#tenno to do

[orowyrm]

finally finished up a proper fullbody ref of this beautiful bastard!! my tenno oc, my special boy, my silly guy, my cinnamon apple — LAZ!!!!!!

i got wayyyy too ambitious with this one, but i think it serves its purpose just fine — and it was loads of fun!!

#myart #ocs #laz #i was going to do a big ol lore dump under a readmore but it’s late as helllllll so i’ll spare y’all for now #just know i love him lots <3 #warframe #warframe oc #tenno oc #warframe operator #warframe drifter #HES TECHNICALU BOTH. AND ALSO NEITHER. HE CONTAINS MULTITUDES <3

[themanwhomadeamonster]

The 1999 combat theme and its foreshadowing because the autism got to me and I spent too long trying to figure out this soundtrack

Jumping off from @brokenjardaantech's WITW music analysis post here - go check it out, it's very insightful and lays the foundations for what I'm about to talk about! And thanks to @theterribletenno for the burst of inspiration by giving me a massive oh shit realisation in the most chilling way possible LOL

Spoilers under the read-more; TL;DR at the end :'^D

To preface, the soundtrack is structured in an ABC structure with bridges between A and B, as well as another between B and C that borrows from A. The key starts in Cm, briefly modulating to Gm in section B then back to Cm during the second bridge, and settling on Em for section C. In-game for WITW you most likely will only hear up to the first bridge since the Technocyte fight only goes for around a minute long

Sections A, the bridges and partially C feature genre similarities to grunge rock with fuzzy guitar chugging, whammy bar, and palm muting, while the drums are notably sharp snares (except for the first bridge, which are clean bass kicks that gradually distort transitioning into section B's style). Musically, it sounds like a typical fighting soundtrack meant to hype you up - the melody is confident and likes to push and pull its rhythm. But in section C it notably become emptier in its layering while keeping the distorted drums, placing emphasis on the lyrics (which I'll get to below lol). Heavier syncopation and polyrhythms are also introduced.

Section B however is the main outlier. This section is where it most strongly resembles industrial rock: rhythmic synth layers begin to accompany the melody (a pedal point line that plays every semiquaver/sixteenth note), synth drums replace acoustics and the guitars drop the fuzz that is characteristic of grunge and steadily strum every quaver/eighth note. Compared to the push and pull rhythm of section A, this section is steadier, less chaotic than the other sections, it wants you to focus on this section.

Notably, the lead guitar introduces a familiar leitmotif: This is What You Are (which @brokenjardaantech goes more in depth regarding its use in WITW). Here, though, its second chord becomes flattened (Dm -> D♭m) and introduces a diminished, dissonant sound. To me this was the first hint that the song may actually be about Arthur's downfall. This is What You Are is a musical leitmotif that recurs in moments of vulnerability, especially when someone is at risk of losing their sense of self, their identity and what they are. It plays during The Second Dream when we discover the Operator, during the New War when Eidolon!Lotus just lost herself to Ballas and can't recognise the Tenno, and in WITW during the Vessel "fight" when the Tenno is forced out of their Warframe.

I was prompted to actually dig more into the lyrics because I saw @theterribletenno bring up something really interesting

In this specific song, the leitmotif is diminished, it's corrupted. "Surrender to the corruption" - this is what Arthur is afraid of. I brought up earlier that section B had a genre shift. The contrast of the music is important, it's highlighting something, and together with the musicality of the leitmotif, it's making a sense of urgency and danger. The leitmotif is a warning to Arthur.

Section B sings these lyrics:

Break it, break it, Break it open!

Compared to the desperation in the other lines, these two lines are sung mockingly. The Infested are trying to break Arthur, and are succeeding. Their voice is becoming his. But there are actually two vocal lines in this section - you can also hear muted backing vocals in a much less aggressive and lethargic tone warning that "Disillusion". Arthur is trying so hard to keep his own voice and stay clear-minded but it's being drowned out and he's nearing his breaking point, and Albrecht, based on the Codex Fragments you find, is well aware of this.

In section C, while the layering is less intense it's noticeably more heavily syncopated and polyrhythmic, and introduces new (accompanying) echoing and dissonant synth layers reflecting the confusion and disorientation that Arthur begins to feel (these synth layers are actually introduced in the second bridge, but are more easily heard in section C). Section B and C also keep the synth/distorted drums that section A and both bridges lack (at most it's a reverb in those sections); the industrial sound of the song becoming associated with the increasing influence of the Infested over his humanity.

So I tried deciphering more lyrics for each section; I haven't figured all of it out and most of it could very well be wrong because of how heavily clipped the vocal line intentionally is so I don't want to make anymore assumptions than I need to, but I can understand enough of it to realise that the song is foreshadowing Arthur's corruption to the Infested. In green are the lyrics I'm confident are correct:

A:

Sting it, sting it, sting it! Sting it, sting it, sting it in the flesh!

Bridge:

I don't understand! It brings more disease!

B:

Break it, break it, Break it open! (Disillusion)

Bridge:

Sting it, sting it! Sting it in the flesh!

C:

Who's dreaming? Who's the [???] It's a vision[?]!

TL;DR: the grunge/industrial genre hybrid represents Arthur's humanity/Infested respectively, and the song becomes increasingly industrial as the song progresses, most noticeably through the increasing distortion of the drum sound. Section A sets the stage, section B serves as a warning to Arthur that he's losing his sense of identity as the Infestation drowns out his "voice" while a dissonant version of This is What You Are plays, and section C is him experiencing confusion and disorientation as the Infestation continues to corrupt him.

#i'm assuming the last section might be about the tenno transferring to arthur since the singer brings up dreaming specifically? #please correct me if i misheard any lyrics the auditory processing do be processing badly #wf said we took the themes of grief compassion and identity and are throwing it back at you tenfold #warframe #warframe spoilers #warframe 1999 #wf arthur #audio #music #i haven't done musical analysis in a long time so i've forgotten some terminology especially with audio mixing rip... #but yeah idk i enjoyed this soundtrack it's musically simple compared to wf's other stuff but a lot of thought went into it thematically #i love when music tells a story in itself through its sound rather than lyrics #bc even without the lyrics the intention behind this song's composition is still very clear

[bloodied-serpent]

Pondering the implications of this

#warframe #what do you mean high ranking tenno #how were ranks formed/assigned #is this related to the schools

[grineerios]

Mind Firm in Action - The Operator

#warframe #warframe captura #grineerios captura #the operator #operator #i got my hands on the saita prime suit and immediately wanted to make a tennosona #...i do really want to make them into a character and i kinda already have but i'm also debating stealing his face to make Kaine look bette #(yes- for those of you familiar with kaine the irony is not lost on me) #tentatively his name is soleil (They/He). if i don't give his face to kaine. #which. typing this out i probably won't. i like my kaines to look punchable lmao #ive been enjoying taking pictures of tenno

[theultimatepumpkinpie]

Tenno be like "Mother, I crave violence" and The Lotus be like "Of course my child, here are some people that need violence done to them have fun 💋"

#my posts #warframe #The lotus #natah/lotus/magulis #tenno #i crave violence #yes she pronouces the kiss #sentients can do that ya know

[alteredsilicone]

if Albrecht dies I will end it all

but I also kinda want to 360 noscope him with Arthur's Ak-47 or crush his sorry skull with Aoi's mag abilities

#wf tag #if albrecht dies we can just rewind time #loid: STOP TENNO WHAT ARE YOU DOING #me spinning Arthur: LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO (5 million damage)

[evol-astraea]

I guess DE decided my Tenno hasn't been paying enough bills, over the years. So the lights in the Orbiter are off now.

(New lighting on the Orbiter sucks if you're playing on a potato like me...)

#warframe #yes thank you update is great and everything #but why do you have to keep making the game look objectively WORSE for us broke Tenno ;.; #no I'm sorry turning on all the new fancy things would send my PC into self-combustion mode

[warlordfelwinter]

maprico

narin has valid questions about his tenno friend

~1k

[ao3]

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The sun was setting over the plains, bathing Cetus in warm golden light. The market still hummed with sounds—a chorus of voices and laughter, bells and chimes tinkling in the breeze, loud calls of animals, the soft strum of music. The air smelled of the sea, of meals being cooked, of fresh fish and incense and spices. A perfect, peaceful evening, before night fell and the Eidolons began their mournful howls.

Not that the Eidolons would break the peace for Narin. He had grown up falling asleep to their cries, safe within the Unum’s embrace. The night would likely be far less peaceful for the Tenno who sat next to him in the scrubby grass, overlooking the market. They would be leaving the wall after dark, going out to hunt the massive sentients.

Narin couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to do such a thing. He’d seen an Eidolon from a distance once and that was close enough for him. It was hard, looking at Juno, to reconcile the youthful face and stature with someone who could take down a beast of that size. But they were a Tenno. The warframe that knelt motionlessly behind them was proof enough of that. The warframe that Narin had thought was the Tenno for the longest time. But the Tenno were children. Younger than Narin and yet infinitely older.

Millennia… Another difficult thing to believe about Juno. If he looked past their luminous eyes and the marring of their somatics, they looked like any other teen. They looked the same age as him. And yet they’d been alive during the Orokin Empire. Something that was just distant history to Narin. Stories he’d been told.

They’d been in stasis, the way they told it. When they were controlling their warframe, they were on a ship, far from here, their body held in stasis while their mind roamed. They could leave it now, as evidenced by their presence next to him, and it made Narin wonder if they aged when they were outside.

He wondered about a lot of things, with Juno. At the moment, as he watched Juno idly scratching the ears of the kubrow that dozed in their lap, he wondered about food.

Narin popped a small piece of rubad into his mouth, chewing. He’d brought a plate up here with him, with sliced fruit and nuts and cheese, drizzled with spiced honey. It had clearly been meant to be shared and yet Juno hadn’t touched any of it. Maybe they were just being polite about food they didn’t like, but Narin wondered…

“Do you eat?”

Juno blinked and looked at him. “What?”

“Do you eat?” Narin repeated. “You know, like food.” He put a piece of cheese into his mouth, demonstrably.

“I know what food is,” Juno said, frowning, and decidedly not answering Narin’s question.

“So that’s a no…?” he asked, slowly.

They looked away, color rising to their cheeks. “It’s… a… I don’t know,” they said.

“You don’t know?” Narin asked, laughing. “How do you not know??”

“I mean, I don’t,” Juno said, looking at him again. “I don’t eat. I don’t remember… ever… eating, but I must have at some point… before…”

Narin rested his chin on his hand, looking at them curiously. “So your… stasis thing keeps you… full?” he guessed.

“I suppose so,” Juno said. “I’ve never thought about it.”

“So… can you eat?” Narin asked. “If you wanted to.”

Juno stared at him for a moment, thinking. “I… don’t know,” they said, eventually.

Narin picked up a piece of maprico and slowly held it up in front of Juno’s face, watching those unsettling glowing eyes briefly cross to focus on it before returning to Narin’s face. He waggled the piece of fruit enticingly.

“You should find out.”

Juno held his gaze for a moment before they took the fruit. With an amount of caution that was almost comical, they opened their mouth and placed it inside. Almost immediately, their eyes widened slightly and a soft noise of surprise escaped their throat. They chewed slowly, their expression slowly morphing from one of surprised pleasure to increasing distress.

“Mm!—mmrmh!—why does it burn?!” they managed to demand after swallowing. They doubled over, coughing, and Narin burst out laughing. The spice of the honey was quite mild for Ostron standards, but for someone who hadn’t eaten in millennia…

Juno glared at him, which only made him laugh harder.

“Sorry, sorry,” he giggled. “Here, the cheese helps—”

“No,” Juno said, batting his hand away. “I think I’m done with food.”

“Ai yo! Behold the mighty Tenno, defeated by a piece of spicy fruit,” Narin declared. “We are all doomed.”

Juno stuck their tongue out at him and then disappeared, dissolving into light and being pulled backward into their frame. They shifted and stood, Nezha’s figure moving as naturally as if it was Juno’s own body.

Narin glanced at the sky, realizing it had gotten dark as they’d been sitting here. “Time for the hunt?” he guessed.

They nodded. As if on cue, the ululation of an Eidolon split the quieting air.

“Sho-lah. Good luck. I’ll make harpu for you next time.”

“Like I’m going to trust you about food again,” they said, voice synthesized and strange coming through Nezha.

“That one’s a drink,” Narin said.

“Whatever.” They shifted back and step and then launched off the overlook, twisting mid-air and flipping, landing on a roof and sprinting lightly along cords and fabrics, hardly seeming to touch anything before they were jumping again, impossibly agile. Their kubrow dutifully ran down the hill and chased after them.

Narin waved, watching until they were out the doors, and then dropped back onto the grass, looking up at the darkening sky. He reached blindly for the plate and grabbed a piece of fruit, dropping it into his mouth and chewing, savoring the warmth of the spices. He snorted to himself.

“Some killing machine.”

#gonna start posting all my bullshit to ao3 again #that's what it's there for #i just forget #anyway i was wondering this myself about the tenno yesterday #like DO they eat #CAN they #how fucked is their digestive system after the void and being in stasis constantly #or whatever is going on with their bodies when they're in their frames #which must be some kind of stasis if they served the orokin for however long and never aged #warframe #fic #oc: juno #oc: narin

[w1tchybusiness]

i could write a 100 page essay about what a fucking masterpiece warframe is. i will write many words in the tags. please readem if you want my 'tism.

#ive been playing on and off since 2019 but its only recently when i dumped destiny 2 (probably for good) and picked it up #to fill the grind-shaped hole in my heart #that i have uncovered just how FUCKING INCREDIBLE warframe is #everything about it makes me incredibly autistic #from its masterful utilization of an incredibly styled and individual soundtrack full of absolute bangers #to its seemingly unique understanding of how and why an MMO is special to and because of its players #and its truly special story- a uniquely human take on the “post-ruin scifi” tale #it knows exactly how and when to yank on your heart to make you weep like a baby #and it knows exactly when you're going to get angry and want vengeance #and it knows when to let you let loose and unleash hell #SPOILERS FOR THE NEW WAR AHEAD #IF YOU THINK YOU COULD PLAY THE GAME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO #SPOILER WARNING #i think the narmer corruption of fortuna was genuinely one of the most gutpunchingly horrible moments ive ever experienced in a video game #i started playing when fortuna was already in the game but the story of fortuna and vox solaris was really what made warframe stand out 2 m #i would drop into the orb vallis as gauss and dash around doing bounties and fishing and mining because i really loved everything about #fortuna and wanted to spend as much time there as possible #for me vox solaris was my proudest achievement (in warframe.) to say “i helped that! i did that!” was an incredibly good feeling #the story really spoke to me on a deeper level #and vox solaris has always been my favorite faction as a result #so to do absolutely everything that i could #to lift together with my tenno brothers and sisters and yet STILL fail? #and to have it rubbed in my face by the corruption of the greatest shining pillar of hope in the warframe universe? #felt like i got kicked in the stomach #i felt sad and angry. but most of all i was DRIVEN. #which is GOOD. because RARELY does a video game present you the “you lost” scenario and have it feel not only satisfyingly painful #but MOTIVATING. #my only complaint with the new war is that i didnt get to hack ballas to pieces by myself #i had real flashbacks to running around helping people as gauss while approaching the final boss with erra #and to step onto the ballas arena as gauss prime. i nearly came from the narrative significance

[primedtrashcan]

✧‧͙༓☾ Dream ☽༓‧͙✧

My Operator, Ren Malakye!

I haven't really been posting my art on here at all, time to change that! Been working on this piece on and off for the past,,, 3 years,,, I think? Artblock is a pain in the ass, and I've had a massive one ever since I graduated😅 But I think I'm getting back into it!

Also fun fact, I couldn't really come up with a good name for him for the longest time, and then I made him in the sims and used the name generator there,,,, and it kinda stuck sdjfkhgdfkl

#warframe #tenno #my art #warframe art #tennocreate #digital art #warframe oc #warframe operator #I do have a LOT of sketches of my operator #but nothing I feel is good enough to post #my little void gremling #love himb #also damn tumblr really nuked the quality on this one huh?

[orowyrm]

finally settled on a design i like for driftlaz, so i can now present you all with a new and improved Laz Field Guide! since he’s a guy who’s actually three guys, having a handy dandy visual tool to tell the different versions of him running around apart can be helpful sometimes, especially since they all exist at the same time and can and do have the potential to interact. (don’t ask him why or how any of this is possible. he tooootally bombed his eternalism test. he’s got no clue what’s goin on)

#my silly guy ❤️❤️❤️ he contains multitudes #i wanna do full refs for them all at some point but it’s late so this will do for now ! #myart #ocs #laz #warframe #tenno oc #warframe drifter #warframe operator

[plaguedoctorfinch]

You heard the child

#warframe #warframe tenno #doodle #is this how i post on tumblr did i do it right

[fiendir]

help. I started my day out with watching a Warframe lore video and now I can't stop thinking about how wonderfully fucked up the whole so far story is. help.

#Albrecht Entrati is currently portrayed as a really fucked up mad scientist rn #But part of me is like... No. There's going to be some sort of... At least attempt of redemption here. #Why else would the latest quest work so much with portraying that he's still got empathy and compassion? #And solidify that... He just couldn't show that because he never considered himself WORTHY of love?? #God I swear if this manages to organically teach all the minmaxing gamer dudes why toxic masculinity sucks... I'mma buy every prime access #It's going to be really interesting regardless. I need a new update already I'm frothing at the mouth #Like Albrecht seems to have fucked up a LOT of people in his frantic rush to fight back the Indifference #From the Cavia to his closest family to Arthur to the whole fucking Zariman and finally our very Tenno?? Like... bro... #Idk how he can ever be redeemed from that. Even if he truly does seem to do it out of love... #Like he went from broken and wanting death... To seeing Loid and being filled with blameless love... God. That still fucks me up. #idk if I can ever forgive him for Tagfer and Minn thou. Tag for disposal... Like you absolute MOTHERFUCKER- #Warframe spoilers

[theultimatepumpkinpie]

Apparently Witch Queen starts out as Destiny 2's version of Warframe's Second Dream but on the opposite team.

'Oh mars came back out of some time distortion thing and now this one bitch has been driven out of hiding and is vulnerable ya know just like that time lua came out of the void and the tenno were vulnerable or like that time deimos came out of the void because the heart was in danger or that time the zariman came out of the void and was attacked'

#my posts #warframe #destiny 2 #warframe spoilers #destiny 2 spoilers #this is a joke post #no hate #it's just funny to me #sometimes the best stories just involve fucking with reality in stupid ways #boy howdy does warframe do that a lot #I kinda wish warframe would have something like the season of haunting but like that kinda goes against how the tenno work ie sacrifice #warframe v destiny #viv live blogs

[therewithinthestars]

ok but what is this "in every universe" thing i have going on with excal/umbra/arthur tho, bcs how did they trick me into simping over the same character three different times

#warframe #listen i know it's not the same same character but you know what i mean #maybe i'm just easy to be marketed to 🤔 #stalker too if we count him bcs i do see the similarities 🤠 #Excalibur was my first frame #Umbra I have extreme attachment to he's more of my tenno's parent then lotus is ok im sorry i said it #Arthur................... respectfully gnawing at the bars of my enclosure :) why did they animate him like THAT

[silverchronicler]

It's unfortunate that I have a hard time writing fanfic (I'm very character driven and I have a hard time writing Other Peoples' Characters), because I think a lot about how much I want to like figure out how I think tenno culture works/should work. They're all just like, teenagers of different ages who have been thrust into this world slowly remembering years of warrior training and all trying to come into themselves in a new era and it's so fascinating to think about to me.

And to think about like, how there might be different ways that individuals experience some quests- not everyone can kill the worm queen, so what are some other ways that they might awaken their tenno powers? Who causes trouble and who acts mature for their age, and what kind of friction exists there? How much do the npcs know about the metallic warriors and how do they react when they find out there's kids inside when one of them acts like a kid? What does being an adult mean in this new society where you're so disconnected from the same kind of responsibility that others have? How do the Tenno relate to each other? What do they do in their free time?

Sometimes I swear I just want to steal npc quotes from the wikis and just write slice of life stories about a group of unwieldy children in their magic robot ninja suits and pondering how the quests would go with a squad instead of solo. I love thinking about sci fi and fantasy world building and the origin system has so many unanswered questions I want to play with.

#warframe #tenno #operator #just. thinking about. Them #thinking about kids in suits petting their dogs and sending each other messages and learning to deal with their own mortality #and troubled histories #I just make characters that's what I do #so I just start making characters and then whups I have a whole squad of them