When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...
guy who is definitely not about to fall into a surprise midday nap with an aftermath worse than a hangover: it seems like a really good idea to lay in bed and get cozy under the blanket as part of my plan not to fall asleep. I do not know why.
Prince Osmit of Bastet legacy, reference sheet commission for Gabriel
credit to @ julesthavenet (on instagram) for graciously allowing to use his concept as a base (not included in my post), check him out
Okay I know some people are already getting tired of the female Custodes drama, but I have another point to add.
In the 5th Ed Necrons codex women were never mentioned. The codex mentions lords, princes, and the Silent King, but never any ladies, princesses, or queens. This is pretty egregious as because the Necrontyr are aliens it’s not certain how they reproduced, or if females existed in any aspect of their society at all. Even the Deceiver refers to the other C’Tan as its brothers. It wouldn’t be until a couple years later in Imperial Armour Volume 12 that the idea of a Phaerakh, a female Phaeron, was added.
This is rather similar to Custodes. Previous codices mention men and “sons of nobility”, but it never states that women can’t become Custodes. Of course female Custodes never appeared in novels either. However in 5th Ed, Necrons got 7 new named characters with models and all were male. The first Necrons that appeared in novels were all male. Every named Necron without a model was either outright male, or its not stated. Technically speaking, Imperial Armour retcons the Necron codex by adding women.
Yet female Necrons didn’t ruin the faction. Necrons weren’t solely defined as their men vs the feminine Eldar. Necrons didn’t “go woke, go broke” because of Xun’bakyr the Mother of Oblivion. The villainy or grimdarkness of the faction wasn’t reduced because they now had women in positions of power. The same is true for Custodes.