Timmy

Timmy
Alias(es)	Tuan
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Born	c.1983-1987
Died	2000
Affiliation	Animorphs Auxiliary Animorphs
First Appearance	The Ultimate
Last Appearance	The Answer
Status	Deceased

"Rubber baby buggy bumpers. Rubber baby buggy bumpers. Rubber baby buggy bumpers. This is fantastically fabulous. Fortuitously felicitous. You want to know what hell on Earth is?"
"What?"
"Having a large vocabulary, an encyclopedic knowledge of musical theater, and a speech impediment."

―Timmy and Cassie

Timmy (also known as Tuan) was a boy with cerebral palsy recruited to be one of the first four Auxiliary Animorphs.

Biography

Auxiliary Animorph

Joining the War

"James, I've never had a fight in my life. Who's going to throw down with a kid in a wheelchair?"

―Timmy to James

When the Animorphs began looking for new members, they met first met Timmy, Collette and Kelly. After a rude reception, Collette was the first to open up to Jake, Cassie and Marco.

After Marco, Cassie and Jake explained everything about the Yeerk invasion of Earth to James, they attempted to convince him by morphing. After James was convinced, Timmy, Kelly and Collette were brought in as the first four Auxiliary Animorphs. Timmy and Kelly insisted on the others demonstrating several morphs. They all morphed pigeons and traveled together to The Gardens to acquire battle morphs. Unfortunately, Timmy was not healed by the morphing process.

During the Auxiliary Animorphs first battle, Timmy used his bobcat morph. He quickly gained a mastery of this morph's agility and strength, and helped tag team some Hork-Bajir-Controllers with Collette in crocodile morph. Timmy was also able to wrestle the Escafil device from Tom.

Death

"I felt sick inside. I should do something. I should stop this. That was the auxiliary Animorphs down there on the ground dying. Burning."

―Jake

Timmy, along with the rest of the Auxiliary Animorphs, were killed in the final battle against the Yeerks' Pool ship. They had sacrificed their lives to assist Sam Doubleday's ground force as the original Animorphs invaded the Pool ship. Jake heard Visser One gleefully order the Pool ship's gunners to kill any animals in the fight below, until the gunners report none are left.

Personality

"If you are healed, would you still be willing to pretend you're disabled? At least for the duration of the war?"
"FFF... gnnn... Fff... gnnn..."
"If I can..."
"Do... gd... YES."
"He said 'If I can do some good, then yes.'"

―Cassie, Timmy and James

To be added

Morphs

Morph	Book Acquired
Pigeon	The Ultimate
Bobcat

Trivia

• The character was originally named Tuan; however, K.A. Applegate changed it to Timmy before The Ultimate was published. Due to an editorial oversight, the name Tuan still appeared in The Sacrifice.