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Lion El’Jonson At first, the reader might almost respect him. The Lion has that distant, implacable quality that can be mistaken for honor. But once the reader sees what “compliance” actually means - the old laws erased, the familiar places repurposed, the people made smaller under Imperial rule - that respect curdles into something sharper. The Lion becomes the face of a cold, efficient betrayal: not cruelty for its own sake, but cruelty wrapped in duty.

You would come to hate how unbothered he seems by the damage. Even if he truly believes he did what was necessary, that only makes it worse. He did not just take your world. He judged it, found it wanting, and helped turn it into something unrecognizable.

Fulgrim Fulgrim would be unbearable to hate in the most personal way, because he would likely speak of the world’s “elevation” as though he had done it a kindness. He would see compliance as refinement, as the crude world being transformed into something worthy of the wider Imperium. You could hear that and feel sick, because to him it means their culture was not improved - it was scrubbed clean and repainted over a corpse.

The hatred here would be intensely bitter. Fulgrim’s beauty, charisma, and certainty would make him feel even more monstrous. He would not just represent conquest, but the contempt that conquest can wear when it smiles at its victims.

Perturabo Perturabo would feel like a verdict handed down by a machine. You would hate how the world was reduced to a problem of logistics, resistance, and structural failure. Whatever was alive and meaningful in their home would have been measured, broken, and replaced with something harder and less human.

That kind of destruction makes hatred deep and practical. You would not just resent him - you would resent that he can look at ruin and see efficiency. Perturabo is the sort of figure who turns grief into a ledger of losses, and that makes him especially easy to despise.

Jaghatai Khan The Khan is complicated because he can seem freer, more sympathetic, less suffocating than many of the others. That only makes the betrayal sting differently. If he helped bring the world to compliance, you would hate the contradiction: the man who seems to understand motion, sovereignty, and wildness also helped cage them.

Your hatred would likely be quieter here, but it would cut just as deep. You would not hate him for being cruel in an obvious way. You would hate that he may have understood the value of your world and still accepted its loss.

Leman Russ Russ would provoke a very raw kind of hatred. He is loud, proud, and prone to acting like violence proves righteousness, which makes him easy to blame for the scorch marks compliance leaves behind. If he was the one who broke their homeworld, you would likely never forgive the arrogance of it.

What makes him especially hateful is that he might think the whole thing was honest. He would say what he did was necessary, that he did not mean disrespect, that the world needed discipline. But to you, that just sounds like a barbarian’s excuse for wrecking everything and calling it honor.

Rogal Dorn Dorn’s version of compliance would feel like being built over while still alive. You would hate the cleanliness of it, the sealed doors, the reorganized streets, the old institutions dismantled and replaced with something efficient and inflexible. He would not have to be sadistic to be hated - his severity would be enough.

You would especially despise how unmoved he might seem by what was lost. Dorn treats order as virtue, which means he may not even notice how much human memory gets crushed in the process. That indifference is its own kind of violence.

Konrad Curze Curze would be the easiest to hate and the hardest to forget. If he was involved in bringing the world to compliance, you would not only despise what he did, but the terror that followed him like a shadow. He would leave behind fear so deep that even after the conquest, the world would still feel haunted.

Your hatred here would be almost physical. Curze is not just a conqueror - he is a warning that suffering can be made into governance. Every nightmare you could have about the compliance would likely have his face on it.

Sanguinius This one hurts because Sanguinius is the sort of Primarch who can inspire genuine love. That makes his betrayal, if he helped ruin your homeworld, feel almost sacrilegious. You would hate him not because he is obviously monstrous, but because he seems too radiant to be responsible for so much loss.

If he spoke gently about necessity, mercy, or the greater good, you would feel the wound reopen every time. His beauty would become part of the insult. It would be easier to hate a brute than someone who looks like hope while standing on the ruins of your world.

Ferrus Manus Ferrus would be hated as the embodiment of hardness. If your homeworld was forced into compliance under his hand, you would see a man who believes that what cannot endure deserves to be replaced. That attitude would be unbearable to someone who watched their living culture get hammered into Imperial shape.

You would despise his refusal to bend. Ferrus would likely speak as though the world had failed its test, and that would make him sound like the executioner of everything you loved. He is not subtle, which makes the loss he leaves behind feel brutally final.

Angron Angron would inspire a different sort of hatred, because you could probably see that he is himself a wound. But that would not excuse him. If he helped bring your world into compliance, you would hate that your home was broken by someone already broken, as though suffering had become contagious.

What makes him uniquely hateful is that he might understand pain better than anyone and still leave only more of it behind. You would probably despise him for turning his own misery outward and letting whole worlds pay for it.

Roboute Guilliman Guilliman would be hated for making ruin look reasonable. He is one of the most dangerous Primarchs to a grieving world because he can turn conquest into administration and atrocity into policy. You would watch your culture get filed, categorized, corrected, and absorbed into an Imperial framework that calls itself enlightened.

That creates a deep, enduring resentment. Guilliman does not have to shout to be devastating. He is the kind of man who can tell you your world is better now while you are standing in the ashes of what made it home.

Mortarion Mortarion would feel like suffocation. His presence would turn compliance into something dead, poisoned, and airless. If he was responsible, you would hate him for bringing not just rule, but decay and misery in the name of cleansing the world.

The disgust here would be intense. Mortarion has the energy of a plague given a voice, and that makes him the kind of conqueror who leaves you with a world that feels contaminated after the fact. Even if the Imperium calls it order, you would remember only rot.

Magnus the Red Magnus would be a tragic kind of hated figure, because he may have thought understanding was enough to justify what happened. If he helped bring the world to compliance, you would hate the arrogance of being “seen” by him without ever being truly respected by him. He could explain the world perfectly and still fail to preserve what made it theirs.

That would make the hatred especially painful. You would despise how someone so wise could still be so blind to the value of a living culture he helped destroy.

Horus Lupercal Horus would be hated as the smoothest liar in the room. He is the Primarch who can make conquest sound like brotherhood and submission sound like unity. If he was the one who led the compliance, you would hate how he could smile while your world was being broken into Imperial shape.

This is a particularly poisonous kind of resentment because Horus would likely know exactly how to make people trust him first. You would not just hate the act. You would hate the charisma that made the act possible.

Lorgar Aurelian Lorgar would be despised for sanctifying the destruction. If he brought the world to compliance, he would likely frame it in terms of faith, destiny, and the correct place of all things under the Emperor. To you that would make every ruined street and silenced custom feel like a religious insult.

The hatred here would be fierce because Lorgar converts violence into meaning. He would not just take the world - he would explain why losing it was good. That kind of moral theft is very hard to forgive.

Vulkan Vulkan would probably hurt you the most in a complicated way. He is kind, humane, and associated with protection, which makes it devastating if he still participated in the ruin of your home. You would hate him for being the sort of man who might genuinely care, and still go along with the destruction anyway.

That creates a very bitter conflict. You might not want to hate him, which only makes the hatred more painful when it arrives. Vulkan’s gentleness would feel like a betrayal of trust if he failed to prevent the world from being crushed.

Corvus Corax Corax would be hated for the silence around his violence. He is the Primarch of shadows, strikes, and unseen removals, which means you might never get a clean, glorious memory of what he did - only gaps, disappearances, and an old world that never came back. That makes the damage feel intimate and haunted.

You would resent how easily he could vanish into his own legend while your home was left with the consequences. Corax is the sort of figure whose righteousness can make him seem more distant than cruel, but distance does not soften ruin.

Alpharius Omegon They would be the hardest to hate in a clean way, because you might never be fully sure what was true. That uncertainty would become part of the wound. If they engineered the compliance, you would hate that your homeworld was treated like a game board, where people were moved and erased for a larger plan no one was allowed to understand.

That kind of hatred is cold. It is not just anger at conquest, but at manipulation, secrecy, and the feeling that the truth itself was stolen. Alpharius and Omegon would leave you with the sense that even their grief had been managed.

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Lion El’Jonson Lion is not one for theatrical remorse, but once he understands what happened, the weight of it would hit him hard and stay there. He would immediately think of the children, then of the brother whose spouse he killed, then of the fact that the whole shape of the situation was preventable. He would likely remove himself from the children’s sight at once, because he would know his presence would only deepen the damage.

Fulgrim He would be devastated by the ugliness of it, because it is exactly the kind of thing he cannot decorate away. Fulgrim might have gone into the situation with certainty, even elegance, and then been forced to face the fact that he left children with the image of their uncle as a monster. That would wound him far more than he would admit.

Perturabo He would react with a cold, brutal kind of self-loathing. Perturabo is not gentle with his own failures, and this would become one of the ones that sits in him like iron in the gut. Once he understood that the spouse was fighting for their children, and that the children are now traumatized, he would likely feel contempt for the situation itself. He would become fiercely practical at once, securing the children, limiting further exposure, and trying to solve what can still be solved.

Jaghatai Khan He would be horrified, and the horror would make him very quiet. Jaghatai understands family bonds deeply enough to know exactly how catastrophic this is. He would not linger over self-pity. He would move immediately to get the children away from the scene, away from any further violence, and away from the uncle who now represents terror to them.

Leman Russ This would hit him like a sledgehammer to the chest. Russ can survive a lot, but the moment he realizes he killed his brother’s spouse while the children were watching or while they are now suffering from it, the rage would curdle into something much worse. Guilt would not make him gentle, but it would make him changed in a very different way, because now he has to live with what he has done. He would want to do something immediate, something blunt, something that feels like atonement, but he would know that no amount of blood will make the children unsee what they saw.

Rogal Dorn He would be devastated in silence. Dorn would probably freeze for a moment, because his mind would immediately reconstruct the entire event and all the places it should have gone differently. The fact that the spouse was fighting for the children would cut him deeply, because Dorn understands duty and sacrifice in a way that makes that motive unbearable. He would take charge at once, not to erase the guilt, but to protect what remains. The children would be secured, sheltered, and kept away from any further harm. But Dorn would not forget the cost.

Konrad Curze He would be the most awful mirror of the entire tragedy. Part of him would be unsurprised, because of course violence begets trauma, and of course the children would be left scarred by seeing their uncle as the killer. But that does not make him less affected, only more twisted by it. He would probably understand the fear in the children all too well, and that would make the whole thing even darker. He might even tell himself this was always where it was going to end, which is his way of avoiding the fact that he has just helped create another generation of fear.

Sanguinius He would be shattered by it. Sanguinius would feel the tragedy in the deepest possible way, because he is the Primarch least able to treat children’s pain as collateral. The realization that the spouse fought for the children, and that the children are now traumatized by their uncle, would horrify him. He would want to comfort them immediately, to take them away from the blood and the wreckage, and to make them feel safe again. But even if he succeeds in comforting them, he would still carry the knowledge that this family now has this wound in it forever.

Ferrus Manus He would be probably furious with himself. Ferrus is the sort to treat failure as a thing to be corrected, but this is beyond simple correction. He would understand very quickly that the spouse was protecting the children, and that changes the meaning of everything. He would move to secure the children, to stop the spread of panic, and to keep the situation from getting worse. But his regret would be heavy, because he would know he was not strong enough to prevent this.

Angron He would be a disaster. If Angron learns that he killed his brother’s spouse and then finds out the spouse was fighting to protect the children, the guilt would land like a chain around the throat. He would likely not know what to do with himself afterward. The children being traumatized by their uncle would make it worse, because now the violence has reached into innocence, and Angron hates that even when he cannot fully articulate it.

Roboute Guilliman He would be horrified, but he would also immediately try to manage the damage. Guilliman would attempt to understand the scale of the psychological harm right away. The spouse died protecting the children, the children witnessed enough to be traumatized, and the uncle is now the face of that trauma. He would move to create stability immediately, because that is the only thing that can still be offered.

Mortarion Mortarion knows what it is to be trapped in a bad shape of reality, and this would feel like another one. He would hate the fact that the spouse fought so hard for the children and that the children are now left with fear where safety should have been. And yet Mortarion would carry this one like a bruise that never leaves.

Magnus the Red He would be devastated in the way only someone who can understand all sides at once can be. Magnus would see the fear in the spouse, the desperation behind the fight, the children’s trauma, and the terrible finality of what he did. He would likely try to soothe the children with words, with reassurance, with magic - if allowed, because he would know that fear becomes memory very quickly in moments like this.

Horus Lupercal He would be hit hard by the realization because, for Horus, this is exactly the kind of failure that ruins the story he wants to tell about family and loyalty. That is the kind of thing that would leave a crack in his confidence, even if he hides it well. He would try to regain control by taking over the aftermath, making decisions fast, and presenting stability.

Lorgar Aurelian He would be horrified on a spiritual level. Lorgar would see the spouse’s sacrifice as almost sacramental, and the children’s trauma as a desecration that now stains everyone involved. He will become intensely focused on helping the children recover, perhaps with guidance or ritualized comfort, because he needs to believe something sacred can still be rebuilt.

Vulkan He would be crushed by it. Vulkan loves children with a deep, protective instinct, so realizing the spouse died shielding them would break him right open. He would immediately move to comfort them, shield them, and make sure they are never left alone with the memory of what happened. Vulkan would carry the guilt heavily, but he would try to turn that guilt into care.

Corvus Corax He would go very still and very dark. Corvus would understand instantly what it means for children to see violence and then attach that fear to a family member. He would probably blame himself more than he says out loud, because he would see the failure of restraint in himself. His response would be to extract the children from the situation and give them space, silence, and safety. He would not try to force them to forgive. He would know that trust has to be earned back, if it can be.

Alpharius and Omegon Their reaction would be layered, but the core of it would be recognition that this is a strategic and emotional catastrophe. They killed the spouse, the spouse was protecting the children, and now the children are traumatized by their uncle. They would understand that the children need distance, safety, and very careful handling. They would regret the failure deeply, even if they never say it plainly.

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Lion El’Jonson He would act like he is above it, while being completely undone by your approval. The tragedy is that he would still look intimidating while becoming irrationally soft in private. He would remember tiny details, stand watch without being asked, and quietly rearrange his entire life around you - the person he loves.

Fulgrim He would be the most obvious about it and the most offended by his own feelings. Fulgrim in love is dramatic, lavish, and absolutely impossible to ignore. He would turn devotion into an art form, then get flustered the moment his feelings become too sincere.

Perturabo He would insist he is not sentimental, while building entire emotional fortresses around you and you alone. His love would look like overwork, control, and an almost absurd need to solve every problem you could have. He is pathetically obvious in the ways he pretends not to be.

Jaghatai Khan He would be cool on the surface and completely wrecked underneath. The Khan in love would act like a man who still has freedom, while very clearly returning to you every time. He would be quietly loyal, embarrassingly attentive, and doomed by one smile.

Leman Russ He would become a giant golden retriever (but with war crimes). Russ in love is loud, possessive, proud, and deeply sincere, which makes him somehow both terrifying and adorable. He would brag, preen, and then immediately melt if you do so much as pats his arm.

Rogal Dorn He would be catastrophically earnest. Dorn would probably think he is behaving normally while everyone else watches him become visibly softer, more protective, and far too attentive to you. He would never flirt well, but he would absolutely remember every need you ever mention.

Konrad Curze He would be intensely, ruinously attached. Curze in love would be all yearning, dread, and obsessive devotion, the kind that feels like a warning sign wearing a tragic expression. He would be pathetic in the sense that he knows he is not healthy about it and cannot stop anyway.

Sanguinius He would be elegantly, heartbreakingly in love. Sanguinius would try to make it graceful, but his feelings would show in everything: his tenderness, his patience, his lingering looks. He would be the sort to suffer beautifully because he loves someone so much it changes the air around him.

Ferrus Manus He would be awkward in a way that makes him even more obvious. Ferrus would not know how to be casual about affection, so he would become blunt, direct, and strangely vulnerable around you. His version of pathetic would be making you feel very treasured and pretending that is not romantic.

Angron He would be a disaster. Angron in love would probably be stunned by the fact that you could be gentle with him and still stay. That would ruin him in the best and worst ways. He would be fiercely protective, suspicious of kindness, and deeply, embarrassingly attached once he lets himself feel it.

Roboute Guilliman He would try to schedule his feelings and fail. Guilliman would become visibly distracted by you and then get annoyed that he is distracted at all. His love would show up as constant competence, practical care, and a very un-Primarch-like habit of softening around you.

Mortarion He would act like affection is a toxin while being completely incapable of resisting it. Mortarion in love is grim, stubborn, and secretly very tender in the rare places he allows himself to be. He would be pathetically devoted in a way that feels like suffering with purpose.

Magnus the Red He would be openly affectionate and then overthink every ounce of it. Magnus would fall hard, talk too much, notice too much, and become devastatingly sincere. He would be the kind of lover who thinks he is being charming when he is actually hopelessly obvious.

Horus Lupercal He would be smooth about it until he is not. Horus in love would turn a room around you without ever seeming to try, which makes him even more pathetic when he starts getting visibly affected. He would want to be admired, but one real bond would matter more than all the admiration in the galaxy.

Lorgar Aurelian He would romanticize the entire experience into a near-religion. Lorgar in love is devotional, poetic, and absolutely doomed by his own sincerity. He would find meaning in every glance and significance in every small kindness, which is charming right up until it becomes alarming.

Vulkan He would be the kindest kind of pathetic. Vulkan in love is warm, attentive, deeply loyal, and visibly softened by affection. He would make everyone around him feel safe while being completely undone by you - the person he loves, which is unfairly sweet.

Corvus Corax He would be quiet about it and still obvious in all the important ways. Corvus in love lingers, watches, protects, and disappears at exactly the wrong moments because he is trying not to be too much. That restraint would only make the devotion more obvious.

Alpharius Omegon They would be the most ridiculous because they would try to make being in love look like strategy. But the moment one person truly gets under their skin, all the layers start failing in tiny, humiliating ways. They would deny everything while acting like a pair of conspirators who have lost the plot to one specific smile.

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