Talk:Lotus/@comment-170.249.153.179-20191102060104

I have a feeling the Lotus' mask served not only to contain an imprint of Margulis' mind and personality that Natah could use to impersonate her as the Lotus, but also cut her off from the Sentient hive mind so as to elude being tracked and controlled by them while giving her a modicum of individuality colored slightly by the aforementioned Margulis.

When Natah removed the mask, she was opened up to the influence of the hive mind once again, while an imprint of the Lotus in totality remained bound within the mask, no longer able to act beyond occasionally granting the Tenno flashes of insight and visions of things to come due to her lingering awareness of Natah's actions and/or thought processes.

Natah, meanwhile, would be subsumed back into the Sentient hive mind, which would likely have perceived her rebellious actions as the Lotus as having been forced upon her by the Orokin and Tenno as they would not have accepted the notion of Natah voluntarily cutting herself off from the hive mind to maintain her cover and, thus freed, wilfully acting against her "family" in such a state, whether or not such a notion may have been true all along.

TL;DR, I'm pretty sure the Natah we're facing as a villain is being brainwashed by the Sentient mothership to believe what the latter wants to perceive as the truth even though Space Mom was and is very real, and a part of her still lives on in that mask we have in our living quarters. Also they may still be connected just enough for Lotus/Natah to feed us intel that can help us prepare for the coming New War but not enough for the Sentient hive mind to notice or suspect that Natah is still a traitor and cut us off from Space Mom for good or worse.