Thank you to Jessica for commissioning this episodes!
These episodes are the ones in which we first hear about Eneru's goals and the "Endless Vearth" that he imagines as a utopia that he gets to rule. Turns out, Eneru thinks that the Sky Islands and its inhabitants are unnatural, and he plans to kill them all and destroy the islands themselves as well.
Interesting that he doesn't see himself as being one of them, huh? Isn't it always the way.
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Thank you very much to George for commissioning this episode!
These chapters are the ones in which Shera finds out that the kids that she used to work with when she was on the streets have likely been scooped up and turned into assassins by someone else, and that they didn't get out the way she'd imagined. This means that she's not prepared to be on the run from the Consultants, so when Lucan grabs her hand and says "let's blow this popsicle stand", Shera is not on board.
Poor Lucan. He tried so hard.
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Thank you very much to Max for commissioning this episode!
In this episode we get the reveal of just how things were set up with Scar pretending to kidnap Winry, and the group splits up. Ed stays behind with Miles, but Scar & Co. head into the tunnels, and Al heads out into the snowstorm after them once they get the news that Briggs is being taken over. I still think Kimblee seems to be aware that something is up, but he hasn't made any moves yet.
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Thank you very much to Gabriella for commissioning this episode!
So we're still dealing with the giant serpent, but thankfully by the end of these three episodes everyone has finally made it out. Despite this, I'm really curious about what's going on with that snake because he DID cry when he saw the ruins and I don't know what to make of that.
Meanwhile, Eneru is lighting up pretty much everyone's asses and he's getting ready to go find the ancient bell and bounce out of this bitch to head to the place of Endless Vearth. Oh, and he plans to destroy everyone and everything in Skypeia.
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Thank you very much to George for commissioning this episode!
I'm so excited to be getting back into this universe, and we're hitting the ground running by opening with a series of assassination attempts on Regents. Some of them suck and seem to deserve it, and some seem to really be doing their best to help. So what's the deal?
Shera seems to think that it's the kids she used to roll with who have been trained from childhood to be killers, now that they've been recruited/conscripted by some unsavory characters.
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Thank you so much to Max for commissioning this episode!
So this episode is when our friends head out into the wintry wastelands, heading toward an abandoned mining town called Baschool. Scar & Co. are hiding out there, and we get a confrontation that ends up going in a surprising direction. Kimblee is getting played, and it seems like he's going to figure it out sooner rather than later...but perhaps not?
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Thank you to Heather for commissioning this episode!
So these chapters are the ones in which shit really begins to hit the fan. Elgen Spears has made his move, taking over several world governments and assassinating their leaders on live-streams being fed to every active screen in the world. I genuinely didn't know how he was going to pull this off, but I'm hopeful that he will be hoisted on his own petard (the petard in this instance being the ship that he stole from his brethren).
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Thank you very much to Yama for commissioning this episode!
In these chapters, we have an amazing faceoff between The Lone One and Ponch, and it's just wonderful. I was not expecting this at all. However, that is NOT to say that we haven't suffered some terrible losses, and I'm not sure how permanent they all are but I suspect one of them might be a done deal.
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Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode!
In this episode WE FIND OUT WHO THE FUCK PRIDE IS
OMG

Thank you to Heather for commissioning this episode!
In these chapters of Ascend we get the team mobilizing against Aftermath, and we lose one of the team. I wasn't expected Chance to go, and I wasn't expecting it to be so brutal when it happened.
Also there's a whole thing with Brian having the creepiest ability ever.
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