Edriss 562 - Animorphs

Animorphs

She first appeared in Animorphs The Predator (#5), after her rival Visser Three captured the Animorphs. She freed them in order to make her archrival, Visser Three seem incompetent. During this book, Marco (in morph) discovers that his mother is still alive but controlled by a yeerk. Marco, who had thought of quitting the Animorphs, is now prepared to fight all the way until he frees his mother.

Her next appearance was in The Escape (#15), where she commands an underwater facility to infest hammerhead sharks so that she can more effectively invade the Leeran home world. Her project fails when both Visser Three and the Animorphs thwart her plans. A Leeran-Controller tries to tell her that Marco, in gorilla morph, is human, but she misunderstands, thinking the Leeran is saying that the animal is human. After she explains that it's only a similar animal to a human, the Leeran attempts to clarify, but is knocked unconscious by Marco before he can explain.

One of Edriss 562's most prominent appearances was in The Reunion (#30), who at that time had been demoted to Sub-Visser rank due to her failure in the project destined to create shark-Controllers for use on planet Leera. She makes a deal with the Animorphs in order to eliminate her rival Visser Three once and for all. The Animorphs, posing as ruthless Andalites, have offered to expose the free Hork-Bajir colony in order to discredit Visser Three. The Animorphs trick both her and Visser Three by leading them to a massive hologram (projected by Erek the Chee) portraying dying Hork-Bajir. The Vissers then turn on each other. Visser One, after learning that her host's son was one of the "bandits", appears to fall to her death.

In The Proposal (#35), Marco's father remarries a woman named Nora Robinnette. At the end of the novel, Marco receives a phone call from Visser One. This was an event later described in the book Visser. She appears as the central character in that novel, on trial for treason by several means, including incompetence, sympathy with a subject species, and needless killing of hosts. The book chronicles her explanation to the Council of Thirteen (including their speaker, her former mentor Garoff, who she came to suspect may be the Emperor) how she began her invasion of Earth and why she believes a slow inflitration of Earth would be more desirable to open war.

It is revealed that part of the reason she would not prefer to risk open war is due to the presence on Earth of two children, born of her host Allison Kim and conceived during her control of Allison. She fails to keep this hidden from the Council. Both she and Visser Three are condemned to death by Kandrona starvation; however, both sentences are suspended on the condition that they solidify the Yeerks' power on a planet. Visser Three is charged with Earth, while Visser One is charged with defending the Anati homeworld from the Andalites.

After failing to secure the Anati home world for the Yeerks, she returned to Earth in book 45 to be questioned and executed. She frantically escapes from Eva's body during the Animorphs' attempt to rescue Eva. Eva fails to crush the slug, but it is eventually stomped on by Marco, ending Visser One's life. As a result, Visser Three takes over as Visser One, and begins to wage open war on the humans.