Dark Angels:

The Time Machine

I made a sticker

Hello Kitty marines always go incredibly hard. The colors are very striking, and the soulless dark eyes go very well with warhammer.

"yoU'rE PAiNtInG tHEm WroNG"

Get fucked, loser.

So, if they buy California, does that mean I don't have to cross the Atlantic to go to a Lego internship in Denmark?

In Messages For Dad, Vulkan has a son named Janan. Janan inherits two good things from his father: his mind and his immortality. He was also born incredibly prematurely (twenty-three weeks), and highly mutated due to the primarch DNA, needing to be constantly on painkillers that would kill a normal child his size. He has "entangled organs ingrown with bones", and a lot of other things. His regeneration also means that any surgery done to treat his condition doesn't work, since he just grows back.

He eventually decides to inter himself in a specially-designed dreadnought (which he designed himself), using fulgrite to halt his regeneration so the dreadnought can slowly disentangle his organs and rework his body so he's not in constant pain--all over the course of about ten thousand years. All this was stuff he came up with himself, too--he *definitely* inherited his father's brain.

Do you know who posted the suggestion about a Primarch- kid instead of being strong and like their fathers ending up horribly ill and fragile because the Primarchs do have kind of fucked DNA?

Because that gave me so many brainworms fr fr, just have been thinking for weeks of giving Bobby G a small spitfire of a kid that kicks ass despite the cards stacked against them and making their dad most likely turn prematurely grey with worry

The one that comes to mind is Callahan from @jaghatai-khock. He has some allergy and would get sick when around Lion.

I know there was someone discussing how screwed up primaech DNA would be when mixed with baselines, but I can not recall who.

Anyone else know?

Whispered: volume

Said softly: tone

I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.

He looks like he's about to start calling people "mogrels".

Praetorian of Terra

Maybe it's just the people I follow, but I feel like the Emperor's Children community on Tumblr has a bit of a woobification issue. I wasn't sure how to describe it, but that word fits.

Lucius is a pretty neat character--compared to the other Chaos Champions, he didn't have that big a role in his legion's fall to Chaos--he was even slated to die alongside the Loyalists on Istvaan III. He still became Slaanesh's champion. He has, through his personality and abilities, pleased Slaanesh far more than Eidolon, who practically orchestrated the Legion's entire fall, and I don't think people talk about it enough.

He doesn't "win by losing", he wins when he loses. He's a damn good fighter, and he's been doing it for ten millennia. If he was bad, there'd be so many faces on his armor that you wouldn't even be able to make them out.

Those faces also serve to torment him. As someone else pointed out, "every one of those faces is a reminder that the fact that he's alive means he's been beat". And it pisses him off, because he's a proud bastard--and he damn well should be, he's the champion of a Chaos God.

Lucius is no girlfail at all

I have reposted the girlfail-post, because it's fun and I got a laugh out of it, but my more earnest opinion is: Lucius is incredibly successful.

Some of his accomplishments without any claim to completeness:

Beating the Mournival in consecutive duels (Loken cheated by Emperor's Children-standards, so fuck him)

He's made Captain in a perfectionist Legion of Aristocrats, despite hailing from gladiatorial pits.

He made Palatine Blade - elite of the elite

He organized a coup against Fulgrim, because he wanted the demon out and survived (by staying mostly out of it, but that shows that he has a brain indeed)

He impressed Slaanesh enough to become his Champion.

He impressed Fulgrim enough the Primarch strongarmed Fabius into reviving Lucius.

He impressed Ahriman enough the Chief Librarian kept him as bodyguard/killer (and didn't betray him - a rare occurance with Ahriman).

He isn't the most social guy, yet he became leader of a rather successful warband.

He killed a Bloodthirster (with the help of his Raptors, but still!)

40k Fulgrim uses him as his personal hitman.

He had fun fighting and killing in Commorragh (he got asked to leave).

And that's just from the top of my head. Lucius is one of the most successful, ruthless Chaos Marines still in existence.

We also see the Eldar fighting Emperor's Children on the codex cover that was released.

The unexpected 3rd party will be, of course, Trazyn the Infinite.

Given Fulgrim's absolute OBSESSION with swords and especially those that come with weird gimmics and magics attached to them, how high are the chances that he has the final Eldaer Cronesword in his arsenal? The one supposedly inside Slaanesh's palace and utterly unreachable?

Will this be how the Ynnari will suddenly be relevant again? All because Fulgrim had negative impulse control and also annoyed Slaanesh for 10,000 years to get that one special sword they keep locked away for good reason as it involves their self-preservation?

As we are due for a Drukhari update this edition the story part of it might feature the Ynnari just to dunk on the Emperor's Children after their release (the same way Angron got dunked on in Arks of Omen after he had a chance to wreck shop).

Oh I can see it already: They showed off that new Warp Spiders Phoenix Lord lady - that one will get an story of breaching into the divine palace, and realizing "wait, THE SWORD IS NOT HERE?!" which then coincides with Fulgrim's return to realspace wielding that blade. The Ynnari see it is "all or nothing" now and pull their connections and strings in the Dark City, the Craftworlds, the Harequins, and of course the Ultramarines (this is still GW writing, so Rotate Girlboss is here as well) to just throw a giant force at Fulgrim.

As this is a typical 40k storyline an unexpected 3rd party will obviously gank that fight for their own gain and turn every plan upside down, but up until that point we have a pretty solid framework I'd say.

Fulgrim's fall wasn't from the Imperium to Chaos.

It was from "It is your duty to raise them up, as high as they will go. Anything less is not worthy of you" to "What we have won is already being given away to imperfect mortals who will waste the glories we won for them".