#Jade shadow spoilers

[diffident-drifter]

BOY...

[tennospaceboots]

I can't believe they did that

[depressed-sock]

If you know, you know

Seriously though, I did enjoy playing through the new update. I just really think there's some aspects of it that they could have handled very differently

[tenno-aster]

Jade Shadows gave us further context to Stalker "going mad" upon seeing the Tenno's true self in The Second Dream. He had been a soon-to-be father before he was turned into what he is now.

[evol-astraea]

After playing Jade Shadows my brain is like, better elaborating all the things in it and...???

Man, I am a sucker for the little details.

Like the choice given at the end of the quest, for instance. Why those two options specifically?

(Spoilers under the Read More break. For those who haven't had the chance to play the quest yet!)

Both names for the small one tie straight to the overall Stalker's theme! He's a hunter, or at least - at this point of the story, I suppose - he used to be one.

Anyways. Orion, from the namesake constellation. Named after a skilled hunter, said to have superhuman strength (in some versions of the story, he's a giant) from Greek and Roman mythology. Again, depending on the versions, it's either Zeus/Jupiter or Artemis/Diana the one placing him among the stars upon his death. He's often depicted with a club (which however is more generally a symbol for another hero, Herakles). Though other interpretations show him wielding a bow.

And then we have Sirius. In real life, it is the brightest star in the night sky found in the Canis Major (Greater Dog) constellation as its Alpha. Infact, another name for it is Alpha Canis Majoris. There are several dogs which played important roles in Greek mythology. However, if we stick by Orion's story, this group of star could represent one of his hunting dogs (the other being the nearby Canis Minor constellation, the Lesser Dog). Indeed, a loyal and trusted companion to the sky's most famous hunter to bring along!

Whatever your opinion about Jade Shadows is, I find these small bits a really nice touch. :D

[toxaspot-wf]

So thought on jade shadows

The implications are imense

There is a baby warframe

It is sentient and able to speak it literaly makes noise, it has a mouth

It might also have some sought of mind control cause no way the corpus who said they would rip it out of stalkers dead hands just let him walk away

Not to mention

this senteint warframe is being raised the stalker

What the hell is this child going to become also does this make the acolytes siblings to the child or aunts and uncles i wanna know

Arthur better have a kid of somekind to complete the trifector of exaclibur fathers

[raenef]

[bigmeandragonlady]

will helminth get pregnant if i feed it a pregnant warframe

[tired-and-swordless]

I did really like the implication of Umbra walking around the operator's ship in their downtime

[bunbunbunni]

Ok I am gonna *cracks knucles* Warframe Ramble about the latest update Jade Shadows, so spoilers!!!!!

(not critiquing it, just what my oc blorbos are reacting/what they did through it)

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. Sorry I’m on iPad and I don’t have the read more button so we are gonna eyeball it bare w me <3

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(Also I need to make an important note, my oc Astrophel is Nonbinary Transmasc and uses he/they, his gender expression and relationship to it is a direct copy of my own— please be respectful to experiences that differ from your own as some Transmascs/Transmen want to have children— this is not a commentary on it or a fetish just making my oc feel real and complex lol

Content Warning: Pregnancy mention)

As a little catch up in my oc universe after New War Astrophel is left extremely depressed and fatigued, switching sides to have Orokin Royal Privilege wasn’t so fun was it Astro? He’s going through a lot I shouldn’t say that. Astrophel is so depressed and fatigued still, they do not go with Namid to investigate the Zariman/don’t know if Namid has told Astrophel about it yet. By WitW Astrophel is feeling good enough to go on missions again and reluctantly helped out our favourite Loid, Astro hates Deimos but as long as he’s not outside on the fleshy planet they feel less icked out.

Now to Jade Shadows.

Namid and Astrophel find themselves finally having a slow day and Namid is trying to broach some hard conversations about some realizations they have come to, realizations they had back in New War while Astrophel was under Ballas’ control… those realizations being Feelings. Wow, T4T real?

Namid is stuttering and fumbling trying to get the words to form correctly, flustered and fiddling with their hair braid as they struggle to string a sentence together. Just as Namid’s lips start to remember how to speak— The Stalker shows up, and he’s got problems.

Namid’s eye is TWITCHING and they are mildly going insane that they have to put this conversation off for the 500th time since they got Astrophel back.

Astrophel on the other hand feels an Immediate connection to Jade’s feather. He hasn’t really felt anything since New War. Astrophel offers to find Jade/ connect with her through transference.

Being connected to Jade during the Big Moment awakens something in Astro, a fighting spark, a burning in his stomach to keep fighting. Jade and Stalker’s story and how it mimics his own relationships to Namid and Orion. The power imbalance. For a moment Astrophel knows exactly how it would play out if he were still an Orokin Prince, mid trance he looks over at Namid and sees them distorted, they would not have been able to be together either. His overbearing mothering and coddling, did Astrophel want children? Could he even have them now after how void touched the incident left all the Tenno? It didn’t matter, Astrophel comes out of the transference trance with depression brain fog gone, replaced with a fiery passion, he could not save the Jade he was connected to but he can create the next.

Namid banging their head against a wall cause this ends with them still not talking about their feelings lol.

Also not sure what the Stalker-Jade baby is named in this story 2 Orions existing would be hilarious 🤣

[valkyr-official]

i enjoyed playing as stalker at least :-]

[ritasanderson]

[tazahan]

Jade Shadows in a nutshell

[that0therguy]

The endless refrain remains true.

[evol-astraea]

I finished the new quest.

I was not ready for it.

But on the other hand years of weird and crazy headcanons/eventual possibilities speculations are now canon (lol).

But most importantly...

*SCREAMING, BAWLING, FLAILING ARMS, VER MUCH IN NEED TO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH IN THE VOID*

[upsidedownsmore]

hildryn what's that strapped to your arM WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR ARM HILDRY-

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