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Cassius: can I buy you a drink?
Aurae: I have a boyfriend
Cassius, counting coins on the counter: okay, but he can only get something small.
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I don’t think I ever did it before, so here are @merwild ‘s red rising bookmarks.
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Victra au Julii (”Red Rising” by @pierce-brown)
Nah, modesty doesn’t suit Victra.
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Sorry, don’t mind me, just thinking about Lyria’s empathy, compassion, and genuine human decency that has carried the emotional heart for the sequel series for three books now.
Lyria “I will risk my life for this gold warrior I don’t know, even when everyone around me will sit on the sidelines in fear” of lagalos
Lyria “I don’t care if it sends me to prison for the rest of my life, I’ll turn myself over to a government that has basically abandoned me and my people if it helps save those kidnapped kids” of lagalos
Lyria “I don’t care if you don’t want my help, you’re in labor and I’m not going to leave you alone for it” of lagalos
Lyria “I’m going to save these girls I don’t know from sexual slavery even if it means putting myself in a position to be abused or killed” of lagalos
Lyria “if it’s a choice between being powerful and remaining myself I will choose to remain myself every time, without hesitation” of lagalos
Lyria “I just wanted to say I’m sorry about ulysses” of lagalos
Lyria “it doesn’t matter to me that you once killed the man who was trying to liberate my people, you’re here now and that’s what matters” of lagalos
Lyria “in the face of someone seconds away from ripping my heart out, I will choose to believe in her humanity and remind her who she is and who she is not” of lagalos
In conclusion:

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I hope someday I can make lunch for them and I can cut the crusts off of their sandwich and put apple slices in a little zip lock bag. Put it in a little brown paper bag with something cheesy written on it that their coworkers would tease them for. Maybe I'd kiss the bag with red lipstick or draw us as stick figures holding hands.
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A freaky thing about truly falling in love for the first time is that all the pretty poems about love you thought were "nice" suddenly hurt. The cheesy rom coms take your breath away and you feel like crying when you see two birds in love. You discover how much of the world you were missing and you wish you could have gone back and told your old self how pretty the world looks so they'd have known to not be so scared.
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A really big thing in 40k when we look at the primarchs is the amount that seem to mirror each other or are two sides of the same coin.
Fulgrim and Sanguinius
Dorn and Perturabo
Corvus and Konrad
These are primarchs that share aesthetics, personality, or upbringing and then change a few crucial aspects that end up putting them down a different path.
It's by no coincidence that each pair has its Loyalist and it's Traitor. So I'd like to take about why these pairings are so interesting(each with their own post) and hopefully cover why they mirror each other in the first place starting with the two brightest brothers, Fulgrim and Sanguinius.
In both Fulgrim and Sanguinius we see quite literally the brightest of all the Primarchs. They are both beautiful, they are wonderful artists, charismatic, fantastic duelists, and very empathetic. Sanguinius had angelic wings and could do no wrong, he was seen as the Emperors perfect Son and the best choice for warmaster, his return to his legion turned the blood angels from hated vampiric berserkers to lovers of art and poetry. He was friends with the most difficult of primarchs such as Khan and Magnus. But Sanguinius had one major flaw. His Geneseed. It left his sons with an addiction to carnage and he felt wholly responsible, he was deathly insecure and guilty and wasted no effort in finding a cure, and it's why he was only one step away from falling to chaos if meros had not sacrificed himself. Sanguinius wasn't the greatest tactician, he wasn't the most intelligent, nor was he ever free from his insecurity but he was the Imperiums Angel. The imperfect God.
Fulgrim on the other hand was brilliant in every aspect. He was a tactical genius, brutally intelligent and cultured, the most beautiful of the primarchs ahead of Sanguinius, and the most well liked. Cultivating a friendship with ferrus manus that was deeper then perhaps any relationship in the setting. Like sanguinius however, his greatest flaw was his geneseed. But instead of giving his soldiers a curse. It decimated his legion, for instead of returning to Terra to a legion of many thousands of sons, he only found 200. It is said that when he saw his sons there was no trace of disappointment. It is said he gave a speech so inspiring that the Emperor cried and gave the 3rd legion the Imperial Aquila and the title "The Emperors Children". Fulgrim spent many years playing second fiddle to his brothers, and when he finally rebuilt his legion he burst ahead brilliantly. The marines of the third legion were among the best duelists, tacticians, and artists of the imperium unlike the blood angels, were extremely well disciplined, and their father was a man who grew in a hellish planet and knew the struggles of the common man intimately. But he pushed himself too far to perfection. Which allowed Fabius bile to prey on his insecurity and mutate his legion over time. Instead of the instantaneous fall to chaos Sanguinius would have had. Fulgrims was slow and drawn out. Instead of Meros sacrificing himself to keep his father from succumbing to chaos. A marine in Fulgrims legion kept him from shooting Horus's fleet and ending the heresy by giving him the Laer blade and damning him completely.
Sangunius was the God who wanted to be a man and Fulgrim was the man destined to be a God.
It's funny how they never really interacted in lore. I think they would have gotten along very well.
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My favorite character in all of 40k has to be Fulgrim.
He is a character so misunderstood and one that causes me to get into many silly debates with a friend of mine because like so many people. He reduces Fulgrim to the result. To the disgusting existence he is in the current setting.
But in doing so he misses the point of the character. You see, with every other traitor primarch we largely see scorned and abused men. Perturabo constantly playing second fiddle to Dorn and suffering the hatred of his brothers, Angron who was looked at as a rabid dog, Kurze who just wanted guidance and became a self made slave to "fate".
Fulgrim was different then all of them. He was potentially the greatest primarch. He was the most artistic and beautiful, he had dueling skills to rival the best of his brothers, he had the tactics and administrative skills second to Guilliman, he had pure love for humanity only dwarfed by vulcan. And he had a gentle heart that once made even Dorn smile.
When we see Fulgrim represented its usually in his Daemon form or after he finds the Laer blade and we see him as an insecure arrogant elitist. And we forget that when he found his sons, two hundred instead of thousands, he gave a speech that made even the emperor tear up. He was grateful to be mentored by Horus and told his sons to follow their own path and become masters of themselves.
He developed the strongest and most loving primarch bond of them all with his supposed polar opposite in Ferrus manus. He captured a planet with 7 marines. Led the fastest campaign in the history of the crusade when he took the Laer.
The point of Fulgrims fall is similar to that of Magnus's fall. It showed us how the emperors caused him to take his sons for granted, that they didn't need to know what he did. They would be fine. He left his sons vulnerable and he deserved their betrayal.
But they didn't deserve it. And yet despite the corruption of the Laer blade. Fulgrim still almost spared Ferrus. In fact if it wasn't for one of his marines giving him his Laer blade when he spotted Horus's ship, he would have ended the Heresy right then and there.
He didn't have a choice in his fall.
Fulgrim could have been the perfect Primarch. More so than even Sanguinius which I find so touching as they are mirrors to each other in a similar way to Ferrus and Fulgrim.
Hes the most underrated and misunderstood primarch similar to Kurze and Angron.
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Warhammer 40k is such an angry, turbulent, and painful universe. So much thought is given to war for the sake of war. Strife for the sake of strife. Pain is necessary and essentially the currency of this world. And I think the universe is such a great example of why grimdark is misunderstood and why it's so effective. Because in a world that's so dark and sad, what's the point? The pain has no meaning anymore.
I think the point of the world is to have you so accustomed to the pain and hatred the characters share and the way they permeate such suffering. See these strong and stoic and seemingly one dimensional characters who value strength and loyalty to a dying empire. So that when you hear about Fulgrim, the arrogant perfectionist leader of the emperors children meeting Ferrus manus, the stoic and simple leader of the iron hands. You expect them to hate each other like everyone else.
But you don't expect Fulgrim to be the only person Ferrus allows to cut his hair. And that he never complains. That for such a seemingly egocentric and insecure as Fulgrim seems. He loves when Ferrus pokes fun and teases him or challenged his artistry.
These little disarming moments that confuse you for a second. You let your guard down and watch this friendship bloom until you see Fulgrim begin to change. He seems different and colder. He no longer laughs with Ferrus. No longer cuts his hair or paints for him. And one day he's fallen so far that he and his brother take their legions and they fight. And Fulgrim kills his brother. And while the legions of once brothers maim and kill, he sits and weeps. Cradling the body of Ferrus Manus.
And none of it was his fault.
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At the end of all things. Angron was just a man who wanted freedom. He wanted what the emperor promised. So why did the emperor take that away from him?
It is so easy to look at Angron and see more animal then man. To see someone who knows and cares for only pain and violence. But Angron was to be the loving son. He was supposed to heal the Imperium. Had the butchers nails not ripped his mind away from him and if the emperor only showed him the same courtesy of helping his rebellion as he did with Corvus....
Angrons sons wouldn't have mangled their own brains to try to understand their father. He would have loved them and they would have loved everyone.
But it's so important to the theme of the setting that this did happen to Angron. He was a being of pure empathy and he turned into a vile and sadistic animal. That is the point of 40k. It's why sanguinius died. It's why fulgrim never reached his potential. We are meant to watch everyone inch closer to annihilation but never quite see it happen. Angron took all the rage and pain of the universe he was in. And it never even mattered at all.
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