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sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel:c-rowlesblogs:sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel:c-rowlesdraws:@they-of-clay @saritawolffsip(who knows what caffeine would do to an Andalite, so I’ll say it’s herbal tea and she can drink some just fine)—store | patreon | commission infoOn Earth, plants produce caffeine as a neurotoxin to ward off insects. However, many omnivorous and herbivorous mammals can process Caffeine just fine.Given caffeine’s relatively simple structure and the fact Andalese plants are similar enough to Earth plants that Andalites can eat Earth grass, it’s very likely some plants on the Andalite homeworld also produce caffeine and the Andalites are quite adapted to the chemical.However, it is very likely that a predatory creature such as a Taxxon would have no way to process Caffeine safely, so you should not give Caffeine to Taxxons. it’s true! You’re right, I’m sure Andalites can metabolize caffeine without a problem. I also totally forgot about Dr. Pepper having caffeine, so there’s canon evidence to support caffeine being fine, too. Oh, Elfangor.I can see Andalites having stimulating teas brewed from caffeine-rich plants on their homeworld– when they want something more civilized than just stomping on some leaves for a quick fix, that is.I actually gave one of these teas a name! Hreifla tea, brewed from the leaves and flowers of the hreifla plant, is a tea with large amounts of caffeine and often administered as a home remedy when an Andalite is feeling lethargic or ill. A notable incident involving the tea occurred when the Human ambassador to the Andalite homeworld tried some and decided it was just too bitter without a dollop of honey. The Andalite representatives were initially very suspicious about messing with a long-standing traditional recipe, but one of them was brave enough to try this method and it quickly became one of the more popular ways of preparing the tea. I actually have a whole headcanon about Andalite cuisine (pre-Yeerk-War and post-Yeerk-War) that I need to go over sometime.Given that taxxons seem to be aggressively omnivorous (they eat large amounts of dirt, too, and anything they can find in it), I’d argue that they’re probably resistant to most simple poisons or they’d be droping left and right on every planet the yeerks take them to, but the idea of Visser Three sending a bunch of taxxon trackers into the forest after Ax and giving up when they keep mysteriously dying before getting anywhere close to the andalite smell is a) good justification as to why taxxons trackers, if they’re so great, weren’t used to sniff the andalite bandits out and find Ax immediately and b) absolutely hilarious. -- source link