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Alright, let's get this out of the way:
== The end - Rachel, Jake, Tobias and Tom. ==
* For the whole of the series, it was Jake's intention to free his brother from enslavement from the Yeerk in his head, instead of killing what was an incredibly dangerous enemy as well as his brother. In Rachel's final battle, Tom's final words - "''JAKE, STOP HER!''" - drive home the tragedy of the situation. Even Tom didn't think Jake would go so far as to have his own brother killed. Jake's later narration doesn't help:
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* Pretty much everything about Marco and Eva.
* It starts early. In the very second book in the series, Rachel acquire the morph of a friend's pet cat to infiltrate their house because she suspects that Melissa is a controller. She's wrong. It's her parents. As Controllers, they don't have any feelings of warmth or love for their daughter. This troper broke down as Melissa confided to Cat!Rachel "why don't they love me anymore?"
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{{quote|'''Melissa:''' ''"You didn't ''hear'' me? But Daddy, I was ''crying.''
'''Controller:''' ''I uh...didn't notice you.''
''Melissa looked like she'd been slapped.'' }}
** And all this just makes a scene later in the book, when it's revealed Chapman and his wife became Controllers with the caveat that the Yeerks would not do the same to Melissa, all the more
* A certain passage from "The Andalite Chronicles" becomes even more
* I found #19 - The Departure to be pretty much one big tear jerker.
* In ''The Capture'', Jake gets infested by Tom's former Yeerk and he has to be isolated for 3 days to strave the Yeerk to death. During that time, the Yeerk torutures Jake mentally, but the worst moment is when the Yeerk let's Jake experience one of his older brother's memories in full. Jake watches the memory of Tom mentally begging the Yeerk to leave his brother alone while the Yeerk pretends to be him trying to convince Jake to join the Sharing. Jake feeling Tom's utter helplessness, misery, and desire for the release of death is bad enough, and then you realize that this is exactly how Tom feels every ''second of his life.''
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* Ax realizing that Visser Three being a Yeerk must mean that there was an Andalite being enslaved by him once they finally meet in #8. Alloran begging Ax to kill him and having trouble remembering his own name makes you wish that Ax could jut end it then but he's so unprepared for the encounter that he can't.
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