I blame @girlnamedlance because she and I can always knock out a whole-ass #Animorphs AU for any fandom in a ten-minute conversation.
So… what if the Archons were Andalites and the Ascians were Yeerks?
And what if Emet-Selch, Azem, and Hythlodaeus were a happy little Yeerk triad, and they were all set to do the breeding thing where they join together and spawn off new grubs, dying in the process? (“Returning to the star”, if you will)
BUT THEN the war with the Andalites happens, Hyth and Azem die, sad feels.
This is what my wife and I inflict on each other constantly.
Louisoix dies protecting Earth and then Alphinaud is just like, oh yeah of course I can fight the Yeerks and save Earth, definitely
Urianger’s kind of like Ax, I guess, in that he’s awkward even by Andalite standards.
Thancred just fucks his way around whatever planet he winds up on, nbd
And Y’shtola fits in seamlessly