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Elfangor
Name: Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul/Alan Fangor
"Real" Name: Keith Alder Applegate
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Age: Appears to be in his mid 30s
Hair Color: Dirty Blond/ Fur Color: Blue with bits of tan
Eye Color: Light-colored, blue/gray, sharp blue/green in Andalite form
Height: 5'8" in human form, a little 'shorter' in Andalite form.
Human Body: (pictured to side) Al Fangor is of medium build. He was the type to spend his time with his nose in a book rather than working out but is still healthy as Elfangor would never allow his body to get out of shape. He's Caucasian with dirty blond or light brown hair that can be described as 'unruly'. He has light colored eyes that can either be described as bluish-gray or grayish-blue. He's attractive as his human body is a mix of the DNA of both men and women (including his wife, Loren). PB Gabriel Aubry
Andalite Body: (pictured below) Andalites are a bizarre mix of different creatures. Their bottom halves are like a deer, while their top halves are like a human. Their arms are weaker than a human's though with hands that have seven fingers each instead of five. Their faces are a roundish shape with slits where a nose would be and no mouths. They have two sets of eyes, two on their face that are big and almond shaped and two that are at the end of stalks on the top of their heads. Elfangor's fur is a mix of blue and tan (signaling that he is middle-aged as a male's Andalite's blue fur tans as they age). Andalite's look almost harmless, if not for their tails, which are almost like a scorpion's including a blade at the end that can be used as a weapon.
Backstory
Elfangor was born in his family’s scoop on the Andalite home world. His father had been in the military before the war and his family designed heat transfer components for fighters. His Garibah, his guide tree, Hala Fala, was a therant tree in the woods on his family’s land. This tree gave him advice and a place to center himself.
Outside of their homeworld, the war with the Yeerks raged. As a young Andalite, Elfangor heard the stories of the horrors of the war and in his hearts he began to believe that if he could just join the effort he could be able to become a great hero and defeat the Yeerks. He was eager to prove himself.
He found himself a young aristh, a cadet, on the StarSword, a Dome ship under the command of Captain Feyorn. He and his fellow aristh, Arbron, were called to the battle bridge one day after Elfangor was done with his tailblade training. They were both shocked, as lowly aristh were rarely allowed on the bridge. Once there, the Captain gave the two young Andalites a mission. They were to board a Skirt Na ship (aliens that are very much the stereotypical aliens from every crop circle/abduction story on Earth) and recover anything that they stole from the third planet of the current solar system they were in. That third planet was Earth and the Skirt Na had taken two humans from the place, both young, a male and a female. The male was named Chapman, the female was named Loren. The Andalites took the humans and a copy of the data from the Skirt Na ship and returned to the StarSword. Elfangor was automatically impressed and strangely attracted to Loren. She was very different than anything he had seen before. She only had two legs and no tail, and her hair was the color of golden sunlight. She also had a very strange sense of humor and was kind and strong.
After they were brought back to the Dome ship the Captain put Arbron and Elfangor under the command of the disgraced war-prince Alloran. They were to bring the humans back to their home planet, a trip that would take three days in Zero Space. Elfangor spent the time talking with Loren, unafraid of breaking the law of Seerow’s Kindness by sharing too much because they were planning on changing her memory anyway. Arbron spent the time looking through the files of the Skirt Na ship. Before they were able to reach Earth Arborn found something shocking inside of the files. The Skirt Na had discovered the Time Matrix, a device that had the power to alter and control time. It was possible that they would give it to the Yeerks. Retrieving it took priority over taking the humans back to their home, so the Andalites turned their ship around and went after them, to the Taxxon homeworld.
The Taxxons are willing allies of the Yeerks. They are a race of centipede-like creatures that have an insatiable hunger for warm, live meat, making them all cannibalistic. The Andalites knew that if the Time Matrix fell into the Taxxon’s hands they would also be falling into the ‘hands’ of the Yeerks. They started their attack by taking over a small Taxxon transport ship on its way to the home planet. When they boarded the ship they were greeted by Hork-Bajir, aliens with blades that they used to carve bark off the trees of their homeworld but the Yeerks use to fight. Elfangor rushed into the fight and killed them very quickly. The discovery that he was naturally very good at tail-blade fighting should have made him feel proud, but looking at the corpses of the bodies that he had murdered disturbed Elfangor greatly. He ran back to Loren, who embraced him and calmed him down enough that he could think back to the mission.
Once he and the other Andalites searched the ship they found a pool filled with Yeerks in their natural state. Alloran wanted to flush the Yeerks out into space, but Elfangor refused to let him. In the end Arbron was able to talk them out of a major fight but Elfangor knew then that he had made an enemy out of Alloran and that his career in the military would likely be very damaged due to him refusing to follow direct orders. Feeling desperate to prove himself Elfangor acquired a Taxxon without flinching and then prepared to enter the Taxxon homeworld.
Once there the Andalites were confronted with the instincts of the Taxxon body, including the intense hunger. Elfangor was able to resist consuming the flesh of a wounded Taxxon but the fact that he didn’t eat separated him from Alloran and Arbron and attracted the attention of Sub-Visser Seven, a Yeerk who had infested a Hork-Bajir body and was currently in charge of the Taxxon home world, he was also a bit obsessed with Andalites and guessed automatically what Elfangor was. As punishment for Elfangor not demorphing on command, Sub-Visser Seven had the aristh thrown into a pit of Taxxons. He was able to escape by morphing a bird native to his homeworld that he had acquired for fun when he was a cadet. As he flew over the Taxxon’s homeworld he saw that Chapman had taken control of Alloran’s ship and was offering Loren to the Yeerks. Elfangor then had to figure out just what he was going to do. He had to get the Time Matrix, find the other Andalites, and save the humans. He landed by the Skirt Na ship, ready to steal it, when he found Arbron. Together they took the Skirt Na ship, but Elfangor soon learned that Arborn had stayed in Taxxon morph for too long and was now a Taxxon forever.
The Yeerks sent ships after the Skirt Na ship once it took off and were successful in making it crash even though they lost their fighters. The accident threw Elfangor from the ship and knocked him out. When he came too he was surrounded by Earth things and Arbron was nowhere to be seen. After he explored the Skirt Na ship and found pictures of Earth he boarded a strange yellow vehicle that he found (a Ford Mustang) and drove back towards the Yeerks. On the way he was intercepted by a living mountain. This mountain, using Arbron as its voice, explained that it was the origin of the Taxxons. They had turned against it and sided with the Yeerks. This made it angry. With Arbron it would finally have the mind it needed to defeat them. They made a plan to have Elfangor storm the ship and leave the planet while the Yeerks and the free Taxxons fought each other.
The battle was serious, but Elfangor was able to escape with Loren, Chapman and Alloran. They left Arbron behind to fight for the Taxxons (his new people). They also captured Sub-Visser Seven in his Hork-Bajir body. Alloran tossed the Hork-Bajir out of the ship and went to destroy all the innocent Yeerks again, but Elfangor knocked him unconscious to stop him. These were all fatal mistakes. For Sub-Visser Seven was actually inside of Chapman and the unconscious Andalite gave him the chance to do something he had wanted to do since he first learned about the Andalites. He infested Alloran and created the first Andalite-Controller.
The Abomination.
It was Elfangor’s fault.
He left Sub-Visser Seven/Alloran on the Taxxon homeworld, made a deal with the Yeerk in Loren’s head so that it would leave her, and set out far away from that world. They couldn’t trust Chapman anymore. Elfangor also knew that any time they left Zero Space the Yeerks would be on them, as they had put a tracking device on the ship. He couldn’t let them do that because he had the Time Matrix and no matter what that could not fall into the Yeerk’s hands.
After going in circles for a while he made the choice to go to the StarSword. The Yeerks could descend on them, but they would also be fighting an Andalite Dome Ship. It sounded like a good plan, but once they got there they realized that the StarSword was being attacked by living asteroids. Then the Yeerks appeared and there was chaos once more. Chaos that ended with Sub-Visser Seven, now Visser Thirty-Two (infesting the first Andalite was a major promotion for him), on the ship with him and them all falling into a black hole. Elfangor was able to drag the Time Matrix into the ship. Visser Thirty-Two, Loren and Elfangor all pressed their hands to the Time Matrix and pictured their home. The Time Matrix used the commands to create a new universe that was a mix of the incomplete images of the Andalite homeworld, the Yeerk homeworld, and Earth.
Loren and Elfangor traveled through this place to the ‘center’ where the Time Matrix was. They defeated Visser Thirty-Two and Elfangor told Loren to picture her home. He went with her. He knew he had no future as an Andalite, but he did have one as a human, with her.
He acquired a human morph by using collective DNA from several humans (including Loren). He took the name Alan Fangor (Loren picked it out because then people would call him ‘Al Fangor’). He went to college and taught his friend Bill how to create software for computers. The most important thing that he did, in his opinion, was to marry Loren. He had, after everything, fallen in love with her and she with him.
He lived happily as a human for three years. He missed his tail at times, and running freely through Andalite grass, but many things made up for it, most of all being with Loren.
Then one day he came home from work. Loren was gone because she had been feeling unwell and had gone to the doctors. He went into his house to find a man standing there. This man turned out to be not a man at all (Elfangor sensed this though, asking him ‘What are you?’ not ‘Who are you?’). He was the Ellimist. He told Elfangor that he was not where and when he needed to be. The timeline had been broken. Battles were lost that should have been won. The brother that his parents had been trying to have had not been born when he should. Things needed to be fixed.
Elfangor didn’t want to go. He didn’t want to leave his beloved wife, but then the Ellimist pointed out that if he remembered her Visser Three (as Visser Thirty-Two was now called) would destroy her. In order to protect his wife, Elfangor he consented to go with the Ellimist.
Three years before, when he and Loren had been talking, they had compared different dimensions to living on a piece of paper versus living in a cube. If one of the Cubies ever picked up one of the Flatties the Flattie would experience life as he never had before. He would be unable to explain what he saw the other Flatties and he would be forever changed. That was what happened to Elfangor. He saw Time. He saw through things and around things. It was amazing. It was also then that he realized the Ellimist had hidden something from him. He had a son.
A son.
He wanted to go back. He had a son. But the Ellimist said it was too late, things had been changed. He wanted to know the boy, wanted to love him, but it was too late. Though Ellimist took him away he did allow Elfangor to leave a will for the boy that would be read to him when he was old enough to understand, as much as he could anyway.
Elfangor found himself in a ship as the Blade Ship (Visser Three’s ship) and a Dome Ship faced off. He rammed the Blade Ship, winning the battle for the Andalites. He became a hero.
After, when he was back on the Andalite ship, he told the Prince all what he had done. The Prince said that no one must know this story, because the Andalites needed heroes and knowing all of this would make him not a hero. He would be forced to live a life without anyone else, not even Loren now, knowing all that had happened.
As a warrior prince, Elfangor made even more of a name for himself, all the while working to get the Andalites to head towards Earth to save the humans. He met his brother, Aximili–Esgarrouth–Isthill, for the first time when he returned home on leave. He treated his brother as an equal and taught him all about being a good warrior. During all of this time, though, he never stopped thinking about Loren and about their son. He performed all the Andalite rituals to give him strength and health and constantly thought about what his life must be like.
Finally, he was part of the plan to go to Earth. They took one Dome ship, and Elfangor insisted on taking artish Aximili with him. There was a surprise though. The Yeerks were waiting for them. The battle that followed forced the Andalites to separate the Dome part of the ship and the main part (the Dome part was where Aximili had been). Elfangor was injured past the point of surviving much longer. His hope was dashed. He had only once chance. The Time Matrix. Loren and he had hidden it in a patch of woods, but this patch was now a construction site. He landed anyway, there were five human youths outside.
“We won’t hurt you,” one of them said.
<I know>, he answered.
He told these humans everything he could. He gave them the ability to morph. He trusted them with the task of finally defeating the Yeerks.
Perhaps most important to him though, was that the boy was there. Loren’s son. His son. Tobias. The boy told Elfangor that he believed his mother was dead, that he had been told she never recovered when his dad took off. This broke all of Elfangor’s hearts. He gave this boy as much information as he could about the Yeerks, planting it right into his mind.
Visser Three landed, Elfangor told the children to hide, even as Tobias remained until the last possible second. Elfangor continued to tell the children everything that he could, even as he was doomed. He struck out against Visser Three with his tail as the Abomination gloated over his final victory. Finally the Visser morphed into a horrendous monster and ate Elfangor alive.
He died with a scream that will forever be remembered by each of those children.
Personality
Elfangor is an Andalite and he is also a human. As such, his personality can be a bit of mixture of different traits. When he was young he was very serious and yet he was an idealist. He really believed if he was a good enough warrior he could end the war. His experiences after that had taught him to have a bit of a sense of humor and have also given him a lot to be ashamed of. The burden of the knowledge of what he has done and how he had been the cause of the Abomination plagues him constantly. Despite this, he must play his part as an Andalite warrior prince. After all, his people need a hero.
He is almost regal in the way that he carries himself (even though the title ‘prince’ is more of a rank than any sort of nobility) as a good prince is a warrior, an artist, and a scientist. He is kind, but not soft. He’s careful and serious but also has his own sense of humor, something he developed because of Loren. He does have that bit of Andalite arrogance, but he’s also been seriously humbled by his experiences, because of this he can treat others as equals even when other Andalites might not consider them as such. He’s extremely intelligent, having been studious while in school and very serious in when he was studying to be a warrior. He is calm during emergencies and can handle stress very well. As a war-prince Elfangor developed a revered reputation has being noble and experienced without being jaded. Later in the books the Animorphs meet several different Andalites one of them says that he would never believe that anything Elfangor did, even if illegal, was wrong, the other tells Ax that Elfangor had “been out there” instead of just pretending like a lot of war princes.
He cares very deeply for the people he was attached to, especially his brother, wife and son (though he doesn’t really know Tobias very well). He also has a strong moral code that will make him do what he believes is right, with no cares for what will make him win and what the laws say. He refused to allow Alloran to kill those Yeerks, despite the fact that that would have been a huge blow to the Yeerk Empire and ended up creating the Abomination, and he gave the morphing power to human children despite the fact that that is against Andalite law to share technology. He does what he feels he must do, what he feels is right, despite what others tell him.
Like all Andalites (which are a free-roaming species) Elfangor is extremely claustrophobic. Even Anadalite airships are designed to have grass on the ‘floor’ and sky holograms on the ‘roof’ to give them the appearance of being home and under the Andalite sky. Dome-ships have an entire section just for running around and grazing. While Elfangor did have a human home for three years, he still doesn’t like being locked up in one place and needs to be outside often enough for him not to feel completely trapped. Which will, of course, make him just love to be a patient at Landel's.
At Landel's
Elfangor is stuck in human form during the Day. Despite being stuck in human form all day Elfangor is not a nothlit, at Night he can morph, but the process is much slower than normal and hurts (normal morphing looks like it should hurt, but it does not). Once in Andalite form Elfangor experiences a lot of pain, the pain at having been eaten alive by the Visser. The pain is so overwhelming he cannot stay in his Andalite form for very long. He can only complete two morphing cycles every Night (human->Andalite->morph->Andalite->human). If he stays too long in Andalite form he will pass out from the pain and automatically morph back into his human form. He cannot use his thought-speak (his natural way of speaking) while in morph except in times of serious physical stress, mostly all that he can do with thought-speak is scream or yell. In Andalite form, he can use thought-speak but he cannot send private messages, when he speaks everyone that is near him is able to hear him.
"Real" Name: Keith Alder Applegate
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Age: Appears to be in his mid 30s
Hair Color: Dirty Blond/ Fur Color: Blue with bits of tan
Eye Color: Light-colored, blue/gray, sharp blue/green in Andalite form
Height: 5'8" in human form, a little 'shorter' in Andalite form.
Human Body: (pictured to side) Al Fangor is of medium build. He was the type to spend his time with his nose in a book rather than working out but is still healthy as Elfangor would never allow his body to get out of shape. He's Caucasian with dirty blond or light brown hair that can be described as 'unruly'. He has light colored eyes that can either be described as bluish-gray or grayish-blue. He's attractive as his human body is a mix of the DNA of both men and women (including his wife, Loren). PB Gabriel Aubry
Andalite Body: (pictured below) Andalites are a bizarre mix of different creatures. Their bottom halves are like a deer, while their top halves are like a human. Their arms are weaker than a human's though with hands that have seven fingers each instead of five. Their faces are a roundish shape with slits where a nose would be and no mouths. They have two sets of eyes, two on their face that are big and almond shaped and two that are at the end of stalks on the top of their heads. Elfangor's fur is a mix of blue and tan (signaling that he is middle-aged as a male's Andalite's blue fur tans as they age). Andalite's look almost harmless, if not for their tails, which are almost like a scorpion's including a blade at the end that can be used as a weapon.
Backstory
Elfangor was born in his family’s scoop on the Andalite home world. His father had been in the military before the war and his family designed heat transfer components for fighters. His Garibah, his guide tree, Hala Fala, was a therant tree in the woods on his family’s land. This tree gave him advice and a place to center himself.
Outside of their homeworld, the war with the Yeerks raged. As a young Andalite, Elfangor heard the stories of the horrors of the war and in his hearts he began to believe that if he could just join the effort he could be able to become a great hero and defeat the Yeerks. He was eager to prove himself.
He found himself a young aristh, a cadet, on the StarSword, a Dome ship under the command of Captain Feyorn. He and his fellow aristh, Arbron, were called to the battle bridge one day after Elfangor was done with his tailblade training. They were both shocked, as lowly aristh were rarely allowed on the bridge. Once there, the Captain gave the two young Andalites a mission. They were to board a Skirt Na ship (aliens that are very much the stereotypical aliens from every crop circle/abduction story on Earth) and recover anything that they stole from the third planet of the current solar system they were in. That third planet was Earth and the Skirt Na had taken two humans from the place, both young, a male and a female. The male was named Chapman, the female was named Loren. The Andalites took the humans and a copy of the data from the Skirt Na ship and returned to the StarSword. Elfangor was automatically impressed and strangely attracted to Loren. She was very different than anything he had seen before. She only had two legs and no tail, and her hair was the color of golden sunlight. She also had a very strange sense of humor and was kind and strong.
After they were brought back to the Dome ship the Captain put Arbron and Elfangor under the command of the disgraced war-prince Alloran. They were to bring the humans back to their home planet, a trip that would take three days in Zero Space. Elfangor spent the time talking with Loren, unafraid of breaking the law of Seerow’s Kindness by sharing too much because they were planning on changing her memory anyway. Arbron spent the time looking through the files of the Skirt Na ship. Before they were able to reach Earth Arborn found something shocking inside of the files. The Skirt Na had discovered the Time Matrix, a device that had the power to alter and control time. It was possible that they would give it to the Yeerks. Retrieving it took priority over taking the humans back to their home, so the Andalites turned their ship around and went after them, to the Taxxon homeworld.
The Taxxons are willing allies of the Yeerks. They are a race of centipede-like creatures that have an insatiable hunger for warm, live meat, making them all cannibalistic. The Andalites knew that if the Time Matrix fell into the Taxxon’s hands they would also be falling into the ‘hands’ of the Yeerks. They started their attack by taking over a small Taxxon transport ship on its way to the home planet. When they boarded the ship they were greeted by Hork-Bajir, aliens with blades that they used to carve bark off the trees of their homeworld but the Yeerks use to fight. Elfangor rushed into the fight and killed them very quickly. The discovery that he was naturally very good at tail-blade fighting should have made him feel proud, but looking at the corpses of the bodies that he had murdered disturbed Elfangor greatly. He ran back to Loren, who embraced him and calmed him down enough that he could think back to the mission.
Once he and the other Andalites searched the ship they found a pool filled with Yeerks in their natural state. Alloran wanted to flush the Yeerks out into space, but Elfangor refused to let him. In the end Arbron was able to talk them out of a major fight but Elfangor knew then that he had made an enemy out of Alloran and that his career in the military would likely be very damaged due to him refusing to follow direct orders. Feeling desperate to prove himself Elfangor acquired a Taxxon without flinching and then prepared to enter the Taxxon homeworld.
Once there the Andalites were confronted with the instincts of the Taxxon body, including the intense hunger. Elfangor was able to resist consuming the flesh of a wounded Taxxon but the fact that he didn’t eat separated him from Alloran and Arbron and attracted the attention of Sub-Visser Seven, a Yeerk who had infested a Hork-Bajir body and was currently in charge of the Taxxon home world, he was also a bit obsessed with Andalites and guessed automatically what Elfangor was. As punishment for Elfangor not demorphing on command, Sub-Visser Seven had the aristh thrown into a pit of Taxxons. He was able to escape by morphing a bird native to his homeworld that he had acquired for fun when he was a cadet. As he flew over the Taxxon’s homeworld he saw that Chapman had taken control of Alloran’s ship and was offering Loren to the Yeerks. Elfangor then had to figure out just what he was going to do. He had to get the Time Matrix, find the other Andalites, and save the humans. He landed by the Skirt Na ship, ready to steal it, when he found Arbron. Together they took the Skirt Na ship, but Elfangor soon learned that Arborn had stayed in Taxxon morph for too long and was now a Taxxon forever.
The Yeerks sent ships after the Skirt Na ship once it took off and were successful in making it crash even though they lost their fighters. The accident threw Elfangor from the ship and knocked him out. When he came too he was surrounded by Earth things and Arbron was nowhere to be seen. After he explored the Skirt Na ship and found pictures of Earth he boarded a strange yellow vehicle that he found (a Ford Mustang) and drove back towards the Yeerks. On the way he was intercepted by a living mountain. This mountain, using Arbron as its voice, explained that it was the origin of the Taxxons. They had turned against it and sided with the Yeerks. This made it angry. With Arbron it would finally have the mind it needed to defeat them. They made a plan to have Elfangor storm the ship and leave the planet while the Yeerks and the free Taxxons fought each other.
The battle was serious, but Elfangor was able to escape with Loren, Chapman and Alloran. They left Arbron behind to fight for the Taxxons (his new people). They also captured Sub-Visser Seven in his Hork-Bajir body. Alloran tossed the Hork-Bajir out of the ship and went to destroy all the innocent Yeerks again, but Elfangor knocked him unconscious to stop him. These were all fatal mistakes. For Sub-Visser Seven was actually inside of Chapman and the unconscious Andalite gave him the chance to do something he had wanted to do since he first learned about the Andalites. He infested Alloran and created the first Andalite-Controller.
The Abomination.
It was Elfangor’s fault.
He left Sub-Visser Seven/Alloran on the Taxxon homeworld, made a deal with the Yeerk in Loren’s head so that it would leave her, and set out far away from that world. They couldn’t trust Chapman anymore. Elfangor also knew that any time they left Zero Space the Yeerks would be on them, as they had put a tracking device on the ship. He couldn’t let them do that because he had the Time Matrix and no matter what that could not fall into the Yeerk’s hands.
After going in circles for a while he made the choice to go to the StarSword. The Yeerks could descend on them, but they would also be fighting an Andalite Dome Ship. It sounded like a good plan, but once they got there they realized that the StarSword was being attacked by living asteroids. Then the Yeerks appeared and there was chaos once more. Chaos that ended with Sub-Visser Seven, now Visser Thirty-Two (infesting the first Andalite was a major promotion for him), on the ship with him and them all falling into a black hole. Elfangor was able to drag the Time Matrix into the ship. Visser Thirty-Two, Loren and Elfangor all pressed their hands to the Time Matrix and pictured their home. The Time Matrix used the commands to create a new universe that was a mix of the incomplete images of the Andalite homeworld, the Yeerk homeworld, and Earth.
Loren and Elfangor traveled through this place to the ‘center’ where the Time Matrix was. They defeated Visser Thirty-Two and Elfangor told Loren to picture her home. He went with her. He knew he had no future as an Andalite, but he did have one as a human, with her.
He acquired a human morph by using collective DNA from several humans (including Loren). He took the name Alan Fangor (Loren picked it out because then people would call him ‘Al Fangor’). He went to college and taught his friend Bill how to create software for computers. The most important thing that he did, in his opinion, was to marry Loren. He had, after everything, fallen in love with her and she with him.
He lived happily as a human for three years. He missed his tail at times, and running freely through Andalite grass, but many things made up for it, most of all being with Loren.
Then one day he came home from work. Loren was gone because she had been feeling unwell and had gone to the doctors. He went into his house to find a man standing there. This man turned out to be not a man at all (Elfangor sensed this though, asking him ‘What are you?’ not ‘Who are you?’). He was the Ellimist. He told Elfangor that he was not where and when he needed to be. The timeline had been broken. Battles were lost that should have been won. The brother that his parents had been trying to have had not been born when he should. Things needed to be fixed.
Elfangor didn’t want to go. He didn’t want to leave his beloved wife, but then the Ellimist pointed out that if he remembered her Visser Three (as Visser Thirty-Two was now called) would destroy her. In order to protect his wife, Elfangor he consented to go with the Ellimist.
Three years before, when he and Loren had been talking, they had compared different dimensions to living on a piece of paper versus living in a cube. If one of the Cubies ever picked up one of the Flatties the Flattie would experience life as he never had before. He would be unable to explain what he saw the other Flatties and he would be forever changed. That was what happened to Elfangor. He saw Time. He saw through things and around things. It was amazing. It was also then that he realized the Ellimist had hidden something from him. He had a son.
A son.
He wanted to go back. He had a son. But the Ellimist said it was too late, things had been changed. He wanted to know the boy, wanted to love him, but it was too late. Though Ellimist took him away he did allow Elfangor to leave a will for the boy that would be read to him when he was old enough to understand, as much as he could anyway.
Elfangor found himself in a ship as the Blade Ship (Visser Three’s ship) and a Dome Ship faced off. He rammed the Blade Ship, winning the battle for the Andalites. He became a hero.
After, when he was back on the Andalite ship, he told the Prince all what he had done. The Prince said that no one must know this story, because the Andalites needed heroes and knowing all of this would make him not a hero. He would be forced to live a life without anyone else, not even Loren now, knowing all that had happened.
As a warrior prince, Elfangor made even more of a name for himself, all the while working to get the Andalites to head towards Earth to save the humans. He met his brother, Aximili–Esgarrouth–Isthill, for the first time when he returned home on leave. He treated his brother as an equal and taught him all about being a good warrior. During all of this time, though, he never stopped thinking about Loren and about their son. He performed all the Andalite rituals to give him strength and health and constantly thought about what his life must be like.
Finally, he was part of the plan to go to Earth. They took one Dome ship, and Elfangor insisted on taking artish Aximili with him. There was a surprise though. The Yeerks were waiting for them. The battle that followed forced the Andalites to separate the Dome part of the ship and the main part (the Dome part was where Aximili had been). Elfangor was injured past the point of surviving much longer. His hope was dashed. He had only once chance. The Time Matrix. Loren and he had hidden it in a patch of woods, but this patch was now a construction site. He landed anyway, there were five human youths outside.
“We won’t hurt you,” one of them said.
<I know>, he answered.
He told these humans everything he could. He gave them the ability to morph. He trusted them with the task of finally defeating the Yeerks.
Perhaps most important to him though, was that the boy was there. Loren’s son. His son. Tobias. The boy told Elfangor that he believed his mother was dead, that he had been told she never recovered when his dad took off. This broke all of Elfangor’s hearts. He gave this boy as much information as he could about the Yeerks, planting it right into his mind.
Visser Three landed, Elfangor told the children to hide, even as Tobias remained until the last possible second. Elfangor continued to tell the children everything that he could, even as he was doomed. He struck out against Visser Three with his tail as the Abomination gloated over his final victory. Finally the Visser morphed into a horrendous monster and ate Elfangor alive.
He died with a scream that will forever be remembered by each of those children.
Personality
Elfangor is an Andalite and he is also a human. As such, his personality can be a bit of mixture of different traits. When he was young he was very serious and yet he was an idealist. He really believed if he was a good enough warrior he could end the war. His experiences after that had taught him to have a bit of a sense of humor and have also given him a lot to be ashamed of. The burden of the knowledge of what he has done and how he had been the cause of the Abomination plagues him constantly. Despite this, he must play his part as an Andalite warrior prince. After all, his people need a hero.
He is almost regal in the way that he carries himself (even though the title ‘prince’ is more of a rank than any sort of nobility) as a good prince is a warrior, an artist, and a scientist. He is kind, but not soft. He’s careful and serious but also has his own sense of humor, something he developed because of Loren. He does have that bit of Andalite arrogance, but he’s also been seriously humbled by his experiences, because of this he can treat others as equals even when other Andalites might not consider them as such. He’s extremely intelligent, having been studious while in school and very serious in when he was studying to be a warrior. He is calm during emergencies and can handle stress very well. As a war-prince Elfangor developed a revered reputation has being noble and experienced without being jaded. Later in the books the Animorphs meet several different Andalites one of them says that he would never believe that anything Elfangor did, even if illegal, was wrong, the other tells Ax that Elfangor had “been out there” instead of just pretending like a lot of war princes.
He cares very deeply for the people he was attached to, especially his brother, wife and son (though he doesn’t really know Tobias very well). He also has a strong moral code that will make him do what he believes is right, with no cares for what will make him win and what the laws say. He refused to allow Alloran to kill those Yeerks, despite the fact that that would have been a huge blow to the Yeerk Empire and ended up creating the Abomination, and he gave the morphing power to human children despite the fact that that is against Andalite law to share technology. He does what he feels he must do, what he feels is right, despite what others tell him.
Like all Andalites (which are a free-roaming species) Elfangor is extremely claustrophobic. Even Anadalite airships are designed to have grass on the ‘floor’ and sky holograms on the ‘roof’ to give them the appearance of being home and under the Andalite sky. Dome-ships have an entire section just for running around and grazing. While Elfangor did have a human home for three years, he still doesn’t like being locked up in one place and needs to be outside often enough for him not to feel completely trapped. Which will, of course, make him just love to be a patient at Landel's.
At Landel's
Elfangor is stuck in human form during the Day. Despite being stuck in human form all day Elfangor is not a nothlit, at Night he can morph, but the process is much slower than normal and hurts (normal morphing looks like it should hurt, but it does not). Once in Andalite form Elfangor experiences a lot of pain, the pain at having been eaten alive by the Visser. The pain is so overwhelming he cannot stay in his Andalite form for very long. He can only complete two morphing cycles every Night (human->Andalite->morph->Andalite->human). If he stays too long in Andalite form he will pass out from the pain and automatically morph back into his human form. He cannot use his thought-speak (his natural way of speaking) while in morph except in times of serious physical stress, mostly all that he can do with thought-speak is scream or yell. In Andalite form, he can use thought-speak but he cannot send private messages, when he speaks everyone that is near him is able to hear him.
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