Where Fandoms Go to Die

Part 2 is here! Or start from the beginning :)

Registering a blasphemous violation of the laws of the Omnissiah.

I have this little headcanon, that Viola's vox augment allows her to speak binharic to admechs, albeit, in a very broken and not grammatically correct way and, quote, "with an atrocious accent".

If anyone is wondering, yes, the binary code does translate into text :)

Like yeah they're taken from their families and subjected to horrific extensive surgeries/indoctrination beginning at a very young age, this is true. But the entire process takes years, so even though it starts at 11-12 years old, they have to wait until around 15 for the surgeries to take before they begin training and then they only graduate from the neophyte stage to become true Astartes with interface ports and shit around 18. So all of the Astartes we're seeing are fully grown, we're not seeing 13 year olds who just happen to appear fully grown, as some people seem to think.

The definition of a child soldier is anyone recruited for war under the age of 18, for sure, but I do feel like the term doesn't really accurately reflect the Astartes process; real world child soldiers like in the Congo are being recruited AND thrown into war high out of their minds on amphetamines at like 9, they're not entered into an almost decade long process first.

You know what it is like, though? The K-Pop idol recruitment and training system.

It aligns perfectly: taken away from their families when they're recruited as young as 10-12, put through a grueling training and preparation process, not everyone graduates from the training process but if you do it's around 18 years old, then you "ascend" to idol status and are exploited as a sentient product until your body gives out. Plus it's widely regarded as a dream come true for aspirants, but the reality is pretty much just indentured servitude where you aren't really allowed a life or sense of personhood outside of your job.

Which is like...I mean...kind of?? Not really though??

Like Ahriman is increasingly resentful of Magnus and Magnus is increasingly frustrated by Ahriman, but Magnus also isn't sending two of his troubled adult sons to Calth in the hopes they die or ignoring the fact one of said troubled sons is about to murder the third depressed one.

It's like if you told your mom friend "I don't know what to do, my daughters staying out past curfew and cursing at me lately, our relationships broken down" and she replied "Yeah I get it, my eldest son keeps setting the back bedroom on fire after locking his siblings inside and it's like god damn it not again, enough with the fires. But you know how it is"

'Please spare us your moral relativism, uncle.' Several of the Thousand Sons, resplendent in their crimson plate, stiffened at the warrior's words. Magnus narrowed his left eye as he gazed upon his brother, refusing to look at the Night Lord that had spoken. 'If your sons cannot keep from childish outbursts, brother, perhaps it's best if they leave us.' The ragged primarch retracted his claws once more. The sigh that ghosted through his sharp teeth was weighted by weariness. He said nothing. His posture of tired defiance spoke for him. ... 'We should — ' Sevatar began. 'Silence', both primarchs said at once. And wonder of wonders, it worked.

The Abyssal Edge (part of Sons of The Emperor Anthology), by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Kyoko: That’s a corpse.

Makoto: A corpse?

Kyoko: In other words, a dead body.

Makoto: A dead body. . .

Makoto, internally: Not just a dead body, but a body that was dead.