#marines malevolent

[magnifigal]

been learning how to use procreate. here is one of the more challenging exercises

Poolverine but make it fourty kay

[foolscr0w]

L + ratio + you fell off + 30% civilian casualties + gonna personally double that

hades hive bomb squad for the win

[nightscalestudio]

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[ask-mortarion-the-death-lord]

I think i've finally decided on what I would want to see from a hypothetical novel starring a marines malevolent and a lamenters astartes. not a story where either side tears the other down, nor a story where a lamenter 'changes' a marines malevolents mind or vice versa or anything really.

what i would want to see, is a story where a marines malevolent becomes angry on behalf of a lamenters marine.

on the one hand they both represent in many ways opposing dichotomies of imperial dogma.

What people tend to forget and mischaracterize the marines malevolent as, is that the MM aren't wantonly cruel their pointedly cruel. Which is to say that the MM when being dickbags always have some form of a point in mind as to why they do what they do. its not quite pragmatism mind, though they very often are pragmatic, but rather calculated cruelty to achieve their ends. to use the most well known example, they aren't just blowing up the refugee camp to get their rocks off [though captain vinyar certainly is] but also as a means of sending a message to their allies. we [as in the imperial guard and space marines forces] are here to do a job, and that job isn't to ensure the safety of the civilians its to fight the orks and wipe them out. therefore, if you don't do it, we [as in the MM] will do it. and tu'shans right that it very much does betray the idea that the space marines are here to protect the civilians. But the thing is, the marines malevolent don't view it as their job or duty to protect the people of the imperium. They view their job as being a weapon of terror to keep the people of the imperium in line. hell thats very specifically the job they were chosen and brought along to do in the iron kingdom novel by the torchbearer fleets commander himself. to be a weapon of terror. the bloody hand of the imperium.

by comparison, the lamenters are embodiment of the martyrdom the imperium expects and enforces on its subjects. sure their lives suck, pushed around from campaign to campaign, experiencing disaster after disaster, but the important thing that distinguishes them is that they do it without complaint. their compassion is marked by an almost reckless disregard for their own lives, and not even particularly because they have a martyrdom complex or deify the concept any more then any other space marine chapter. they do it because they regard it as duty, whats expected and whats demanded from them by the imperium. being martyrs burning within the mountain of martyrs before and to come after, all in the name of preserving the rotten husk of the imperium just one more day. the perfect victim for the imperiums exploitation.

and I want a marines malevolent to see all that, to identify it within a lamenters marine, and in that weirdly emotional manner in which marines malevolent can get when they actually care about something, I want the MM to get angry on the lamenters behalf. Because he sees a fellow dog of the imperium, a fellow tool pushed around to do the bidding of a dying imperium and its worst jobs, and instead of getting upset at the hand being dealt the lamenter instead smiles and barks even as shits being smeared on their face. and that upsets them more then anything else, even if as a brainwashed violent tool of the imperium they can't articulate why.

[2lim3rz]

Not sure if you're still on W40K but I love your Marine Malevolent OC so much and I want more of that 👀

Pallarmos enjoys the attention! Just don't get too close to him!

I'm still into 40k, I just don't really post much, if any, of my own fan content anymore. Fics are still being worked on but it's slow going

[lord-soth-dk]

[leveractionlesbian]

i can envision a Wrath and Glory campaign where a Marines Malevolent and an Ork start off hating each other for obvious reasons, but grow to become great friends through their mutual love of killing anybody who stands in their way and generally just being the worst

[rivalvoyager]

The sons of Sanguinius come to aid the Lamenters!

[badgerthethirteenth]

WH40k: Ain't That A Shame (2021)

Can't think of a witty caption, but here's a Marines Malevolent who's probably 'listening' to his allies complain about something like 'collateral damage' and 'his numerous war crimes'.

I stole the mug caption joke from a friend, so you can blame him for it.

[ask-mortarion-the-death-lord]

everytime I see threads on reddit over "who the meanest space marines are" I think of the marines malevolent and how so many fans view them as some sort of irredeemable monsters who should have gone traitor ages ago

And the I think about how when you actually go over what they do in their appearances, it's just kinda... the same thing every other space marine chapter does only slightly meaner/caustic about it. Like outside of the scavenging of materials, they're basically just kinda misanthropic space marines.

... slightly more misanthropic then normal space marines.

The conversations around the first episode of The Tithes have served to remind me that a lot of 40k fans have never read a 40k book in their lives

"wHy iS tHe ULtRamArInE sO MeAn?"

That Ultramarine is extremely mild and sociable for a space marine, you utter turkeys

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

okay but out of jarthur, who tops. there is a correct answer

Every time I post about gay sex my ask box becomes unthinkable perhaps I should consider that there will be consequences for my actions anyways Arthur tops

[fangs-claws-paws]

Wrote a gift fic for my buddy @ensen-joy and am now sharing it with yall!

All about turning a Minotaur space marine into a good heifer!

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[just-some-troglodyte]

for whatever reason i find the idea of a Marines Malevolent apothecary funny. Like this utterly unbending bastard who will strangle you into unconsciousness in order to then administer medicine, a psychotic doctor who'll hunt you down to the ends of the earth destroying all shadows to hide in so you WILL be patched up.

more or less: "You will be healed, you don't have a say in the matter"

let's name him Dryops, he entered the Deathwatch because he won a lottery within his chapter to be granted the honor!

i've got a 40k OC bumming in my mind-space;

Azukos, a night lord who sells-out his warband and becomes a black-shield working in the deathwatch. he's snarky, sneaky, and a bit elitist. no, he's not a veteran of the long war, but a more recently produced night lord who felt like his warband was being lead to ruin and decided to throw his hat in with the imperium.. he gave the imperials where the base was located, but they had abandoned that base because they didn't want to fight the 'Yellow Jackets' chapter of space marines. Azukos' main motivation is that of survival. he's skilled in guerrilla tactics, spreading terror, assassination, and psychological warfare.

[ask-mortarion-the-death-lord]

finally got a look at dawn of fire: iron kingdom. why would i look into this one when i havent otherwise bothered with dawn of fire? iron kingdom has marines malevolents in it and im a sucker for even the scraps [make that marines malevolent book series kymes, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO KYMES!!] as kymes seems to be the only one interested in touchin on the baby bastards.

AND! ... its nothing we haven't seen before from kymes unfortunately. renyard is basically lorkar if lorkar had gotten that promotion, all cynical outlook on the world and everyone in it but a sort of grim hollow enjoyment out of the bloody work he does to cover up his thoroughly misanthropic beliefs on humanity and his own nature. aka the other end of the spectrum of marines malevolent behavior compared to vinyard who got a kick out of liquidizing the innocent.

other then that though, a very minor part of the wider whole. he kills some stuff in a callous manner, proves hes a competent commander in taking out an imperial knight and its amrigers and generally succeeding in his mission of 'fuck shit up', and then gets ganked in a duel with a storm reaper who got offended enough by his behavior to challenge him, though with his own lil konrad moment of 'i told you so' even as hes coughing up blood.

continues the trend on how kymes uses the MM though, in that well they get a lot of 'kicking the puppy' moments to contrast any of their insightful commentary on the reality of the imperium and what it does. the ugly mirror of truth as it were, further compounded by how much of renyards internal dialogue is on how ridiculous he finds his contemporaries obsessions with pomp, ceremony and honour when war is inherently brutal and honourless in his view. his commentary on the storm reapers hesitance to attack a civilian target not in pulling rank or authority in that instance or anything but in simply humorously noting 'oh you'll do it when ya get into combat, thats what your designed to do'. as an inevitability of their design effectively. and how kymes positions the marines malevolents as part of the fleet admirals plan sanctioned in their brutality by a macro scale imperial machine, accompanied by renyard musing about how desperate the situation must be right now if bastards like him and the MM are getting actual support and primaris tech and its like well concluding that 'shit be fucked you'.

cements in my mind that the MM are night lord descendant if they are of traitor stock [personally i prefer to HC them as just more ultramarine descent myself] atleast as far as kymes is concerned. their tactics in iron kingdom are 'terror guerilla fighters', as mentioned reynard gets his own lil konrad moment of 'i told ya so' in the end, and their general attitude rings very night lordy to me in general.

[2lim3rz]

So, T'au?