#and its a moment of weakness that keiko regrets having allowed then-strangers to see for the longest time

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@riftwalker-limbro said something about how most warframes have never seen their operators before The Second Dream and that never occured to me and now i'm going insane about it a lil bit

Like

Lanius has always been conscious and remembers their original time with Keiko. When they wake up from cryosleep having disconnected from her, they freak the fuck out. But they have never seen her! In all that time! And then Kohlrabi and Alden take them to Lua and Lanius locates what pod Keiko is sleeping in all on their own bc they just Know It innately, and they get to be reunited with her and reconnect their somatic link, and it's already an emotional moment but. I never realised before. That that's when Lanius actually sees their daughter for the first time

And one of Alden's biggest regrets is that he was barely conscious at all during The Second Dream and has only the vaguest, fuzziest memories about it. He doesn't remember seeing Kohlrabi for the first time. Even if it takes him way longer to admit that he sees Kohlrabi as his kid, way way before he does, he's already mourning having lost that moment