As our lovely fandom has a plethora of these...

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

...and we all have our own 'pet' favorite characters, be they extended family members of the Animorphs or the less utilized Villains/Monsters of the Week, and I'm curious to (hopefully) see some discussion over which 'minor' players everyone had they relate to/stuck with them/think deserved their own spin-off or Chronicles/etc.

Five minor or one-off characters that you wish could have gotten more face time. (Or would show up again)

(Originally posted by iceshade at fannish5 here.)

Comments

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. I detect bias here. Perhaps. ;)

Oooh, David parents! There's potential for a brutal story there.

I know, right? Because they're these obvious casualties of the war/their son's decisions so there's great 'what-if' hanging there.

[acts_of_tekla]

You know, of all the undoubtedly awkward explanations the Animorphs no doubt had to make after the war ("Sorry about parking a tank on your house, Mr. Chapman; it seemed funny at the time."), I think that might be the worst. I mean, how do you justify to a couple that you permanently turned their kid into a rat and left him on a rock in the middle of the ocean to die (pet rats only live about 3 years; I doubt wild rats make it that long), on purpose?

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

...Or whatever Rachel did with him, which is either more or less worse than the humanity steal/leaving on rock depending on a person's perspective.

I have head!canon about Rachel finding a way to get some kind of message through to them so they don't have to spend the rest of forever wondering, especially because at that point in the series if Rachel had died in a battle Naomi/Dan would have only had the option that Rachel never came home one day and she KNOWS that and feels misplaced guilt, etc etc.

"Sorry about parking a tank on your house, Mr. Chapman; it seemed funny at the time."

Drunk!postwar!Marco would TOTALLY "accidentally" say this to Mr. Chapman. -_^

[acts_of_tekla]

"Sorry about parking a tank on your house, Mr. Chapman; it seemed funny at the time."

Drunk!postwar!Marco would TOTALLY "accidentally" say this to Mr. Chapman. -_^

Just pray he doesn't follow it up with, "But hey, at least we didn't nuke the city that one time."

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

All reasons why I'm convinced famous!postwar!Marco required a handler- he probably intentionally drove crazy- to do clean-up PR for him lol.

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

Someone shut write a fic from his handler's POV about the ridiculous things Marco says.

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

I would totally read that.

[a-happy-book.livejournal.com]

Me too!!

*And I meant to say *should*. It was about 1 AM when I wrote that comment. O-o

[acts_of_tekla]

Even before then, imagine the debrief after ~3 years of, well, a deadly serious but also seriously weird alien invasion. I mean...can you imagine the meltdown? Just off the top of my head:

-- (17) ...and the crazy suicidal guy told us that Yeerks are vulnerable to instant maple and ginger oatmeal...
-- (24) ...and so we saved the world from the smallest and most annoying race ever, using the great power of the anteater...
-- (25) ...so some of them might still be wandering the Arctic, BTW...
-- (30) ...and then I came up with a plan to push my mother off a cliff...
-- (35) ...so we drove a well-liked local celebrity insane...

I mean, there are so many random loose threads! I wonder if Cassie ever apologized to the guy whose sweater she stole in the godawful Australia book? I feel like someone who threw that kind of fit over lost prunes wouldn't let it go just because the thief happened to be saving the world at the time.