Ho would Primarchs react if their wife died in childbirth?!?!?!?!
Hi anon! Thank you for the ask! Forgive me, in my feverish state I took some liberties with it.
You die in childbirth. Which Primarchs loved you more, or loved a child more, and how do they handle the aftermath?
You were always a stepping stone, something to get him an heir. And now that it is done, so be it. - Perturabo, Lion El’Jonson, Rogal Dorn, Roboute Guilliman, Horus Lupercal, Lorgar Aurelian, Ferrus Manus
Yet for each of them, the aftermath is a little bit different.
Lorgar Aurelian venerates you. You are a saint who died bringing the next prophet into this world. Both Roboute and Lion honor you as a noble spouse who fulfilled your duty to the house, and they will never let anyone forget that. Perturabo forbids any mention of your name, but underneath this dismissiveness is a man in pain to the point that he cannot articulate it. Dorn and Horus makes sure that the child knows that you were their mother, even if the child themselves never had a chance to know you. Despite how he is, Ferrus is a little soft on the child. He makes sure that they grow up in comfort and that they know nothing of fear or pain until they are of age. He knows that you would want would want him to be a little more humane when handling a tiny life that you and he created. So he honors this unspoken promise to the point that your child knows nothing but love until they are ready to hold the blade.
They either foresaw or anticipated this, so at least partially they are prepared. Yet pain is constant, ever-present in their lives. - Corvus Corax, Konrad Curze, Sanguinius, Vulkan
Sanguinius blames himself for ever forcing the pregnancy upon you. He knew it could end in your death. Yet his desire to have something in this world that belonged to both you and him was stronger. He will spend whatever time is afforded to him in persistent penitence. And that is it for him. Until he draws his last breath, he will make sure he is trying to atone for whatever he has done.
Konrad Curze knew the risk, but you convinced him that the future could be avoided, yet it was not. So now, holding your ever-decaying corpse, he still whispers that he was right, and for once in his life he wishes he had not been.
Corvus Corax and Vulkan knew the danger and somehow fooled himself that it would not come to pass, yet it did. He was too blinded, too foolish to allow this to happen. Yet he knows that you would have beaten the living shit out of him if your child were ever mistreated. So they will not be. Your shared child is the one who is brought up with love and care. You are not around anymore, but your spirit may rest easy, at least in that regard.
He was never deserving of the child. What madness compelled him to attempt to have one with you? And now he is paying the price long after you did. - Angron, Mortarion
Angron knew he was cursed because he once killed his father, his true father, not the thing in the golden armor with the eagle motif. Yet he hoped that having a little one with you would break this curse. It did not. It simply took you away from his sight. The child will be entrusted to wet nurses and then governesses, never to know that your and his blood runs through them. This is the final kindness he can offer.
At one point, Mortarion longed to be a father, simply because he wanted to prove to the universe that there are other ways than how he was brought up to raise a child. But holding the screaming bundle while your body loses its warmth has proved to him that it was never an option. He will drop the child on some paradise planet to be raised away from him. And he will never, ever mentor them again. It is for the best. He truly thinks so.
He weeps for days, weeks, and months before he faces reality. A child is breathing and you are not. But the child is something that you would love, so he will love it for the both of you. - Leman Russ, Jaghatai Khan, Magnus the Red
Magnus constructs the most amazing nursery there is. It has everything: things a child can test their curiosity on, things that soothe them, and things that will guide their mind toward a better future. And with every discovery your child makes, Magnus feels a little more proud. He did not fail you; you still live on in the soul that you and he created.
Leman Russ allows your shared pup to teeth on him. He bears every bite mark with honor. Your shared blood is as lively as he imagined it to be. Even if they are robbed of their mother’s warmth, Leman is still there to provide them with advice and a community that will be able to raise and shelter your shared child for as long as they breathe. You were a wolf-mother who laid down her life so that the cub could draw its first breath. And you will be honored for as long as anyone on Fenris draws breath.
Khan raises your child with a kind of ease. Yes, you are dead. Yes, they never had a chance to know you. But it is part of the norm for him, and he makes it part of the norm for the child. He tells them stories about you. He shares poetry about your beauty and spirit, but he never lets the child feel guilt for how the start of their life was essentially the end of yours. The child grows up knowing that they were loved even before they existed, and that their father and mother would want nothing else for them than the very best life possible.
He will complain that this is unfair, that you have been taken from his side, but you left the most precious gift the universe can offer, and he will be damned if it is wasted. - Fulgrim, Alpharius, and Omegon
Fulgrim pours all his resources into the child. They want for nothing as they grow up. They are surrounded by luxury but also by structure. They grow up learning tales of how magnificent you were and how they must not disappoint your image in their daily actions. It is perhaps anxiety-inducing, but it also builds character, and Fulgrim makes sure that your shared child is truly a perfection, something no one in this universe can compare to.
Alpharius, and Omegon raise your child to be as versatile as possible. Your child learns to lie before they learn how to tell the truth. They learn mimicry before they have a full sense of self. They are both malleable and solid, able to fit whatever situation is required while still remembering that their mother was everything this galaxy can offer. And they will learn that your image is the only solid one in their entire lives.
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