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RT´s Pet Comic #4

Our beloved, cuddly, little interrogator: ready for action and eager for affection.

You thought it was just cats? No, no, a Rogue Trader's entourage (menagerie) includes all kinds of cute animals!

I haven't the faintest idea what to do with a pet fish. Do you peck at the wall or stare at it? Wouldn't either scare them to death? A Cthulhu monster is staring at them, and they'll have nowhere to swim. 

Well, to make up for that, I present Mermaid Cassia. Why haven't I seen any fanart of her with a fish tail yet? It's so obvious. If I ever finish this little comic series, I'll give Mermaid Cassia another proper portrait.

Second comic with our favorite murder kitty.

First of at least six comics about the Rogue Trader‘s pets. This time with Not-your-xenos-pet-mon‘keigh-cat Yrliet.

Oh, definitely! My iconoclast RT would have folded like a cheap lawn chair.

I'm pretty sure Xavier did that mostly to satisfy his own ego and to show the cute new RT that he's even more powerful than them (control freak and dom that he is).

With the other two, far more experienced RTs, he wouldn't have been able to pull that crap. Calligos would have laughed in his face and Incendia would have just sneered and told him that she's already blindly devoted to the Imperium and such actions are childish and unworthy of an Inquisitor. But with our RT? He can happily live out that fantasy. How long did he even sit there waiting for us to come? I bet he was excited and full of anticipation the whole time.

HC: Like Heinrix, he had carefully prepared his speeches, and unlike Heinrix, he also included some variations for RT that deviated from the script (so that he didn't start stuttering like a certain baffled interrogator). I tell you, that comment, about his sensitive hands in our bedchambers, was carefully planned as he strolled through our private quarters just minutes earlier.

Gotta appreciate the gaslighting:

He's the one who barged into my study at night, knocked out my servant and sat in my chair. And now he claims that he's in no mood to squabble? That I'm being the difficult one here?

I love this character so much - how he gets under your skin, making you shake with impotent rage. I bet most RTs killed XC just for this stunt. The funny thing is that if he'd politely requested RT's cooperation, 99% of RTs would've totally bought into his dilfy rizz and handed him his stupid shard on a silver platter.

and don’t tell me that aeldari’s helmets don’t look like this. they are. they’re wearing little flowers on their heads. period.

and one of striking scorpions for my friend who’s painting an army of them

randomly decided to redraw marazhai from year ago lol bye (i haven’t draw a single thing for month or so- so i think looks not so bad as i expected)

hi hello hewoo im alive (thats a shame tbh), my gf said that i need to post my silly portrait of Marazhai from wh40k:rt so here am i

that’s all

sorry to all who came from helluva fanarts (i want to do them again honestly, just graduation year broke down me for a little (as last episode of hb ahah))

"People often ask me if I like being the 'goody two shoes' of the Expanse, seeing as I don't put entire planets to the sword like Chorda nor do I leave them to the wolves like Winterscale."

"To those detractors I must say, my people love me, my profits have never been higher and I'm pretty sure none of them have had the amount of interesting bedpartners I have"

Spoilers for act 5 of Warhammer 40k: Rogue trader!!!!

So, the scene with the different versions of the RT right? I'm not quite sure what the lore reason for the sudden merging of realities was, but I'm not complaining just to be clear. I went Iconoclast for my first run, so maybe you get different versions, depending on which path you take. But the Glorious version???? She's living in my head rent free. Just imagine, you get pulled out of your own life abruptly and are thrust into the position of rogue trader of a burning protectorate, while all the people who could have supported you along the way are dead. You're on your own, at best people fear and/or respect you, at worst they want you dead or to use you. And still you manage to put out all the fires and even come out better for it at the end, of course you'd develop a massive ego. You're still alone, you have no true friends to speak of, but you clearly don't need them. All this you managed on your own. Then suddenly, on your way to claim your biggest trophy yet, you're confronted with three different versions of you. The kicker? You're the only one standing all alone. Look! There's the people you saw die, that left you to fend for yourself. One of them has a whole squad to back them up! Even a full on heretic at least has one person with her. Among the big group, one of them sneers at you and calls you the epitome of everything detestable about Rogue Traders. The version of you with the big retinue looks you in the eyes and tells you she pities you. (I have a hc that my rt is a really sociable gal, so this hits extra hard for the glorious version, even if she tells herself she doesn't need anyone). How dare she?! She should be grovelling before you. She needed all those people to achieve the same things you did. Of course you agree to kill her first. And then... And then of course you're defeated, because you were outnumbered from the start, because here you can't hide behind your glory and riches. You die on the cold stones of a reality that isn't even your own, at the hands of those that call every version but you, friend.

i genuinely love love love the iconoclast path in rogue trader SO MUCH. its one of the things that ultimately enamors me to the warhammer franchise as a whole despite empathy being so antithetical to its world and genre. its not just because iconoclast is the Nice Person route or because it subverts the foundational principle that In The Grim Dark Universe There Is Only War............ but mostly i love it because its the best way to actually engage w the morality system presented in 40k and explore it the way it deserves to be explored. its so unique parsing through the choices of the game and navigating how one might actually ACHIEVE goodness through - or more accurately without - the lens of liberal modern morality. because adhering to what we presently would call morality is arguably crueler than some of the dogmatic choices - or at least the game wants you to reflect on that and decide if that kind of morality still has value or not. and i like that they give you the opportunity to do that. youre rarely rewarded for kindness in this game and in fact your oftentimes actively punished for it (void shadows was a TRIAL for my iconoclast rt) which presents another question: are you being good because of a reward you believe you'lll be entitled to, or are you being good for the sake of goodness itself??? in saying that i do LOVE how there IS payoff in the iconoclast route eventually - when youve bleed and suffered for it enough. but theres a quality to it thats so..... so BITTERSWEET, because yippee you Empathed your way to the top - but also what IS the top?? congratulations, you are the kindest autocrat in the most bloodthirsty fascist regime in human history, sitting on your throne on a voidship run by all your slaves and serfs who die by the hundreds every time you make a warpjump for some dumbass sidequest. what the fuck. can you actually call that goodness ????? is whatever goodness-adjacent thing youve achieved worth it even if you cant change the system in the ways that matter ??? lastly - the iconoclast ending is both so wildly universe-altering to the point of feeling like a heretical ending - but also kind of. not mattering really lol. because even though its hopeful, the "good" ending still feels soooo tentative with the likelihood that its very likely not going to last. but that in itself is my favorite take away from playing this game as The Last Good Guy in the Galaxy: because the love DIDNT change anything. and it DOESNT save anyone. but ohhhhhhhhh my fucking god does it absolutely matter that it was there.

Some of my Warhammer Books!