the atla gaang in the animorphs universe (‘cause i can)
sokka - the leader, jake/marco mashup [battle morph: arctic wolf]
yue - the nothlit, tobias/cassie mashup [battle morph: barn owl]
toph - the tank, rachel/marco mashup [battle morph: bull moose]
aang - the pacifist, ax/cassie mashup [battle morph: olive baboon]
zuko - the andalite, ax/rachel mashup [missing the left eyestalk]
katara - the lieutenant, tom/rachel/cassie mashup [battle morph: jaguar]
jet - the traitor [battle morph: spotted hyena]
the yeerks
long feng - edriss/visser one (with kya as host)
ozai - esplin/visser three (with ursa as host)
zhao - temrash ; azula - visser seventeen (with katara as host)
ty lee - aftran (with aang as temporary host)
others
mai - estrid
suki - toby
lu ten - elfangor
notes --
maybe ursa returns from war a little sharper, a little crueler (to do recon on andal) ... and just when she (he, ozai) is finished and just about to depart, finds an excuse to publicly maim her son -- before he is even old enough to join the warriors’ academy -- and it’s a shellshocked iroh (grieving for a distant son) who collects the pieces ...
does this mean yue is lu ten’s daughter and therefore zuko’s niece? yes? yes. but i thought yue being trapped in owl shape as a nothlit was too good of an idea to pass up.
hakoda, having to stand in for both peter and mr. berenson, would react a little better at the “death” of his wife i think -- and sokka would likely react better to his dad dating bato than marco did with peter dating nora.
obviously sokka would stop at nothing to get katara free from the yeerks, so we can assume that at some point they kidnap katara and spirit her away to the woods with zuko and yue to starve the yeerk out (sorry azula), and then katara of course immediately volunteers (demands) to join the animorphs. so, please imagine the following two scenarios:
ozai, yelling: there’s another andalite bandit?! whatever hapless lackey du jour: it would seem so, visser :(
and
azula talking through katara, surrounded by the gaang in their battle morphs: so where is he? the real andalite scum? visser three told us all about him. oh come on. you know. [miming a single stalk eye] “i must defeat the yeerks to regain my honor.” it’s okay. you can laugh. it’s funny.