I'm very pleased with this turn of events with Joseph. It's been a long time coming because it was increasingly suspicious how quiet he from the third floor group until recently. But his age always struck us readers as the odd thing out about him in that group. IMO it remains to be seen how much of a villain he is, like did he work alone? did he have help? Is The Great Grandfather quite literally a mindless (morph a la Christopher version 2) figurehead? Or did he manipulate some poor human bastard servant at the mansion into being his figurehead? Either way, there's a reason why Joseph HIMSELF is not The Great Grandfather. Cuz he COULD have been. But he choose not to. And whatever the reason why could indicate if he is the actual antagonist or if he's sharing that title.
The next thing I'm curious about is how his daughter knew. When she was thrown out the window she looked like she was a toddler. To be small enough like that, you can't be older than 5yo? A lot of people tend to forget their early memories too, it's not uncommon. Was Joseph just that unguarded behind closed doors around her? Or did she happen to overhear and not understand the conversation happening at the time, but pieced it all together when she was older? And of course, Joseph COULD have kept her if he wanted to yknow? But he DIDN'T. Maybe it was just to play up his demise in a dramatic way but I dunno. If he was blabbing stuff to her, he would have thought twice about tossing her lol. At least that's how I see it. Major ICK on Alfred marrying her. I don't think she was a teen though. She was probably in her early 40s or something if we go by the timeline. Remember, Anthony is a couple years older than Kate and she was born at the 50yr mark. And like I said, Joseph's daughter to me looked like she was a TODDLER. So add maybe ~40yrs plus whatever age she was at the time of the incident. I feel like Anthony is at max 10yrs older than Kate? But can't be less than 5yrs....
ALSO MORE IMPORTANTLY. Unless the story reveals otherwise with The Great Grandfather or another character, as of right now Joseph is the first human turned shadow who kept his original human sense of self. Up until now we've been told AND shown once a shadow mimic unifies with their bonded human, the shadow in essence hijacks the host body and kills the original human. Makes me wonder if it's easier to fight and keep your sense of self when a morph forces you to fuse with it "the old fashioned way," versus the streamlined unification process they have going now. Or maybe the "help" Joseph had was simply a mimic taking his form and developing a twisted personality to match his own ambitions and they were bouncing their evil plans off eachother haha. Inevitably, in that scenario one of them backstabbed the other probably. So yeah, current Joseph is either in fact human Joseph, or Shadow Joseph took him over and /pretended to be him/ to enact the plan. "Completed" shadows can switch between their forms afterall.
I'm so ready to find out more information about why all those morphs went on a rampage that day. MORE MORPH LORE PLEASE.
