Fans of the Animorphs

The thing about Cassie that gets me is that... she moved on. She lived. She survived. You can't say the same for Jake. Or Tobias. Or Ax. Or Rachel. Or really even for Marco, given how bored and eager to jump on Jake's suicide rescue mission as she was. And I think she survived, psychologically, because she WAS selfish. There was a limit to how much she was willing to put her morals--and her heart (think of her OTHER reason for letting Tom take the cube)--at risk for the war effort. In another post, someone said that in the end, the Animorphs had to choose between saving themselves and losing the war and losing the war but saving their souls (that is, psychological well-being). They all made different gradients of that choice, but Cassie chose more of the latter than the other five, and when the war ended, she still had something left to live for, something--someone--else to *be*. A war with all Cassie's or even more than one would have never been won, but without Cassie to survive, what would have happened post-war? The people who won the war all would have been horribly--and justifiably--broken, and the humanitarian aspect of post-war life would have fallen by the side, as would have the partial peace with the Yeerks. They may not have really needed Cassie in the war, but I think they needed her afterwards--someone just selfish enough to save herself.