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ten_zero ([personal profile] ten_zero) wrote 2016-12-03 04:53 am (UTC)

Canon Update: The War Within Spoilers

Having been fully awake now for several months, Bisi has regained the strength of her limbs that were weakened during her centuries-long stay in cryosleep. With Ordis' assistance and rigorous training, she's now completely fit and able-bodied.

On a tip mission from The Lotus, Bisi runs into Tenshin, the master of the Conclave (one of the Syndicates), on Lua (the Earth's Moon). She follows him as he is behaving suspiciously, unknowingly being led into a trap by Tenshin set by the Twin Queens of the Grineer. With the Lotus' help she finds a fortress that is being driven by <href=http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/fomorian>Fomorian engines, a stronghold mobile enough that would explain how the Twin Queens have avoided being track down for so long, as they are are constantly moving. She infiltrates the fortress with her Warframe and eventually meets the Twin Queens, who have an Orokin Scepter equipped with a cannister of Kuva (a mythical substance that isn't well understood). The scepter gave the Twin Queens control of the thought long-gone Orokin Warrior Caste of the Dax, who Tenshin is revealed to be one of.

Before Bisi can act, Tenshin disables her warframe, and the Twin Queens use the scepter to attack Bisi through her Transferrence Connection. In the midst of this, Tenshin takes Bisi on a spiritual journey through her memories to unlock what he says was sealed away by Marguilis during the original transference experiments.

She learns that on the Zariman Ten-Zero, once the ship was lost in the void, all of the adults on ship, including Bisi's father, were driven homicidally mad. The children managed to seal themselves away from the adults who eventually all killed each other. Meanwhile the Void affected the children in other ways, given them the powers they have today.

Tenshin leads her through her memories and also walks her through embracing the powers that have been sealed away, unlocking the true potential of her void-nature and its connection to Orokin Technology. He teaches her that she can physically manifest inside of Orokin Technology, as well as a number of other utilities.

The spiritual journey culminates in Bisi successfully rebuking the Twin Queens' attempts to attack her with the scepter, and her new abilities let her physically manifest in front of the Twin Queens through her Warframe. She defeats the Twin Queens' guards, and then Tenshin himself, before stealing the Scepter from the Twin Queens and then executing them.

After returning to her Orbiter, she descends back down to the cave that she saw in her visions on Lua where she finds Tenshin, who explains some of the myths surrounding the strange Kuva substance in the Scepter. Bisi, completely rejecting the Orokin and all they stand for, destroys the substance, freeing Tenshin from its control.


Personality Changes

Bisi is slightly older now, and with it and the clarity of living in reality rather than in the haze of the Second Dream, her personality is starting to blossom and stabilize. She reveals herself to be somewhat wry and sarcastic (When she first came upon the chamber of bones, Tenshin explains that it is the home of the Ravenous Golden Maw, and she remarks 'Why did it have to be 'ravenous'...?) and impetuous (When she first sees Tenshin in the first stage of her spiritually journey she leaps at him with the full force of her abilities, despite her knowledge that they weren't working correctly).

Her opened memories of the incident on the Ten-Zero inform where she came from. She remembers how she felt when the Void first started to corrupt her, that she hated how it felt. She acknowledges how scared she was to hear her father calling her and the other children from their sickness. These memories are tragic and painful, but they give her strength. She no longer hates the void, she accepts the role it has played in her life and the role it now plays in her identity.

Her memories of Marguillis and her current relationship with the Lotus have become further clouded by the revelation that her memories were taken from her. Marguillis meant only the best, but it still leaves her with some resentment, that she spent so long having forgotten what happened to her parents.

But perhaps more importantly she now has a profound sense of accomplishment. The end of the Twin Queens, the leadership of the Grineer empire, is a huge blow to one of the major factions plaguing the solar system. It is perhaps the most poignant and symbolic victory she's ever seen, since the fall of the Orokin empire. It's proof that she can and is having a huge impact on the solar system and that maybe peace is something that is acheivable. That the choices she's made, no matter how much regret, were the right choices. That what's happened to her was worth it.

She's also grown rather fond of Tenshin. He would almost be a father figure if he hadn't been implicated in a plot to kill her. It wasn't his fault, and he helped her a lot, but emotions aren't always logical. Her relationship with him is more of a peer, someone that was a comrade against adversity. He is wise and powerful, and she's glad he's not calling her a child anymore.

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