History Fanfic / Eleutherophobia

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The bus driver doesn't even blink at two aliens, five human war heroes, and Tom getting onto the bus.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Why are there now human-Controllers loose on Earth again? [[spoiler:They're not here to grab more hosts, or for intel, or to assassinate people. They're here for ''food''- the Blade ship may have more than enough Kandrona for the Yeerks, but the human hosts need actual food, and after two years, they've run low enough that Rachel's weak and suffering from malnutrition.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: The series starts with Essa 412's death, but his actions have left Tom with lasting mental scars. The aftermath of Rachel's death looms over the Berenson family and Tobias. There's also Vicky Austin, a cooking show (and Yeerk) host whose suicide is mentioned a couple of times.

* InSpiteOfANail: When Tom realises that Jake sent Rachel on a suicide mission, he tries to help her out by attacking some of the morph-controllers. She still dies.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Eva says she hates voluntary Controllers for being complicit with the Yeerk Empire's slavery, but Tom argues that most of them were either from desperate situations, or wanted to keep their families safe... like him, and admits that he offered to stop fighting Essa if he'd promise that Tom's family wouldn't be infested. (Essa didn't take the offer.)

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Eva says she hates voluntary Controllers for being complicit with the Yeerk Empire's slavery, but Tom argues that most of them were either from desperate situations, or wanted to keep their families safe... like him.

** Tom was already stated to be suicidal in canon, but this series explores it further. In ''War Games'', he briefly contemplates shooting himself in the head with a Dracon beam. In ''City of Lost Children'', he tries to [[FightingFromTheInside regain control of his body]] and stab himself in the brain to kill Essa along with him, but he can't. In ''Ghost in the Shell'', he tells Jake that he spent two months' worth of Yeerk Pool visits in a straightjacket because he couldn't even hide his suicidal thoughts from the Yeerks.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All of the fics (except ''A Straight Line Down Through the Heart'') are named after sci-fi movies. Additionally, all the chapters of ''Ghost in the Shell'' are named after songs, and all the chapters of ''The Thing from Another World'' and ''Escape from L.A.'' are named after ''Animorphs'' quotes.

* IDieFree: [[spoiler:Tom is so terrified by the idea that there are still Yeerks infesting people out there that he prepares to shoot himself with a Dracon beam.]]

** Tom and Bonnie discuss how morphing works, and it's mentioned that it doesn't heal ''all'' injuries — Alloran still has a few battle scars despite morphing countless times — and Tom muses that he's the perfect host now that he has the morphing power. A few chapters later, [[spoiler:Tom freaks out about the idea of the Yeerks returning, and tries to permanently cut off two of his fingers so he won't be considered a viable host.]]

* EvilWillFail: [Tom explains to Jake's class of military cadets that the Yeerk Empire was doomed to fail because its authoritarian power structure caused its subjects to be too afraid to question authority... though the Animorphs running around and breaking things certainly didn't help.