Toby Hamee
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Toby Hamee is a fictional character in the Animorphs books by K. A. Applegate.
Toby Hamee is a Hork-Bajir seer, the daughter of Jara Hamee and Ket Halpak. She is the first free Hork-Bajir born in the free Hork-Bajir colony. She is named after Tobias, who helped Jara Hamee and Ket Halpak escape from Controllers into a hidden ravine which was going to be the birthplace of many free Hork-Bajir. Coincidentally, both she and her namesake are descended from Andalite nothlits.
She is a leader of the free Hork-Bajir. Assisted by her fellow Hork-Bajir, she raids the Yeerk installations from time to time, in order to liberate Hork-Bajir Controllers and starve the Yeerks inside their heads of Kandrona rays.
Toby is a Hork-Bajir "seer," which means she is far more intelligent than most of her species---while the average Hork-Bajir's mental limits are about that of a human child, rare genetic abnormalities like Toby can be as intelligent as humans or Andalites. The term "seer" means "clairvoyant" or "prophet", which ultimately means one who is able to see what others cannot. Due to this natural ability, other Hork-Bajir, including her parents, consider her to be the colony's leader and trust her to lead them to freedom. Toby matures very quickly after her birth, and reaches her adult height within 2 years of being introduced in the series; this is likely because, as The Hork-Bajir Chronicles implies, Hork-Bajir do not live as long as either humans or Andalites. As a result she is able to lead the Hork-Bajir in the final offensive against the Yeerks on Earth, where she helps the Animorphs in taking over the Pool ship.
Afterwords, she becomes the official representative of the free Hork-Bajir and is made a non-voting member of Congress.
