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“Everyone has their sassy pants on” - From “This, You Protect,” a really excellent MCU fic focused on post-Winter-Soldier Bucky, and which has since spawned multiple sequels of similar quality and subject matter.

“Sans is like HELL NO” - From a relatively unpolished (but still funny) Undertale fanfic chronicling a certain punny skeleton’s time in the PTA.

“Cinder attempts morals” - From CSMN volume three (https://archiveofourown.org/series/452845), a RWBY AU starring Cinder and her team as the protagonists.

“Come join me in the trash” - From “That Would Be Enough,” a reader insert in which “you” set out to discover who made the CORE and why no one seems to remember their name.

But maybe this timeline can fix that.

Because all I remember them doing in their codex is losing in Sanctuary 101 (even if they did win the rematch), losing during the Bloodtide, and some other bad things.

As for Celestine, she's remembered for losing against Abbadon when she and Creed jumped him.

Also all those special Sororitas characters whose only role during the 13th Black Crusade was dying.

Yeah, WG has not been kind to the Sisters.

I'm going to regret asking, but how do you ship Horcruxes with anyone? Barring two exceptions, the are inanimate objects. o.o

~Neshomeh

I don't know how we get here from where we've started, but I like it. ^_^

And I mean it's not like Space Marines don't munch on the dead sometimes. That omophagea ain't there for no reason. Just ask the Blood Angels. Or the Space Wolves. Or that one Thousand Son who was in the Crusader Host and impersonated a Custodian to escape from uber-max prison on Terra. Or probably a dozen other examples.

~Neshomeh

In a not-crappy universe, Subject N is the god of nature, cycles, and balance. That last bit is really important. If all life is equally precious, then theoretically, no one form of life should be allowed to destroy any other, but the other side of the coin is that none is inherently more worth saving, either. That looks like a stalemate, except that (as I understand it) Nurgle is delighted by new forms of life, new techniques of survival, etc. This tends to take the form of horrible new diseases in canon, but may also apply to the tendency of living things to adapt and change and evolve. The ones that do this the best are the ones that tend to flourish, but flourishing too much at the expense of one's ecosystem results in an eventual collapse, so what you want is a constant, cyclical ebb and flow of ascendance and decline.

Dieting!Nurgle knows that predators and disease have their roles in keeping populations in check, but if the prey or host population is utterly wiped out, so too is the predator or disease. A population may eventually outgrow its predators or become immune to a particular form of disease, but either the predator/disease will adapt, or something new will come along to serve the same purpose. This is all good and proper. Adaptation is survival; stagnation is death; balance is life.

Nurgle may not be able to love an individual, but that's okay. We've got Dieting!Slaanesh to recognize the potential for excellence and worthiness of love in each and every person. {= )

~Neshomeh

Then, as promised, my entries:

1. Jacques Bonnefoy ("wizard!Jacques"). 25 year old wizard of Scottish and French parentage from a Potterverse fusion. Mortal.

2. Jacques Bonnefoy ("Canon!Jacques"). 150+ year old immortal human from the 51st century, aka the one you can find on the wiki.

3. Jacques Bonnefoy ("EPC!Jacques"). 150+ year old immortal (and immoral!) human from the 51st century, aka the one from the the Mirrorverse who wears a lot more black.

4. Jacques Bonnefoy ("Young!Jacques"). 21 year old human from the 51st century. Very recently a Time Agent. Mortal.

Because the joke that my entry would be four versions of Jacques was made, and I found the idea of actually doing it hilarious. Enjoy? :D

~Z

They'll probably get some victories in their codex. Also, didn't Saint Celestine do some cool stuff in the 13th Black Crusade?

If canon keeps treating them the way they've been doing so far, I wouldn't trust them with anything.

I've been pondering the same question about the better nature of the Chaos Gods as I work on my version of Brightammer, and this is what I've managed to think up:

Subject K is the god of strife and competition. It seeks to make people stronger by testing them.

Subject T is the god of hope and knowledge, and it provides mortals with both courage and cunning.

Subject N is the god of life and death, who provides mortals with inner peace so that they may face the cycle of death and rebirth.

Subject S is the god of excess and desire. It gives mortals the power to see the joy that their lives already held, and also sick heavy metal songs, which are the only appropriate soundtrack for the galaxy they face.

At only a third of the manpower it has in the main setting, the Indeps and the Imperium can both focus more of their resources to fighting other threats. Remember, the Imperium is at a third of its canon numbers for space marines, but its massive infrastructure is still largely in place. The Imperial Army could be expanded very quickly, and the Adeptus Mechanicus could still provide plenty of equipment. Perhaps the Sisters of Battle could be created to make up for lost Astartes?

From a brief search, I've found the following:

"'why is this a pokemon au' you might ask"

"all the horcruxes are alphas" (in a fic shipping Horcruxes with Harry)

"no plot we die like fluffy men"

But I always interpreted it as more of a battle for the human race's future than its survival. It'd probably be pretty difficult for humans to go completely extinct, but the Imperium is much more fragile. With so much manpower and industry required just to maintain the status quo, I can't imagine any collection of smaller empires being able to stand up to the threats of the galaxy. So if the Imperium falls, humanity may not die out altogether, but they'll be pretty much helpless to stop the Orks warring wherever they want, the Dark Eldar raiding as they please, and Chaos spreading unchecked. It would just be a slow and bloody backward slide from spacefaring society to scattered pockets of planetary resistance. At least until the Tyranids straight up eat the whole galaxy.

Of course my entire understanding of 40K come from spending far too much time on Lexicanum, so I could be entirely wrong here.

What's the funniest AO3 tag you've seen? Mine would have to be a toss-up between Holy Space Aikido and Catshpx Lesbianworld.

Actually, if you want to take a look at what the Chaos Gods might look like if their bright aspects were emphasize, you can, as memory serves, take a look at Brighthammer. See, it's not exactly as if the Chaos Gods have no good points, as has been noted, so you could possibly alter them by forcibly enforcing these.

For Subject K, you're spot-on with Honor. It's already a decent-sized chunk of him and how people get caught up with his followers, and, if memory serves, part of why he hates Psykers. They can just sit at the back and blow people to bits with their minds without ever putting themselves in danger, and how is that honorable? However, glory... it's there, but I don't think it's strong enough to make up a sizable chunk of Dieting!Khorne. Instead, I'd go for righteous anger, that which makes somebody seize a blade because they intend to put themselves between the strong and the weak, because there is somebody that needs to be protected and they will be the person who does it because this is not fair and it is notright and that will be fixed. Anger is already a big part of him, but changing the source of that anger will probably have a decent impact.

Subject T - well, change isn't necessarily bad, is it? It's the reason that things get better, not just the reason things get worse, and this is why Tzeentch is also the God of Hope and Ambition. The issue is how this manifests itself. Tzeentch, as it stands, promises standing at the cost of someone else, power which is used to destroy others, the ability to escape bad situations only by casting others down. He's also change for the sake of change, which has a tendency to be bad when these changes include things such as changes to personality, or changes to physical form expressed as very visible mutations. There are so many ways to go wrong that when you're just throwing changes at people, they're probably going to get worse. So, for him, as with the anger of Khorne, you have to change the nature of these things. Ambition, but not at the expense of others. Hope, but not only for oneself, but for those around one, or indeed for everyone. Change, but only for the sake of making things better. You'd apply similar reasoning to altering Dieting!Tzeentch's aspects as God of Magic and Planning, I think.

Subject N is going to be the most difficult, because the reason he is a Chaos God is half lack of understanding of the worldview of most sapient creatures, and half because he loves everything. Everything. From the highest noble to the lowliest peasant to the ugliest toad to the most lethal bacteria. He loves everything, and the problem is, living creatures aren't the best at getting along without harming other living creatures in some way. He also, as memory serves, doesn't perceive how humans experience disease as humans do. To him, it is essentially an act of worship towards him, and any agony and discomfort might be read as gratitude. However, there is something here that can be used - love. Not romantic love, but simple benevolence towards everything. Harnessed appropriately, it would be a very useful component for converting Nurgle into a deity less likely to overrun a planet with plague and be thankful to the population for dying from it. Nurgle is also the God of Happiness and Peace. His daemons have a tendency to be relatively... hm... jolly, perhaps is the right word. These are all things that could be emphasized to create a better deity in the right hands, but... my problem with Dieting!Nurgle is that I'm not sure how to do it in a way that gets rid of the fundamental problem that arrises from the fact that he loves each and every living thing.

Subject S isn't quite the God of Murderous Excess - they're just excess in general already. Thus, it already has quite a fondness for fine dining and the pleasures of the senses. It's not so much refocusing on these as restraining it to these, which is, to be fair, a good plan. It is also, however, the God of Pleasure and Perfection, or at least, attempted Perfection. From these domains, it manages to install itself as the God of Artists. This is something that can be leaned into, while also leaning away from using things like blood as painting materials. Dieting!Slaanesh would basically be... well, sort of how some people have thought of artists in the past. Hedonistic and obsessed with making their art The Best Ever, and actually willing to put in the work to make it that good, but not really harmful.

At least, that's what I think. I could be wrong on all of this, and honestly, probably am. :P

Reproduced below in its entirety:

John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
John was a space marine for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the spaceships and he said to dad "I want to be on the ships daddy."
Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS"
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the space station base of the UAC he knew there were demons.
"This is Joson" the radio crackered. "You must fight the demons!"
So John gotted his palsma rifle and blew up the wall.
"HE GOING TO KILL US" said the demons
"I will shoot at him" said the cyberdemon and he fired the rocket missiles. John plasmaed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the demons" he shouted
The radio said "No, John. You are the demons"
And then John was a zombie.

Note: Morsimos was a wannabe tragic playwright whose complete lack of talent Aristophanes ridiculed in his Knights, Peace, and Frogs (and presumably in some others that we don't have).

To the tune of "One More Day" by Michael Vogel and Daniel Ingram, from The Best Gift Ever

We've got so many missions here!
There's just so much to do!
How did we get another ere
We'd slain Belle Baggins? No clue!
And now that Shelob's dined upon
The latest Gary Stu,
Tumnus has a CD player now!
Please tell me that's not true!

Set disguises, and go in!
(Beep! Go! Track! Charge! Slay! Repeat!)
Set the universe on track once again!
(Track! Charge! Slay! Again!)
Set that computerized tech alight!
Neuralyze everyone in sight!
Then we come back here,
To find that Fangorn Forest has disappeared!

So when the Ents got their home back,
What we get is so rare:
To our great delight and joy, we
Actually get time to spare!
We helped an Ewok Pyro for
Light Festival prepare.
Then we get a mission once again,
It never ends, I swear!

Now a Gimli lemon we
(Track! Charge! Ex-or-cise! Repeat!)
Have that wrecks all sane biology!
(Charge Sue! Slay! Again!)
Worse than Morsimos' satyr plays
Was this lemon we were sent to slay!
Back in the RC,
We took Bleeprin for our sanity.

All five of these eliminations
Filled sixteen hours.
We must have recuperation.
To sleeping stations!

All too soon, the console sends
Us a mission dire again.
And we've only got three hours' sleep; it never ends!
AAH!

We portal to Imladris now;
She sparkles? Yes; I fear
A Twilight vampire pays a call
To fall in love with Elrohir
Forgotten are Thuringwethil,
And Carcharoth. Oh dear;
She would join the Fellowship; we portal
Her straight into Anor's photosphere.

One more Sue! At the RC
(Beep! Go! Track! Charge! Slay! Repeat!)
We're another mission sent, and we see
(Track! Charge! Slay! Again!)
That a stalker Gary Stu, it seems,
Is messing now with Éowyn's dreams!
Be repulsed--No, she ditches Faramir!
'Tis time now for the Stu to disappear!
Charge him! Slay him! Memories erase!
Then we go back and--You do not mess with Ace!

I'd like that moderately-heavy-looking brown square, please!

... Okay, so it's more of a rectangle, but still.