Talk:Ballas/@comment-23.30.176.233-20180105140138

It's interesting that Ballas has taken Lotus. The story thus far makes me think of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey Monomyth and then to Dan Harmon's Story circle.

Which follow as thus.

1. We get introduced to our character be it Excal, Mag, or Volt. Look a newborn babe we stumble and we struggle to learn about ourselves. Our weaknesses our strengths.

2. What do we ( as the unaware tenno consciounes in the warframe ) want? At the start we all wanted the same thing. Attain strength through ranking up, through obtaining stronger weapons, attain a more custom identity through cosmetics. Along the way we are aided by Lotus, Ordis, sentinels, Kubrow and Kavats, and other fellow tenno. We also attain knowledge over our enemies and how they were and even get introduced to other threats such as Stalker.

3. Then comes the quests that thrust us into an unfamiliar situation. We learn of the sentients, that our adoptive mother and guide Lotus is one of them albeit defected. We eventually enter the Second Dream. That where we met our actual selves and learn that the warframes are just living puppets.

4. We come out of that unfamilar situation and once again we are left with a new way to learn things. Back to square one almost. However we learn. We do as we always do and adapt to our situation and become stronger for it.

5. The war within is when we as the tenno finally grow abit as adults as we gain the power we lost at first and sought after. When we realized that we can use our void powers without the aid of the pod. At this point we continue our lives growing stronger and are presented with new challenges like the Plains.

6 You would thing attaining all this power would be free that is what the game's  progression leads to but with all stories there is a price to obtaining what we want. That price being that Lotus get taken away from us. Or mother figure. The one coddled us sure but the game's story knows we need this to further our growth. This is the game telling us we aren't children anymore. We are now master of the world presented to us.

7 & 8. We now return to our familiar situation. We have obtained strength beyond measure at a great cost. We are changed. The circle begins anew. We are at the start again, presented with a character that we've built up and once more our wants come back. Some of those wants are still the same but when it comes to progressing the story. Our story. We are left wanting more knowledge, wanting to know why Lotus left us for Ballas. We'll have to go through hardship again to find those answers.

Questions is are we ready?