The mandatory state dinners after the Animorphs save the world.
The first one is a disaster. A bunch of shell shocked teenagers rubbing elbows with world leaders who thought that was a good idea. They get assigned someone to Pretty Woman them.
Ax is no longer allowed to attend in human morph but the Secret Service doesn’t like that any better because every time his tail twitches they have heart attacks.
Jake is forced to dance with many high powered women he can’t dance someone please save him.
Marco is in his element and possibly plotting world domination.
Cassie cries the first time she sees herself in a designer gown because she wishes Rachel was there for that moment.
I’m not done talking about Cassy: budding fashionista. People would assume she’d hate dressing up, Marco jokes that she’ll show up to the first official dinner in overalls.
But see, she gets HUNDREDS of proposals from designers, huge fashion houses sending her sketches and begging to create something for her. She ignores them all.
Instead she picks the least known designers she can find, the ones creating amazing stuff that no one ever gets to see because Versace and Gucci are elbowing them out of the way.
She welcomes the endless “Who are you wearing?” questions, loves being able to promote an artist and show their beauty off to the world.
KEEP TALKING ABOUT CASSIE
You mean keep talking about how she’s the only one who really enjoys the fancy dos besides Marco because she’s just as good at networking as he is? Marco is off building connections for himself, Cassie is murmuring in the right ears about the Hork Bajir really needing a permanent place to call home.
She speaks loudly and publicly about environmental issues but she knows the real work is done one-on-one in rooms the general public doesn’t have access to. She is not above using her privilege to make sure their voices get heard by the right people.
The Hork Bajir settlement was informally finalized at the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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