#Warframe Operator

[kaiserouo]

no umbra is literally crying in the corner rn

btw the original screenshot

[myassuter]

"Sheep in wolf clothing" WIP

[ordis-big-naturals]

fellow transgenders I love the few of you I’ve seen that made their Operator pre-transition and their Drifter trans I love you and I see you and you’re so real and correct and you have changed my sense of awareness incomprehensibly. good work

[kwillo-o]

Commission done for @deported-and-reported of their operator

[elysiae]

headcanon that the Operator goes nowhere near mirrors or their reflection, because every time they do they swear it smiles back at them. it smiles and waves and sometimes it whispers, sometimes it taps the glass. sometimes it swings, and the Operator swears they hear the glass falter under its fist, and they want absolutely nothing to do with it.

[adriftinstars]

finally put together a reference for my operator and alyx

using capturas because i still haven't drawn them

i really like this style of reference idk

[total-trash-tenno]

been a while since I've drawn operator Minna

sad little menace :')

[armsmaster-mando]

Fascinating take and very very good points! Tbh I don't disagree with any of this, and it simply and succinctly fills any time travel plot holes with... Not quite elegance, but more a hard, somewhat grimy truth, based in Drifter's and the Operator's past experiences and traumas.

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.

[zloy-kto]

UPDATED REFERENCE TO MY BABY NIRA

[sevastiel]

Sol’s wounds, Lua’s tears

Thinking about umbra drifting in the void post mid-new war-happenings with nothing but the corpse of another lost child.

[mothtato]

A mother, her child, her champion, and all the places they aid

[homiu-l]

My artwork submission for Tennocon 2025 community showcase! 🚀 Imagine a 1:1000 landing craft model 🚀

[kaiserouo]

enjoying your 1999 backroom? i bet you visit ordis just for his arcanes

[kivaember]

anyway this is how i imagine their dynamic btw

[vaszametili]

the new war was something

[leolithe]

what if Natah had whatsapp 😂