#charmemes

[oldxenomorph]

Been getting more into wh40k lore lately and all the grimdarkness of the grimdarkness, how does the EmperorTM fit here? (Esp since there's the "God-Emperor" 🤢)

rubs my hands together like a hungry little fly. yesssss. yessssssss.

but also, i got you, friend.

slaanesh is part of the great family

tyranids are born of the reaper emperor, the swarm that announces the harvest, her presence in the warp

kibellah, indoctrinated

kibellah, chosen daughter

one day the imperium will be harvested, extinction will come to humanity. it is inevitable. the reaper emperor sees the god-emperor of mankind as, to quote harbinger, "dust struggling against cosmic winds." she thinks the imperium is sad because of its fanaticism, its paranoia, its constant surveillance of actions and thought. she thinks it's sad they do not see the complexity and beauty and necessity of the chaos gods. she sees the god-emperor of mankind and his sons as a sad, broken family, torn apart by their own inability to understand their human-ness.

but for the most part, not many people know about her or the reapers. those aligned with chaos may have, but for the most part, she is an unknown entity. though she has her own agents, working within the imperium and within chaos to prepare for her arrival.

anyway, for 0.5 seconds the chaos gods set aside their machinations and rivalries to kiss the reaper emperor and the xenomorphs, shower them with gifts. slaanesh, the prince of pleasure, is part of the great family, as mentioned above, they interact with her the most.

both the reaper emperor and nurgle, the lord of plague, are perhaps the closest in terms of embodiment: death, destruction, extinction, but within death there is life and laughter, and without death there can be no life. cycles of extinction, cycles of rebirth; such is the order of all universes. grandfather nurgle, in all his disease and decay and putridity, kisses the reaper emperor's cheeks, wraps his huge body around her, grants her and her daughters and wives gifts of health. when the black lips of extinction press blessings into his flesh, he weeps pus. he weeps and sings in plagues, as her hands touch him to wipe away his tears, as she smiles and tell him how beautiful, how marvelous he is. she gifts old nurgle spice from shai-hulud (for he who is given spice is beloved) and tells him that her sibling misses him deeply. "old eternal worms shouldn't be apart from each other for too long. may your disease one day grace arrakis." (yes, i do imagine nurgle as a giant worm.)

the blessing "may you always be healthy and violent" comes from khorne, the lord of blood. every xenomorph birth is a blessing, a song: pure violent birth. khorne thanks the reaper emperor and her daughters for such signs and sights, he kneels before her and kisses her hands. she lets him kiss and bless her most violent daughters, princesses that smile as they are given gifts of unspeakable violence. khorne, kharneth, basks in their perfection, tells them to worship their mother. the reaper emperor hands alia atreides to khorne, tell him that she is a violent daughter to be, that she needs a blessing from him. the lord of rage smiles wide and grips alia by the skull as he draws the hot, red, spice-laced blood, "may you always be healthy and violent."

tzeentch, the lord of change, is fascinated by reaper technology and indoctrination. an architect, he marvels at the reapers and their archives, their networks, the immensity of every thought is an echo of the reaper emperor's thoughts. the reaper emperor has given him husks to examine, small pieces of reaper technology, allowed him to replicate the process. old tzeentch kisses the reaper emperor's cybernetic scars, grants her gifts of sorcery, real psychic magic. her daughters are educated from his libraries, the old raven god of entropy teaching her daughters true and terrifying magic as old as the stars. he lets xenomorph princesses linger in the dark spaces of his realm, their presence a blessing, their presence an inspiration. the reaper emperor returns his kisses and gifts him blessings from nyx and shar; so that night and darkness may always be the domains that strengthen him. "may darkness always guide you back to me, entropy."

if there is one thing that the reaper emperor wants from the imperium of man (she already has kibellah as a daughter, and the bloodspun web serves and worships her), it's the adepta sororitas. the sisters of battle would make for excellent revenants, every since soldier and saint turned into a machine-women, reaper-women overseen by nemesis. the chaos gods know this and bring her yearly offerings of adepta who seek indoctrination and transformation.

[sgnarl]

Slides u $2 how much to read more about Simon and Donovan

ABSOLUTELY FREE ALSO IM SORRY I JUST REMEMBERED THIS ASK

honestly they’ve come a long way from their first incarnations

i made these like a year ago so there has been slight altercations to their designs since then but yeah they are hardly the same characters they were before. i think really the only thing about them that hasn’t changed is their names. their stories were also wildly different and had nothing to do with each other. the progression that’s shown in their designs actually begins in 2012-2013, so i’ve had these characters for like 6-7 years. they’ve had a lot of room to change and grow. also i know that’s the pagan moon symbol behind simon, but he has nothing to do with the moon or paganism, i just didn’t realize what i had done until i was done drawing

donovan, instead of being the angel of the night sky, used to be like a bounty hunter for heaven and simon was just like . edgy i guess. can’t remember his exact purpose. i actually used to use these two in like roleplays with my friends,  but i fell off of that when i was like 15 and ive basically been trying to redo their characters since then. 

often times they sort of function as one character; whenever i want to write about donovan’s personality, i think about how it might mesh with simon’s personality and vice versa. unfortunately i don’t get to pay a lot of attention to them so i haven’t completely worked them out but they are getting........ somewhere

the universe that they are apart of has also been under construction since 2013. it doesn’t even have a name yet and im still trying to work out the rules of the universe, so until then they just have their backstory and that’s about it, other than some cute tidbits about them like

simon being a hardcore flirt, much to donovan’s embarrassment

i think i mentioned this once before, but they met because donovan hit simon with his truck. simon is immortal, however, so while donovan was panicking simon was just like “wow you have the most beautiful eyes ive ever seen”

donovan used to be scared of thunderstorms until he met simon

a lot of their dates took place in the bed of donovan’s truck, mostly stargazing in any secluded place they could find 

so when donovan was diagnosed with cancer, he already knew simon was immortal and a thunder, they had also been together for a few years. he thought it would be best if simon moved on without him (as they both knew that day would come anyway) and began to try and distance himself from his other. when simon wouldn’t back off, donovan started to get mad, as much as it pained him to try and let simon go.

they had an argument, and finally simon relented and was like “ok, but can i please get one last kiss?” 

so they kissed BUT there was a crack of thunder and suddenly they were together in the night sky and donovan was like “WHAT did you do”

simon explained that he had already asked his family for permission to make donovan immortal, so he just decided to do that. however, donovan was pissed because 1) you didnt leave me alone when i asked you to and 2) he was a school teacher on earth. he had siblings and parents and kids at his school that would wonder where he went. how could he have done this?

simon, in his immortal mind, neglected to think about this and they actually didn’t speak for a few years. donovan was mad mad, but simon understood. he acted selfishly and gave donovan the space that he needed

eventually simon was able to help donovan see his family again with the help of his thunder family and they slowly started building their relationship back up to the point that it was, and that’s where they are in their current timeline

also donovan can’t cook but simon might as well be remy from ratatouille 

[speckeltail]

Fic title: like wolves in the night

Fic title meme

STRIKTORRR

idk some sort of au where the Sentinels are a fabled mercenary band, known for harboring anyone who can handle a weapon and needs a crew. Viktor is discharged from the Magistrate’s army after refusing to commit war crimes (and picks up an orphan, Cassie). Some others are kicked out with him, but most of them end up dispersing… as usual, Buck ends up at the monastery and Tyra finds her glory hunting monsters. Viktor is easier to recognize, and he can’t find work or refuge anywhere even with Cassie on his shoulder.

He used to hate the Sentinels, thought they were a scourge and an unpredictable danger, but they end up being a last resort. They accept him. He grows to like the unspoken understanding between the members of the crew, even when he recognizes faces that he’s tried to kill before.

He grows close to the leader, too, a canny sniper who watches over his crew. Strix appreciates the addition of someone else with leadership experience, and grows close to Viktor as well. Long nights in Strix’s tent discussing battle plans turn into falling asleep side-by-side to waking up with Viktor’s arm thrown over him.

[lumenizampel]

commission for @charmemes! thank you so much for commissioning me! <3

[shellalana]

@charmemes

I had to cheat with the Diadem a little... But she’s darn cute!

[queezleposts]

“accept my wood”

[neonmoa]

makoa voice: YOU CHALLENGE MOA???

Tenno, the day I get a MOA big enough to ride is the day I never consider making one of those quadrobots again.

Anyway.

NEON sends its regards.

[maliwarm]

A Ying for @charmemes as thanks for her donation to my Ko-Fi! ❤️