#sorry for the horrendously long run on sentance its for the sillies

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There's something about Etho spending the life series learning how to channel his natural loyalty and protectiveness into forming strong bonds with his teammates and Joel spending the life series learning that to form strong bonds with teammates you need to be loyal and you need to protect each other, and him forming his own proper teams only after allying with Etho in Double Life, and now Etho deciding that he needs to stop being so nice to everyone in order to win while Joel has finally realized it's the ties with others that make him the strongest and then immediately reached out to the man who taught him that and Etho trying to fight his own nature to be the wildcard and the survivor again but at the same time he doesn't know how to be that person anymore after Double Life and he wants to have what Gem and Joel have invited him into as his own team is falling apart because everyone is out for themselves.