Thoughts On The Newest Update

Thoughts on the newest update

Spoilers!!!

Now that I've had some time to let everything stew and can make coherent thoughts...

First, I do wish the quest was longer and we could at least see more of who Jade and Stalker/Sorren were before becoming frames. It wasn't bad but could've used much more time!

I'll admit, I wasn't sure how to react with the pregnancy reveal. Was I shocked, disgusted, horrified, unsure? And then it hit me.

The Orokin never valued life.

We already knew this through multiple stories of mutilation, forced mutation and experimentation. But it never hit me before as to how low the orokin would sink into the endless abyss of evil until Jade. They took a pregnant woman and her lover and turned them to warframes with no memory of one another. But the worst part? They did so with their unborn child as well. Why? To make an EXAMPLE. I have no doubt our peachy friend Ballas designed her with the express purpose of slowly dying as her child sucked out her life force. They took Jade and Sorrin's minds, memories and even autonomy just to feed into their narcissistic sadism.

All because they broke the rules.

And in the end, i'd like to believe that, with the help of our tenno, Jade was able to give one last middle finger to her 'former masters' and the streak of filth they left behind by saving her kid, letting Sirius/Orion live on. She WANTED to have a child, and by damn she fucking DID!

Fuck you Ballas, you may be able to fridge Jade but she had the last laugh!!!!

someone just asked me what inspired me to write and come up with the stuff that i do, and i literally just have one answer for that person.

im a fromsoftware fan.

my first ever exposure of fromsoftware wasnt dark souls like many other people, but it was sekiro.

sekiro was the easiest to get into because of its more obvious storyline and characters. but holy damn, did it change everything. as soon as i saw this story and these characters i just wondered why arent more games like this??

but sekiro was only the start of it. i got into the dark souls series after a while, and i immediately got sucked in because i live for dark fantasy aesthetics and also...because the character designs and general art direction of the game was so unapologetically scary at certain times despite not being labeled as "horror."

i cannot express the amount of love that i have for these games. the amount of passion and love that was put into the lore just tells you how much this was just...made because hidetaka miyazaki wanted to share an experience he had a child. down to the way lore is told and the way the world is built, all of that is said in the games he creates.

it says a lot that dark souls was the only game that could make me cry with ONLY music, visuals, and not a single line of dialog in a boss fight. it says a lot that bloodborne was the only game that horrified me by making me think of the simple implications of its story. it says a lot that elden ring was the only game that challenged what i thought was the normal formula for gaming.

i am glad that miyazaki is being appreciated for simply being creative and wanting to give people an experience. fromsoftware has inspired me like no other, and i wish more people get the same opportunities that miyazaki had to be able to share their own vision.

it turns out elden ring players Are actually capable of being funny

Jade Shadows Thoughts

okaaayyyy I am utterly rattled rn lmao also made the mistake of looking at tumblr after doing the quest and as expected it seems to be a 50/50 of hating or loving it. so here are my personal thoughts, I am a little scared but talk seems to be civil thankfully. I can definitely agree on the sentiment that this quest needed more time, cause let's be honest the people hating this quest wouldn't be jumping to the things they're jumping to if Jade herself got more screen-time before the big drop, warframe's style has always been vague and never 100% straight-forward and I think that unfortunately hurt it a bit this time, as what they didn't show came off wrong to many people and I can absolutely see why. and I also feel like the quest kinda got a bit *too* hyped both by DE and the (tumblr) fanbase's theories, way too short, Jade kinda got a weird spot, both being the main focus but also hardly explored. Now, what I absolutely disagree with is people insisting that DE was trying to say "bodily autonomy bad" or that Stalker didn't care about her and only the child, thing is I thought it was pretty fucking clear that she *wanted* the child in what little was shown and she was going to die no matter the outcome (thanks to the orokin to absolutely no one's surprise) and Stalker in his guilt for all she's done for him wanted to make sure that he at least kept this one promise to Her, cause She wanted it. she still had bodily autonomy in the fact She wanted this, she wanted the child no matter what. and she wanted stalker to protect her and the kid. But yes, this does unfortunately fall into a trope and I don't think DE intended that at all given their track record of being very autonomy-positive. Honestly there would be 0 issue if DE had given us a Jade-only quest before this one, I personally would've preferred it as well, she's cool as hell she deserves it. who knows maybe DE will see all of this and make prequel quests? we can only hope. I do not want to assume the worst of anyone or anything cause that's a miserable existence. Look I personally enjoyed the quest and get the feeling whoever wrote it did it out of some personal experience or sorrow, that's at least the vibe I got. Look it's a tragedy, but her choice was seen till the end, many women choose to still have a child despite knowing they won't make it, many also don't, that's why choice is important. and she did, she chose her child that she was having while likely forcibly infested and turned into a warframe. (also remember there are women on the team who likely looked at this.) there are some other iffy parts of the quest, (really should've been the drifter instead of the operator if they were gonna do that) but overall I'm fine with it and open to explore the implications of a born-warframe-child and Stalker healing. These are my thoughts, and I can understand why people like or dislike this quest, but I think it's fine and just ended up in a very unfortunate spot. (sorry if any of this comes off as aggressive it is not my intention despite how riled I am by some folk online, I disagree with you but I do not hate you.)

Her choice, His promise, Their light.

Thank you for reading my first ever text post about something I care about lol (probably won't do this again out of anxiety) byyyeeee

Okay I am very happy to see more and more people call out the weirdos, namely the ones villainizing pregnancy and all that, But I wanna talk about the startling amount of people I've been seeing popping up calling Jade and Stalker's romance "cheap, boring, easy" just *because* it's woman-loving-man or "straight" as these people keep calling it.. How wild is that-? to call a romance boring because of the gender of the people involved? they're not calling it boring cause of writing but because of their damn genders? hello?? do you know how insane that would sound if said about a sapphic or achillean (mlm) couple?? imagine if someone said that about Albrecht and Loid they'd get flamed so fucking fast dude. Do these people also forget bi/pan etc. wlm relationships exist? or that straight genderqueer people and relationships exist?? that queer wlm relationships just exist as well in general??? I'm a bi woman in a relationship with a bi trans man, JUMPSCARE! we exist! while I understand being tired of wlm romances cause there's enough out there to get to hell and back, that doesn't mean they should just, not exist? or that they're inherently bad or boring? not only is that just weird period but it also erases the people and relationships mentioned above. (also goes against the whole equality thing we've all been fighting for my guy) also like, the last time we got a wlm relationship between major/important characters in warframe was god damn Ballas and Lotus and that shit was abusive, we needed a healthy one to balance it lmaaoooo. Annd to my knowledge there hasn't been any romance between two warframes before these two yet so it's not like they've done it before to warrant the groaning? you know it's odd how I almost felt this type of attitude coming, I was witnessing a concerning steady rise of hating pregnancy in fiction from one side of the internet and just general hatred of wlm relationships on the other side of the internet, such a shame it all came to a boiling point and targeted this quest that really didn't deserve it. Honestly looking at it without the stained view of people the quest is just as good as all the others before it, short, sweet and impactful. I really enjoy it and have been trigger happy with the block on anyone slightly annoying about it cause at this point it feels like we don't even play the same game lmao. anyways this will likely be the last post about people being weird as I don't wanna bring more negativity to the tag and I'm tired of people pff but posts like these are unfortunately important cause if you let the mold sit it'll contaminate and ruin everything. Jade, Stalker and their beb deserve all the love they can get, I will not tolerate slander. >:[

will you be reuploading your other art?

probably! it's a shame i had to delete my stuff after the whole....ai thing eughhh...but i decided to post again because i didnt wanna abandon my audience here.

i do have to thank you guys for being patient tho!! :)