#ballas

[orinthered]

how can you still love them, margulis? they've blinded you.

[wenqxiao]

trauma manifestation, in twelve submission for tennocon 2026 community showcase (+ zoom-in)

[multiversal-marsupial]

~ Matthew Stover, Revenge of the Sith (novelisation)

(made using my own screenshots from The Old Peace and Perita Rebellion)

[beetlemartian]

I can't stand how much I like the way he looks in old peace ugh kill him again so I don't have to confront that

[argrash]

A gem from Reddit about the changed location of the conclave console

And of course the only understandable response:

[warframestuff]

Hope you don't mind, but there was no way I couldn't just not make this

That's incredible lmaoooo

[disaster-tiefling]

I keep seeing posts about how Roathe is telling a completely different narative about Ballas and Margulis (if not downright lying about their relationship) when the perspective he gives us is only expanding our knowledge of their relationship.

Roathe tells us that Ballas truly did love Margulis once, but once the Tenno were in the picture, they took his place as who she loved most.

He’s saying that what they had was love, but Ballas was at his core, Orokin. Once Margulis wasn’t focused on him, once his love was not satisfactory anymore, his love and devotion turned into obsession and cruelty.

So no, we aren’t being told two different stories about Ballas and Margulis. We’re being told how it started while we already know how it ended.

[cardinalgoldenbrow]

Drifter the Fact-checking Champion of the Lotus (and Natah and - particularly relevant here - Margulis too)

Roathe: "They were in love, whether you wish to believe it or not. Ballas eshewed all class rules and tradition to take as his lover - and his sole romantic companion - an Archimedean. Only true love could have sent a man so spectacularly mad as it sent him, when it all went so very wrong..."

Drifter: *pulls out a Twilight Apothic*

Roathe: Oh, come on, you weren't there!

Drifter: Let's hear what Margulis' colleague Silvana, who worked with her to help the Tenno, had to say about what Ballas' Warframe program did with their work:

Silvana: "My childhood dream has become a nightmare. I don't blame Margulis, she's as much a victim as the children we're working with. At first, the project seemed therapeutic and nurturing. I was myself. But now... Transference therapy is being turned into a weapon. Now I build these vile weapons called "Warframes" all for one purpose: death. I've become everything I hate."

Drifter: Oh, hey, I've got another colleague of Margulis' who can shed some light (ha, ha, pun intended, man, that's morbid) on the life of an Archimedean under Orokin rule.

Archimedean Yonta: "There will never be another Archimedean symposium. No more waiting, petrified to find out if it's you the Golden Lords are singling out this time."

Drifter: What does 'singling out' mean, Roathe

Roathe: Why ask? You already made the pun.

Archimedean Perintol (Detron Crewman Synthesis Entry): "They opened the chamber door just in time for me to see it happen: the Archimedian erupting into a flash, jade-like and blinding. I knew her. She was the greatest scholar of genetics who ever lived. Except now she was nothing but mist and gore."

Drifter: I could also ask Margulis what she felt about Ballas. She's right upstairs. But she says "We can finally begin to heal"" and I'm not an asshole.

Drifter: So, what have we learned?

Roathe: That somehow enough history survived the Collapse for you to debate me. "And what reason would I have to lie? What do I care of your opinion of the validity of their relationship?"

Drifter: Roathe, buddy, trust me, I know why Mr. Vice Ravage Grand Carnage 'Voted Sexiest Devil of Tau' two centuries running cares about convincing me that my personal executor boogeyman Ballas/Narmer was capable of love and being loved.

Drifter: So maybe start talking more about *you* and why I should consider dating *you*, and less about why Margulis chose death over the guy who abused her and her kids.