#heart of deimos

[toasty-tealeaf]

Tennotober day 16: "Family"

I really wanted to see them healing together and having some quality time. So how about a nice fishing trip?

[gillyeowalters]

Xaku and the Entrati family

Just a small analysis I wrote a couple months ago. [Spoilers for Heart of Deimos] I love how Xaku's background story is a reflection of the Entrati family's situation. Of course, there is a direct connection between them and the family, as Xaku is composed of three Warframes that were asigned to the Entratis, but there is also a more emotional connection.

Let's put it into simple words, to compare: -> something is lost to the Void -> as a result of that, something breaks -> through another's influence, broken parts become something new, damaged and changed, but whole again

Xaku: -> the three Warframes were lost to the Void -> they broke while in the Void -> they were fused back together (either by the Void itself or some other force) into Xaku, a broken Warframe Entrati Family: -> Albrecht Entrati is lost to the Void -> Mother's grief over loosing her father breaks her family apart (definitely there were other factors, but this seems to have been the main catalyst). -> the Tenno helps them grow back together as a family. They are damaged, emotionally and physically by the infestation but seem to slowly become a unit again.

Also, notable is the theme of Mother dismembering Father, quite literally breaking his physical form. We have three Warframes becoming one and three family generations (Grandma/Parents/Children) coming together. Xaku's deluxe has the art of Kintsugi as its main theme (putting broken ceramics back together and painting the cracks golden, not only repairing it but elevating its status). Why does a fixed plate hold more value? Because someone found it worth fixing. It was valued. The same goes for the family; after saving the Heart, the Tenno could just leave, but they instead decide to run errands for the family, helping them come together-finding value in them. What would have been the other option? Indifference.

[morallygreyvigilante67]

Loid, dialling the wrong number: I'd like to arrange a family therapy session.

The Operator, accepting that this is their life now: Sure, what time?

[pizzachu22]

in the middle of witw and its a little funny that meatloid is mad that an orokin doesn't love him back. like buddy i hate to break it to you but an orokin just took over the entire solar system last month because he was jealous of a 13-year old

[orokin-grub]

Final member of the Entrati family, Albrecht!

[volixia669]

I’m fairly certain it was coincidental, but I do find it amusing how Loid gets all huffy about you need to kill infested to get into the palace while I was in the middle of mining minerals.

Loid is seeing a very glowy Nezha with the drill, trying to distract himself from the horrors by mining, and is like, “Excuse me, there’s a crisis here!”

[wolfoflua]

im immersed alright

[vuetyris]

Deimos Heartbeats (2021)

[chronicler-of-narrative]

At the same time im sorry for the brain worms, but also im glad i could be the devil on your shoulder inspiring you to draw this absolute masterpiece!

Ok, but now youve really piqued my interest. What do you think Deimos looked like pre-infestation? And, yknow what? Even if you dont yet have the skill to draw it well, do it! Make a shitty landscape sketch of the Son of Mars, the personification of terror himself!

ohboy this ask activated my worldbuilding worms.. probably not that different from how it looks now:

a barren stony wasteland.

except it used to have 30 hour days. i say "used to" bc it seems deimos stopped spinning over time (possibly due to the infestation tearing it apart and making it lose momentum), locking our part of the moon in permanent night. which is. bonkers to think about.

limited terraforming couldve been done since it seems like it served as a research facility outpost for the entrati first and a home second, so just enough has been done to sustain life (which might be even limited to the region around the necralisk, who knows).

they mightve introduced pioneer organisms:

simple, resilient flora like grasses, mosses and shrubbery (like the blue plants we see by the necralisk entrance. the wiki speculates they might be remnants of the original vegetation which i like)

and a small selection of animals: insects, fish and pre-infestation variants of the vulpa, preda and avichaea to propel and maintain the ecosystem.

which can give us a barren, desert-like biome:

think nevada desert but in space? i guess? the grass is supposed to be tiny shrubs but i am not drawing those sorry

besides that we also have plenty of entrati ruins littering the plateau:

like remnants of a suspended road system.

the buildings(?) that housed the requiem obelisks

and other facilities (some of which seem to have collapsed below the surface and lead into the iso vaults)

so i came up with this messy thing thats mostly headcanon, speculation and wild guesses based on what we can find around the necralisk and what i think is cool:

(inclusion of the garden based on sons dialogue (iykyk), attached to the necralisk for convenience. with extra roads. for convenience)

this was fun to brainstorm and i had the game open in the bg while drawing to make sure i got things semi-accurately. im not trusting everythings position on the landscape 100% since a lot seems to have shifted around or is like. missing completely (the roads that lead off the plateau and into the infested abyss. fun!) which imply that the drift used to be bigger before the infestation tore it apart

thanks for the question! i hope this was... helpful? insightful? a fascinating glimpse into my sleep deprived and overthinking mind because i pulled an all-nighter for this and am going to bed now?

[witchcraftannie]

honest hearts

Source: Deimos art on Twitter

[suicidetan]

The pictures I used in my tiktok yarrrrshhh.

[toasty-tealeaf]

Tennotober 2023 Day 8: "Whisper"

[gillyeowalters]

Aaand another old piece of art.

[lady-nomad]

aren't they cute 🎀

[doekimakura]

Alloid shitpost from the WFblr server.

[neptunesringz]

trying to get out of my art block +inner system moons

dialogue under the cut!

(insert spongebob narrator) MEANWHILE…

LUNA: Can you two stop grabbing me???

PHOBOS: nope!

DEIMOS: it’s fun!!

LUNA: Can’t you guys bother Mars??

DEIMOS: Mars said we never bother him!

LUNA: Mars lied.