St Pugnata, founding Canoness Superior of the Order of Perpetual Confrontation
This is just a character visualization post for me to try and nail down the appearance of one of my OC’s for a commission.
St Pugnata is the founder of the Order of Perpetual Confrontation, whose abridged history is found here: https://petterwass.tumblr.com/post/174929176299/abridged-history-of-the-order-of-perpetual
And a few of their spcific differencees are explained here: https://petterwass.tumblr.com/post/190111292149/rewriting-the-penitents-sisters-of-battle
St Pugnata, like all Sororitas is a tall and well-built woman, muscular with broad shoulders, heavily muscled arms (a requirment for usinig her heavy primary weapons) and dark skin.
She has pale electric blue eyes, both of which are high-quality bionic replacements for her lost originals and she wears her hair in a bob cut, a affection of her original Order which had harsher hairstyle restrictions than her current one, though she liked to keep her bangs longer than the standard sever bob cut.
Much like the rest of her order she also dyes it stark white and dyes her lips red.
As a affection for the world she and her order were stranded on for so long she will often don white warpaint, something absorbed from the native culture and spread across the entire Order until it became their hallmark.
While all Sisters have their own style of warpaint, Pugnata’s is perhaps the most common one as she started the tradition, consisting simply of symmetrical lines of white dots across her face
(She does not have the lines on her brow, but otherwise is close to Shuri)
Like all Sisters of Battle, she is further given more bulky mass by her power armour which as all of the order of Perpetual Confrontation is black with white shoulders, white helmet visors, red cloth and golden trims.
(close to this but with white shoulders)
As the Canoness Superior her tabard does not have a coloured trim to denote her squad but is instead white or white-and-gold to denote her officer status or her status as the Canoness Superior, depsing on how formal she wishes to be
(as a Canoness her armour will be pretty ornate, so maybe like this?)
Unlike most Sororitas who prefer blades, Pugnata is a brawler, a boxer and goes into combat wearing two heavy red-coloured power fists, with which she once punched out a Bloodthirster of Khorne
As a fighter she is agile, almost reckless, using speed, power armour-assisted acrobatic and the sheer kinetic momentum of her swings to compensate for the limited range and speed of her weapons, often breaking her opponents weapons first before closing for a decapitating punch, while many larger foes has had as their last view of the world Pugnata rising from within their guard as a rocket in flight, with a flying uppercut.
As a person she is boastful and supremely sure in her own competence while as a commander she is prone to big frontal assaults if she is sure they will succeed, willingly trading lives lost for the spectacle and morale boost of a glorious victory.
If such forces are not available she also demonstrates a great affinity for misdirection and covert warfare, fitting as the Order of Perpetual Confrontation was founded to wage war on the Grey Knights of the Adeptus Astartes, but if given the choice she much prefer the direct knockout punch of a frontal assault.
Likewise she is a gifted administrator and was the key reason the Order of Perpetual Confrontation kept itself functional during their long isolation, during which she was forced to make many hard and brutal decisions, not the least of which was abandoning the world to the cruel warlords that rules it while the Sororitas slowly rebuilt their tattered strenght.
During that time she was plagued with doubts and symtoms of imposter syndrome, often wondering if she was in over her head, as she often sees herself as a simple brawler and warleader as opposed to the gifted administrator she also is. Despite that she put on a gay appearance and was often close to a moral-boosting laugh while glad that her artificial eyes hide the weights and sadness in her heart.
St Pugnata would not live to see her Order rejoin the Imperium, passing away in old age after having imposed the rules of the Pax Sororitas on the warring warlords of her world, limiting their ability to wage cruel war.
Her canonisation proposal was born before the Ecclesiarchy by her fellow Canoness Bashira and accepted in record time.
She is depicted in Ecclearchical calenders as a muscular black woman with white hair, wearing power armour with red power fists, holding the torn-off head and spine of a bloodthirster in one raised fist, a easy smile on her red lips.
