http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/AnimorphsTheReckoning

— Marco, describing the story's stakes "You know who does have brains, though? I continued. The Yeerks. Maybe a thousand of them already. A thousand human brains, a thousand slaves, except those slaves cant even think without their masters knowing about it. There is nothing standing in their way except usdid you get that? This isnt some movie, where humanitys going to rise up and pull some bullshit trick out of its ass. The Yeerks are winning. Did you not see Elfangor get eaten? Do you not understand the stakes? He was coming to destroy the planet because he thought that might be the only way to stop them."

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Animorphs : The Reckoning is a rational fanfic of the Animorphs series by Duncan Sabien, aka TK17Studios.

The story is a retelling of the original Animorphs canon, where all characters are smarter and many aspects of the universe are more realistic or internally consistent. By the author's description, "Visser Three is competent, the Yeerks are moving rapidly, and the Animorphs are actually trying to win (but are inexperienced and unprepared)."

The story cycles between points of view, with a different point of view for each chapter (in a fashion similar to the canon books), including the six main characters, Visser Three, and various secondary characters. Each of them has their own strengths, weaknesses and their perspective on the plot, and the series has been praised for avoiding the pitfall of making one super-smart Mary Sue protagonist, featuring several compelling, complementary characters instead.

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As of March 2020, it is still being updated at a semi-regular pace of at least one (very long) chapter a month.

Animorphs: The Reckoning provides examples of the following tropes: