regained control for a fraction of a second. Even at my very best, all I managed was a tiny twitch in my face.
Jake probably didn't even notice . . .
#animorphs#tom berenson#jake berenson#yeerks#the invasion#deleted scene#long post#angst#animorphs ficlet#tom my darling
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What ice cream flavor do you think would Tom be?
Uhhh... Hmmm. I am not sure I actually know enough about Tom for this. I am going to say Jake would be Vanilla, the kind with the bits of vanilla bean in it that makes you comfy but also has a dark and bloody history (because of the vanilla bean), but Tom? I don't know. Peanut Butter, maybe?
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People like to say "wow I can't believe John Darnielle wrote the definitive divorce song (no children) without ever having been divorced 😯" but *I* like to say "wow I can't believe John Darnielle wrote the definitive 'Tom and his yeerk' song (no children) without ever having been infested by a yeerk 🤔"
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anitv Jake did WHAT
OP refers to these tags #4d chess psychological warfare#like that time in anitv jake acquires tom and successfully talks a bunch of controllers into shooting the real tom
The episode "Face/Off Pt. 3" is a classic combination of AniTV having some plot ideas with fascinating potential... and then executing those ideas so badly the show is nigh-unwatchable.
Various Animorphs are running around the yeerk pool, (Rachel is in Tobias's brain as a yeerk to defeat the Gleet Biofilter, speaking of cool ideas that got wasted) in the season finale. Jake drags Tom into a back room, and when the controllers break down the door, there are two identical copies of Tom standing there. It's kinda cool that the audience also doesn't know which one's Tom and which is Jake, because both of them immediately start shouting about how the other one is an imposter and the controllers should shoot that guy.
For the rest of the episode — which switches to focus on how Marco collapses the entire yeerk pool cavern by pulling down a single ceiling tile and throwing it against a pillar (go figure) — there are two copies of Tom running around. There's some dramatic tension when we see one of the Toms get crushed to death by falling rubble and don't know if Jake just died, as well as in a later scene where one of the Toms walks in on Cassie mid-morph. That Tom demorphs into Jake, has the honestly kinda funny line "Phew! My parents were about thirty seconds away from having a set of identical twins." Original flavor Tom is dead in the basement, but that's fine, because the Animorphs are off to a dance party. Also, Tom's back two episodes later with no explanation because Melissa Chapman needs a boyfriend. Sigh. So much potential, so badly wasted.
#animorphs#anitv#jake berenson#tom berenson#yes i know there are *glaring* plot holes and character inconsistencies in this concept#including tom not recognizing jake as jake is standing six inches away and talking directly to him#including jake casually trying to get tom killed after proving willing to let cassie maybe-die to save tom in an earlier episode#but i still think it's a really cool idea that i wish we'd seen k.a. applegate explore in animorphs canon#with good writing and coherent plotting and all
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The facts were these: Thomas Berenson, aged 17 years, 5 months, and 11 days, was a slave to the Yeerk Empire. An alien slug living inside his head chose every movement of his body, from the first thing he looked at in the morning (his alarm clock), to the healthy and nutritious lunch that he consumed (a turkey and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread and one pink lady apple), to the last thing he looked at before falling asleep (the constellation that pointed toward the Yeerk homeworld).
But on this particular night, the eyes of Thomas Berenson, moved by the electrical impulses of Teska 224, could not focus on the constellation known as The Heaving Warrior, because they were too busy focusing on something that was happening in the elm tree in the Berenson backyard. An owl, tawny, silent and severe, was quickly becoming a teenaged boy.
It was dark out, but it wouldn’t be for long, as the growing legs of the boy were inching into the area of the backyard that would set off the motion activated lights, which were incredibly bright and angled, perhaps, just a bit too high in the air.
The creature pretending to be Thomas Berenson pressed a face up against the glass, trying desperately to see who would emerge from the feathery body disappearing in the backyard. The real Thomas Berenson, who was pretending not to be a creature, already knew what they both would see through his eyes, and was trying equally hard not to see it.
A knock at the bedroom door interrupted them both, and in the split second that Tom’s eyes left the window, whatever creature or not-creature that had been hiding and changing in the elm tree was gone.
“What do you want, midget?” the creature who was not Thomas Berenson demanded.
It was fairly obvious what was wanted, as the boy’s brother, Jake Berenson, was standing in the doorway holding a large plastic basket full of clean clothes.
“Mom wants you to fold your laundry,” Jake Berenson said. He was also pretending not to be a creature.
Thomas Berenson was relieved to see his brother, not because he was in need of clean laundry, though he was, but because he had been gripped with fear that the shapeshifter in the backyard had been none other than his younger brother. This was of course ridiculous. Tom knew that his brother did not have the ability to turn into an owl, and therefore could not turn back from an owl to a human. However, that did not clear up the mystery of who was in the backyard doing such an impossible thing.
The light switched on in the backyard, and Tom’s head snapped back to the window.
“Hey, you gonna take these or what?”
“Just drop them,” Tom’s voice replied, frustrated and disappointed that he seemed to have missed whatever apparition had been lurking in the elm tree in the center of their yard.
Jake walked over to Tom’s bed, and turned the basket upside down, spilling the clothing across the basketball-colored bedspread. He then dropped the basket atop the pile, turned oh his heal, and left the room just as the doorbell rang downstairs.
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I had a dream last night where I was Jake from Animorphs but I (think I) morphed Tom to go to some kind of Sharing/Controller…..party? It was more like a ball tbh. I remember as I was walking in, one of the security guards (also a Controller) was staring at me so I said “Hi” and then he started staring even more so I promptly gave a weird body twitch, as if I really were Tom and the Yeerk had just “regained control” or whatever. A couple of other things happened once inside, but at that time I somehow became myself and it led into a completely different dream?
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Gideon Taaffe and Charis Hoard at MMFA:
Instead of celebrating the rising influence of women’s basketball, right-wing media seized on the highly anticipated draft to attack the WNBA and dismiss the low wages of some of basketball’s biggest stars.
After a historic women’s NCAA tournament, the Women’s National Basketball Association draft drew substantial media attention both praising the rising influence of the league and criticizing the low wages of the league’s stars. Right-wing media chose to denigrate the sport and its players rather than engage with critiques of how women athletes are treated.
With the WNBA's popularity surging due to several college megastars such as Caitlin Clark being drafted, right-wing media launched unhinged sexist attacks against the league (and women's sports in general). These same people attacking the WNBA and women's sports launch attacks against trans women participating in women's sports under the purported guise of "saving women's sports."
#Women's Sports#Sexism#WNBA#Caitlin Clark#Matt Walsh#Clay Travis#Dan Dakich#Jason Whitlock#Tom Shillue#Blain Crain#Alex Berenson#Liz Wheeler#Outkick#FNC#The Daily Wire#Gender Pay Gap#Women's College Basketball#NCAAW
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Sorry guys, I’m back in Animorphs hell again. I will become a worse person
#Animorphs#marco animorphs#jake berenson#tom berenson#rachel berenson#cassie animorphs#tobias animorphs#aximili esgarrouth isthill
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Finished book 31
#where do I even begin?#Jake’s Grandpa G telling him he has an old soul?#Jake finally understanding what he meant?#Tom trying to kill their dad?#and being so desperate he resorted to a drive-by?#Which Jake stopped within SECONDS?#Marco stopping him from killing Tom just like Jake stopped him from killing his mom last book?#Jake being so desperate he resorted to kidnapping and threat of torture?#everyone losing faith in him as a leader?#the book ending with Jake saying he understands why Grandpa G put away his medals?#ENOUGH#Animorphs#jake berenson#jake animorphs#Animorphs book 31
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