Meme: Crowning Moment

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Crowning Moment

In the spirit of TV Tropes' Crowning Moment of Funny, Crowning Moment of Awesome, and Crowning Moment of Heartwarming (no, I'm not linking to the TV Tropes page, for all your sakes) I invite you all to post your favorite Crowning Moments for your characters, both from canon and from Taxon. Feel free to comment to other people's muses with your favorite Crowning Moments they missed!

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Awesome:

OH GOD I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START. Ax is such a badass.

• OK, so there's this alternate timeline in which Ax's five human friends never gain the morphing power. Meanwhile, Ax is stranded in a spaceship at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. In this alternate timeline, Ax manages to escape the spaceship all on his own, with half the enemy's army on his tail. Then he hatches a plan, again all on his own, to bring down the Yeerk Empire. With this plan, he practically single-handedly (with some help from four of the humans, who in this timeline can't morph) succeeds, in the span of six weeks. In the original timeline, it takes three and a half years. Sure, in the alternate timeline there are far more human casualties, but still that is so goddamn awesome.
  
  
• He brings down a T. Rex. By himself. With one stroke of his tail blade. Without any resulting injuries.
  
  
• He prevents World War III. By himself.
  
  
• So the Andalite military (Ax's own people) was about to commit genocide. As in destroy Earth. So Ax, a mere cadet, declared a challenge against the captain who was about to commit unspeakable war crimes, knowing that if the challenge failed he would be exiled and his tail blade cut off. He won the challenge, and within hours was promoted directly from cadet to prince.

Funny:

Oh so very many. Ax, in addition to being a badass, is also the comic relief.

Drinking coffee:
MARCO: Ax, you have to drink where the hole is in the lid.
AX: A hole! In the lid! No spills! Ills! So simple! Imple. And yet so effective!
MARCO: Yeah, it's a real miracle of human technology.
AX: I have wanted to try other mouth uses. Drinking. Eating... Eeeaaating. Ting.
MARCO: You just line up the little hole with your mouth. We have to find Jake. We already lost, like, ten minutes because of you.

On the subject of Oreos:
“The cookies formed by two thin, round, black discs with a layer of adhesive white substance between them are the finest accomplishment of your species!”

And my all-time favorite:
AX: Ah. (nods) She does not understand how menacing we are. (taps the blind woman he's trying to intimidate on the shoulder) You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. (reaches behind her and pulls three jars of baby food from the top shelf, shoves them behind a box of macaroni, shuffles the Cheese Whiz in front of the Marshmallow Fluff, and tosses a bag of lady's shavers onto a bag of hamburger buns) There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

Heartwarming:

When Ax tells Tobias that he is a true shorm, which is the Andalite word for the closest of friends. Shorm literally means "tail blade" because a shorm is someone you trust so completely that they could press their tail blade against your throat and you wouldn't even blink. Their friendship makes me wibble.

I also love in book #8 when Cassie takes Ax, in human morph, to have dinner with her family. She recognizes how lonely he is, and how much he misses his own family, and he is so very touched by the gesture.