#warframe erra

I love how much this game has a running theme of identity issues. Like even the way the game starts you are only the Warframe. You start to get hints that there is more going on than that.

Like there’s no way the Operator/Drifter don’t have issues with who they are considering their situation but on top of that they’re piloting warframes and that extension of the self has got to make things even more complicated. Do they feel more like themselves when inside a warframe? Undoubtedly they feel more comfortable with specific ones too. Which one feels like the real you, Tenno?

Then you have everything going on with the Lotus. To the point where she asks YOU who she is: Natah, Lotus, or Margulis. And I’m sure most of us gave that some thought before choosing because her whole story centers around her being stripped of her autonomy and multiple entities trying to convince her she’s one thing or another.

I hope this theme continues with Erra/Pazuul because I think that would make his story really compelling. We’ve already seen that Erra is more than a warlord, that he has genuine motivations and complexities as a person. This may be diving more into hc territory but all things considered, I think he doesn’t even really know who he is. Everyone around him is far more concerned with his sister, not him. Was his cruelty a result of trying to get approval from Hunhow?

And now he has an entity puppeting his body and twisting the narrative against his will. If we ever get to free him, that sets up more opportunity for that theme of Who are you? Who do you want to be?

Imagine getting your genitals removed and becoming an abuse pet for an evil fucked up robot.

A poster that Narmer fanatics may have distributed.

so, my understanding is this:

Sentients, originally, are like Hunhow. Bighuge space ships that have a consciousness

these Sentients each have their Hive. A Hive is the smaller units each Sentient "spawns" on its own. Hive units are like cells being automatically reproduced, and serve like extremities do - the bighuge Sentient can do stuff without them but it's the equivalent of opening a door by bumping it with your shoulder instead of using your hand to twist the handle

Sentients can have Children. Children are not Hive. Children require (at least) two bighuge Sentients to conceive as "parents". Children are born from the "manifold", which is either a name for a part of the bighuge Sentient or some kind of special birthing... nest? den? location.

Natah is a Child. Erra is a Child. Adis is a Child.

Children do not seem to need Bloom to remain individuals - they can still consume it, but are not dependent on it. Putting both Natah and Adis aside for a moment, Erra seemed to remain an independent individual until his "death". He even superseded a "need for orders" by rebelling against Ballas.

Hive units only stay individuals as long as they consume Blooms. Blooms seem to have an addictive effect. Without them, units revert to becoming part of the Hive mind - which seems dead and/or dreaming (very Cthulhu) of the Old War; so, they go "mad" if they are Bloomless

or do they? Brysko referred to it as a "Bloom habit". Meaning not having a "habit" is possible? Are there active bighuge Sentients whose Hive mind does not drive units crazy? Are there alternatives to Bloom to retain individuality? Are these alternatives the ones used by Sentient Children?