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low effort warframe doodles

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"One by one, they started to turn as well. Surprisingly, Eleanor was the last of them. Aoi first, then Amir... came Lettie, and then Quincy. I still remember the way Eleanor held my hand, as the techrot finally took over her entire body. And how I felt the grip slowly weaken until she let go of me and went limp... Elo has them now. They're safe... they're safe... they're... they're..."

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"And then, there was nothing. I felt nothing. No more pain. Just... warmth. He was here. He was here. He was finally here. And I wouldn't let go. No matter what. I wouldn't let go."

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oh my god What dont keep this in tags

:)

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I hate to sound like one of those guys who tries to downplay the misdeeds of his blorbos bc I'm personally of the opinion that a character's misdeeds IS what makes them fun, but honest to god- what did Eramis do to warrent people calling her a war criminal again?? Because outside of raiding human settlements or Twilight Gap, her most egregious crimes were opening the Vex Portal on Europa (done against her own people) or were a result of being used by the Witness. The raiding of human settlements/participation in Twilight Gap are the only two things I can think of where she came close to actually causing the direct loss of human life, but both of those were for basal Eliksni survival, so they're pretty nothingburger imo. Everyone and their mother was raiding human camps. Every human and THEIR mother were slaughtering Eliksni en masse during the war. That's really not any worse than what the rest of her species was doing, or necessarily a war crime

Ik attempting to nuke the Traveler is what a lot of people go to with her, but I find that pretty fucking ridiculous when she a.) Literally never succeeded in actually doing it, b.) was, again, being actively watched by the Witness when that was happening, so she had no actual agency in the matter, and c.) We played a false surrender card beforehand that resulted in the slaughter of her soldiers (an actual war crime) after the events of Beyond Light, which not only have an after-campaign mission dedicated to destroying food stores (another actual war crime), but details guardians toying with young Eliksni before they kill them in Namrask's lorebook. That's two solid strikes right there, but I can't remember what Eramis did that actually warrented her being called a war criminal

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sits bolt upright

bringing Umbra into 1999 is a really good idea bc imagine the interesting dynamic he can have with Eleanor because he is, literally, a physical embodiment of her fears: of losing to the infestation and killing those closest to her and potentially losing all aspect of herself with only the memory of that haunting her - but he's also a physical embodiment of hope, because despite all of that Umbra still came back to himself, in a way, in some form of fashion, even if it wasn't completely whole and back to the person he used to be.

me initially about bringing umbra to 1999: teehee umbra getting to space dad drifter in the past and the hex needing to get on his good side while drifter gets on theirs

me after thinking about it so more: oh my god there is so much potential for interesting character interactions between umbra and eleanor, and umbra and quincy, and umbra and-

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okay i might like excalibur a little bit too much

also some snapshots of statistics because i do that

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I'm sensing a pattern in these responses

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warframe is a game

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Thank you all for such a huge amount of love for my Valkyr protoframe concept! Literally woken up to so many notifications I thought I was still dreaming!

Attaching a small meme treat for people that voiced they imagined her more soft looking, fully gersemi based:

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My beloved babes of warframe transference is a noun. It’s not a verb. Transfer is a verb. Transference is the process by which the drifter transfers into a warframe. Pls use the knowledge appropriately.

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Drifter: It's so cool we're moving in together!! Hope you don't mind The Fish Wall :D

Quincy: ... The Fish Wall?

The Fish Wall: Hello Quincy. Did you come to become one with us?

Drifter: The kid didn't like it so I had to move it here :D

Drifter: I like fishing :D

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do you think operator & drifter treat their warframes wildly differently?

somewhat insufficient TLDR: i think the operator and drifter are emotionally attached but in vastly, strikingly different ways, and it manifested very, very differently too.

in operator's case, it isn't that they dont *care*, but they know how durable a warframe is. they know they can take one hell of a hit, and they'll be okay because that warframe takes the brunt of it (albeit with some phantom pain if the damage is bad enough). theyre less comfortable outside the confines of those large, bulky war machines because they know they're ultimately safe. those warframes can take hits. they cannot. the operator knows they were people, but they never met those people before the tragedy. besides... a lot of them really are just empty shells. they're hardly the people they once were, especially since they recreated those warframes from blueprints. don't get me wrong, they do remember the anguish of the originals - they were there, they lived it, and they still have empathy for them... but the operator knows the limits of every warframe like the back of their hand - they can maneuver however they want, they can take hits, they can run into armies and not be too afraid because they (as in the operator and the warframe this time) be fine. even if the warframe is damaged, they can fix the damage, so no harm done.

but drifter on the other hand? at first i think they never really realised the power they had. in their mind they were still them, just running, rolling on the occasion, it took them ages to maneuver those things *properly*, and probably only ever really learned with the operator's guidance. they would not let a warframe take a hit, not because they felt empathy for it (at least not a lot, last i checked you kind of need at least *some* to have effective transference?) but because they were so used to walking around vulnerable. yknow, not inside a killing machine. but what would've really solidified the difference was after they went to 1999. sure, hearing that these things used to be people is one thing, but at the end of the day, to drifter, they're still just machines. drifter never got to experience what the tenno did, they never had to deal with reaching into their freshly scarred minds to ease their anger, sorrow, fear, rein them in like the terrified animals they were turning into and hush their cries with understanding - they only knew the dead inside remnants... but it's an entirely other thing when you go to the past and see the people who were hurt. you meet them and you get to know them, become their best friends - maybe even date one of them - and it hit drifter like a fuckin' freight train. they have this entirely different view on warframes from that cold perspective they had at first. they weren't just war machines. those are people. every time they go into the head of those machines, they're looking through the eyes of *people.* people who had families and desires and hobbies, things they looked forward to, entire futures ahead of them that were snuffed out. people who were scared, people who didn't know what was happening. people who knew what was happening, who lived in fear knowing they weren't able to stop it... people who lived in fear of losing themselves. and i think it hit drifter a lot harder than they'd ever admit.

but thats not to say one of them is more attached than the other - both of them care deeply about their warframes. it's just that, they have different ways of looking at them. after all their experiences were so vastly different, it'd be impossible to look at them the same way.

(too lazy to type it out all over, but i have an example in the tags i think kinda helps pull it together more)

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can't stop thinking about this tonight

i just need to swap out one word: "We don't get to pick what our [families] have done to us, sometimes."

the things that hurt us are sometimes an inseparable part of our identities, i am not ok

i've been obsessing over the KIM convos instead of going to therapy

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i let him hit cause. uh. well i’m gonna be honest it’s cause i fucked up my parry timing

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Y2K bug denying smooches. This is the most Warframe thing yet