Eleutherophobia

Eleutherophopia is a post-canon Animorphs fanfiction series by SoloMoon, a what if fic about Tom Berenson surviving the events of #54: The Beginning. The series has 12 fanworks. There's also a podfic series by AlcatrazOutpatient, podfic series on AO3 here, currently with 6 podfics.
Eleutherophobia has many original characters, which Sol names as allusions, often to other YA works. In her post Character Names in Eleutherophobia she says the names are references, as opposed to characters that have been crossed over.SoloMoon on her Animorphs blog thejakeformerlyknownasprince, Character Names in Eleutherophobia. Posted 14 June 2017. (Accessed 15 July 2018.)
==The Series==
The summary for the series on AO3 reads:
The series as a whole explores what being an ex-Controller would be like and how the Berenson family copes with the aftermath of the Yeerk invasion and their respective parts in it.
Because Animorphs was written in such a way that the town the Animorphs live in might be anywhere and because many of the main characters have no canonical last names, Sol has filled in much of that information herself. For example:
* Their town being in California was revealed in #53: The Answer and Sol picked Santa Barbara for their town.
* Many characters need to be given whole or partial names. Major OCs are listed below. For canon characters:
** Cassie is given the last name "Day"
** Marco and his family are given the last name "Alvarez"SoloMoon's Lost World.
** David is given the last name "Little"SoloMoon's The Day the Earth Stood Still
===The Day the Earth Stood Still===
The Day the Earth Stood Still is named after the 1951 film of the same name, in which an alien lands on earth and demands humans either live peacefully or be destroyed to protect other planets. In the fic, Tom falls from the Yeerk-controlled Blade Ship and survives the fall to earth by morphing. He spends much of the fic held captive under suspicion of still being a Controller, waiting for three days to pass to prove there's no yeerk in his head anymore, thus 'standing still' for much of the fic.
====Name origins====
::Essa 412
This is the yeerk who controlled Tom for three years, also known as Visser Seventeen. Tom kills him in the opening scene of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and notes that Essa 412 hated Britney Spears, so Tom got in the habit of memorizing and singing her songs in his head to annoy Essa.
Tom uses it to refer to Essa in "The Day The Earth Stood Still" but he in "City of Lost Children."
::Leslie Burke
Private Burke is one of the soldiers who brings Anne Shirley in. She responds to Tom's pleading, asks his name, and is sympathetic to his plight. As promised, she comes back later in the day to give him the news: Jake and the rest of the Animorphs are fine, except for Rachel. The next day she comes after she's off-duty to tell him that Peace Accords have been signed and the humans won.
::Anne Shirley
Anne is the little girl who comes in half-morphed into a vulture, accompanied by four soldiers who put her into the cell next to Tom. She still has a yeerk in her head, Nistril 861, and goes through the fugue state before Nistril crawls out of her. Anne is five and a half and an orphan; her aunt comes to pick her up. When Nistril dies, Anne says she misses her. Nistril's parents were also dead.
::George Little
George is brought in after Anne and put on Tom's other side. The yeerk in his head is Sub-Visser Eight. He's David's father and used to work for the NSA before the yeerk in his head gave up state secrets. He and Tom talk about both being from Santa Barbara and he asks Tom to keep a lookout for David when he gets back to California. George heads straight to Fort Meade when he's let out.
===Lost World===
Two weeks after the events of "The Day the Earth Stood Still," Tom watches TV and settles on watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers and then the first Jurassic Park with Jake. They discuss the Jurassic Park, after which this fic is named.
True to Sol's committment to remain firmly entrenched in the late 90's era of the Animorphs, Tom flicks past a news report by Katie Couric about a man being cleared of a murder the yeerk in his head committed, an episode of Dr. Phil about an extramarital affair a yeerk had while in control of a woman's body, an interview with Joss Whedon about if the vampires in Buffy are a metaphor for yeerks, Steve Irwin meeting the hork-bajir, a mention of Joey Chandler from Friends being a Controller, Rush Limbaugh stirring up trouble, Morgan Freeman's voiceover explaining how yeerk biology works, and possibly Mika Brzesinski.
====Name origins====
::[Steve] Carlsberg
Carlsberg is a character in some fictional military show on the TV, yelled at by a "man in fatigues and eyeliner" who's upset because, "If these new recruits were any younger, they’d be goddamned Animorphs!"
===War Games===
Set about a month after "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and therefore about two weeks after "Lost World."
===City of Lost Children===
Canon compliant, set two years before "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
===THX 1138===
Set a month after "The Day The Earth Stood Still," so probably only a little after "War Games." Among other details in the fic, Tom finds Jake's collection of awards for his part in the fight against the yeerk invasion: "a Medal of Honor, a Victoria Cross, a U.N. Special Service Medal, a Purple Heart, and about eight other military awards."SoloMoon's THX 1138
====Name origins====
::Joey Costello
::Dr. Pendanski
::Jodi O’Shea
===These Are the Damned===
===Akira===
====Name origins====
::Dr. Miranda Franklin
::Jennifer Murdley
::Mrs. [Hannah] Gruen
===Back to the Future===
===Ghost in the Shell===
====Name origins====
::Mary Lennox
::Rose Rita
::Margaret White
::Sophie Hatter
::[Mr.] Broxholm
::Anita Psammead
::Miss Zarves
::Nikto 770
::Kit Rodriguez
::Aristotle “Ari” [Mendoza]
::Dante [Quintana]
::Gabriel “G.T.” Stoop
::Elijah Springfield
::Lydia [Bennett]
::Nick Adams
::T.J. Avery
::Cecily Tallis
::Maybeth Tillerman
::June Boatwright
::Caitlin Somers
::Alex Morales
::Cooper-Trebond
::Jesse Hauptman
::Timmy Dugan
::Luke Castellan and Chris Rodriguez
::“Cornelius”
::Odette
::Rod Allbright
::Officer Nice
::Gerald “Jerry” Cruncher
::Paul Edgecombe
::Kate Malone
::Mae Tuck
::Annie Hughes
::Kirsten Larson
::Adah Price
::Iris Chase
::Dawn Schafer
::Henry Case
::Parvana Weera
::Raven Madison
::Mr. [Bob] Grey
::Ms. [Mary] Logan
::Karana Nicoleño
===Total Recall===
====Name origins====
::Vicky Austin
::Samuel Cornick
===The Thing from Another World===
====Name origins====
::Seth Clearwater
::Captain William Nasland
::Allison Chapman
::Simon Grace
::Giselle Villard
===A Straight Line Down Through the Heart===
A Straight Line Down Through the Heart (sometimes just called A Straight Line Down) is told in third person from Cassie's point of view. The title is from the song "The Origin of Love" from the 1998 musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which is quoted at the beginning of the fic:
The fic takes place during a dinner party thrown by Tom and Jake's parents and offers an outside POV on the Berensons, especially Tom and his relationship with Bonnie, and shows Jake and Cassie rekindling their relationship. Cassie's mom appears at the beginning of the fic.
Excerpt from Animorphs Fic: A TimelineSol on thejakeformerlyknownasprince, Animorphs Fic: A Timeline, posted 14 January 2018. Accessed 01 September 2018.
Approximate date	Canon event or fic
January 2000 	The yeerk-human war comes out into the open
March 2000 	The war endsDay the Earth Stood StillLost World
April 2000 	Ghost in the Shell beginsWar GamesTHX 1138
May 2000 	These Are the Damned
June 2000 	AkiraBack to the Future
February 2001 	Ghost in the Shell ends
March 2001 	Visser Three’s trial at the HagueTotal Recall
May 2001 	Thing From Another World
March 2003 	Ax disappears; Jake et al go looking for him
==Chronological order==
The fics above are listed in order published, which is the order they're arranged in by SoloMoon on AO3. In a tumblr post, Sol laid out her headcanon for the timeline of the series and where Eleutherophobia's parts fit in.
City of Lost Children takes place during the war, two years before The Day the Earth Stood Still, which would put it some time in 1998 by the timeline above. A Straight Line Down Through the Heart hadn't been published yet, but occurs last of all the currently published parts of Eleutherophobia and presumably soon after Thing From Another World.
==Fan Reactions==
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==References==
Category:Animorphs
Category:Gen Fanfiction
Category:2010s Fanfiction