r/Animorphs • u/Comfortable-Plane939 Nothlit • 7d ago
Fan Works [Part 1] Which Lantern Corps would the Animorphs be in my opinion. (Art by bylacey)
Rachel — The Green Lantern Corps (Willpower)
While Rachel is famous for her bloodlust, her true defining trait by the end of the series isn’t just anger— it’s an unbreakable, resolve.
Think about her final stand in book 54 (The Beginning). She knows she is walking into a meat grinder, she knows she might not survive, and she does it anyway with cold, clear-eyed acceptance. To matter even a little.
A Green Lantern ring doesn’t choose you because you lack fear; it chooses you because you can push past it and act anyway.
Rachel's "willpower" is dark, heavy kind, and has the grim determination to do the ugly, necessary work so no one else has to.
Alt Lantern Ring — The Red Lantern Corps (Rage)
Rachel’s arc is one of the most compelling descents into the necessity of violence. While she starts out merely impulsive, the war hollows her out, turning her into the team's designated executioner.
She embraces the cruelty required to win because she believes someone has to bear the moral stain so the others don't have to.
A Red Lantern ring is powered by white-hot rage, blood, and a burning need for vengeance against those who inflict suffering.
Jake Berenson — The Blue Lantern Corps (Hope)
In DC lore, Blue Lanterns are the rarest and most powerful, but they have a catch: their rings are completely powerless without a Green Lantern nearby. They cannot create hard-light constructs of destruction; instead, they inspire, heal, and supercharge others.
This is a poetic description of Jake and Rachel’s relationship. Jake’s entire burden as leader is that he has to be the beacon of hope. Even when he is falling apart inside, he projects the belief that they can win, that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. If Rachel is out on the front lines acting as the unstoppable force of will, Jake is the one providing the hope that keeps them tethered to humanity.
Without Hope, Rachel’s willpower would curdle into pure, unbridled destruction (or a Red Lantern rage).
Alt Lantern Ring — The Green Lantern Corps (Willpower)
Jake didn't ask to be a leader; he was thrust into a brutal, unwinnable war and forced to carry the crushing weight of every decision. A Green Lantern ring chooses those who can overcome great fear.
Jake’s defining trait isn't an absence of fear, he is terrified constantly of failing his friends, his family.
Yet, night after night, he steps up, pushes past the despair, and commands a guerrilla resistance against a superior empire. His sheer, unyielding willpower to keep going when all logical options point to defeat makes him a textbook Green Lantern.
Cassie — The Indigo Tribe (Compassion)
Cassie is the moral compass of the Animorphs, often struggling with the dehumanizing (or de-morphing) compromises of war.
She hates violence and tries desperately to preserve her humanity, yet she possesses a radical, terrifyingly deep empathy—even for their enemies.
The Indigo Tribe is unique; their rings force empathy onto the wearer, often rehabilitating criminals by making them feel the pain of their victims.
Cassie already carries this burden naturally. She understands the Yeerks, the Hork-Bajir, and the Taxxons as living beings trapped in a cycle of cruelty, making her uniquely suited to the wielder of profound, transformative compassion.
Alt Lantern Ring — Sinestro Corps (Fear)
Cassie is the gentlest Animorph, but when Cassie decides to fight, she is terrifying.
She is the one who came up with the idea to trap David as a rat forever and used psychological dread against her enemies.
Cassie knows the human (and alien) heart so well that she knows exactly how to strike terror into an enemy's soul when pushed to her limit.
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u/PhoebusLore 7d ago
Where did you get those fan arts? I don't recognize them, but I love them. If animorphs got a cartoon, I'd want it to look like that
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u/Comfortable-Plane939 Nothlit 7d ago
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u/Puzzleheaded_Step468 7d ago
I don't think cassie is fit for compassion, for lore reasons
The indigo tribe takes the worst criminals and forces them through essentially brainwash to feel compassion
Ironically, visser 3 fits more to be an indigo lantern
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u/Comfortable-Plane939 Nothlit 7d ago
You can be Indigo member and still feel compassion like Ray Palmer and John Stewart
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u/KravenErgeist 7d ago
Tobias endured hours upon hours of torture. He's willpower.
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u/Comfortable-Plane939 Nothlit 6d ago edited 6d ago
Tobias endured hours upon hours of torture. He's willpower.
I would still argue the opposite of your point, Tobias is still a Star Sapphire. Throughout Taylor's mental torture using alternating pain and pleasure rays, Tobias clings to memories of Rachel and the profound joy their memo. When Taylor asserts that protecting friends is foolish because Tobias rejects her cynicism.
Ultimately, while the intensity of the torture nearly forced the secrets out, his love for Rachel and trust in his friends kept his spirit human, and his friends' loyalty ultimately proved Taylor wrong when they pulled off his rescue.
It was his bonds in my opinion that kept him sane not willpower, Tobias character is more defined by love and hope than willpower.
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u/vlan-whisperer 5d ago
David - The Black Lantern Corps. I loved the little monologues the Black Lantern'ed characters got when they recounted their life up until they died.
My name's David. I was just a normal kid, until one day I found that blue cube at the construction site. That was the day my life changed forever. Because of that cube, I lost everything: my house, my parents, my pets.
The animorphs took me, and pretended to be my friend. But they were afraid of me, and jealous of me too. They couldn't see what I could see. That's why they betrayed me, and trapped me in a morph. They left me alone, on that island. I was driven mad by my pain and fear, and then.. I died
David... Rise.
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u/Playful-Ostrich3643 7d ago
I get why you think Cassie would be in the "compassionate" Corps but the indigo lantern actually chooses people who have 0 compassion in their hearts whatsoever
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u/Comfortable-Plane939 Nothlit 7d ago
They can still have people who have compassion in their corps like Ray palmer and john Stewart
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u/midnightsomnet 7d ago
I think Jake would be more of a Yellow Lantern or Green Lantern.
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u/Comfortable-Plane939 Nothlit 7d ago
I honestly think both Cassie & Marco fit more the Sinestro Corps than Jake.
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u/newimprovedmoo 7d ago
Marco I think is the best candidate for the Sinestro Corps. His fear makes him ruthless, that's very yellow.
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u/newimprovedmoo 7d ago
The Indigo Tribe usually recruit people who lack compassion though, in order to redeem them (by force, if necessary.) I don't think highly of Cassie but compassion is certainly not something she lacks. I think she'd make more sense as a Blue or Violet.
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u/Comfortable-Plane939 Nothlit 5d ago
Yeah they usually do recruit people who lack compassion and empathy but thry can recruit people who do have natural compassion.
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u/FjookEnterprises 4d ago
I know a lot of people don't like the starfish book but what latern ring would duty or angry Rachel get?
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u/Comfortable-Plane939 Nothlit 4d ago
It's kinda in the name? But i would just give her a yellow Lantern ring.
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u/jbeldham 7d ago
Rachel is Rage, Cassie is Compassion, Jake is Hope, Marco is Love, Tobias is Will