CardinalGoldenbrow

roathe if his life went wrong the other way... with garuda serum

face closeup. decided to give him the marazhai style ponytail from one of his concepts

and no accessories version i was too lazy to do alt color for:

Operator misses their spouse best friend

something feels off, but they keep repeating "I'm definitely the lotus" so it must be true, right?

I couldn't resist xD

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unedited image under the cut

The Sentients rebelled to protect Tau from being despoiled.

And look at it now.

The level of frightened distress these animations have portrayed: Little Natah curled into Wally, jumping when Wally raises its voice, her trembling eyes, the panic at being removed from someone who, at that point, was the most familiar presence in the room.

She's not just a Sentient infant, she is an infant who is already severely traumatized.

It's no surprise that Lotus was so willing to take Wally's deal, to sacrifice her memories, to kill herself for the Tenno. She was already suffering the moment she was pulled from the manifold.

The incredible part? Their mutual reluctance to leave each other.

In her Ropalolyst speech, Natah says:

"So the Golden wrath came. And after, I was born. A mimic, a spy. Conceived to burrow into nests and swallow the pitch-eggs of their war machine."

So that whole bit of being held and loved by family, and then set down and told, go on, go to that unfamiliar, strange, and scary person who made me angry, is something she's been conceived for, been trained for, possibly dreading from little on.