Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-67.142.173.22-20130407183140/@comment-7052631-20130415000005

I think the Rath/Ben thing is an instinct. Ben always refers to his alien forms as their given names, not "Oh I think to put out this fire I think I'll assume my Pyronite form". Appoplexians are not intelligent like Humans (certainly not like Galvans) thus giving us third person Rath and not first person "me" or even third person Ben. As for his anger, it is an evolutionary trait of Appoplexians. In other words, the anger is embedded in his DNA. Have you ever read Animorphs by K.A. Applegate? When the characters assumed the form of a Taxxon, the DNA-based hunger caused them to "loose control" of the form, similar to the way Rath "loses control".