I get lost in the world sometimes

Callie | 28 | Any/All | CA | ASD

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Finally got around to doing this!! Elaborations below

When I first started playing I was convinced Banshee Prime was going to be like. The best thing ever. I still have a special place in my heart for her but she is just... not much to write home about

My three mains are Uriel, Oraxia, and Dante. Uriel definitely gets the most use by FAR bc he is so powerful. Uriel has everything; damage over time, crowd control, self healing, mobility.... dude is stacked. He is also very lazy. I don't have to think too much to use him. Keep 1 active. Press 3 to send demons after hordes of enemies. Shields getting low? Got statused? Conscripts got hurt? Press 2. When bar is full, press 4 to summon the apocalypse. Walk into symbols for extra fire damage on your weapons. I love doing defense missions with him and just standing still on top of what I have to defend.

Dante is a little more niche, but I like to use him to do dragon key runs on Deimos.

Oraxia is just a blast to use. My only issue with her is also my issue with other frames like Mesa and Titania. Her shields are pretty wimpy. Part of it is that I am so used to never losing shields with Dante and Uriel. I put her as best weapon frame bc I am not totally sure what that means but she puts toxin on everything and that's cool.

Saryn is most overrated to me just bc I also struggle with keeping her shields up. I don't actually have a build for her but when using her in the Circuit and when I was leveling her I was struggling. She's also just less fun than Oraxia.

I only wish Titania was better in the sense that PLEASE LET ME ACTIVATE CACHES WHILE 4 IS ACTIVE. PLEASE. PLEASE. I wish she had abilities that weren't targeted. But really the main thing is that she can't open containers and stuff. I get that she's tiny and that's why she can't pick up things so that's fine, but I don't see why she shouldn't be able to activate a cache button.

Everything else just is what it is. Best design is whatever, I like them all and can see the cleverness in all of them so I just went with Dante bc I like him. Roathe is my favorite protoframe character but I'm not obsessed with him or anything. I don't personally own any of the gemini skins.

[cutecipher]

got grabbed after mischief

[cutecipher]

again

[rickybabyboy]

some one call my lawyer i am being unfairly grabbed

[cat-fandom]

Have you considered not being so grabable?

[rickybabyboy]

have you considered respectful to me

[yenthecat]

Polite Mode activated..

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I may have touched on this before but I figured it’s time I share my hcs about Erra and why he is the way he is. Ramblings below ⬇️

I think Erra’s guiding force through his life has been his desire to make his family, mainly his father, proud. I think in the beginning, shortly after Natah’s birth, they really did have a more positive family dynamic. Hunhow’s focus has probably always been fixated on crushing the Orokin and all that pertains to them but it becomes clear from his dialogue that he really does love his family and is disappointed in himself as a father.

That sentiment though has never actually reached Erra. Throughout Erra’s life, everything has hinged around his sister. She is the favorite child. She is the one who will bring victory to the Sentients. She is the one they’re counting on. Meanwhile Erra is desperately trying to contribute. He’s creating archons, he’s made Caliban, he establishes himself as a cruel warlord in hopes of impressing Hunhow, but it’s still all about her.

And then she betrays them. I think that’s when Erra realizes it’s over. He’s never going to be as important as she is to his father, to the rest of the Sentients. Hunhow will never be able to let go of Natah and his plans to destroy the Tenno. (Except he does, just far far too late.)

And then the New War comes along. Erra tries desperately to bring Natah back just like his father wanted, unaware that he’s made peace with her as the Lotus and then unwilling to hear him out when he tries to convince him this isn’t the path he should go down.

Then Erra gets what he thinks he wants— he’s at the very top, he has (almost) absolute control and his sister is out of the picture. And what happens? Ballas is not satisfied because he is obsessed with her. He is willing to destroy the entire solar system and everything living in it including Erra’s kind because he’s having an absolute shitfit over her.

From Erra’s perspective, the entire fucking world orbits around Natah, around the Lotus and he is just a pawn in it all. And it has led him so far astray. In the end he realizes that it doesn’t have to be this way, albeit too late. So he helps the Drifter in hopes that they can save Natah and stop Ballas because the survival of his species is more important than everything else. And he ends up losing his life in the process.

Except then his carcass is dragged from the rubble and Pazuul possesses him to continue as the leader of Narmer. Now Erra’s mind is trapped as his body is puppeted by a raving lunatic.

Like I personally hc that Erra’s life has been one huge identity crisis and that he’s desperate for approval. People like to write him off as a typical villain who’s only being driven by ambition but I really think there’s much more to him than that. I think he still has potential to realize his fixation on eradicating everything Orokin is an empty goal that wouldn’t benefit him or his people. I think he still has potential to turn his life around and become someone who does make his father and sister proud (even though Hunhow can no longer acknowledge it).

I think he is capable of coming to the same realization Natah and Hunhow did: that the Tenno are also creations and victims of the Orokin just like the Sentients are and that they’ll all be better off trying to clean up the mess they left behind in the Origin System together.

We just have to rip that fucking ram head off of him first.

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One other thing I didn’t even mention is that Natah/Lotus is like??? Insanely powerful. I think the only other Sentient we’ve seen with similar power is Hunhow.

I think it’s rather interesting, actually, that the Lotus chooses to guide the Tenno rather than just do everything herself. She’s capable of putting an entire heavenly body into the Void. The deal with Wally was to allow her to live through it, but actually putting the moon in the Void was all her. She does a little spin and eradicates an entire room of Sentients like it was nothing. Her severed hand alone is enough to imbue the Drifter with the power to cast Transferrence and use weapons.

Erra is NOT exaggerating when he calls her a god and a queen. What does Erra have? He can fire pulses out his hands, okay. But compared to his little sister he is like. Extremely weak. He clearly tries to make up for it with his creations and he’s clearly a skilled scientist but on his own he seems rather plain. He doesn’t even float.

[doggojin]

More on the "I'm obsessed with baby Lotus beetle form" brainrot. I kept thinking about how the color palette of her little baby beetle form is purple-ish/blue-ish, like the Lotus we've always known. Which contrasts a lot with the form of Natah we saw during the New War : all black. So I wondered if maybe she would've looked different without being altered/affected by the human mimicry form of Margulis. As in, her actual full on Sentient form, that would've directly evolved from the little beetle baby. So I offer to you Natah Prime! I guess. Or like, original Natah. Perhaps as she was before she looked at the Tenno and decided to take on the role of their mother.

As bonus, some baby Erra and baby Lotus because people were being silly in a server comparing him to baby birds, specifically baby Jacanas. Look it up. It's worth it.

[quikyu]

They heard a noise

[quikyu]

(she wasn’t prepared at all)

[zooophagous]

You know when people paint like the bones on a horse so it looks like a living x ray. That's the good shit right there.

[zooophagous]

Fuck yeah

[gremlininho]

let me. innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[kittybroker]

Don't let these prices hold you back! This fiendish kitty now coming in for only $6.89!

[allegedly-human]

nothing is more tumblr than having a tumblr sexyman wiki and then warn you to not find some of those men sexy because it's problematic

[petzah394again]

Oh my god i went to check it myself and they even have dedicated banners for when the creator of the characters is controversial

[petzah394again]

Ok but apparently Scott Cawthon donating to Trump's campaign and being anti-choice is somehow not controversial enough to warrant that banner

[kaiserouo]

let them use social media

[kaiserouo]

I really need to draw more rhino

[wizardshark]

Good morning! I- *bites you* *bites you* *bites you* *bites you*

[wizardshark]

[kosmogrl]

[hellsitegenetics]

Have you ever gotten an exact match?

if by "exact match" you mean "100% of the letters in this post match 100% of an organism's entire genome," then the chances of that happening by pure accident are so ridiculously small, you'd have better odds buying 100 lottery tickets and winning all of them!

one of the cool reasons this blog works in any capacity is because genomes are so ridiculously big that the chances of a random string of letters accidentally matching part of one is very high. the human genome is ~3,200,000,000 base pairs (or "letters") long. that's about 1,000 times the length of the entire bible. pretty long for a tumblr post!

but even in the case of the smallest possible genomes, such as bacterial endosymbionts (famous for having tiny genomes) with only 100,000 base pairs, it'd still be practically impossible. you'd need to accidentally type the letters a, t, c, and g in the correct sequence 100,000 times to get a perfect match. imagine flipping 100,000 coins and getting heads on all of them. ok now imagine a cat named big boobs

[empress-of-dark2005]

[kryptonians]

Tumblr’s one true talent is making me sick of things I’ve never seen or read or heard.

[spiderbasil]

dadwallet: a condition in which you let your wallet fall apart and disintegrate without ever considering getting a new wallet