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Man, I can't believe the Immortal 9 are the friends we made along the way

With that joke out of the way (seriously we met like 3 of them on one bus ride), this one's an interesting episode in dealing with the aftermath of our cliffhanger.

I'll totally agree that Sylvia's method of trying to win Rouge over falls flat. While she's fighting for a clear and noble cause, she's very much an extremist in her viewpoints and her actions which very much taints her standing.

From the way Alice spoke though... I feel like I interpreted it a bit differently, at least for the most part. I feel like she was speaking for herself and Aes mostly, wondering why despite being an Immortal 9, they had to die when they did nothing wrong. At least that's how I took it. Though Alice is definitely jumping the gun a bit with the villain remark, especially when she's confronting a Rouge who very much is being dragged along for the ride.

While the events of the episode are likely to get Rouge thinking further, I do think it's also to show how she's very much lost and caught in the center of everything going on around her. She's being pulled all these different directions by a lot of people with different motives and it's very much that these are uncertain times for her.

And those uncertain times are certainly going to keep growing what with Giallon still being alive, we've got Blouge now out and about, plus there's the matter of Ochrona likely hunting for Rouge and who knows what Sylvia's going to want to do next.

Admittedly, it's interesting to see that Rouge found the most unlikely allies in Ash and Noid who could've turned her in but instead took her and the Aerkos duo to safety. And while Naomi may have turned Rouge in, she's definitely got more to her than meets the eye given how much she's pushing back against everyone with her authority.