Edriss 562
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Edriss 562 is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs.
Edriss 562 is the Yeerk controlling Marco's mother Eva. For most of the series, her rank is Visser One. She is the subject of the book Visser.
Edriss 562, or Visser One, is the highest ranking of all the Yeerks in their military, and is only surpassed in importance by the Council of Thirteen. She was also the first Yeerk to control a human on Earth (although on the Taxxon planet, Yeerks had briefly controlled Loren and Chapman during the events of The Andalite Chronicles); her first infested human was an Iraqi soldier during the Gulf War, and the second was an unemployed actress named Jenny Lines. She later infested a scientist named Allison Kim for about a year; her last host was Eva, Marco's mother. She first appeared in Animorphs Book #5, after her rival Visser Three captured the Animorphs. She freed them in order to make her archrival, Visser Three seem incompetent. During this book, Marco (in morph) discovers that she controls his mother.
Her next appearance was in Book #15, where she commands an underwater facility to infest hammerhead shark so that she can more effectively invade the Leeran home world. Her project fails when both Visser Three and the Animorphs thwarts her plans. A Leeran-Controller tries to tell her that Marco, in gorilla morph, is human, but she misunderstands, thinking the Leeran is saying that the animal is human. After she explains that it's only a similar animal to a human, the Leeran attempts to clarify, but is killed by Marco before he can explain.
One of Edriss 562's most prominent appearances was in Book #30, appearing as a temporary Sub-Visser due to her failure of the underwater facility project. She makes a deal with the Animorphs in order to eliminate her rival Visser Three once and for all. The Animorphs, posing as ruthless Andalites, offered to expose the free Hork-Bajir colony in order to discredit Visser Three. The Animorphs trick both her and Visser Three by leading them to a massive hologram (projected by Erek the Chee) portraying dying Hork-Bajir. The Vissers turn on each other and Visser One, after learning that her host's son was one of the "bandits", appeared to have fallen to her death.
At the end of Book #35 (The Proposal), during which Marco's father, oblivious to Eva's faked death, remarries a woman named Nora Robinnette, Marco receives a phone call from Visser One. This was an event later described in the book Visser. She appears as the central character of that book, on trial for treason by several means, including incompetence, sympathy with a subject species, and needless killing of hosts. The book chronicles her explanation to the Council of Thirteen (including their speaker, her former mentor Garoff, who she came to suspect may be the Emperor) how she began her invasion of Earth and why she believes a slow inflitration of Earth would be more desirable to open war.
It is revealed that part of the reason she would not prefer to risk open war is due to the presence on Earth of two children, born of her host Allison Kim and conceived during her control of Allison. She fails to keep this hidden from the Council, and is condemned, along with her interrogator Visser Three, to death by Kandrona starvation. Both of their sentences are suspended, on the condition that they solidify the Yeerks' power on a planet each. Visser One is charged with defending the Anati homeworld from the Andalites.
After failing to secure the Anati home world for the Yeerks, she returned to Earth in book 45 to be questioned and executed. She frantically escapes from Eva's body during the Animorphs' attempt to rescue her and question her about the Yeerk plans. Eva fails to crush the slug, but it is eventually stomped on by Marco, ending Visser One's life.
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