#malcemps

[stlptr]

[wolf-tail]

[moociaoafterdark]

And the historians said they were the best of friends... until the Inquisition shot the historians under the suspicion of heresy.

(That's right, sluts, we're lewding Malcador now. No ojiisan is safe.)

[vveltergeist]

Im not even in the MalcEmps boat (cheers to you if you are, tho) but that scene where Lorgar bitch slaps Malcador HARD - like power armor Hard - and even Guilliman thinks he's dead and then the old prune just dusts himself off and the Emperor fucking manifests! Like a sudden strike of lightning and dresses down the choir boy. Yeah there's no heterosexual explanation for that one

[yesthe-artblog]

(og image below)

[hermit-corpse]

This one is so cute! I don't like to leave my home but I will hang out taking photos for them❤️

Yet the grim-dark theme changing card doesn't look very good. I'm still looking for the suitable shop.

[marz-barzz]

In honor of the gayest month I shall be as tradition; Drawing the emperor of mankind kissing malcador the sigillite ON THE LIPS

[divinituscaptivus]

📂

The Emperor and Malcador are legally wedded.

[horuslupercal]

very quick bc I have to go to work now

[partyinvalhalla]

Weird question, are you and malcador homies that kiss each other good night?

"We are more than mere 'homies', dear mortal. He is a part of me, and I a part of him. We are halves of each other's souls. To exist without the other is pain unlike anything you can imagine."

[stlptr]

[wolf-tail]

Emps after all the Primarchs turned out autistic: I honeslty have no idea where they get it from!

Malcador, who lived with him for millennia and watched him work a gold eagle motif into everything he owns, shapeshift himself to be tall so he looks down at people instead of having to make eye contact, and be utterly socially inept: Me neither.

[moociaoafterdark]

You ever think about how the Emperor was mentally preparing himself to get betrayed or left by Malcador, because, come on, so many perpetuals he thought would stay did not. He tried to not get attached to the Sigillite. Sometimes he was successful. Sometimes he wasn't. It's all for his master plan, he must he prepared to the possibility of Malcador leaving him, have a contingency plan. He never fully trusted Malcador. The Emperor could count on him in most circumstances, but he didn't trust him in everything...

... And then, Malcador sacrifices himself to the Golden Throne, believing his master able to take down Horus. Malcador gives up this one last thing he has left, the most important thing anyone could give up: their life.

And it is only at that moment does the Emperor realizes that he was paranoid, that this man was there for him this whole time, that he could trust Malcador in everything... But it's already too late.

The title of "Malcador the Hero" was a way for the Emperor to thank his friend, to apologize to him and to immortalize his fealty. To have a constant reminder of what he had lost.

[mournivaldisco]

Nothing will convince me that the three-step day/evening/night progression of this sentence isn't romance-coded.

I can't properly explain why, it just is

[lolipop1920art]

Good Gw should finally just say Emps and Malcador were lovers already

[two-reflections]

⭐?

This ask is in response to this fanfic writer's Director's Cut meme!

Let's talk about the first Warhammer 40k fanfic I wrote when returning to the fandom last year, Under the Aurora. Before that, I wrote a small mountain of fic for a Dark Heresy game that ended in 2017, but I hadn't written any other 40k fic.

Under the Aurora is my speculation on how the Emperor and Malcador met. In it, Malcador, who is on a campaign of revenge against the warlords who have destroyed the remnants of human history, chases a figure he calls the Golden Warlord though the polar night, meaning to assassinate him. The Golden Warlord is, of course, the Emperor. They speak and Emps gives Malcador a genuine chance to kill him with a piece of fulgurite. Malcador ends up tossing it away and embracing a path that would eventually lead to greater ruin than that which he sought to avenge. A tragic irony, imo.

I'm really not a Horus Heresy fan, but I find Malcador to be a very fun character. Ancient beside the primarchs, young beside the Emperor and most other perpetuals. Ridiculously powerful and logistically-minded, but still a man. He's just so neat.

I find the concept of perpetuals interesting and like that 40k doesn't seem to use them as the solution to everything even though they could absolutely disbalance the setting. I feel like some of the backlash to them lies in them seeming a bit, well, "superhero-ish" in a Universe that otherwise has a very different vibe. I can understand that criticism, but I also think they provide a very interesting theoretical rabbit hole to go down when considering perpetuals in contrast to psykers and blanks. Pretty much everything in 40k can be explained as warp chicanery, but what sort of warp chicanery leads to perpetuals? It was thinking about that that led me to the ideas the Emperor expresses to Malcador in my story.

However, I wrote this story last October, only a month before The End and The Death: Part 2 came out. I knew when I wrote my story that there was a chance it would quickly become obsolete. It didn't quite, but it absolutely could have. Some details are probably a bit off, though - I now think it's more likely that the Emperor met Malcador slightly before his pilgrimage to Molech, with Malcador's resources helping him to get there.

However, I don't think TEATD actually says this is the case, so I'm happy to leave my story as it is, with them meeting shortly after the Emperor has returned from Molech.

Aside from these quibbles, one thing I'm not sure I fully made clear in the story (partially because it's from Malcador's perspective) is that the Emperor's goal was never to take the Svalbard Seed Vault. It was to bait Malcador into trying to kill him so he could finally have his fated best bud/boyfriend by his side again.

Thanks for the ask! If this isn't the story you wanted to hear about or you'd like to hear about another, please feel free to request again!