User:Flia/Second Dream script

Cinematic
Hunhow: No self, no sense, no death. Just a metal puppet, dangling on Tenno strings. Only the Tenno's death will end your despair. Hunhow: All you dread-long life, you've waited for this moment... ...but you're asking yourself... Was I one of these wretched things? ...you know the answer. You still hate them... you still hate... yourself. Hunhow: What is this? Hunhow: Shadow! Protect... me... Lotus: Now we fight on two fronts, my child. The war without... and the war within.

Lotus: My child... so beautiful to behold. How do you feel? Operator: I'm confused... I thought I was... Lotus:: I know. Forgive me. This is who you really are. A Tenno. More than human... but once a child like any other. What do you remember?
 * "... always studying."
 * Operator: A jumble of words, numbers... I must have known everything about Tau. Our teacher loved when I corrected her.
 * "... a hand, held in mine aboard the Zariman."
 * The soft lines of a hand. My mother's, I think. We were watching the stars, awaiting the jump to Tau. She was afraid.
 * "... a fight."
 * I remember everyone was laughing outside an airlock. This kid had a boy by the throat. I didn't think it was funny at all.

Lotus: Memories. From your time aboard the Zariman Ten Zero, before the Void-Jump accident. It was years before the ship was recovered. It was drifting dead in space, all her crew gone... except the children.
 * "... things happen for a reason."
 * Operator: I didn't want to live anymore. I felt guilty that I was alive, but we could do things, extraordinary things. Maybe there was a reason we survived?
 * "... we stuck together."
 * We were just kids, but... they were afraid of us. Of what we could do. They tried to treat us like rats. I stood up to them. I wasn't gonna let them divide us after what we had been through.
 * "... they tried to help us."
 * We were dangerous, broken. Everytime they tried to fix us, someone always got hurt. I wish I could've saved them. I wish I could've taken their fear away.

Lotus: You were so brave - but the Orokin were afraid of you. The Void changed you and you couldn't control it, no one could. They were about to destroy the orphans of Ten-Zero but Margulis... she loved you, she found a way...
 * "... they paid for what they did."
 * Operator: She put us into the dream, brought us peace. I remember we could still hear her voice, raging at the leaders for their mistreatment of us. When they executed her... well... I could not let that go.
 * " ... she sang to us."
 * We couldn't help it. The outbursts. We hurt her, blinded her, but even then she never abandoned us. In the dream, we found peace, and she sang to us in the cold, dark...
 * "... she was brilliant."
 * In dreams, we could control it, focus it. So she made the pods, her favorite flower... she said sometimes... something beautiful could grow out of something ugly.
 * "... she was brave."
 * She confronted them, even when she knew what it would cost her. Blinded and sick by her work with us... yet in her heart, stronger than all of us.

Lotus: The Orokin murdered Margulis - used her work to create 'Transference'. Your mind - projected into a surrogate, strong enough to withstand your power. It felt like waking up, but it was just a lucid - second dream[sic]
 * "... we protected the innocent."
 * Operator: It was a shadow underneath what we did. That sensation of being a victim, of being helpless. I took up the sword to protect those in need.
 * "... we sought justice."
 * Maybe we felt it, maybe it didn't matter. We had a life. We embraced it. I wanted to punish those who abused their power, and now I had a way.
 * "... we fought with honor."
 * We must have known. I remembered what it was like to be afraid, to be weak. I vowed never to forget that. Never to abuse what I have been given. I had a code.
 * "... we reached for knowledge." [Hadn't this option o.O]
 * We sensed that otherness, but embraced it. I was free as anything. Free to learn, to experience, to mean something.
 * "... we were fearless." [Hadn't this option o.O]
 * There was a sense of it, but we set fear aside. I remembered what fear did, how it turned them against us. I vowed never to be controlled by it. I was going to live, or die, with honor.

Lotus: And so you became Tenno. Serving the Orokin... but bound by honor. As the Tenno grew, they founded great schools. The Tenno Ways. Do you see yours?
 * (Option: Choosing Madurai)
 * I see a cloud, a gathering storm. The Madurai Way. Our path was to Engage the enemy, to sweep across our foes, before they had a chance to steel themselves.
 * (Option: Choosing Naramon)
 * Operator: I see a tree, of many branches, the Naramon Way. Our discipline focused on Knowing The Enemy. We believed that to truly understand a foe would confer the greatest advantage upon a warrior.
 * Lotus: Naramon will be your focus.
 * (Option: Choosing Unairu)
 * I see a mountain, breaking the sky. The Way of Unairu. We pushed ourselves to Outlast the enemy, to withstand all aggression without bending.
 * (Option: Choosing Vazarin)
 * I see a cresting wave, wide in the ocean. The Vazarin Way. We were trained to Counter the enemy, and move with an opponent's attacks in order to nullify them.
 * (Option: Choosing Zenurik)
 * I see a crystal, refracting the moonlight, the Way of Zenurik. We believed the path to victory was to dominate the Enemy. That strength of spirit could overcome any resistance.

Lotus: But we have so much more to do. Here in the Orbiter Transference will be even stronger. Command the Warframes... make whole, this shattered world you've been given. Are you ready, Tenno?
 * "Done."
 * Yes Lotus, I am.
 * "Again."
 * Operator: I need to think it through again.