I know one who got turned into a hawk and couldn’t turn back.

Animorphs huh. I read a few books a long time back, but then recently read about how the series became quite twisted towards the end. Younger me would probably have enjoyed it.

Yeah, the author killed off most of the characters at the end, which was surprisingly realistic. More than one of the heros (and one of the villains) was a programmer too.

Successful author too. Very supportive, loving wife. Model of a perfect marriage right there, imho.

He got a new start.

He also had a brief foray as a director ...

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Don't know a Tobias, but I've heard of a Saibot. He was pretty much a noob.

Very two dimensional person as well. Or at least he was 20 years ago; perhaps he's improved himself since.

Didn't he switch to performance art first?

I think he did a few commercials before that - the one about the fire was quite good.

He blued himself later on, so...

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