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.
words-writ-in-starlight
answered:

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.

words-writ-in-starlight

@drifteratheart wanted to be able to reblog my tags, so: 

#animorphs #BEHOLD THE BRAVE BATTALION THAT STANDS SIDE BY SIDE #TOO FEW IN NUMBER AND TOO PROUD TO HIDE #EXCUSE ME I NEED TO GO COLLECT MYSELF #but honestly that statue though #like i know there’s probably a handful of courageous statues of their battle morphs #and children hoist themselves up onto the wolf and imitate the roaring bear and take pictures with the gorilla #but i think that’s the one that their hometown should have #just…four kids and a bird and an alien child #scared and young and desperate #but yet standing #too proud to hide

I’m Very Serious about that statue.

Source: words-writ-in-starlight
animorphsbehold the brave battalionhonestly should i just have a brave battalion tag because i can easily make that happeni love it so muchanyway in the ellimist ex machina au that's going to be A Thingellimist ex machinathe statue is modeled after their child-selvesat the start of the wara memorial to the survivorsthere are plenty of walls and obelisks and such commemorating those who diedbut the statue is a monument to the six children who sacrificed everything for the sake of the worldalso i mostly use tags for non-essentialslikeyou don't NEED to read themeverything that i feel is important is in the postyou know me a little better if you read my tags but they're not necessaryand i feel bad just routinely hijacking posts and asks and what have you with my infinite Feelingsso thus: tagsyou can copy-paste them into the post when you reblog it if you like!