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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: At the end of a long session of extremely grave confessions between each of the kids, Marco tells the others "Well, if we're not going to have any secrets anymore, I might as well go ahead and confess: [[UsefulNotes/PCVsConsole consoles are better than PCs]], I liked [[Franchise/StarWars the prequels more than the originals]], and I'll take regular fries over curly fries any day of the week".
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: At the end of a long session of extremely grave confessions between each of the kids, Marco tells the others "Well, if we're not going to have any secrets anymore, I might as well go ahead and confess: [[UsefulNotes/PCVsConsole [[MediaNotes/PCVsConsole consoles are better than PCs]], I liked [[Franchise/StarWars the prequels more than the originals]], and I'll take regular fries over curly fries any day of the week".
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->''"You know who does have brains, though?” I continued. “The Yeerks. Maybe a thousand of them already. A thousand human brains, a thousand slaves, except those slaves can’t even think without their masters knowing about it. There is nothing standing in their way except us—did you get that? This isn’t some movie, where humanity’s going to rise up and pull some bullshit trick out of its ass. The Yeerks are winning. Did you not see Elfangor get eaten? Do you not understand the stakes? He was coming to destroy the planet because he thought that might be the only way to stop them."''
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->''"You know who does have brains, though?” though?" I continued. “The "The Yeerks. Maybe a thousand of them already. A thousand human brains, a thousand slaves, except those slaves can’t even think without their masters knowing about it. There is nothing standing in their way except us—did you get that? This isn’t some movie, where humanity’s going to rise up and pull some bullshit trick out of its ass. The Yeerks are winning. Did you not see Elfangor get eaten? Do you not understand the stakes? He was coming to destroy the planet because he thought that might be the only way to stop them."''
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[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/5627803/chapters/12963046 Animorphs]]: [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11090259/1/r-Animorphs-The-Reckoning The Reckoning]] is a [[RationalFic rational fanfic]] of the Literature/{{Animorphs}} series by Duncan Sabien, aka [=TK17Studios=].
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[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/5627803/chapters/12963046 Animorphs]]: [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11090259/1/r-Animorphs-The-Reckoning The Reckoning]] is a [[RationalFic rational fanfic]] of the Literature/{{Animorphs}} ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' series by Duncan Sabien, aka [=TK17Studios=].
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* BatDeduction: Esplin is able to correctly deduce that he, and everyone else, are pawns in a much larger game between at least two rival gods.
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* ImprobablyHighIQ: Aximili estimates that Visser Three's IQ is around 400, a combination of the single most intelligent Yeerk, possibly ever, infesting an Andalite genius.
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* OffscreenVillainy: Esplin gives a brief mental list of the various atrocities and plans he's set in place which failed to draw a response from either the Ellimist or the Animorphs. Among them are the [[ColdBloodedTorture slow, sustained torture]] of Cassie's parents, the release of [[SyntheticPlague two engineered plagues]] in central Africa, the destruction of an Andalite library, and a device which would [[EarthShatteringKaboom disintegrate Neptune]] in six months time.
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* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: Thàn Suoros, a human engineer, is able to make significant progress into Z-space technology and assemble a crude Dracon beam weapon [[AwesomenessByAnalysis after detecting the energy signatures of Yeerk ships pursuing Elfangor.]]
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* IronicEcho: After the [[spoiler:meteoric obliteration of Aftran]], Essek describes the surviving Yeerks as little more than the barest fraction of what they were, with only enough brainpower to remember what they had lost. [[spoiler:This is a rough approximation of what Toomin did to himself, leaving the Ellimist a hamstrung remnant of the greatness that came before. The Yeerks are seen as being firmly on the side of Crayak's pawns in their game.]]
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* GilliganCut: Shortly after causing a structure fire, Marco yells out loud that the only thing that get him into the burning building is literal divine intervention. [[AWizardDidIt He's abruptly teleported by the Ellimist]] into the basement before he can finish his sentence.
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This'll be all the trope updates for a while. I'm tired.
** [[spoiler: A more overt variety kicks in later in the fic, when Crayak looses the Howlers upon Earth.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The series ends post-war with Helium vanishing into a rift created by the Time Lattice intersecting reality and Tobias requesting a ship from Oracle so they can find him.]]
* ArcWords: "Value drift." Yeerks inevitably end up GoingNative as their host's values bleed into the coalescion, Visser Three is trying to avert this process as a means to acquire effective immortality, and the Animorphs are also slowly drifting away from their values as the war goes on.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jake and Marco sacrificed themselves to distract Crayak, Rachel and Visser Three ceased to exist as discrete entities, a large chunk of the Earth's population is dead, and so is the Ellimist. The upshot is that the war is over on all fronts, the Howlers and Crayak are history, the Ellimist's heir Oracle is benevolent and has managed to resurrect multiple parties involved with the war, and there's no reason the dead members of the crew can't just be resurrected via morph clones.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Visser Three meets his end in the physical realm once Crayak releases a quantum virus and destroys all of his various physical forms and backups.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Rachel and Visser Three's digital avatars do this, becoming the entity Oracle and taking over the hypercomputer used by Ellmist and Crayak for their eternal game.]]
** [[spoiler:Jake and Marco do this in the endgame to distract Crayak and ensure that Rachel and Visser Three can kill the dark god off for good.]]
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** The Chee operate on a fairly similar principal, as each Chee is independent, but has instant communication with each other Chee through their neural network. In the [[MadeOfIron highly improbable]] event that one dies, its consciousness lives on in the system, contributing to their collective consciousness.
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** The Chee operate on a fairly similar principal, principle, as each Chee is independent, but has instant communication with each other Chee through their neural network. In the [[MadeOfIron highly improbable]] event that one dies, its consciousness lives on in the system, contributing to their collective consciousness.
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* LastKiss: On the Arn homeworld, [[spoiler:Marco, on the verge of death after being grievously wounded, sheepishly admits that a kiss from his first love -- Jake -- wouldn't be the worst way to go out. Jake obliges.]]
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* KillTheGod: Visser Three's ultimate goal, [[spoiler:which he technically succeeds in by the endgame, since his fusion descendent Oracle manages to kill Crayak off permanently after Crayak killed the Ellimist off.]]
* LastKiss: On the Arn homeworld,[[spoiler:Marco, [[spoiler:An instance of Marco, on the verge of death after being grievously wounded, sheepishly admits that a kiss from his first love -- Jake -- wouldn't be the worst way to go out. Jake obliges.]]
* LastKiss: On the Arn homeworld,
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* PsychicBlockDefense: [[spoiler:Rachel's demorphing illness turned out in the endgame to be a defense set up by the Ellmist to ensure she would make it to the endgame fresh and ready to seize control of the hypercomputer.]]
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* RammingAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler:Jake and Marco go out the same way they did in the original series: ramming a far more powerful opponent.]] This possibility is also discussed repeatedly throughout the back half of the story, as Earth gains the capacity to manufacture hyperdrives and knowledge of how to use them to turn a ship into a planet killing projectile.
* RestrainingBolt: As with canon, the Chee possess one of these that prevents them from engaging in, aiding, or abetting violence. [[spoiler:Unlike canon, they willingly have it removed as soon as possible and obliterate much of the Howler invasion on Earth.]]
* RestrainingBolt: As with canon, the Chee possess one of these that prevents them from engaging in, aiding, or abetting violence. [[spoiler:Unlike canon, they willingly have it removed as soon as possible and obliterate much of the Howler invasion on Earth.]]
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* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:Late in the story, Rachel suffers terrible mental feedback from demorphing repeatedly and suffers a stroke. The resultant brain damage leaves her... insensible much of the time, but this does not stop her from successfully killing a Howler in single combat during a moment of lucidity.]]
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* VisionaryVillain: Visser Three to a T. Though unquestionably insane, his endgame is to ultimately [[defeat the Ellimist and Crayak, supplant them, and harness entropy to ensure immortality can be reached.]]
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* VisionaryVillain: Visser Three to a T. Though unquestionably insane, his endgame is to ultimately [[defeat [[spoiler:defeat the Ellimist and Crayak, supplant them, and harness entropy to ensure immortality can be reached.]]
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Though the story is complete, its tropes have not been fully updated. I will provide updates as I finish reading it.
* VisionaryVillain: Visser Three to a T. Though unquestionably insane, his endgame is to ultimately [[defeat the Ellimist and Crayak, supplant them, and harness entropy to ensure immortality can be reached.]]
* WeaponizedTeleportation: The alien beam weapons work by teleporting matter into and out of Z-space thousands of times in an instant, with the resulting friction inflicting various degrees of damage.
* WeaponizedTeleportation: The alien beam weapons work by teleporting matter into and out of Z-space thousands of times in an instant, with the resulting friction inflicting various degrees of damage.
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The story cycles between points of view, with a different point of view for each chapter (in a fashion similar to the canon books), including the six main characters, Visser Three, and various secondary characters. Each of them has their own strengths, weaknesses and their perspective on the plot, and the series has been praised for avoiding the pitfall of making one super-smart MarySue protagonist, featuring several compelling, complementary characters instead.
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The story cycles between points of view, with a different point of view for each chapter (in a fashion similar to the canon books), including the six main characters, Visser Three, and various secondary characters. Each of them has their own strengths, weaknesses and their perspective on the plot, and the series has been praised for avoiding the pitfall of making one super-smart MarySue protagonist, featuring several compelling, complementary characters instead.
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Defied. Tobias and Jake note that the war feels a lot less black and white when they consider the Yeerk's probable motivations for waging it. Cassie notes that the protagonists are NotSoDifferent: the Yeerks think they can get what they want through slavery, the Animorphs think they can get what they want through murder.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Defied. Tobias and Jake note that the war feels a lot less black and white when they consider the Yeerk's probable motivations for waging it. Cassie notes [[NotSoDifferentRemark that the protagonists are NotSoDifferent: aren't so different]]: the Yeerks think they can get what they want through slavery, the Animorphs think they can get what they want through murder.
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As of March 2020, it is still being updated at a semi-regular pace of at least one (very long) chapter a month.
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* AllPowerfulBystander: The Ellimist and Crayak, as in canon. Although the fact that neither of them cuts loose [[BlueAndOrangeMorality isn't treated as a bad thing]].
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* AllPowerfulBystander: The Ellimist and Crayak, as in canon. Although the fact that neither of them cuts loose [[BlueAndOrangeMorality isn't treated as a bad thing]]. [[spoiler:Both are constrained by the amount of "influence" that their direct involvement costs them, relative to the other; one player taking direct action in the universe directly and correspondingly empowers the other to do something comparable whenever they choose.]]
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** [[spoiler:Cassie is killed by the asteroid after trying to rescue a kid in the Yeerk pool.]] It is strongly implied that this death is permanent.
** [[spoiler:Jake, Marco, Garrett, Tobias and Rachel are killed by Visser 3 in a failed ambush, and Ax is gravely injured. They are restored thanks to Tom's morph copies of them being given to [[ConvenientTerminalIllness some civilians in a cancer ward,]] who sacrifice themselves to become ''nothlits'' of the Animorphs. Ax's death is treated somewhat more seriously, and his morph duplicate sheds his former identity, renaming himself Helium.]]
** [[spoiler:Jake, Marco, Garrett, Tobias and Rachel are killed by Visser 3 in a failed ambush, and Ax is gravely injured. They are restored thanks to Tom's morph copies of them being given to [[ConvenientTerminalIllness some civilians in a cancer ward,]] who sacrifice themselves to become ''nothlits'' of the Animorphs. Ax's death is treated somewhat more seriously, and his morph duplicate sheds his former identity, renaming himself Helium.]]
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** [[spoiler:Cassie is killed by the asteroid after trying to rescue a kid in the Yeerk pool.]] It is strongly implied that this death is permanent.
After the Howler attack, [[spoiler:she re-emerges, having been kept in Z-space stasis by the Ellimist until the right moment.]]
** [[spoiler:Jake, Marco, Garrett, Tobias and Rachel are killed by Visser 3 in a failed ambush, and Ax is gravely injured. They are restored thanks to Tom's morph copies of them being given to [[ConvenientTerminalIllness some civilians in a cancer ward,]] who sacrifice themselves to become ''nothlits'' of the Animorphs. Ax's death is treatedsomewhat far more seriously, and his morph duplicate sheds his former identity, renaming himself Helium.Helium. The others occasionally grimly remind themselves that they've already died as a result of their carelessness.]]
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** The Ellimist's role in the game [[spoiler:is more or less predicated on this. His predecessor, Toomin, was extremely gifted at arranging situations to play out in the way he wants them to, up to and including [[ThanatosGambit essentially lobotomizing himself]] to "play" with Crayak at a severe handicap.]]
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** The Ellimist [[spoiler:represents this for Toomin, who agreed to reduce himselfas Ax.in personality and ability to such an extreme degree that Toomin does not consider his "player" to be an extension of himself.]]
** The Ellimist [[spoiler:represents this for Toomin, who agreed to reduce himself
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* OrderVsChaos: In contrast to their canon counterparts, Ellimist and Crayak self-identify as gods of chaos and order, respectively.
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* OrderVsChaos: In contrast to their canon counterparts, Ellimist and Crayak self-identify as gods of chaos and order, respectively. Crayak's [[spoiler:true form]] is described with analogies to erupting volcanoes, thunderstorms, and nuclear bombs, while the Ellimist's [[spoiler:progenitor]] is associated with memories of nature.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The story takes place in the late 2020s, as confirmed by [[https://old.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/knw078/rt_ff_wip_ranimorphs_the_reckoning_chapter_44/ghnarne/ Word Of God]] (spoiler warning: That link will take you to the discussion thread for Chapter 44).
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* OrderVsChaos: In contrast to their canon counterparts, Ellimist and Crayak self-identify as gods of chaos and order, respectively.
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* BiTheWay: Marco, who was confirmed by WordOfGod to be bisexual in canon, admits that [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Jake]] was his first crush, though by the time of the story, he's more into Rachel.
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