Character Discussion Jake and Ax

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I think this is the last one for Jake for the moment. Unless I do Jake/auxiliaries later. Jake and Erek maybe.

Anyway, this one is fun just because they're probably close to the same age if you could translate Andalite to human, but Ax looks to Jake as a superior. The morphing of Jake was funny...eating all the chili. I don't recall *too* much conflict with these two after The Alien until the rescue at Jake's house went wrong and Jake was conflicting with basically the whole group, understandably.

Fun recurring moment: "Ax, don't call me prince." Ax's best response "I will call you the Jake formerly known as prince"

Comments

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

I always imagined Ax as older than all of them--about the Andalite equivalent of 18/19 at the start of the series. (And IDK if this is canon or not but I always thought Andalites aged slower/lived longer? I seem to remember Elfangor saying their gestation period was longer in TAC when he was talking about the wishflower ritual.) So I think it kind of speaks to how much he felt out of his element and needed direction that he was willing to accept Jake as his leader. And then, it kind of helps explain why he had issues with Jake later, when the Andalites were getting more involved and he had a better idea of what was going on than someone he had finally started to see as just a kid.

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Someone said something about an Andalite living to like, 200, and made it seem fairly commonplace. I have no idea where or what book, but I know I remember it. :\

(and of course now i won't be able to rest until i find it)

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I think it's Ax early on (book 8?) "If I live to be 200 I'm still gonna be Elfangor's little brother."