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40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:04:56


Post by: Emperors Faithful


I have heard of a love story between a vindicare assasin and a farseer, yet there doesn't seem to be much other solid stuff.

Please tell me any stories you have heard of, or even situations where there could be the possibility of a romance in 40k.

Also I don't want people to make 101 references to slaneesh. Slaneesh is more about sex than love.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:10:21


Post by: Mars.Techpriest


I have not heard of any being published in the fluff, though i'm sure there are a fair number in fandom. This comes as much from what we reading about as it does from the nature of the fluff its self. The stories that make it in to the codex are the war-stories of the 41st millenium, not the romance novels of the 41st millenium.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:14:34


Post by: LunaHound



Harlequin novel i believe has a love story.

There is no love story in fluff though , can you imagine the rage from warhammer players if they see a happy ending to someone else ? Only grim dark allowed.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:14:48


Post by: metallifan


There are some. Ciaphas Cain and Inquisitor Amberley have something going for those that've read the Cain books.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:15:22


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40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:16:35


Post by: LunaHound


AHAHAHAHA i love the fan and lamp on the 3rd pannel.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:17:10


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Mars.Techpriest wrote:I have not heard of any being published in the fluff, though i'm sure there are a fair number in fandom. This comes as much from what we reading about as it does from the nature of the fluff its self. The stories that make it in to the codex are the war-stories of the 41st millenium, not the romance novels of the 41st millenium.


Yeeeahhh, but somewhere out there...(over the rainbow?) there got a to be a little bit of love. After all guardsmen aren't produced in factories (yet).

I don't know, mabye a forbidden love story between an SoB and...I don't know, Guardsmen.

P.S I have seen that panel before LOL. But what is the real ending?


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:41:47


Post by: metallifan


Well you've got to remember - It IS a tabletop strategy game. The fluff focuses around the endless wars and battles rather than the individual human element of things. But that isn't to say there isn't romance. It's just far and few between that it's mentioned. And often romance only plays a minor roll in most novels. If you gotta have it though, as I said the Cain books have a smidge, and the Gaunt's Ghosts books have a few here and there in some of them. Mostly those are just Gaunt being a man-whore though


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:44:34


Post by: Gadhip


In the Straight Silver Gaunts Ghosts book Gaunt slept with a female adjunct.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:44:41


Post by: Emperors Faithful


metallifan wrote:Well you've got to remember - It IS a tabletop strategy game. The fluff focuses around the endless wars and battles rather than the individual human element of things. But that isn't to say there isn't romance. It's just far and few between that it's mentioned. And often romance only plays a minor roll in most novels. If you gotta have it though, as I said the Cain books have a smidge, and the Gaunt's Ghosts books have a few here and there in some of them. Mostly those are just Gaunt being a man-whore though


How is Gaunt being, as you so delictely put it, a man-whore?


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Gadhip wrote:In the Straight Silver Gaunts Ghosts book Gaunt slept with a female adjunct.


What? No he didn't!
The only time I can recall Gaunt sleeping with anyone was in Necropolis.

Besides, i wanted this thread to concentrate more on romance, like the relationship between the Troopers Caffran and Criid, than just sex.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:51:30


Post by: Gwar!


Orkeosaurus wrote:
So amazingly epic it had to be posted twice


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:53:12


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Also, I read in the back of the Deamon codex that nurgle actually loves (in a wierd way) Isha (or someone) and saved her from Slaneesh. Wierd love though becuase he feeds her poisons and locks her in his tower.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:54:18


Post by: LunaHound




Nid Romance .....


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:56:17


Post by: Emperors Faithful


LunaHound wrote:
Nid Romance .....


Yeah the first one was good but...

'Nid romance? I think I'm gonna be sick...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/05 23:59:23


Post by: LunaHound



Ooh ... okok then back to the favorite pair:



40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 00:01:07


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Awwwww, that is so sweeeet. (Very corny, and not a great pick up line, but sweet.)


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Where do you get these from?
Do you draw them yourself?


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 00:06:24


Post by: LunaHound



4Chan , but i might not be allowed to link it because it has 18+ stuff.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 00:10:10


Post by: Gwar!


SHE SAID THE FORBIDDEN WORD!

Kawai! Desu! OVER 9000!!!!!!!!


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 00:14:47


Post by: Typeline


I know this is kind of derailing the convo a little but I have to reiterate this...

In the grim/dark future of the forty-first millennium there is ONLY WAR

Edit: Moar 4chan plx Luna, I lurvs me shum 4chan.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 00:16:44


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Typeline wrote:I know this is kind of derailing the convo a little but I have to reiterate this...

In the grim/dark future of the forty-first millennium there is ONLY WAR


And kittens, and love, and the powerpuff Sisters of Battle.

Ever heard the saying 'make love not war', well why not have a go at both?


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 00:21:14


Post by: Typeline


Nope... can't find any love... or any make love... hmm, I can find



40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 00:24:51


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Dammit.
Well that's not to say we should give up. Besides there is love, even in war. Khorne/Orks LUUUV war. So there.

Besides if a vindicare assasin can fall in love, then isn't there hope for us all? (cept Nids)
A vindicare assasin would have an eye for this kind of thing (pun intended).


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 01:11:34


Post by: metallifan


How is Gaunt being, as you so delictely put it, a man-whore?


Could it be because he bumps uglies with pretty much every woman he spends more than a week around? Hmm... Yea, must be it


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 01:27:15


Post by: Gwar!


metallifan wrote:
How is Gaunt being, as you so delictely put it, a man-whore?


Could it be because he bumps uglies with pretty much every woman he spends more than a week around? Hmm... Yea, must be it
hey give the guy a break, he is a Colonel AND a Commissar. Imagine how Stressful that gets, having to order around people AND execute them!


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 06:39:03


Post by: Railguns


Short answer is no.

There isn't a long answer, really. Just no.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 07:15:06


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


As for Gaunt, there was the daughter of that one guy, then there was the PDF Major from Traitor General, also they imply that he has the Hots for Ana Curth and she for him, Romantic Sub-Plot in Traitor General.

Then there is Caff and Criid, and Rawne and Jessi Banda, Meryn and Banda, Larks and Bragg, Gaunt and Mkoll, Mkoll and his wife, Gaunt and Lilith, Gaunt and Rawne...

Then in Double Eagle, the bomber pilot and the waitress, the female pilot and everyone.

Then in Brothers of the Snake, the main Marine and the one legislator chick.

Eisenhorn and Bequin, Eisenhorn and the one Doctor Chick.

Hell just read a Dan Abnett book.

Oh Legion between John and the psyker...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 08:57:34


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Well, what about situations where there COULD be a love story. And why (tragically) it wouldn't/couldn't/mightn't/shouldn't work out?


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 09:14:21


Post by: Sternguard_rock


Just read Esienhorn omnibus and the guants ghosts books.
Side note there both by dan abbnet.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 09:17:17


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


Emperors Faithful wrote:Well, what about situations where there COULD be a love story. And why (tragically) it wouldn't/couldn't/mightn't/shouldn't work out?


That would be Gaunt and Lilith, an Inquisitor from the book Ghostmaker. Also Gaunt and the one dudes daughter, because he said something along the lines of "I'd want to but after today I'll go back to being a Soldier and you'll go back to being a Noblewoman."

Oh Larks and Bragg cause you know...
Spoiler:
Bragg is dead



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Sternguard_rock wrote:Just read Esienhorn omnibus and the guants ghosts books.
Side note there both by dan abbnet.


Yeah that's why I mentioned something about reading Abnett books for 40k loves stories, usually they are a sub plot. Or sub plot to a sub plot in the case of Caff and Criid.

Spoiler:
Though that ends because Caff gets killed...by a child... he's trying to save...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 09:23:23


Post by: Emperors Faithful


BrotherStynier wrote:
Emperors Faithful wrote:Well, what about situations where there COULD be a love story. And why (tragically) it wouldn't/couldn't/mightn't/shouldn't work out?


That would be Gaunt and Lilith, an Inquisitor from the book Ghostmaker. Also Gaunt and the one dudes daughter, because he said something along the lines of "I'd want to but after today I'll go back to being a Soldier and you'll go back to being a Noblewoman."
Though that ends because Caff gets killed...by a child... he's trying to save...[/spoiler]


Um yeah...Tragic.
Really, it is.
But when I said possible love stories I was kind of reffering to 40k in general. You CAN make the scenario up if you want to. Don't limit yourself to just one author like Dan Abnett (blessed be his name).


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 09:26:35


Post by: BaronIveagh


The one that I think is hilarious is how shocked Cain was in the most recent that a SoB and a Administratum quill pusher were getting it on.... LOL


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 09:28:16


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


Emperors Faithful wrote:
BrotherStynier wrote:
Emperors Faithful wrote:Well, what about situations where there COULD be a love story. And why (tragically) it wouldn't/couldn't/mightn't/shouldn't work out?


That would be Gaunt and Lilith, an Inquisitor from the book Ghostmaker. Also Gaunt and the one dudes daughter, because he said something along the lines of "I'd want to but after today I'll go back to being a Soldier and you'll go back to being a Noblewoman."


Um yeah...Tragic.
Really, it is.
But when I said possible love stories I was kind of reffering to 40k in general. You CAN make the scenario up if you want to. Don't limit yourself to just one author like Dan Abnett (blessed be his name).


Well I missed the tragic part, I only saw the wouldn't couldn't shouldn't part which applies

And in that case you won't find much. I haven't read much by any other author, because Goto doesn't... dosen't count. But IF he did then Gabe and Macha. And acouple of the other HH book authors but they seemed more focused on KILL IT ALL.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 09:28:58


Post by: Emperors Faithful


BaronIveagh wrote:The one that I think is hilarious is how shocked Cain was in the most recent that a SoB and a Administratum quill pusher were getting it on.... LOL


What?!?

Hang on second, please...don't tell me.
I don't wnat to get into details...


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BrotherStynier wrote:

Well I missed the tragic part, I only saw the wouldn't couldn't shouldn't part which applies

And in that case you won't find much. I haven't read much by any other author, because Goto doesn't... dosen't count. But IF he did then Gabe and Macha. And acouple of the other HH book authors but they seemed more focused on KILL IT ALL.


Nononononono!!!

You don't NEED and author!
Just make up a POSSIBLE situation yourself where there could be a relationship.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 11:37:38


Post by: BaronIveagh


A radical inquisitor or chaos sorcerer and a unsanctioned psyker or a demonhost with a daemonette imprisoned in it don't seem too far outside the realm of possibility.

The machine spirit of a titan and it's princeps might be a more kinky possibility.

SoB and a priest might be a nice story of forbidden love...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 11:44:04


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


Emperors Faithful wrote:

Nononononono!!!

You don't NEED and author!
Just make up a POSSIBLE situation yourself where there could be a relationship.



Oh I see what you're getting at now, sorry I've got lots on my mind (girl problems, work)

Tell you what I'll see what I can come up with and post it for you.



BaronIveagh wrote:
SoB and a priest might be a nice story of forbidden love...


How about a priest and a priest in an Abby near a small village on an Ecclesiarcal World, where the two of them tend to their flock and each other. Staring Toby McGuire and Robert Downey Jr...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 11:49:04


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Oh please! Priests?
Keep it clean would ya?

And by the way Baron/Titan pic dude, I don't want to be a pain but I did kind of say no references to Slaneesh.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 11:51:49


Post by: BaronIveagh


Emperors Faithful wrote:Oh please! Priests?
Keep it clean would ya?

And by the way Baron/Titan pic dude, I don't want to be a pain but I did kind of say no references to Slaneesh.


Eh, the daemonette just struck me as the most likely daemonhost to have weird emotional issues and or make passionate love.

Hey, SoB are nuns with guns. Why not a nun and a priest? (It's actually more common then you might think...)


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 12:09:36


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Oh no it wasn't SoB and priest (although...) it was more the priest and priest thing the other guy said. Ew...Don't want to know any more.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 12:28:42


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


I take it you haven't seen Tropic Thunder have you EF?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yAjdFLEtew

Totally Safe video, joke Trailer from Tropic Thunder.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/06 22:45:16


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Two priests having an affiar?
Dosen't sound all that safe to me...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 04:20:26


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch





I wouldn't directly post it on Dakka or watch it at work if it wasn't safe.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 04:35:02


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Anyway, it's kind of getting of track isn't it?
I'll will watch it, just not right now.


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(After Watching)
Oh crap!
I think I'm gonna be sick...
(It's not a REAL movie is it?)


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 04:45:30


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


No its not a real movie its a fake trailer for a movie R. Downey Jr's character was in it Tropic Thunder.


So right 40k love stories... I had an idea come to me about an Imperial Guard Sniper falling in love with either an Eldar Pathfinder or Tau Pathfinder sniper, while hunting them. Not a traditional love story at all more like stalker love I would guess.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 04:50:56


Post by: Emperors Faithful


BrotherStynier wrote:No its not a real movie its a fake trailer for a movie R. Downey Jr's character was in it Tropic Thunder.


So right 40k love stories... I had an idea come to me about an Imperial Guard Sniper falling in love with either an Eldar Pathfinder or Tau Pathfinder sniper, while hunting them. Not a traditional love story at all more like stalker love I would guess.


(Whew) Well that's a reilef! I was actually worried there for a sec...

Any way its not out of scope for that kind of thing to happen in 40k. I guess he could use the pickup line 'I've got my eye on you babe'


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 04:58:51


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


Indeed he could. If the writefag(/tg/) term in me gets the urge I might write something up.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 05:39:06


Post by: BaronIveagh


Emperors Faithful wrote:
BrotherStynier wrote:No its not a real movie its a fake trailer for a movie R. Downey Jr's character was in it Tropic Thunder.


So right 40k love stories... I had an idea come to me about an Imperial Guard Sniper falling in love with either an Eldar Pathfinder or Tau Pathfinder sniper, while hunting them. Not a traditional love story at all more like stalker love I would guess.


(Whew) Well that's a reilef! I was actually worried there for a sec...

Any way its not out of scope for that kind of thing to happen in 40k. I guess he could use the pickup line 'I've got my eye on you babe'


"Don't Call Me Babe..."


Sorry, Barb Wire quote seemed apropos for 40k in this case...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 06:00:40


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Um If you were being stalked by a sniper I don't think you'd be that quick to backtalk.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 06:13:52


Post by: BaronIveagh


Emperors Faithful wrote:Um If you were being stalked by a sniper I don't think you'd be that quick to backtalk.




Yes I am, particularly when Backtalk and I are laying down suppressive fire on the sniper's position...


or are you not talking about my BAR, which is named Backtalk....?




40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 06:26:12


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Bar named Bactalk?

No I meant if you were being asked out by someone pointing a gun at you, you would have to at least think about it before answering, you'd wonder at how the sniper might take rejection.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 06:49:58


Post by: Cryonicleech


Oh there was love.

Eldrad and Taldeer had a thing going on, but in Teh GRIMDARKNESS oF 40k Eldrad got Chaos STD's and died.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 06:51:49


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


But Eldrad is Taldeer's father...

Or so says the dark place.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 06:57:58


Post by: BaronIveagh


Emperors Faithful wrote:Bar named Bactalk?

No I meant if you were being asked out by someone pointing a gun at you, you would have to at least think about it before answering, you'd wonder at how the sniper might take rejection.


Yeah, BAR = Browning Automatic Rifle.

Hmm... "Date me or I blow your head off..." ehhh... a smart sniper would offer her flowers instead...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 07:02:11


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


Sniper's must always be polite, efficient and have a plan to kill everyone they meet.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 07:54:28


Post by: tigonesskay


I didn't know commissars COULD fall in love...40k is mostly about war and a love story as the main plot won't work without some fighting involved...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 08:56:23


Post by: Emperors Faithful


BrotherStynier wrote:Sniper's must always be polite, efficient and have a plan to kill everyone they meet.


LOL! Good one...

By the way, there is plenty of fighting where Guant and/or Cain is involved (though Cain more so dogs it).
With all that hate a Commissar dishes out, they all must have a little soft spot somewhere, it's just that if anyone knew they would laugh at them. (mabye not to thier face)


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 14:31:55


Post by: oggers


Look at my sig.
says it all really.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 17:28:47


Post by: Phloop


BaronIveagh wrote:A radical inquisitor or chaos sorcerer and a unsanctioned psyker or a demonhost with a daemonette imprisoned in it don't seem too far outside the realm of possibility.
It's kinda been done already...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/07 21:55:42


Post by: Emperors Faithful


oggers wrote:Look at my sig.
says it all really.


I didn't say love blooms in 40k, but even if it has been raped, set on fire, beaten with a crowbar and then fed to a hungry ripper it is still there.

No-one said these love stories have to end all fluffy-duffy. Gee, I guess in most cases they would end with 1 or both of the lovers being shot/stabbed/stepped on.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/08 02:02:12


Post by: Hollismason


I am really surprised but no one mentioned Eisenhorns love for the Untouchable; its a classical romance story of two lovers who are unable to be with each other because of her being a untouchable and him being a psyker .


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/08 06:35:04


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


BrotherStynier wrote:
Eisenhorn and Bequin, Eisenhorn and the one Doctor Chick.


Hollismason wrote:I am really surprised but no one mentioned Eisenhorns love for the Untouchable; its a classical romance story of two lovers who are unable to be with each other because of her being a untouchable and him being a psyker .


Beat ya to it.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/08 06:46:44


Post by: Che-Vito


Emperors Faithful wrote:
BrotherStynier wrote:
Emperors Faithful wrote:Well, what about situations where there COULD be a love story. And why (tragically) it wouldn't/couldn't/mightn't/shouldn't work out?


That would be Gaunt and Lilith, an Inquisitor from the book Ghostmaker. Also Gaunt and the one dudes daughter, because he said something along the lines of "I'd want to but after today I'll go back to being a Soldier and you'll go back to being a Noblewoman."
Though that ends because Caff gets killed...by a child... he's trying to save...[/spoiler]


Um yeah...Tragic.
Really, it is.
But when I said possible love stories I was kind of reffering to 40k in general. You CAN make the scenario up if you want to. Don't limit yourself to just one author like Dan Abnett (blessed be his name).


I can make up a scenario? Okay:

One day, a Great Unclean One and a SoB made love, she got pregnant, and gave birth to babbling warp spawn, dying in childbirth as well.
It was sad, because they used to kiss in the rain, lie in the middle of the road and stargaze, he even built a dream home for her.

I shall call it, "The Notebook"


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/08 08:40:32


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Hmmm, interesting.
But if an Unclean One was involved there would be too many STD's and such floating around she wouldn't live to GET pregnant.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/08 08:57:30


Post by: Che-Vito


Emperors Faithful wrote:Hmmm, interesting.
But if an Unclean One was involved there would be too many STD's and such floating around she wouldn't live to GET pregnant.


Have you SEEN the Dolly Parton?


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/08 09:12:43


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Nope, don't know who/what you're on about.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/08 13:04:28


Post by: Typeline


Che-Vito wrote:
Emperors Faithful wrote:Hmmm, interesting.
But if an Unclean One was involved there would be too many STD's and such floating around she wouldn't live to GET pregnant.


Have you SEEN the Dolly Parton?


Emperors Faithful wrote:Nope, don't know who/what you're on about.


Thought this was relevant (not a shoop btw)




40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/08 13:07:03


Post by: Gwar!


Of course its not a Shoop, Dolly parton has great knockers.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/08 21:56:12


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Okay, don't see how dolly par-whatever is relevant to this thread. Certainly isn't a face you fall in love with.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/08 22:47:29


Post by: Che-Vito


Emperors Faithful wrote:Okay, don't see how dolly par-whatever is relevant to this thread. Certainly isn't a face you fall in love with.


Someone mentioned that an Unclean One would have too many STD's too get someone pregnant, to which I replied, "Have you SEEN Dolly Parton?"


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/09 07:43:24


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Oh...
That was me...(sheepish)
I guess i don't know the history of Dolly-Whats-her-face (and from the way she is likened to someone who slept with a Great Unclean One, I don't want to)


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/12 20:35:46


Post by: metallifan


"What is the name of the movie adaptaion of the book "Gone with the wind?"

*Buzzer*

"Sean Connery?"

"DOLLY PARTON!"

"Famous Titles, Mr. Connery, NOT titties."

"DAMN!"


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/12 22:24:30


Post by: Emperors Faithful


heh, heh...
Good old Sean Connery


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/12 23:38:17


Post by: youbedead


Emperors Faithful wrote:
BrotherStynier wrote:Sniper's must always be polite, efficient and have a plan to kill everyone they meet.


LOL! Good one...

By the way, there is plenty of fighting where Guant and/or Cain is involved (though Cain more so dogs it).
With all that hate a Commissar dishes out, they all must have a little soft spot somewhere, it's just that if anyone knew they would laugh at them. (mabye not to thier face)


Its from the meet the sniper trailer




40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/13 07:13:31


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Lol, that was epic!
Is there an actual movie like that or is it just a game?


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/13 08:15:46


Post by: lalabox


They are just short films about each of the classes of Team Fortress 2. They started off as simple tech tests, but have now gone a step further. (very slight NSFW, but only very, very slight).




Short films (not just relating to the classes) being released have not been ruled out of the question. Valve is awesome.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/13 10:17:15


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Not wanting to burst anyones bubble, but Team Fortress 2 is getting slightly off track.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/13 11:30:41


Post by: lalabox


Informing people of the greatness of Team Fortress 2 is a public service and should be lauded.

Anyhoos, 40k love stories. Could happen, but not by gw. One of my local gw staff members submitted a story to the short story omnibus that was published a bit ago. It got rejected because it was about normal citizens, rather than SPAZZZZZEEE MARINEZZ HURR!!! (not really, just not about war or the inquisition). So I doubt that love stories would be accepted.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/13 22:22:24


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Well, a lot about Ravenor (Inquisitor) analyzes the daily lives of citizens. I think that guys mistake was to concentrate too much on the citizens. It is best if some violence/thrills/action was put in the book as well.

In many 40k stories, the love part is just a side story. It would be interesting to see something more concentrated on it.

Perhaps some Eldar Striking scorpion who stows away on a Dark Eldar ship to rescue his love who is held there?

Actually there could be a lot of kidnapping/rescuing love stories in 40k. Especially with Dark Elder (baddies in the story mostly); even some tradegy if the rescuer was too late, or if thier love was mentally scarred by the torture...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/13 23:30:30


Post by: tigonesskay


The only thing you can get away with in the 40k is a love story....with a twist...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/14 00:25:00


Post by: iamthecougar


There was a deathwatch book where the inquisition made a deal with eldar, i forget the deal, but there was a fairy tale where some inquisitor fell in love with a farseer and had a half human half eldar kid with her. He loved her and whatever, but his duty caught up with him and he was forced to lead an army to slaughter the farseers people and kill the kid. The inquisitors are having a conversation with the inquisitor lord at their base, and one brings it up and another basically calls him on it being a fairy tale, when an old inquisitor points to a picture or a hologram or something of the story in the lords office and says he would know better than anyone the penalty for love or something like that and calls him the same name as the guy who fell in love with the farseer.

To sum that up much simpler, inquisitor falls in love with farseer, they have kid, kid gets old enough to get psychic powers, inquisitor kills farseer and half and half.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/14 00:44:56


Post by: Gwar!


iamthecougar wrote:There was a deathwatch book where the inquisition made a deal with eldar, i forget the deal, but there was a fairy tale where some inquisitor fell in love with a farseer and had a half human half eldar kid with her. He loved her and whatever, but his duty caught up with him and he was forced to lead an army to slaughter the farseers people and kill the kid. The inquisitors are having a conversation with the inquisitor lord at their base, and one brings it up and another basically calls him on it being a fairy tale, when an old inquisitor points to a picture or a hologram or something of the story in the lords office and says he would know better than anyone the penalty for love or something like that and calls him the same name as the guy who fell in love with the farseer.

To sum that up much simpler, inquisitor falls in love with farseer, they have kid, kid gets old enough to get psychic powers, inquisitor kills farseer and half and half.
That sounds like a really, REALLY horrible slashfic. Humans cannot have children with Eldar no more than a Tau can bump uglies with a Ork.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/14 01:00:18


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


Gwar! wrote:That sounds like a really, REALLY horrible slashfic. Humans cannot have children with Eldar no more than a Tau can bump uglies with a Ork.


I thought there was that one Half-Eldar Space Marine way back when, and then GW ignored it hoping no one would remember him. Wasn't he an Ultramarine.

Oh and that story sounds like CS Goto's work, so yeah a really horrible slashfic fits the bill.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/14 03:18:20


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Yeah, Eldar and Humans CAN have children. But they are really sad, disgusting looking creatures. Think spawn + snotling.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/14 04:04:08


Post by: Doctor Optimal


LunaHound wrote:
4Chan , but i might not be allowed to link it because it has 18+ stuff.


4Chan is the Internet's 13th Founding.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/14 04:24:40


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


Doctor Optimal wrote:

4Chan is the Internet's 13th Founding.


So its the "Dark" founding not the Cursed 21st?

Which founding would that make us?


Emperors Faithful wrote:Perhaps some Eldar Striking scorpion who stows away on a Dark Eldar ship to rescue his love who is held there?

Actually there could be a lot of kidnapping/rescuing love stories in 40k. Especially with Dark Elder (baddies in the story mostly); even some tradegy if the rescuer was too late, or if thier love was mentally scarred by the torture...


So turn the Eldar and DE into the COGs and Locust? Replace Striking Scorpion with Dom and you're good to go.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/14 22:06:18


Post by: iamthecougar


The book was warrior coven by CS Goto and yeah it sucked so the story makes no kind of sense.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/14 22:13:34


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Warrior Coven? First I've heard of it... (elaborate please)


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/14 22:40:44


Post by: RustyKnight


Emperors Faithful wrote:Warrior Coven? First I've heard of it... (elaborate please)

It's a book by Goto. From what I hear, he's one of the worst authors in the BL. Warrior Coven involves DE, and there's one, Warrior Brood, that involves like Tyranid-Eldar hybrids


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/14 23:01:16


Post by: Gwar!


RustyKnight wrote:
Emperors Faithful wrote:Warrior Coven? First I've heard of it... (elaborate please)

It's a book by Goto. From what I hear, he's one of the worst authors in the BL. Warrior Coven involves DE, and there's one, Warrior Brood, that involves like Tyranid-Eldar hybrids
You heard correctly. I think it was made a Crime Against Humanity to ever let him near a Typewriter ever again


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/14 23:56:45


Post by: Cannerus_The_Unbearable


Emperor/Horus anyone? That's a love story, more or less. Maybe not in that sense...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 07:40:04


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Ummm, well it's more like Buzz Lightyear and Zurg in Toy Story 2, or Darth Vader and Luke. (except the son is evil)


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 07:42:17


Post by: Cheese Elemental


Edited because it was bad taste that might have made you all puke out your noses.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 07:46:12


Post by: Emperors Faithful


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40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 08:31:31


Post by: rzsanguine


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40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 09:14:48


Post by: Emperors Faithful


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40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 09:22:17


Post by: darkkt


Well, on the weekend, my Daemon Prince was taken out 'from behind' by a 'penal' legion.

The only thing missing was the benny hill music.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 09:25:32


Post by: Cheese Elemental


If you think appropriate music for lovemaking is Benny Hill, you muust have serious issues buddy.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 09:25:52


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Sorry for screwing up the discussion table thing. Whoops.

Anyway, if you could hear Morgan Freemans voice. "I thought it would take 600 years for a man to chisel through a deamons skull, It took Jim 20..."

Mabye also some crazy indian suffocating a deamon prince with a pillow becuase he had a lobotomy. (1 flew over the cuckoos nest)


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 09:39:26


Post by: MeanGreenStompa


In the Inquisitor books, Jaq Draco has a sexual relationship with his pet callidus assassin, Meh'Lindi. Their feelings do develop over time till they visit a certain chaos planet and things go quite wrong for her and she starts getting abit more insane than she was.

It's been shown in old fluff that halfeldar were possible (one was listed in the WD article on Ultramarine officers), I would imagine this has been entirelly ret-conned from new background. Especially given the disgust with which the eldar now hold for humans.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 09:43:59


Post by: Emperors Faithful


hmmmm, SOME eldar.
As eldar pathfinders/rangers are outcasts/exiles/adventurers they may have different opinions as they have to integrate themselves sometimes with rouge traders or other human colonies.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 20:37:05


Post by: BaronIveagh


Hmmm... odd one: Female Psyker/Female Twist hulk?

Weirdly enough, that one came from my DH sessions...


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 21:44:26


Post by: Emperors Faithful


How about Sister and Guard? C'mon like in a whole galaxy it hasn't happened...
I doubt the average guard would be lucky enough though, porbably someone a bit little up the ranks.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/15 22:54:21


Post by: BaronIveagh


Emperors Faithful wrote:How about Sister and Guard? C'mon like in a whole galaxy it hasn't happened...
I doubt the average guard would be lucky enough though, porbably someone a bit little up the ranks.


"Do ya feel lucky, punk?"

"Yes, ma'am!"


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/16 09:24:18


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Heh, heh. I've never actually seen that movie though (frown)

What about a guard regiment adopting and orphan? (Not in a sus way before anyone says anything) Like Creed, except mabye they make the child the regimental mascot or lucky charm.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/16 09:39:34


Post by: ryzouken


In the book Wolfblade, Ragnar has something suspiciously like a relationship with a Navigator of House Belisaurus.

And then the poo hits the fan.

I don't think GW's fiction writers (with rare exceptions) can manage something so nuanced as romance without it coming off as hamfisted or too vague to be classified as such.

It's tough work, especially so when we're dealing with Grimdark srs bznss.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/16 09:45:27


Post by: Emperors Faithful


(Sigh) I suppose you're right...

But, remember! This thread need not be constricted to the unimaginative state of some GW writers. Any possible scenarios that you can come up with are always welcome.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/17 11:01:05


Post by: Nobody_Holme


I think the black library editor(s) just say no to anything an 8-year-old cant understand. Luckily, they aint so smart themselves, thus we get some stuff sneaked past them.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/17 11:04:29


Post by: Emperors Faithful


So an 8-year-old can understand why a SoB has undying devotion to a dead guy on a gian throne?

He understands that kind of stuff?


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 10:31:56


Post by: Manchu


Emperors Faithful wrote:So an 8-year-old can understand why a SoB has undying devotion to a dead guy on a gian throne?

He understands that kind of stuff?


The Sororitas do not take vows of chastity, IIRC.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 11:42:11


Post by: Kurt


Actually there can be "all-life vows" and "temporal vows".

Just as in Military Orders of Templars or Hospitaliers there were "core members" and "guests" - those knight that come to fight for a period of time or a particular campaign.

More than that - I think that Sororitas have a good record of educating daughters of imperial nobility. Say, from 8to 25 years old.

They can even be trained as Battle Sisters in time of need.

Strong-willed, pure, educated, knowing her duty, loyal to the Imperium - a perfect way to bred wifes for Imperial high classes.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 12:22:14


Post by: Emperors Faithful


I don't think 'breeding wives' was high on the agenda. Neither do I think that being a sister of battle was a temporary thing. (Sister Hospitallier etc mabye).

SoB is all about self denial, fasting etc, so that would probably include chastity. IIRC though, there is no solid info that says they must take any such vows.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 12:32:23


Post by: Manchu


I may be imagining it, but I think this comes up in Swallow's "Faith and Fire" and the answer is no vow of chastity. But I'm not reading it again to find out, either. Like other matters in 40k fluff, there is no perfect correspondence between made up religion and real life religion. GW has simply mined a lot of stereotypes of Catholicism (not surprisingly, as most of which were invented by English Protestants) to provide for their grim darkness of the future.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 12:34:32


Post by: Emperors Faithful


hmmm, I've read faith and fire and I can't say I remember much. Especially chastity. I do remeber pretty much every male charachter frothing over the sisters though.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Oh! this also links to the 'Evil Sister' post. In the book, a psyker broke one of the sisters mind and she became a repentia (freaky) instead of bending to his power/will.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 12:47:24


Post by: Manchu


I think all he did was render her catatonic not try and subvert her to Chaos. All the same, Ecclesiarchy official wanted her executed. Cannoness was angry but not bloodthirsty about it. The sister in question felt so guilty about the whole thing that she donned the sackcloth.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 12:48:45


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


Which book is Faith and Fire?


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 12:50:23


Post by: Manchu


by James Swallow

first book in what seems to be an abortive SoB series

about Sororitas tracking down rogue psyker and uncovering conspiracy

2.5/5 IMO


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 12:56:09


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


I see, maybe I'll pass it over then.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 12:58:15


Post by: Cheese Elemental


You know what's a really, really good read?

Anything by C.S. Goto.



40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 13:01:02


Post by: Manchu


Cheese Elemental wrote:You know what's a really, really good read?

Anything by C.S. Goto.



go blood ravens


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 13:04:46


Post by: Food Store Hero


See, something tells me a bunch of battle-hardened women with scars and burn marks from playing with fire all day... who are so entirely engrossed in war.. miiiight not be that entirely attractive if ya think about it. Just thinking in those types of terms.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 13:06:34


Post by: Cheese Elemental


Apparently violence fuels one's libido. You have to relieve that stress someday.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/19 13:28:46


Post by: Manchu


Food Store Hero wrote:See, something tells me a bunch of battle-hardened women with scars and burn marks from playing with fire all day... who are so entirely engrossed in war.. miiiight not be that entirely attractive if ya think about it. Just thinking in those types of terms.


whatever man, they look fine in every picture I've seen

Repentia aside--not to my taste, at least


Automatically Appended Next Post:
LunaHound wrote:


At the risk of sounding stupid, I'd seriously like to know where this is from/if there is more (moar)? It looks great!


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/20 08:24:50


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Me too, unless it's from 4chan.

No thanks...

...No thanks.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/20 10:17:22


Post by: lalabox


Manchu wrote:
LunaHound wrote:snip


At the risk of sounding stupid, I'd seriously like to know where this is from/if there is more (moar)? It looks great!


It does get rather silly, and is completely against all fluff.

Also, it ends like this:



Okay, not really. But it would have made a better ending.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/20 11:05:49


Post by: VictorVonTzeentch


IIRC the story never got finished, it just stopped in a cabin with a Daemonette

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Love_Can_Bloom

Here is a link to the story and it has links to the spin offs.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/20 20:26:32


Post by: Manchu


Uh . . . wow. Be careful what you ask for I guess.

Thanks for the link, all the same.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/06/21 06:52:31


Post by: Emperors Faithful


Pretty wierd at the end.

Looked at Meet the Eldrad, FUNNY!!!


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/07/02 23:57:35


Post by: Golden Eyed Scout


It's not 40k, but still. In an old (really old) issue of WD they had this story of a Dark Elf who had gone raiding to bring bakc slaves so he could be higher up in the city. Turns out it's a religous thingy going on when two preistesses try and kidnap him tio be sacrifaced. He runs home t6o find his wife and daughter killed. In the story he promptly weeps for his lost loves.


Another one was also in WD (not too old.) A High Elf mother weeps seeing her son killed by a Dark Elf. not the same kind of love as before, but still love nonetheless.


40k Love Stories? @ 2009/07/04 10:20:19


Post by: Emperors Faithful


is that Malus Darkblade guy?


Anyway, a dark elf feeling sorry for someone else? dosn't seem likely.