Warframe | Who Moved The Warframe in the Second Dream? Let's Find Out...

So... I'm seeing a lot of the lotus being the one to move the frame. I'm curious, why do you believe this? I'm generally interested. Is it Just because she shows up there or do you feel there are other instances where she controlled either a or multiple frames aside from powering them from afar?

Theory on why Stalker didn't wipe us right then and there at the moon. He was still in control and had a moment of weakness that Peepaw Hunhow didn't like. So the second time we see him on the ship it's Hunhow pulling his chain tighter, deeper in to his mind in his rage. Hence why when we broke the sword, which appears to be the strongest link Hunhow had during that time, it looked like it hurt the stalker, convulsing before being zapped off the ship.

Since warframes do possess personalities and the way we link to them is empathetic, I think that there is a certain level of consciousness in each warframe. I think transferrence in the tenno sense is essentially "joining" the warframe and tenno's mind together with the tenno in a sense filling in the missing parts, where orokin based continuity completely destroys and takes over the host. Edit: grammar

I think people forget one very important fact: The Warframes were made before the Tenno were found. THey were considered a failed experiment of uncontrollable weapons that is until the Tenno managed to transference into them as Ballas says, take the broken things and take their pain away.

The warframe moved itself, any other answer is less cool and less hype so I don’t care for it. Also the Tenno take away a warframes pain, that implies they can feel pain. Even if they are just as alive as an infested Moa would be that still makes them fairly alive. Though there is the note that the connection between an operator and their frame doesn’t exactly care about the distance between them and it might have been an earlier showing if long distance transference. Headcanon is the operators distress made enough energy to wake the warframe and though they couldn’t control it at a distance the warframe still moved to save them

Honestly the worst part about them having any kind of sentience leftover is the realization that barring physical destruction they will never be allowed to age or die. So if there is some kind of sentience still left in the Warframe which I think that there is and Warframes like Umbra prove that. It has to be a living hell of unimaginable proportions it's exactly the same nightmare as the sunken place in Get Out.

I remember that DE talked about making Umbra transfer consciousness to other Warframes so that they can act on its own. I hope that DE realizes this.

It was the Warframes response to stalker calling them mindless puppets

From what was said in the War Within, it can be understood that it couldn't be the tenno controlling the warframe due to not being able to control it when not in the chair, thats why the tenno neads the somatic link in the back of the orbiter. Only after The War Within do they not need it, because their power us unlocked. And it can't be The Man In The Wall because he wasn't released until The Chains of Harrow. It has to he the Warframe's action. And Chroma could be implied to be controlled by Hunhow or influenced as such, since the Pelt of Chroma looks and shares characteristics of a Sentient, same as the wings which could explain the control. Atleast from what I think

I believe your theory is correct. One thing that I noticed is that Tenno brings out the humanity/light in people like with the zariman crew from dying. This could possibly mean that the bond between Tenno and Warframe restores some form of humanity to the frame leading to saving the tenno life

Warframes definitely retain a shred of their personalities, as shown by the animation sets that can be equipped in the cosmetics menu, so my personal theory is that the warframe just had a small moment of clarity, even though they don't retain memories of before they became warframes.

A few points: The Drifter, when using a warframe for the first time, compares it to riding a horse. This suggests some free will. Next, Wukong's clone acts without direction. It still follows any instructions given, but moves and attacks freely by itself. This would suggest that at least some frames, even among the fully produced versions, were permitted to retain some free will. In the Vitruvian, Ballas say the warframes failed after they were sent to the battlefield. It is possible that warframes that were not traumatized by war, like Protea, did not rebel. (Something something Detroit: Become Human) Just before that he calls the warframes "bio-drones." A drone is actually more autonomous than most people think, with a built in autopilot to handle movement based on commands, rather than detailed movement instructions. So, in my mind, the warframes do have free will. They have to. But that will likely does not resemble anything like a human's anymore.

When I first played it, I saw it more as the Warframe itself protecting the Operator, having made such a strong bond over time, and without us, the Warframe itself knows it can have no peace and no "life" and only silence. Especially after having done Umbra questline, seeing how we bring peace of mind to the frame, it's one of the more unique frames there is, with its more free will and act as it wants. It shows the frames has a personality, just us making them calm down, peace of mind. So for me, them wanting to protect us makes sense in my mind. Our frame is so sluggish with movement, struggling to do the simplest of things, while Umbra later on have full range of motion because of its more unique circumstances

Honestly, I get the feeling that it would've had some ties to the Echoes of Umbra (A supposedly scrapped item that would've been able to give all of the Warframes Umbra's Passive Ability. it was announced around the same time as Disruption as a gamemode.)

I think that the reason the Leverian has stories of Warframes acting with personalities was because it was Tenno acting with personalities. So when a Tenno did something, it was attributed to the Warframe they were using. I also think that each Tenno probably got their own specific frame, which is why there’s consistent characterization.

i don't know if it's just a coincidence or I'm just overthinking it but I found this: Xata (Truth): We learned the truth about ourselves in the second dream, and the about our past in the war within Jahu (Form): The man in the wall first appearance in the game as he took our for in the end of "Chains of Harrow". Vome (Order): We made took control of the Umbra and learned that our void power made the Warframes mind stable by "taking away their pain" Fass (Chaos): The new war. Ris (light): Same as Albrecht did describe it: "The senselessness of it, the paradoxic, the vague untime form" We learned about the void and it's ability to manifest emotions and "ideas" into a physical forms, we learned that through "Angel of the Zariman" and "Duviri Paradox" and "Citrine's last wish". KHRA (Time): The time travel of Albrecht, I don't know if the "Whispers in the Wall" count or we shall wait for the next ones. The last two (Netra and Lohk) or three (counting Oull) requiem words are to be answered in the upcoming quests.

My favourite theory and the thing I thought that happened is that the warframes have some will of their own(also I thought that the stalker was a sentient frame). So I assumed that our warframe liked us enough to do it

I interpreted Ballas’ speech in the vitruvian being true to their perception: that the original warframes were completely sane, but overestimated their power and rebelled against the Orokin. Thus the Orokin destroyed the originals, but continued to experiment on their clones, continuously attempting, through varying levels of lobotomy, to excise their rebellion, until they were left with feral warframes which, unfortunately for the Orokin, still didn’t take orders well. With the advent of the Tenno as controllers, even the ferality was excised, leaving a mostly blank slate for the Tenno to inhabit. Umbra is unusual, then, because he has that one tortuous memory to anchor his ego; I don’t think that’s standard for warframes.

My personal belief is that the Warframes retain their humanity, or sense of self, but due to the infestation, it is inhibited, overtaken by the unfaultering rage of the helminth. And only after the Tenno calm that do they regain said humanity, in Umbra's case at least. For the other warframes I believe their tenno would have had to do something to them to allow them to regain control, something we are unaware of, perhaps it is what ballas had done to Umbra to allow him to retain his memory and sentience after we obtain him. At first I had always thought chroma was being controlled by the sentient based pelt he wears, since the tenno disappeared, it got control, but now I am starting to rethink that because of the mentioning of how it was trying to keep something a secret... Hopefully we will get 1999 soon to elaborate, if not some spacing updates prior. anyways wonderful video as always!

Also don't forget that the transference pods made the tenno operators drift into sleep, controlling the warframes through subconscious and this made them think they WERE the frames they were assigned to. Do this for years, possibly decades, and the warframe became them, so that is why they have personalities. They were different probably because each frame channels their power differently.