Talk:The Second Dream/@comment-173.81.111.92-20160312065659/@comment-66.185.200.108-20160325041023

The thing about your statement about Valkyr is that even during the quest, Alad V stated that he had dissected warframes before and what he found inside didn't make sense to him. Couple that statement with the fact that transference works like a lucid dream for the Tenno, and Valkyr's operator was scarred by the events she endured in the Zanuka Project's labs. Because of how the Tenno were hidden away and their warframes awoken after millenia of sleep, the operators believed they were that warframe. Valkyr's operator was left scarred by the events because she believed she was Valkyr. She may have been able to feel pain via the biological parts of Valkyr being directly linked to her operator's brain via wireless transference, like a less severe but similar idea to how the Matrix worked: If you died in the Matrix, the trauma was 'uploaded' from your virtual self back to your real body.

If warframes do not possess any nerves that link to the operator through transference, then her mind thinking that she is Valkyr would be enough to cause that operator pain, and those screams would be sent through the somatic link to Valkyr.

That's my take on how that all seems to fit together. Remember, we're able to access a skin of pre-experimentation Valkyr, but at the end of the day, we're only given the parts to create the traumatized, post-experimentation Valkyr.

On a side-note, since Valkyr is my favourite frame, I explain all that stuff away in my own head by just pretending/roleplaying that my operator is the original Valkyr's.