She's a cool character and one you could do a lot more with in dark fanfic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
The idea of the Yeerk and the host completely losing track of being separate identities is cool even if Applegate is prejudiced against kink
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
They even fit the dom/sub stereotypes - the Yeerk was a deeply insecure bureaucrat, the girl was an Alpha Mean Girl with a hidden trauma
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Their merging gives the Yeerk it's missing confidence and her the ability to view her trauma from outside and process it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Making them one perfect monster who then inflicts that trauma on others as their only way of feeling agency and power
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
The other Yeerks are like terrified of what she's become, Visser 3 is extremely vanilla in comparison
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and
I mean that's typical - she's developed too much in common with the oppressed population
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Even with the evil, from the other Yeerks' point of view she's one step from becoming a defector
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns and
The Yeerks for various reasons have a lot of teenage hosts through the Sharing and it's a liability bc of all those intense emotions
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
The whole idea is Yeerks want human hosts bc they feel so strongly but it's addictive
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I give that book a lot of credit bc it comes off as having started as a joke (the Mean Girl bully is literally an alien torturer)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
But actually really takes seriously the emotional dynamic that it's exploring there
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