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My goal is to at least do 15 attacks. I can typically manage that before I burn myself out

Yall will likely find out if I make that or not with my posting

Yeah I made another shhhh. This one was made to put on my profile and I have it templated to re use next year with the proper team colors

My art fight profile page

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hey look who it is yet again

attempting digital painting again and i think it went pretty okay

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Its official team sorting day! here be mine its not on my page i mostly made it to share with a friend

Official artfight Team card!

Thaezus | Dullahan | Malo Mori | Lewis |  Chauncey

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I dont share the outfit refs i make much but perhaps one day i will. i got bough a few [getting close to 200 and still have like 250 to go]

Added his boi to my Warhammer Art fight page! Ive only been a little obsessed with him shhhhh

Link to the art fight page

Lore Drop bullet points below the cut

Malo was raised as a typical cadian until he was 13 where he was kidnapped,

quick side note Malo has the blank gene but not very strongly. The warp can't affect him but he can't affect psykers,

from there he became a gladiator slave in an underground night lord city. [by underground i do mean it was in a cave] He was originally just supposed to get ripped apart but kept winning the small battles they threw at him. He was also given a cadian officer jacket they took off a dead one as a mockery of him.

by age 23 he was fighting against more standard xeno mostly dark eldars and could match if not surpass them in speed [he's fast enough to cut bullets from the air as long as he can see them] and he was allowed out of his gladiator cage. Making him able to walk around the city Feely but only allowed to carry a sword at most. He also gained the title "Imperial dog",

age 26 he caught the attention of a night lord. He was then put in the gladiator ring against one. Before they could take his head off a custode showed up in the ring and ended the fight in a draw.

Malo being a being of nothing but stress, survival, and aggression did not like the new custode [Kallaxor] as he changed the ways he understood how to survive. [often drawing unwanted attention]

Kallaxor did not remove Malo from the city as Malo threatened to kill himself many times if he tried. Given Kallaxor purpose was to keep him alive it more or less worked. not to mention Malo did try to make good on the threat more than once until Kallaxor backed off.

a few months or a few years later [undecided] space wolves showed up for reconnaissance [undecided for what] discovered Malo and later fully raided the city burning it to the ground and forcing Malo on to the imperium ship more or less,

Malo was then thrown into proper imperium training. Given his aggression, blank trait giving him the menacing kanji around him and anti social nature he has difficulty making friends., however him always being quick to defend "his men" both physically and verbally [he was the same rank as them] quickly earned their trust at the very least

at some point he's also single handedly killed a few chaos space marines. He can't match a marine for strength but he is much faster. If they could get a hit in he would be dead but they got to get that hit in first,

I haven't given too much thought to his climb through the ranks up to Lord General but the whole time he also had Kallaxor which he used as a tool in his arsenal to minimize casualties on his side and maximize it on the enemy side.,

he's also the general that leads from the front and is often neck deep in the enemy while his men are firing from farther back,

Other notes

Malo is left handed but half the time he has dual swords and he shoots with his right hand sword in the left

he would and has made threats at space marines and assaulted his senior officers who piss him off with poor tactics, though he will only push it as far as he can with out getting executed or punished terribly. Hes a lot more vocal/physical when Kallaxor is there to keep him from dying.

he also always wears his torn up uniform from the gladiator ring and refuses the finery even when he's lord general.

His troops know they are going to have a bad time when he is wearing a new coat because that means he plans on 'wearing it in' during the next battle [typically a very brutal one]

hes often also eating among his men with the same food as the common soldier. most of the finer things hes offered as a lord general he denies. Even the large fancy rooms of the ship he hes stationed in he will convert it into something more useful like an out patient apothecary room.

his fighting force is called "the imperial dogs"

Malo often spars with Kallaxor as no one in his army can match his speed. He cant beat Kallaxor but Kall also knows how to pull punches he knows Malo cant stop

Malo also has specific ways to slight people who are higher rank than him. [When he becomes lord general his fighting force also takes up this habit] My lord = I respect you. M'lord = Im forced to show respect I dont think you deserve

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sometimes i feel ive got to

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This also works for drawing. Go look back at old drawings you did that you were super proud of at the time. Or art of characters you like. But if you really want to draw but can't think of anything, find an old drawing of yours and re do it! It's a great way to see how your style has changed!

when you have a writers block: READ FANFICTION

im not kidding it actually worked so well just find your favorite authors and read/reread some of their works/your favorite works, and boom. somehow.

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People on tumblr are like "I'm handing all my mutuals a bowl of soup we are kissing with tongue we are the bestest of besties I am killing and dying for you" but sometimes me and the mutuals are posting completely different shit existing on the same blogging platform but really we're just standing in the alley going "ayup" at each other like fucking king of the hill.

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Aragorn n Legolas r so funny to me bc people who don’t know lotr well see gruff manly ranger and elegant princely elf but they don’t know what i know. they don’t know that Aragorn is the long haired sensitive softboy writing sad poetry on his livejournal about not being able to show his girlfriend the awesome new song he wrote for her on his guitar meanwhile Legolas is doing backwards kickflips over gimli at the skate park bc gimli double dog dared him then he and gimli climb the tree at Aragorn’s house n yell at him through the window to come play halo

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you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time

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You could say in this moment he's a... liquid snake.

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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

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Lewis and his little sister Prim!

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My new warhammer boi! His name is Malo Mori [I would rather die in latin]

hes a cadian full of angy

Hes got a custode guard whom he doesnt like

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Bloody Version is under the cut youve been warned

Lewis's sister got stabbed

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baby boi and a puppy

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Art fight 2025!!

1. Thaezus Lyran    2. Chauncey Glenn 3. Lewis A Holton  4. Seki Takumi 5. Nash Woods   6. Dullahan 7. Focus 8. Kallin

Heres some recommendations for my characters! Hope to see you there!

None of these are favorites just ones ive draw recently to have thumbnail art for