Character Discussion Jake and Rachel

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They were kinda close, but it's said in a few books that they were on different sides of the family...didn't always do get togethers together. I would love to have seen a joint family thing with them, I can imagine the two of them glancing around, wondering if anyone besides Tom is a Yeerk.

Do we know which relatives of the two married? I do think Jake said it was cousin by marriage...or Rachel did, someone. Would have to be an aunt and uncle I think.

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It would be about getting them to join up when they're young. Their minds are more malleable, and so the Yeerks would be more likely to figure out ways to make them into voluntary Controllers when they got older. The Sharing was about finding a way to create a way to infest the world without shots being fired, after all. Get them when they're young, teach them to accept this thing, maybe even play it up as a gift, or something that if they choose will bring them status or whatever... It may not always work, but it'd be an opening, and you know someone would fall for it. And it all starts with one - a voluntary Controller can be used to sway others to accept it.