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* [[Concession]]: both Artie's current life and Joel's childhood. Artie's father died of cancer and his mother killed herself after Artie was diagnosed with the same type of cancer. He seemed to get better, then the cancer spread to his brain. {{spoiler|He suffered blackouts which he thought were the result of the tumour, but were actually the work of Joel, who had decided Artie needed to be disposed of before his latent powers became a threat to Joel's own powers. He woke up from one of these blackouts to discover he had had sex with a [[Lolicon|ten-year-old]] [[Troubling Unchildhood Behaviour|hypersexual]] [[TranssexualTranssexualism]] child. He attempted to have a relationship with Kate, only to discover she actually was a paedophile and was in fact sleeping with the same child, among others. She broke up with him, but gave him money for the operation he needed, during which he was attacked by Joel on the spiritual plane. He tried getting help from elsewhere, but broke a major taboo of his new friends' society by impregnating one of them (they're dolphins and are forbidden to interbreed with land-dwelling species), and was apparently involved in the fire which burnt their whole city down.}} Joel, meanwhile, {{spoiler|watched his twin sister murdered by his older brother when they were very young, and their parents assumed Joel had done it. He was put in an asylum, where he was sexually abused by a doctor and released back into the outside world while still unstable. His father then left the entire company to his older brother, leaving Joel with nothing, which started him planning an elaborate [[Xanatos Gambit]] to destroy the company.}}