#even the content warning they give for the quest is fucking paltry

[necirusalka]

ok i said i would stop talking about this but i lied bc vik's post made me think -- the fact that the team that wrote jade shadows is the same team that wrote the new war is just crazy to me. TNW was such a poignant depiction of a woman reclaiming her identity and autonomy after YEARS of cyclical patriarchal abuse against her by her father, her brother, and her lover... whereas in jade shadows, jade's bodily autonomy (and the operator's) are just a complete afterthought. it's WILD to me that hunhow of all characters, whose willful ignorance of his daughter's autonomy is so central to the plot of warframe, and whose acceptance that he should never have tried to control her in the first place is a turning point in TNW, apparently just sat by all these years and let stalker keep prolonging jade's suffering in this comatose state for god knows how long, and never said anything about it other than "you should call the tenno lol."

there are two routes DE could've really taken at the end of this quest: either the operator could have put their foot down and denied stalker's demands that they give birth on jade's behalf while wearing her fucking skin, which would’ve obviously been a severely traumatizing experience for them that they had NO obligation whatsoever to fulfill; or they could have had the operator acquiesce, do what the stalker demanded of them, and then had meaningful discussion about how absolutely fucked up it is of this adult man to demand a teenager momentarily pilot his pregnant girlfriend's dying body for the sake of delivering him a child. 

instead DE did neither -- the operator points out that jade won't survive regardless, stalker yells at them, operator delivers his baby, jade dies as they said she would, and then... that's it. it's radio silence from the operator for the rest of the quest. as if they didn't just sacrifice their bodily autonomy and undergo horrific physical and emotional trauma for the sake of an orokin bootlicker to whom they owe absolutely NOTHING at all, whose pride is the entire reason jade died in the first place. the message DE sent here is clear: sometimes, surrendering your bodily autonomy IS the good thing to do! the stalker keeping jade barely alive for however many years was all worth it in the end since he got a son out of it! he couldn't save her but everything was ultimately fine in the end since she fulfilled her Womanly Purpose of giving birth! 

how utterly fucking tone deaf