Talk:Ballas/@comment-14.236.157.26-20181012171415/@comment-2001:981:9A5E:1:1D06:6814:747C:F696-20181028094048

My take on it is that Ballas, like the obsessive narcissist he is, is not so much lying as he's projecting a vision of reality where nothing is his fault.

Remember, Ballas claimed to love Margulis, but when she was put on trial for still supporting the Tenno, rather than try to speak in her defense he tried to convince her to denounce the Tenno -- abandon her beliefs, which he doesn't care about. He just wants her. That's not love, it's possessive obsession.

He then betrayed the Orokin to the Sentients, not because he felt the Orokin had become the bad guys (although let's face it, they [i]were[/i]), but because they'd killed Margulis.

Then, when Natah adopted Margulis' shape and voice and rebuilt herself as Lotus, he transferred that obsession to her, and a certain warped logic entered his mind: If only Margulis had abandoned her love for the Tenno, she'd still be with him. Lotus is [i]like[/i] Margulis, but also won't abandon the Tenno for him. So with some of his special brand of mindfuckery, he erases or suppresses the parts of Lotus that care about the Tenno, expecting to get Margulis back.

Except... Lotus minus the parts of her that care about the Tenno... Is Natah. Oops.

Of course, as stated earlier, an obsessive narcissist never accepts a reality where something that goes wrong is their fault, so clearly Natah deceived him all along. Somehow.