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so you just have to sit there

Based on my experience as a Titania main.

If I'm going to make my Drifter Natah's Champion/Kisser, I thought of mixing Radiant Lotus with Eidolon Natah, so she has this more formal and "armored" look when performing as the leader (Radiant Lotus) and a more personal/intimate look for private moments: less armor and more "skin", scars proudly worn out in the open, tattered skirt unafraid of decay and the passage of time, muted colors and blue energy for the living and repaired rather than edolon's teal, dying energy.

More on the "I'm obsessed with baby Lotus beetle form" brainrot. I kept thinking about how the color palette of her little baby beetle form is purple-ish/blue-ish, like the Lotus we've always known. Which contrasts a lot with the form of Natah we saw during the New War : all black. So I wondered if maybe she would've looked different without being altered/affected by the human mimicry form of Margulis. As in, her actual full on Sentient form, that would've directly evolved from the little beetle baby. So I offer to you Natah Prime! I guess. Or like, original Natah. Perhaps as she was before she looked at the Tenno and decided to take on the role of their mother.

matcha originated in China about 1200 years ago, açaí has been consumed by Indigenous communities in the Amazon for centuries, and Dubai chocolate was invented by combining chocolate with knafeh, an 1100 year old SWANA snack.

western (usually white but seemingly not in this case) people love to call nonwhite foods suddenly becoming popular in western mainstream culture "industry plants" as if they haven't always existed.

Here are some more behind the scenes of Amir's Shockwave design stage! (and madness)

practicing horses by drawing tiny kaithes

And secondly how it shows that lotus's deal with wally wasn't to help put lua in the void but simply to survive doing so

Because it allows wally to add more complexity to the situation by being involved without taking away from the lotus by robbing her of her most impressive feat

*Quincy has drawn first blood!*

*Quincy is on a killing spree!*

*Quincy is on a rampage!*

*Quincy is unstoppable!*

*Quincy is dominating!*

*Quincy is godlike!*

The Old Peace made me think that they were going to retcon all of the nasty behavior before, but the context from Constellations and now the Tau demo have made it clearer that the Old Peace Sentients were a splinter group caught between a rock (wider Sentient society) and a hard place (the Orokin), and considered the Orokin, of all people, the lesser evil. not to mention the (manufactured) conflict between the Old Peace Sentients and the Anarchs (as in, Dax and Grineer similarly exploited by the Orokin) while the Golden Lords sat back and laughed and pulled their strings.

A: Chill, y'all. They're not going to leave the Operator in the dust. Who tf do you think is gonna pilot the Vessel when the time comes? It has to be the young traumatised atrophied child, or the Evangelion reference DE have been building to for more than a decade won't land!

B: The Operator is literally an atrophied, void-riddled, traumatised child. They have not, as far as we can see/tell, ever physically recovered from their extensive time in the Lua pod. Remember, we can never be 100% sure they are ever physically present when they use Transference, given what happens when they get shot up/'die'. As far as we know, they've possibly never physically left the pod, so are we really expecting them to go pick up the Lotus? They can barely pick themselves up - I don't think they have the leverage to make Wally second-guess itself like the Drifter does, either.

The Drifter was, both diagetically and non-diagetically, the way that DE chose to 'age up' the Operator without removing the Operator from the game, and (both literally and metaphorically) 'handing off' the adult work from the Operator to the Drifter - from the literal child to the adult, so DE don't have to constantly wonder if it's alright to be portraying a child doing all of this buck-wild stuff (like physical romance, I remind you) and maintain their ESRB M rating.

It was necessary, and I think it was necessary in the story as well; the Operator isn't ever going to drastically change or grow (to, say, the extent of the difference between the Operator and the Drifter), partly for actual narrative reasons (yet another Evangelion reference - stuck as children forever), and also specifically because of ludonarrative issues - it's a game that has to have so many things remain applicable and valid across the life of the game - old content, cosmetics, player entitlement, etc.

Whether you chose the Drifter or not, that part of the story is canon across all Tenno, and one of many surprisingly hard-locked points of the otherwise supposedly all-possibilities-filled 'Eternalism'.

There's also something to be said for leaving childhood behind, no matter how traumatising it was. You can bring it with you, but you'll never be, or stay, the same.

Your torch was passed on from your own Operator to you, the Drifter you are now, probably before you were ready to truly stand on your own two legs in this world.

But our Warframe Operator and Drifter have something that we didn't; The team at DE. And if it's one thing I've learned about DE after more than a decade, it's that I do trust them to make it worth while.

Have faith, Tenno. They are both You, and You Did Not Leave Yourself Behind. Trust Yourself.

But do it quickly, because

TAU IS IN SIGHT

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.