Rachel (Animorphs) - Rachel's Morphs

Rachel's Morphs

Like David, Rachel favored an aggressive style of fighting. Her battle morphs were the grizzly bear and African elephant, both massive and strong creatures.

Rachel's transportation morphs were slightly different from the others. Her preferred transportation morph was the bald eagle. Like the others, she also had the flea, housefly, seagull, and cockroach. However, she also acquired a great horned owl.

She underwent some morphing problems. The first was an allergy to the crocodile DNA, which caused her to morph uncontrollably and randomly when she experienced heightened emotions. This morph had to be ejected in a procedure known as hereth illint. She also acquired a starfish to retrieve an earring that she had dropped into a tide pool, and when a young kid sliced her starfish morph in half with a shovel, she was divided into the two opposite halves of her personality: "Mean Rachel" and "Nice Rachel". Ax and Erek managed to put her two halves back together by having the two Rachels acquire and morph each other simultaneously; this, along with a massive burst of electric energy supplied by Erek, caused them to re-combine.

In "The Return", Crayak grants Rachel two new morphs; a giant, carnivorous, self-regenerating venus flytrap and a monstrous version of herself (dubbed Super-Rachel) with retractable claws within the fingertips and superhuman strength, the former of which being a likely reference to the Howlers. It is presumed she lost these morphs after the events of this book.

Specific missions called for some single-purpose morphs. She acquired a sperm whale to find a squid to restore the Pemalite ship's programming. During the battle for the Hork-Bajir valley, she acquired a beaver to build a dam.

Including unusable and unused morphs, Rachel has 44 potential morphs.

The following table contains all of Rachel's morphs: