miraculoussparrow
asked:
I'm reading a biography about a badass screenwriter Dalton Trambo, blacklisted during HUAC and sent to prison. He was cool. Anyway, my point is that one of the movies he worked on is titled Lonely are the Brave and the first thing I thought of was "That so describes the animorphs". Then I thought hey, that sounds familiar and remembered you screaming in the tags about "Too few in number and too proud to hide" so I figured I should tell you.

First of all, I’ve never been so pleased in my life as I am by this fact.  If every single person on this blog knows me as “that one person screaming about the Animorphs” I’m fine with that.

Second of all, I’m with you???? I’m so with you??  There are so many good terrible tragic Animorphs quotes in the world.  This one (the one you mentioned) is still my favorite though and I’m constantly screeching about how good it is.  Behold the brave battalion…  Hell yes.  That’s the stuff.  I should write a whole entire fic about how a rich Controller who saw the six of them go into battle at the end of the war commissioned a statue with the money their Yeerk made, and so there’s a statue in their rebuilt hometown of four kids standing back to back, one of the girls with a hawk on her arm and a young Andalite at their side ready to strike, with that quote on the base and the years of the War and not a damn thing else.

Fuck.

animorphsBEHOLD THE BRAVE BATTALION THAT STANDS SIDE BY SIDETOO FEW IN NUMBER AND TOO PROUD TO HIDEEXCUSE ME I NEED TO GO COLLECT MYSELFbut honestly that statue thoughlike i know there's probably a handful of courageous statues of their battle morphsand children hoist themselves up onto the wolf and imitate the roaring bear and take pictures with the gorillabut i think that's the one that their hometown should havejust...four kids and a bird and an alien childscared and young and desperatebut yet standingtoo proud to hideidiot teenagers with a queuemiraculoussparrowasked and answered