#kavorou

[kavorou]

Madison Beer Fanart

I don't normally do studies like this but I couldn't help it because she was so gorgeous in this picture! 🔥🔥🔥 QUEEN absolute icon never fails to serve face in my tt fyp

[cardinalgoldenbrow]

Warframe Shower Thoughts on Time Travel

Since Warframe's new storyline is delving more into time travel, it's rather interesting that the narrative has already answered the question/plot hole of "Why don't we just time travel over and over again until we get it right?"

It's not that we can't. As far as we know, we're planning to travel back to 1999 again and just not be late, this time. The Palimpsest of Spacetime outright says that events can be rewritten, though traces of the original will persist, and accordingly we're pretty comfortable with saving Golden Cradles in the Undercroft on a regular basis.

So we clearly can.

Why don't we do it more often?

It's because, as the Drifter learns in The Duviri Paradox, constantly resetting the Spiral to get everything right is a trap that leaves them stagnant, stuck, spinning inside their little wheel.

I mean, there's a lot of people in this System who would benefit from a second chance, be it the Kavor, that Syndicate hostage we failed to save, that Solaris who got hauled off for brainshelving, and so on. Eudico has a ton of guilt over her many failures. Konzu remembers people who are still lost to their Narmer veils. Shouldn't we want to fix everything, since we kind of can?

So why don't we?

It's because, as the Operator learns in The New War, getting trapped in a recursive timeline means they have to re-experience all the bad bits too and, worse, while they're stuck in the past they're losing the war in the present with dire consequences for the people they love.

Warframe's take on recursive and infinite time travel loops doesn't necessarily need technobabble to explain plot holes like "Why don't Operator/Drifter just use time travel to undo every bad event?" It's enough that both visions of its main characters have in-character reasons to think "That's not always the best idea."

Kind of a neat little twist to DE's storytelling.

[chronicler-of-narrative]

Man, Bailey (not an oc, but the chad known officially as Bailif Defector) really seems like the type to be super cheesy.

Like just imagine you summon him during a defection and he comes in with something like "your bailif, here to give out punishment!" Or smth like that.

(Yes, im thinking he would be a cool-ass failsafe for defection missions)

Also thank you @goldenboikuvasauce for helping me come up with the idea of him as a summonable.

Would ya'll like to play defection more if you could summon old Bailey charging into the tile and knocking back the infested for the sake of his Kavor brothers and sisters?

[robomythos]

WF OCs so far

Rees Fayne: Operator. She strives to be kind despite the cruelty she's faced, but she can also be efficient in a fight. She has fears of abandonment which makes her clingy to her loved ones.

Alden Thale: Limbo Graxx. A slightly grumpy, old mathematician, once respected for calculating the coordinates for void travel. As Rees's adoptive father, he does what he can to protect her.

Roch: Harrow Graxx. Reconstructed by the Queen from his former self's ashes. He has faint memories of his time as a mercenary for the Red Veil. He regrets failing his mission to protect Rell.

Tima: Wisp Graxx. A legend whispered among the Kavor survivors was of a ghostly Warframe who freed them before their captors could dissect them. She is a guardian to all defectors searching for peace, and even adopted their look.

Amanita: Saryn. A stranded Warframe on Sedna surviving through pure force of will. She has complicated feelings towards the Lotus and loathes Grineer. She has no memory of her old self.

[greisinger]

Once: Harrow

Before Defection missions released, there was the event Operation: Pacifism Defect. I'm in a ghost clan and we needed to get the gold trophy for every event, which usually goes just fine. For us, this meant our combined score for each of our three members' single best run had to equal 500, with scoring determined by 4x Kavor rescued minus 1 for each Kavor slain.

Unfortunately, Pacifism Defect had a bug where sometimes your individual score was 0 at the end of a run, regardless of what your actual score was. After we spent a very long time meeting the requirements for the gold trophy, rescuing a minimum of 50 Kavor in one go assuming no one died, we had to turn around and do it again.

When Harrow released, I despaired when I saw Defection missions were a requirement, but I toughed it out. However, after several days of trying, I mentally could not handle another Defection mission, and simply bought the chain boy.

Nowadays, Wisp makes Defection missions a breeze, so getting another Harrow to feed to the Helminth wasn't nearly as agonizing as the first time.

Have you ever bought a frame with plat?

not prime access, not as a gift, only for yourself. If yes, please tell me in the tags purely for my own curiosity

[preposterous-birb]

Kavor headcanons because I love them so so much

-Many groups of Kavor defectors have formed their own colonies or societies on earth, so they can experience richer qualities of life. These settlements are well hidden, and only members of the Steel Meridian know where they are (in the case of an emergency)

-Said settlements are also very self sustaining. What the Kavor lack in muscle and aggression they make up for in intelligence. Many try to educate themselves in certain fields to fill rolls needed in their colonies (medical care, farming/gardening, technician, etc.)

-due to being on earth, these settlements are always at risk of being discovered or stormed by grineer. For this reason, Steel Meridian often sends armed guards to patrol the sites, and send supplies and weapons to the Kavor.

-like the Steel Meridian, Kavor architecture and technology is very reminiscent of the Grineer. However, many have also tried to build off of the land, instead of relying on scrap metal stolen from Grineer ships.

Feel free to add onto this uvu

[ben-tenno]

drew a super self indulgent Warframe oc. She doesn’t have a name yet but she’s a Kavor who sold most of herself to some curious Corpus scientists hoping to get the upper hand over the Grineer. Luckily for her there’s cybernetics for that, unluckily they cost waaaay more then the living ones so Fortuna rig slave labor time. She got the tattoos to blend in!

[muracasardis]

Inktober 2018 - Day 7 Post-Execution by a Pacifist

[space-ninja-fashion-show]

Oh Big Mood on the whole "main character I Guess" thing. I don't like my own OCs in someone else's universe being main characters! They're not cut out for it! But i too had to concede at some point that that kinda is what Kohlrabi is (tho since I'm not writing out my timeline like you are, I'm very willing to let go of it from time to time and let Kohlrabi just be a background tenno in someone else's world)

My take on "well then what the fuck is anyone else doing" is that while yeah a bunch of quest are Huge Main Character Things, a few just...aren't? So in my case there's a lot of stories being "played" by other tenno that we just never get to see. We do Chains of Harrow and Glast Gambit and Octavia's Anthem...who's to say there isn't also a quest-that-isn't-real, played by some other tenno out there, where they steal codices for Hexis? Or save a small party of Kavor against all odds? Or track down some other forgotten, Orokin-era instrument for Suda?

There's also Operations from before i joined the game which i personally consider canon (since they affected the game long-term in a lot of cases!) but not something Kohlrabi was involved in, just something they learned about later (some of these take more adjusting than others to work, but eh)

I have absolutely no goddamn clue how TNW goes down tho considering all tenno are apparently dead?? But TNW in general confused the fuck out of me so I have my version of what happened that absolutely does not care about canon (which is that the tenno scattered and sunk into the shadows/the void bc Lotus was gone and the sentient threat was worse than ever and no one had stepped up to lead them all this time but now it was Worse and most of them just couldn't handle it bc they're Kids. The minority who Could handle it stayed out in the clear and stood up tall and got mowed down for it)

What's the state of other tenno in Kelth's world? Are there any others running around? If so, is it many? Are they gonna realise their True Tenno Nature someday like Kelth will?

(If any of this is spoilers for your timeline but you feel okay sharing, so be it! Spoilers are fun, I just want story :D)

P.s. Chroma signing "thank you" got me so bad, ouch

yeah this might be. slightly on the spoilers for my lore so i'll put it under a readmore but i don't have a problem sharing it at all >:)

other tenno is a bit of a problem like... by deciding to follow the main quest line & write it all out in excruciating detail, i've kind of written myself into the corner of "kelth is now the Main Tenno of their universe". because - think about it

the quests show you rescuing various characters that are then accessible in the relays. you help grandma suda with her radio. you go unhide the moon. you fix the new war and give ballas the ass-kicking he deserves. that's all One Tenno who Does That. (or it can be different tenno across the quests but i have a headache so i'm keeping it simple)

so actually you asking me this is making me solidify that in my mind - i'm slightly uncomfortable just saying "yeah they're the Main Character of the Game now" but like. oops. they kind of are now. and i think i should embrace that a bit more and i think that will unlock a load more angst and allow me to be more decisive in writing and and and-

buT. other tenno!!! i'm thinking. in awakening, lotus breaks her streak of losing newly awake tenno to vor by getting more hands-on than before. kelth was the first tenno properly awake. other tenno wake up after them, and manage to really get out and survive now that vor's no longer in the picture to go kill them immediately. there's probably significantly less pressure on other tenno to perform and survive (and hopefully now that you've helped me realize that there WILL be elements of this in the future) and perhaps other tenno can just vibe with each other slightly better than they can with kelth. eldest sibling syndrome. every few days, another one will wake up, until eventually, everyone's either dead or awake. kelth is not very social (with their direct peers. yes i am projecting) so i'm not sure we'll see many through their eyes. when lua is retrieved from the void nook where lotus kicked it, i think other tenno will feel it, and they could be guided or helped by lotus or kelth to go retrieve their bodies and put them in their own ships. it would be significantly less dramatic than what the Main Tenno goes through for sure

as i said before, having kelth in this position and putting out my writing to people whose headcanons this cannot meld with is slightly uncomfortable to me. and i do also like being just a Regular Guy (as regular as a tenno can be) so i might also eventually make up an AU of an AU where kelth is not the first tenno and can just chill out

ack. longpost.

ps: HA SUFFER. i'd written the scene already but then i took another bike ride on which my brain said "what if that hurt more though" and i managed to remember that exact bit just in time to add it in before posting. we'll see more of that chroma in the future i'm sure >:)

[bisexualryder]

oooh codex #6 for any of your kids? :3

oof, I am so sorry this took me so long! Going with the letter format again, since I did enjoy that previously :3 This time... actually using it to dip my toe in the waters of Warframe writing.

6. someone describing a time your OC helped them

Sister,

It happened, it finally happened - the Tenno came for us! Defended us from the monsters. I’d have never believed it if not for seeing it with my own eyes. Have you ever seen a Tenno up close before, sister? They’re not at all what we were told. Beasts, yes, but glittering and magnificent to behold. This one wielded their weapons with a grace unmatched by even our best soldiers. They are power; beautiful and deadly. I was mesmerized, fell behind and thought I’d be left for dead for my foolishness. But just as the terrors began to overrun me, clawing and griping for me, a hand reached out to grasp my own. It was warmer than I expected, soft and yet firm as I was hoisted to my feet. Yet as I blinked up at my rescuer, the eyeless facade of the beast was not what I saw.

What I saw, dear sister, was an angel. The small figure of a child, outlined against a glittering jewel bathed in blood. It was no frame of war, no Tenno monster. It smiled at me, and in a gentle voice said “I’ve got you.”. But no sooner did I blink and the silhouette had vanished, replaced by the bloodied beast. Warmth radiated throughout me as I was rushed along to meet with my comrades on the transport. A tingling sensation coursing throughout my body with an energy that I can only believe came from the Tenno.

I’ve thought of little else, I must see more of the Tenno. I think maybe I will join the Steel Meridian. There are whispers here that they work with our saviours. Forgive me, I know I said we would see each other as soon as I escaped the nightmares, but I must do this. I must see these magnificent angels in action once more.

                                                                                       Forever Yours,                                                                                                     Shik’ti

OC Codex Prompts

[dr-ducttape]

Grineer Creativity - Songs and the Tal Hymn

Creativity is discouraged among the Grineer rank and file, but singing has found its place as an accepted form of expression, mostly because it promotes unity among the troops, and can serve to keep everyone working in rhythm with each other, similar to sea shanties.

The two groups of Grineer that sing the most without worrying about being caught and punished are the plains Grineer, since nobody who would care can hear them out on the plains anyway, and the Defectors - be they Meridian or Kavor.  All Grineer sing to some degree, and it’s said that hearing an engine room that doesn’t have singing coming out of it on a Galleon is either a sign of a Tenno attack or a surprise inspection.

Most Grineer songs are stories, of sorts - Grineer history converted into song form, and you can generally figure out where a Grineer came from by which oral histories through songs they know.  There are a few songs that just about every Grineer knows, and even the youngest learn them quickly, and new songs are rare to come across, unless some sort of significant event happens.

This song-based oral tradition is part of the Steel Meridian and Kavor, of course, but they are far more open with their songs than any other group of Grineer.  New songs are far more common among them, of course.

The most famous of the defectors’ songs is known as the Tal Hymn - Tal being a Grineer suffix used to denote a defective clone, also used to indicate defectors, some of whom have embraced it and wear it as a badge.

The Tal Hymn starts almost identically to a loyalist Grineer song written to praise the Twin Queens, before modulating into a minor key and beginning to tell the story of a defector - usually implied to be the singer (or at least the original songwriter).  The song ends modulating back to a major key and the last line of the song is “Praise the Glory of Free Choice”

Rumors in the Iron Wake say that as time goes on and more Defectors tell their stories, the Tal Hymn has gotten longer as more parts are added, and some feel that the Tal Hymn tells the story of all defectors, not just the original songwriter.

Some Meridian Grineer don’t consider someone a true defector until they sing the Tal Hymn (exceptions are made for selectively mute, mute, or deaf Grineer who cannot sing, of course, but there has been a serious effort to translate it into Grineer sign language so even the Grineer who can’t hear or speak will have a chance to learn it) and the first time someone leads the Tal Hymn is considered a rite of passage among many defectors.

[tenebris-metallum]

Oops new oc His name is Chrobak Tal and he has right side weakness after a head injury. He's a Kavor defector and a big sweetheart who likes bugs, even though he's only seen pictures. (His name, Chrobăk, is what Google translate said is the Slovakian word for beetle)

[cephalon-celaeno]

someday i will talk about non-operator-or-cephalon characters. i promise i have some it’s just so fun to make new operators................

[tauforged]

honestly though there’s just really something to be said for kahl and veso’s parts in the new war, seeing loyalists to their respective factions that we normally wouldn’t bat an eye at mowing down, but SEEING them slowly begin to doubt the intentions of those commanding them and eventually turn and act for the sake of others… throughout the mission, kahl’s ‘for the queens’ becomes more hesitant, quieter, more uncertain, until he finally drops it all together to say what he really means— queens be damned, all that matters to him is that his brothers, some of them, any of them, live to see another day. veso, too, goes from verbally groveling at alad’s feet to defying him entirely, knowing full and damn well it’ll get him killed, because he’ll be damned if he’s going to take the coward’s way out, even if he can take out one ship in his last act, it’ll be one less for the rest of the system to contend with. kahl, too, is the one who SUGGESTS taking the bomb to the orphix, even though grineer lancers are meant to be unthinking drones. it really casts a humanizing light on the two factions that makes me emotional. hell, i’d be willing to argue that this is proof that the grineer ‘defective gene’ isn’t actually REAL- the queens and their officers explain it away, sometimes a lancer just comes out wrong, they’re just broken, don’t bother listening to them, they can’t help themselves. theyre beyond help, there’s no reasoning with them- it’s better to gather them up, melt them down, and make a new batch. and nobody WANTS to be singled out as broken, so anyone who WOULD be predisposed to listen, they’re scared into silence. what if they think i’m defective too, they think. what if i fail them? what else could i possibly be good for, if not to serve the queens? and this is why we have characters like ruk who double down to the extreme on finding and punishing defectors, even pacifists like the kavor, because if they’re allowed to live at all, word might start to spread that there’s fundamentally NO DIFFERENCE between them and their loyalist brothers. there’s no genetic predisposition that makes a grineer inherently disobedient, it’s just that some make a conscious choice to reject the queens that made them, to defy their purpose— and THAT would be the real threat to the empire, wouldn’t it? if the many loyal, mindless dogs were to suddenly turn on their handlers in droves, bite the hands that keep them collared and feast on the bones of their few, cruel masters?

[incorrectwarframequotes]

Kavor Defector: You're my hero!

Equinox: No, no, no, that, I ain't.

Equinox: Nope. Never will be. I'm just a bad guy who gets paid to mess up worse guys.

[thegreatthreeteratosimp]

The war is over, we've won. That's what they all say at least

That's what you hear in transmissions from your orbiter radio, what Nora says at nighttime, that everyone is still here and alive.

But you know, you helped Lotus with the count, alongside so many tenno and Suda. Even Simaris joined in every now and then. You heard Cressa's report, how the defectors went up, but it was the kavor. So many Grineer are tired of the fighting after it.

You saw Paladinno being sworn in, you were by Cressa's side, because both wished you to, being a Meridian General, and the tenno hero.

The Arbiters are a bit more empty, seats left unfilled, just like how Suda's data scape is a bit dimmer, how Perrin got less monitors and people, New Loka has more plants for their falllen too. Even Simaris is a bit more respectful to everyone.

And oh, Teshin's room... You were there with Varzia, both of you knowing the rites to be made for a warrior who fell in combat. The Orvius you have was used as a stand in for his, in honor of the one who fought, time and time again, and fell on his feet against an unsurmountable foe. Every Tenno is a bit more quiet around it, and it always has flowers.

Most haven't noticed, but even the tenno are changed. They spent years doing guerrilla fights solo, the ones who brought down empires had no choice but to lay low and pick their fights. They all walk now, no more running much less bullet jumping. Tenno were always silent, but now you can't even hear a Rhino's footstep in a silent relay. each step is weighted and every tenno knows it's to leave as soft of a trail as possible.

Every one now has a kitgun, the pax charger arcane being the default, and although they do not use it in the relays, the tenno always keep at least a kitgun and a dagger with them, their usual weapons during the war, for their reliability, power and stealth. The last time you saw then without weapons was at the post war meeting, when you and Lotus got off from your orbiter at am abandoned dojo you had personally scouted shortly before.

Albeit a Tenno protocol breach, every leader from every allied faction was there, from the ostrons and quills to the entrati and even Loid.

You knew the numbers already, you were the one who went over them with the Lotus, holding each other, a mother and her child comforting each other at the sheer size of the numbers.

Civilian casualties were well over 60% of the last know size of them, not counting the missing. Allied factions were well below 50% of their size, with defectors and deaths. But the worst was the tenno casualties. Every death was always greatly felt since all Tenno were family. But this? Well over a few hundred deaths, to the ones who were only in their thousands since the Zariman. A bloodier battle than the old war, knowing how many were gone, and how many decided to retire. Only you and lotus would and had ever known about the ones who retired for their safety, and even among the death count the retired tenno were.

The ones too bruised and broken from war were almost 40% of the tenno death toll, numbers spread amongst the years, and even more names added to your wall, each just as painful as the first.

Even outcasts were invited, and peace brokered. All well beyond tired from the war, Little Duck and Onkko especially, being the ones responsible after local resistances alongside tenno, fighting Tau with void and fear with hope, but you knew.

From the ashes you'd rise, just as the Lotus was reborn from the heat of the sun, you'd make sure they all were. Your trips were more frequent, bringing materials to all factions, and gathering all dog tags you could find along the way. Being there with Lotus, going over numbers of enemies and through allies meetings, even Konzu's early lunch every now and then.

The work was sure to be long and tiring but you were ready. Years in cryo sleep after the Zariman, then the war, Naga Drums and the second dream. All Tenno were fighters by trade, but they all also we're resilient and patient by trade.