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okay yes i promised a thread abt my oc Kraut explaining his deal so i will write it now
basically, Kraut is a space marine who due to Circumstances defected from his chapter and ended up sticking around Khornate warbands. he less worships Khorne and more is employed by him. he looks like this
Kraut was born in an anonymous hive city's lower levels, which were... in not a very good socioeconomic sitch lets just say. he was recuited age 9 to a SM chapter, an original one, derived from the Ultramarine mostly, that so far i've called the Weapons of Vengeance chapter
(some fun extra flavor on the Weapons:
- their omophagea's broken basically chapter-wide due to geneseed shenanigans
- their name's kind of blatant metaphor lol
- Kraut's Sarge back in the Weapons was a woman, bc i can)
- their omophagea's broken basically chapter-wide due to geneseed shenanigans
- their name's kind of blatant metaphor lol
- Kraut's Sarge back in the Weapons was a woman, bc i can)
(actually i have to check if the sarge or the company captain was a woman its been a second since i wrote that bit but tl;dr there's space marines who are women in this chapter because like... margaret_thatcher_girl_power.png)
anyways, Kraut was always kind of Shitty at being a space marine, bc his brainwashing had come out a little... weak and he actually felt uncomfortable at all the you know. war crimes being committed by his chapter but he didnt really say anything at first
then uh... things happened. his squad got entirely killed like down to the guy as cliche as it sounds, except for him and his sergeant who got put in a dreadnought. Kraut has Major Issues with that but this has all been done before, you know how it shakes out so ill gloss over it
he also got accused of heresy. you know how 40k stories go. of course he would. i'm using cliche to shorthand all the horrid shit the imperium can do to you, you know what i'm talking about
anyways, he managed to stick around his chapter for a while after that, but he/
anyways, he managed to stick around his chapter for a while after that, but he/
/suddenly felt horribly disconnected. he'd always assumed everyone else was also a bit uncomfortable with what they were doing and with the status quo, but it turns out that nope. they didn't give a shit about all the war crimes they were committing. they were too brainwashed to
so Kraut did the only logical thing: renouncing the Imperium and running away. (hes ~150 y/o here, sidenote, for timeline reasons). he bounced around for a while before eventually sticking around a little group of semi-independant Black Legion guys
there he got further radicalized and turned off worship of the Emperor completely, but he still felt uncomfortable and sick comitting horrible acts on his fellow (baseline) man. so he ended up... i dont remember if betraying the black legion guys, fighting them, or killing them/
/but something along those lines i wrote down. let's go with killing some of them and fighing the rest for now
By now Kraut had developed what would become his defining worldview: everything sucks and you shouldn't become a space marine because they're all bastards. (Hes right)
By now Kraut had developed what would become his defining worldview: everything sucks and you shouldn't become a space marine because they're all bastards. (Hes right)
Kraut then spent some time, again, bouncing around. During this period, thanks to his... newfound love of alcohol, he met another OC of mine, Tavius, a Thousand Son was-almost-a-sorcerer-back-in-the-day with brain damage who ran a pub near the Eye of Terror for a while.
eyestrain cw /
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but here's another pic of Tavius i drew. He had his hair short for basically all the time Kraut knew him, these pics are rom later, i'll draw him with short hair eventually. (this one also has a speedpaint )
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but here's another pic of Tavius i drew. He had his hair short for basically all the time Kraut knew him, these pics are rom later, i'll draw him with short hair eventually. (this one also has a speedpaint )
Tavius and Kraut became friends because Tavius also shared the War Crimes Maybe Not Great idea, though not as much as Kraut did. Kraut tried to work for Tavius as a bartender, but a baseline Slaaneshi worshipper made him flip the bar so he got fired. This is canon.
(The worshipper made him flip the bar because they propositioned him carnally and tried to sell him dick enlargement pills in the same sentence. This is canon. I am not joking)
(Kraut around this time also dated a baseline Chaos Undivided worshipper guy. They lasted for six weeks until the guy cheated on him. Also Kraut is bisexual. This doesn't really matter long-term but i feel like you'd all enjoy the knowledge that he is. Here's uh, a doodle i did)
Kraut at this point (age ~220) was Going Through It. He was kind of a drunkard, got into fights all the time, and mostly spent his life hungover and moping. It wasn't a great look for him. Eventually, though, he gathered his bearings a bit; he realized he felt/
/purposeless without fighting something, anything. Mostly just to escape that emotional pit, he ended up joining a Khornate warband -- where he'd spend the next ~100 years, and where my story with him first picks up. So kind of his present.
Those 100 years are actually when he gets to look like this!
Kraut less worships Khorne and more sees him as his employer, but for most space marines, that's kind of... the same thing? Khorne is his ~spiritual liege~, doesn't mean he has to *like* him. He spills blood and takes heads, but he doesn't do it because he wants to, necessarily.
(Quote Kraut himself, "'I've killed a *lot* of people. At least now I'm *actually* getting called a murderer. By *murderers*, 'course, mostly, but...'") (Kraut doesn't have a british accent. Dunno why tho)
Basically, Kraut sees Khorne as kind of a compromise: if he keeps serving his will, he gets to DO something with himself while being honest to himself. It does *wonders* for his self esteem (/s), but at least he doesn't want to die and he's not lying abt being a war criminal, so.
(I might change up the timelines so he spends more time warbanding, but the important thing is that he spends at least 100 years with the imperium and at least 100 years with Khorne.)
This is actually where the story I initially planned for him starts, with him Looking Like That Pic, in the middle of his Khorne Shit :tm:. And that story I'll probably never write properly, so I'll outline it briefly --
Kraut, while ransacking with his warband, ends up once again in his homeworld, in the hive he was born in, 300 years later. He finds a little girl there, a nine-year-old named Jen, who looks strikingly familiar, and he immediately feels protective of the kid. /
/ Kraut is separated from his warband, and steals a ship to get away. Jen stows away on the ship, bc in her hive world she was fucking homeless and also being seen with Kraut made her an official outlaw even though they'd literally just met, so she was just running away. /
/ Kraut and Jen proceed to run from the Imperium for the next year or so, and Kraut (through the hilarious amount of brain damage he's taken and the brainwashing and whatnot) realizes Jen looks like his baby sister, from before he was turned into a space marine. /
/ The resemblance isn't a coincidence: Jen is Kraut's great-great-etc niece. Kraut, meanwhile, shows her what he knows and can show her about how the galaxy really works; proof everything the Imperium says is propaganda, how dangerous space marines really are, etc. /
/ Jen doesn't come out of that whole experience emotionally unscathed; Kraut has good intentions, but still hurts her, & he realizes this, which is why he eventually drops her off on an Imperial world, where she can live a normal life & come to terms w/what he's shown her. /
/ Jen eventually ends up joining the admech. i've drawn her before but i'll probably redesign her so i won't post it
anyways, after that comes the ABSOLUTE JUMPING THE SHARK MOMENT. YOU *CANNOT* BE PREPARED BY ANY MEANS TO HEAR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT unless you're Xander or Cubes, in which case you know
so here's what happened.
i was talking to my friend Xander. who was getting into 40k at the time, as an AoS fan. he was telling me about his Stormcast OC Valeorin, and I was telling him about Kraut
i was talking to my friend Xander. who was getting into 40k at the time, as an AoS fan. he was telling me about his Stormcast OC Valeorin, and I was telling him about Kraut
we started going "haha if they met, val would do this!" "oh yeah, and kraut would react like that!", and then i joked we were basically roleplaying and he went, do you wanna roleplay, and i had never roleplayed before so i said, sure
and. this is what happened. (based off https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ooh-mister-darcy)
and here's the fucking thing: not only was it cute, it was SUCH AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER OF A RP
i don't know if Xander wld even allow me to post it in full, hell i don't even think i WANT to do that, but oh my god, you guys. theyve known each other for 3 days and they do This
i don't know if Xander wld even allow me to post it in full, hell i don't even think i WANT to do that, but oh my god, you guys. theyve known each other for 3 days and they do This
anyways, to make a long story short: Kraut gets an AoS stormcast thrown at him, decides to help him "find his planet", calls up Tavius, finds out through Tavius's psyker powers that Val is from another galaxy and successfully manages to go back to that world w Val
and also they fall in love. val accidentally proposes inside a bathtub. kraut is so high on being able to actually leave everything behind that he says yes. kraut cuts his hair. it's a whole thing. here's a drawing from the whole thing i made a while back
anyways with that you're basically caught up with Kraut and all my posts about him. this guy gives me brainworms. here's a cringe compilation (ft. his look like, 10 years in the future in the third pic)
OH SHIT, it's been nearly 24 hrs since i made this thread but here's a ship meme i made w Kraut and Val https://twitter.com/LunDiiVith/status/1296838515456724993
