#aquillon

i tried to warm you all about me posting my crack ship now endure and special thanks to @heretical-cogitations who has to put up with my madness

What Argel Tal found dislikable and not admirable about the custodes was the fact that they were out of sync, which to him meant they weren’t true brothers.

By the end of The First Heretic, Argel Tal isn’t in sync with the other Gal Vorbek. They’re individuals that don’t fit together anymore. He *is* in sync with Aquillon. Aquillon is his true brother where the other chosen of the gods aren’t. Even Khârn doesn’t realize this.

Through killing Aquillon, Argel Tal would kill his last true brother. This is what sealed his fate more than any of his other actions. This is what made him a sinner.

I had to think about this for a while bc there are too many ideas sprouting

But can we see more of your aquillion haha jk... unless

Yours, the cogi nurgling trapped in your phone

Feel free to pelt me with tomatoes

Which leads me to the realization that the oculi imperator are the custodes equivalent of young adults.

In A Thousand Sons, a sister of silence (unaugmented human) kept in a fight really long against Phosis T’Kar. The Eversor and Koyne, who, tbf, are enhanced, took out a SoH together. Ofc, sometimes Astartes win pretty decisively against custodes as well (The Outcast Dead), and five Astartes can take a custodes (Garro), same way five humans can also sometimes take down an entire squad of space marines (Pandorax, tho tbf those were catachans) because at the end of the day we’re all reliant on the roll of the dice.