Talk:Valkyr/@comment-108.87.117.137-20151206063413/@comment-4199482-20160105190343

The answer is simpler than you would expect. Based on what is said during the operators' transmissions, they can feel the pain of their frames. Hence the torture being problematic for that Valkyr's operator. As for why they couldn't just switch out of that frame, that's because switching seems to only be possible aboard the orbiter or near a somatic link device. As for why so many Valkyrs exist with supposedly the same backstory and scars, well that's just an inherent problem for a game where you play "templates" of characters and not a specific one or your own. For an in-universe explanation, I'd say it's a hand-wave where all subsequent Valkyrs are just trying to copy the first.

The amount of misleading info and outright speculation in this thread is never gonna answer the question. First of all, the line about warframe death = operator death is outright disproven in the conversation between the Stalker and Hunhow where they mention killing the frames doesn't seem to be a permanent solution.

All we know is warframes do have biological components. It's never clear whether it's just some organic tissue mixed in with cybernetics or an entire body fully enclosed. The first warframes, aka primes, seem to be the latter. Additionally, a lot of codex entries seem to imply warframes have individual personalities, but this is problematic since 1) there's clearly more than one of each frame, 2) operators are supposedly the mind, 3) warframes are created from scratch in the foundry.