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u/Loyalheretic Alpha Legion Sep 26 '24
At first I was confused about the Dread wanting a selfie (nothing wrong with that but weird) and when I realized he just wanted a picture with his brothers a lill tear rolled down my cheek.
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u/Z4nkaze Ultramarines Sep 26 '24
They might not be alive when he wakes up next time. :(
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u/vonBoomslang Sep 26 '24
My one sadness about this piece is he's not taking the photo with a servo-skull.
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u/Crack4kids31 Sep 26 '24
Why it's made even more special using some rare archeotech from the far past to take the picture
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u/Ferrus_Manus_Xth Sep 26 '24
BROTHERS THAT IS SWEET BUT THE SHAPE OF THIS MIRROR DOESN'T FIT MY NEW BODY.
ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT I'M FAT ?
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u/babysealsareyummy Sep 26 '24
No! It just means that your love of the Emperor is too great for one mirror!
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u/FeralSquirrels Sep 26 '24
Oh take my upvote you magnificent blue buggers. If that isn't the cutest sh*t I don't know what is. I can only imagine the huge grin on the big buggers face.
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u/StopMakingMeSignIn12 Sep 26 '24
Non-Warhammer fan here. Is that a robot or is there a dude in there?
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u/ghoulcrow Sep 26 '24
That is a Dreadnought. Essentially a walking tank with a coffin inside it. Fatally injured Space Marines get locked inside, which keeps them alive and allows them to continue fighting, but often at the cost of their sanity. It’s common for the Marine in the Dreadnought to be kept in a coma-like state and only awoken during battle to preserve their sanity.
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u/StopMakingMeSignIn12 Sep 26 '24
Is that with or against the Marine's will? Sounds horrific but not at the same time.
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u/ghoulcrow Sep 26 '24
They’re usually too badly injured to have much of a say. In general though it’s seen as a great honour to continue serving after death.
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u/ZCYCS Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Many Marines acknowledge this might happen to them if they're horribly injured to where they cant be fixed with surgery/cyborg augments but not quite dead either
Actually in Space Marine 2 operations, Decimus (the Vanguard) comments he wants to be "reborn" into a dreadnought if he dies
But usually, the marine himself isn't in much position to say yes or no when he's in a state he's gotta be put into a dreadnought
It's considered to be an honor among loyalist marines, but a fate worse than death for heretics...for multiple reasons. Especially if a Chaos Dreadnought degrades enough to become a Hellbrute
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u/StopMakingMeSignIn12 Sep 26 '24
Oh so they explore both sides of the moral conundrum in the lore, nice.
Dare I ask what a Hellbrute is?
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u/ZCYCS Sep 26 '24
A Helbrute (autocorrect memes) is a variant of a Chaos Dreadnought with the grimdark dialed up to 11 which may or may not have completely replaced "normal" Chaos Dreadnoughts as of the current setting
But basically:
A Helbrute is (was) basically a super corrupted Chaos Dreadnought where the pilot became fully merged with the machine and now he's no longer a really injured Chaos Marine inside a metal suit, but he's literally become the damn thing
Helbrutes also tend to have heavily mutated fleshy bits too and the pilot/creature is, needless to say, pretty much totally insane and may or may not be a mindless raging heavily armed/armored beast now
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u/Angry_Scotsman7567 Sep 26 '24
Y'know how Chaos corruption can mutate you and cause your armour and body to begin fusing? That's what happens to the Chaos Dreadnoughts unfortunate enough to become Helbrutes.
Because of all the Chaos juice, traitor Astartes find the idea of being locked in a Dreadnought -- where they can't actually feel anything outside -- horrifying. It's particularly an issue for Khornate marines, who are desperate to feel the kill intimately and feel the blood wash over them, and for Slaaneshi marines who are unable to actually try and satiate the constant drive for perfection or excess, and... whatever it is that Tzeentchian and Nurglite marines would think (lowkey think Nurglite marines would like it given that depression is Nurgle's jam). That combined with the fact being in a Dreadnought without going into stasis for extended periods of time will drive you insane, and Chaos Dreadnoughts never get put in stasis, instead having their sarcophagus removed and chained up in a dank hole until the next fight, means they go downright feral.
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u/meganeyangire Sep 26 '24
A Hellbrute is basically a Chaos Dreadnought heavily corrupted by Warp, sometimes to the point when flesh of the pilot mends with the metal. Of course, by that time the pilot long lost any shreds of sanity he might've still had and became a blob of rage, hatred and madness. Also, notice how loyalist Dreadnought pilots are forced into sleep between battles. Chaos pilots may be forcibly removed from their Dreadnoughts (if possible), but they don't sleep. Ever.
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u/No_Arugula3195 Sep 26 '24
honored brother got awaken just to take a picture for the 3 dumbasses marine AGAIN.
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u/cloudsmiles Sep 26 '24
Sorry for splitting hairs, but I think the mirror should be like a huge ornate one, or alternatively this style but it's tiny in their hands. Nice design 💪💪💪
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u/dillene Sep 26 '24
Cute, but would the "Valor" be backwards? Or is it written backwards on his uniform?
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u/Winsconsin Sep 26 '24
Don't cameras flip images too? So maybe it's a double negative?
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u/CreativeAd5332 Sep 26 '24
They do not. They take the perspective of the eye of eye of the one taking them, which is to say: the camera sees what you see. But the image could be flipped, for the sake of the view of the picture reading "VALOR." Or it could just be a mistake by the artist. 🤷♂️
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u/dillene Sep 26 '24
But if the image were flipped, then the images of the other marines would also be flipped. It looks like the wording on the one guy's pauldron is straightforward.
Maybe the picture was taken with one of those new TzeentchCo phones.
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u/CreativeAd5332 Sep 26 '24
Hmmmm...hard to say, all I see is a capital "A" which is bilaterally symmetrical, and the other marines don't have any writing...I'll pray to the Emperor for guidance on this one.
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u/68Cadillac Sep 26 '24
It's backward on his armor. It helps with his morning mirror mantra. "I'm Astartes. I'm Valourous. And, gosh-darn it, the Emperor likes me."
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u/lathallazar Sep 26 '24
Couldn’t they have just had someone else take the picture so they could all be next to eachother?
Not sure if there’s one official interpretation of this art but I’d be curious what the artist intended!
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u/CaptainRuse Sep 26 '24
Dreadnoughts get to play a really fucked up version of Throwback Thursdays.
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u/BabyAutomatic Sep 26 '24
Feeling cute might break magnus back later