Talk:Lotus/@comment-67.193.7.87-20180216064530

So what I'm thinking is this... what if the Lotus is only the Helmet? I mean, Sentients as far as we've seen are a synthetic race, not organic.

What I'm thinking is that perhaps Margulis was never even excecuted by the Excecutors, but rather maybe Ballas somehow supressed her concious to fake her death, and allowed Lotus to act in her place, using her body - whilst Margulis would have never known this, and still believed she was killed up until the last moment. It would kind of mirror how the Tenno themselves are supressed and placed in the Second Dream. In this sense the Helmet/Sentient could be performing a sort of reverse-transference into Margulis body - maybe even doing this with Ballas help, and inspired by Margulis work.

Perhaps all Ballas really did was restore Margulis conciousness, waking her from her sleep - a parallel to what happened with the Tenno. In this case Lotus wouldn't have left of her own free will, in fact she wouldn't have left at all, considering we still possess the helmet.

I know Ballas one line "Imprisoned as she was" seems to imply otherwise, but I think being the weird poetic blue space man he is, perhaps there is deeper meaning to his words. He was always a deceptive character, from the looks of lore, so I don't think he's the type of character we're able to analyze based on what he says.

I come to this theory for many reasons, but also because if Lotus is truly that human/orokin body - then how come other Sentients don't employ the exact same method? Why didn't they all just disguse themselves as Orokin to destroy the Empire inside out, rather than having the Tenno do it? I mean Hunhow should surely have been able to post as an Excecutor or really any Orokin, no?

I really don't think that body is artificial, nor do I believe it's actually the Lotus. I think that's Margulis body - and an offshoot idea from that, perhaps it's just a clone of Margulis - since we know cloning exists in the WF universe.