#praying for a jade leverian gallery with actual lore 🙏

[vox-solaris]

to me, that quest explained a whole lot and just enough about sorren n jade's relationship. they were low ranking guardians that loved each other, jade got preggy, but sorren gave more of a crap about what the orokin think than his lover and kid. i feel like thats what stalker was guilty about. basically choosing the orokin over his lover, and presumably, she got turned into a frame WHILE being pregnant. jade chose to have a kid and die because it was sort of representative of her forgiveness for stalker and that she still trusted him to keep their kid safe. stalker's hatred of warframes was probably because it was a reminder of what he did to jade, and it was easier to do it for the orokin. but idk just my two cents. i think that if this quest explained more than it did it would just be an exposition-fest :P

i don't really get any of that from what was shown in game. jade had barely any agency or personhood in what little we saw of her, and her significance as an individual was entirely reduced to her role as a mother/wife/backstory prop for stalker. like hell, her only lines were about being pregnant and how he'll protect her. she was 100% a passive feature of her own quest, and that's disappointing to me.

now don't get me wrong, i don't take issue with people coming up with interpretations that fill in the blanks, because there sure are plenty of blanks to fill both regarding the backstory and present implications. you're right that too much exposition isn't in the style of the game, but i still think we needed more than what was given, and i *really* think DE should have been better about writing jade as an individual and should have shown more of who she was outside of this vague mother-wife-savior figure.