Anonymous asked: tell me more about the Animorphs DnD Au. I really just need an AU where they don't suffer and just have a good time
My buddy, me too right this second. For those of you who are not aware, that comment is buried somewhere in this recap of Book 7.
All right, so, like, here’s a basic breakdown of how it all goes down.
It starts with Jake’s big brother Tom, who, like, listen, his parents went “keep an eye on your younger brother after school on Fridays” and Tom went “that’s cruel” and his parents went “don’t be an ass” and Tom huffed like a teenage asshole and rolled his eyes and went “FINE.” So he decides that if he’s going to be mandatory babysitter for like four hours on Friday afternoons he’s going to do something amusing with his time, and he asks Jake if he knows anything about DnD. Jake goes “nope!” with good-natured interest because this is his big brother, and Tom’s like “GREAT we’re going to do that recruit your friends”. And Marco’s in on the spot because he’s a fucking nerd who’s probably done reading on DnD even though he’s never been able to actually play a campaign, and Rachel agrees on behalf of herself and Cassie because she’s exasperated with Jake and Cassie and this is an opportunity to force them to spend multiple hours together. (Cassie is unexpectedly the major sticking point here, but her parents are like “PLEASE HAVE FRIENDS AND A LIFE OUTSIDE THE BARN” so ultimately she ends up going.)
On the first day, as they’re leaving school, Rachel grabs Jake by the arm and points subtly over his shoulder. “Hey,” she whispers, “isn’t that Tobias?” It is, in fact, Tobias. Actively in the process of maybe fighting a bully for his backpack–if Tobias loses his backpack, no way is his uncle buying him a new one, and he’s also going to be in a hell of a lot of trouble, so yeah he’s gonna fight for it. Jake and Rachel don’t know this at the time, but listen, Berensons are Berensons in any universe. Jake ambles over, all cheerfully broad shoulders and stocky build just starting to settle into ‘teen’ rather than ‘kid,’ and silently menaces the bullies into stepping down. And then he kind of subtly kidnaps Tobias to go with them.
(Ax moves into town a month later. He’s living with his much-older brother who used to be a soldier and now he’s done with that and working as a computer…person. Full disclosure, I don’t know that much about Comp Sci, but Elfangor Shamtul is a programmer and he’s the rising star. Ax is living with him because *waves hand* better schools maybe? IDK. That’s how Ax shows up, and they kind of adopt him because he’s new and he joins their campaign.)
Tom, because he’s kind of a dick, declares that he won’t tell them anything about the plot, except that they all have to dual-class as modified Druids.
(I have added a cut because this got kind of long.)
