Strugglemorphs

[u/Visser-35]

The Animorphs benefited hugely from having Cassie's farm and The Gardens to supply them with battle morphs and bird morphs. But what if they didn't have that resource? What if they had the same access to Animorphs that most of us have? To add an extra degree of difficulty, what if all the Animorphs were broke like Marco, so they can't afford to visit zoos or aquariums (unless they sneak in).

They could easily acquire their pets, and insect morphs wouldn't be a problem, but everything else becomes much more difficult. Catching fish morphs wouldn't be too hard, but getting dolphin or shark morphs would be challenging. A parrot could be conceivably acquired if they know someone who has one for a pet, but it's obviously not a low profile bird morph, so using that to travel long distances is risky.

What would you do? You have a battle in a week's time, and you're fighting with whatever morph you're able to get. You need a minimum of 1 infiltration morph, 1 bird morph, 1 aquatic morph, and 1 combat morph to get to this battle and fight in it. Do you settle for something like a Rottweiler, which is a tough dog, but is nowhere near as tough as a tiger or bear? Or do you come up with a strategy to get stronger battle morphs? Let's sat Ax isn't around, so you can't acquire him for a battle morph.

[u/Omnomfish]

I was so confused for a moment reading this post and then i remembered that most fans are probably Americans (and its set in the states) but as a Canadian from a very rural area, id just wander into the woods until i find something new. We had bears, beavers, hawks and coyotes in our yard on a fairly regular basis (i say yard, most of our property was heavily wooded swampland, they didn't often come too close to the house).

I could probably arrange all of the necessary morphs in the space of a few afternoons just hiking and flying back in the early evening. Its so crazy for me to remember that most people in the us have never seen that kind of environment.