History Characters / Eleutherophobia

* DeathByAdaptation: Efflit 1318 survived to become a herald to The One in canon. Here, its killed as soon as it exits its host.

* HypercompetentSidekick: Was Essa 412's second-in-command, and unlike Essa, was more careful and calculating about its goals. Its visibly annoyed when its former boss apparently comes back from the dead to strong arm it into relinquishing the Blade ship.

[[folder:Margaret White]]

* QuitYourWhining: In ''Akira'', he tells Jake to stop being stubborn and accept that he needs help to handle his morph allergy.

* BearsAreBadNews: Her first two physical appearances involve her trying to kill Tom while in bear morph. In ''The Day the Earth Stood Sitll'', Tom compares her slamming into his body to a sledgehammer hitting a watermelon; and in ''Escape from L.A.'', she has a "shoot first, ask questions later" attitude as she pursues him through the sewers.

!!Original characters

[[folder:Bonnie Park]]
-> Bonnie Park, who finally noticed all my pathetic attempts at flirtation midway through tenth grade and asked me out, an unfamiliar tone to her voice as she did so. Bonnie Park, who immediately after invited me to join her at a meeting of this new organization called The Sharing. Bonnie Park, who watched in apparent apathy as controllers dragged me down the pier and forced my head under the surface of the kandrona that first time.
-->-- '''Tom's narration''', ''Ghost in the Shell''

Tom's high school crush and current girlfriend. She's the girl he followed into the Sharing meeting that changed his life forever. Now, she works for CNSB and is a frequent visitor of Matter Over Mind.

* BearsAreBadNews: Both of her physical appearances involve her trying to kill Tom while in bear morph. In ''The Day the Earth Stood Sitll'', Tom compares her slamming into his body to a sledgehammer hitting a watermelon; and in ''Escape from L.A.'', she has a "shoot first, ask questions later" attitude as she pursues him through the sewers.

Since Rachel is dead, her only physical appearances in the series are the first scene of ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'', and most of ''Escape from L.A.''

* PosthumousCharacter: Her death looms over the Berenson family and Tobias.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: She had no surname in canon, nor is it specified what "Cassie" is short for there.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: He had no surname in canon.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: She had no surname in canon.

* TraumaButton: Tom can't bear to listen to "O Come Emmanuel" because his Yeerk snapped a child's neck for singing it.

Tom's infamous second Yeerk. The series begins with Tom killing him on the Blade Ship.

* OCStandIn: [[https://thejakeformerlyknownasprince.tumblr.com/post/148483604634/i-love-how-much-you-care-about-tom-i-always-was Sol has admitted that this version of Tom is mostly her creation]]; in canon, he was an ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter whose true self only had a handful of lines.

-> Cassie wonders, with a touch of annoyance at herself, if she’s going to be able to stop automatically mistrusting ex-hosts any time soon. Yeah. Sure. Probably around the time she stops flinching at loud noises and feeling half-suffocated any time she has to put on outer clothes that might restrict her in case she needs to morph in a hurry.
-->-- ''A Straight Line Down Through the Heart''

* ShellShockedVeteran: Not to the extent of Jake, but as the above quote shows, she has some hypervigilance as well.

* KickTheDog: Tom recalls several times that Essa 412 was excessively cruel to him, from taunting him with the idea that Jake was going to die of a drug overdose, to [[WouldHurtAChild snapping a child's neck]] because his singing made Tom and the other hosts feel hopeful.

* WouldHurtAChild: In ''Ghost in the Shell'' Tom recalls a time when a boy sang a Christmas carol in the Yeerk Pool, inspiring hope in all the caged hosts. Essa 412 then snapped the child's neck while in Tom's body with the excuse that he found it annoying, but in reality he did it to spite Tom.

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: There are a few meta-nods to the fact that Tom died in canon.
** Once they leave the military base in ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'', Jake tells Tom that he thought he was dead.
** Tom mentions that there's a hastily-cancelled record of his death on file in D.C. in ''Escape from L.A.''

* SympatheticSentientWeapon: Several times throughout the series, Tom muses about the fact that the Yeerks turned him into a weapon when they forced the morphing power upon him, and is horrified by the idea of being the perfect host. He's particularly unhappy when [[spoiler:the Animorphs say he's an ''estreen'']] at the end of ''The Thing from Another World'', because he fears that the Yeerks knew he'd be useful all along.

* SympatheticSentientWeapon: Tom isn't happy [[spoiler:when he's told that he's an estreen]] at the end of ''The Thing from Another World''; the Yeerks already made him a weapon when they gave him the morphing power, and he's horrified by the idea that he was the ideal host all along.

* BigDamnHeroes: In ''Ghost in the Shell'', [[spoiler:he saves Tom from Margaret, despite her condor morph being several times his size.]]

* SmugSmiler: Tom frequently mentions that Essa wore a cruel smile on his face whenever he wasn't wearing a façade of normalcy.

* AdaptationalCheerfulnessUpgrade: While he's still traumatised from the war, Tom being alive gives him one less thing to angst about, and his relationship with his parents is less strained as a result.

* AdaptationalCheerfulnessUpgrade: Tom helps him overcome his grief for Rachel.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. While he's still traumatised from the war, Tom being alive gives him one less thing to angst about, and his relationship with his parents is less strained as a result.

* MythologyGag: His habit of clenching his right hand is a reference to the TV show's adaptation of ''The Capture'', where Tom's right hand starts shaking after his phone call with Jake, which is strongly implied to be him FightingFromTheInside.
* OCStandIn: [[https://thejakeformerlyknownasprince.tumblr.com/post/148483604634/i-love-how-much-you-care-about-tom-i-always-was Sol has admitted that this version of Tom is mostly her creation]]; in canon, he was an ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter whose true self only had handful of lines.

Tom's sadistic and cruel second Yeerk. The series begins with Tom killing him on the Blade Ship.