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Episode 14: A Saintly Decision

Who???

Anyway, this episode is the last bit of Joseph's' backstory, and as such many of the complaints I had about the previous episode still apply here.

Thus, this is gonna be one of those posts where I simply describe what happens, maybe with a side comment here and there. It's not in any way a compliment to this episode's' story; Just more that I have nothing to say that I haven't already.

Joseph decides to join Xargin's' charity organization in the hopes of being able to help those in need, and it just so happens that Xargin's' girlfriend, Sasha, is Joseph's' long lost older sister despite her looking alot more like Xargin's' sister than anyone else.

Sasha is the first Outsider to be granted her own research facility, and is apparently research a "controversial subject" that, should it pay off, be able to rid the world of disease. It's gonna be needed too, because the local shelter is hit with an outbreak of scarlet fever, and the locals won't in any way just give antibiotics to foreigners.

So, Joseph and Xargin decide to break into the lab to steal some, only to be stopped by the military. This is blatantly so it can be revealed that the Pope/XAT Director is the guy who kickstarted the entire plot at large, but considering Sasha intervenes and he has no problem with her "taking her own drugs" it makes me wonder why the heck Sasha didn't just go in and grab them herself. But hey, let's ignore that for the sake of a twist and some mistrust amongst the cast.

Of course though because this is Blassreiter the scenario has to end with nearly everyone involved dead(big surprise), and it's revealed that Sasha's' research involved nano-machines, the very thing that creates Amalgams. After Sasha gets killed by a gang of racists, Xargin allows the XAT Pope to talk him into becoming an Amalgam himself, and is the first one to totally keep his mind upon transforming. He declares war on the entire world, and Joseph attempts to him, only to nearly die in the process.

Joseph tries to tell Xargin to not give up hope, and that even in people's' darkest hours there's still alot to live for and to keep belief in people. Xargin tells him it's all crap, and turns Joseph into an Amalgam, outright challenging Joseph to "prove him (Xargin) wrong." XAT Pope then gives Joseph his unique motorcycle, which makes me wonder why he's been trying to kill Joseph all this time if Joseph has been infact doing his dirty work. The episode ends with Mei Fong(somehow still alive) showing up, alongside a new, mysterious woman, who is apparently Sasha despite looking nothing like she did before.

If any of that at all sounded engrossing, trust me, it wasn't.