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*both sat outside the repressor eating icecream *

*goes over to varden quickly*
(maria) sorry, I know you care..just ... Marlas well, I needed to help. Hel be found, dad wants a few words with him...

*goes back with tea and a third tub*
You can join the ice cream party here. Just grab a tub and a spoon.

*Ears perk up*
That teleporter's method of moving people around makes reality cry. Just saying.
Oh. That Guardsman is gone? I'm afraid he's correct on all counts, although asking me for a sterilization is possibly the best course of action.

*Sits next to Marla and Maria and starts eating eating ice cream*

*Starts mumbling angrily*

Fething tunnels.

*Looks at Verviedi*

What even are you?

Y'Yog-Sothoth, er, I'm Yog-Sothoth, or a portion of his essence. There was an accident.

That only gives me more questions...

Ask away.

(Maria) eh, don,t even try... That thing is not of this universe...

Marla) *sound of alot of ice cream being eaten* meh, don,t even bother...

Don't insult me. My true form is this universe.

OOC: Now I know how OT feels

BIC

Why... Is everybody eating icecream?

*Thinks for a second*

Wait so if I told you to go feth yourself, does that mean I'm telling the universe to go feth itself?

*Turns to Pla*

Oh hi hunter, Marla is stress eating because WK left.

That's all I know.

*picks up a death korps of krieg coffee mug and takes a sip*

Alright, why did WK leave...

*mutter: This is going to be a long night*

Because of his training telling him that he was expendable, he thought that he should leave before he hurt Marla with his death.

Honestly I think he was blowing it out of proportion, but that's just my opinion.

*siiiip*

He's not wrong. Most guardsmen ARE expendable. The only ones not expendable are the ones with stupid amounts of plot armor, look at Sly Marbo, Sergeant Merrick, Jeran Kell, Sergeant Lukas Bastonne, Harker, Creed, Straken... You see my point?

Eh WK's got some pretty good plot armor from what I've seen, I mean like seriously that stuffs thick.

Hopefully one day I'll get some good plot armor...

Not that I need it.

OOC rip 4th wall.

OOC: Technically books do exist in this universe, so it's safe to say that Commissar is refering to theoretical plot armor as a joke.

BIC

...You're not getting it. My point is he's a nobody in the eyes of the imperium, as much as none of you want to hear it. He's right, and no amount of 'I believe in you' or 'It's not going to happen' will change it. Everybody can die, Guardsmen just die more often.

*Shrugs*

I'm probably the only one here that won't point a weapon at you for saying that.

Also I don't think it really matters what this imperium thinks, honestly to me it sounds like people take it way to seriously.

[Nods and leans on door frame] Hunter would know all about guardsmen being expendable.

*Waves to Yarrick*

Hello Yarrick, how you doing?

*Maria walks up to hunter with a flamer *

Now... Hunter. Right now Marla needs none of your gak. None.
Now as my younger sister if you hurt her, I will turn you into a kebab. Before I kill you.

Now otherwise, if you want to join us eating ice cream and try to be nice. I have no problem with you at all.
I'm Maria by the way, I also knew wk, we all went to same schola.... Mike to, before he got recruited.

Oh fine. Yes Marla can be difficult but she,s also human. And can be hurt. So be nice.

*Looks at Maria*

Told you Hunter.

Well I'm going to take a nap.

By-...

*Falls asleep*

So you'd prefer me to straight up lie to her? If you want me to lie and hide people from the reality of the world we are in, tough. This isn't some fantasy universe where death is merely 'passing on' and you will reunite with them. I embrace it, meanwhile you all get so afraid that you're willing to fight people who say the truth so you can ignore it for as long as you can and die a cowards death.

So, are you going to pull that trigger and prove me right? Or are you going to accept WK knew what was best, and went with it. Because life isn't a field of daisies, you're going to get spat on, hurt, it happens. Are you going to move along past it and become a better person from it, or are you going to try and bury it; supress it so you can live in your ignorant little box where 'everything is SUNSHINE and RAINBOWS'. Yarrick, you should know as well. Everybody in the imperium knows the Guardsman is a mere pawn when facing the likes of Massive Daemonspawn, dozens of heretics, Chaos Astartes, the entire WORLD is a danger. And I see it for what it is, a hellhole. But I don't let it control me, I don't take everything as some sort of 'major travesty' because I've had my own; Visit a graveyard and you'll see millions and millions of dead bodies buried, and their families thought the same thing as Marla is; He was my special boy, that was my loving husband, a caring brother, uncle. What makes WK any different from those guardsmen? The Guardsmen who also had families they never got to go back to? You think Marlas the only one that's suffered, and should be babied even though she is a SOLDIER? I don't care if you're the Lord Solar, nobody should be babied and live in a protective veil of ignorance.

(marla)

Don,t you think I known that.t he picture is big... yeah everything in the giant scale we are nothing.

But in the small human scale, the scale that gives us hope, who we fight for. It's fething everything.

Those guardsmen did die fighting but for those families at home, for those friends. Thats what motivates the guard. In battle you fight for your fellow sisters not the Impirium.... the Impirium is the overriding thing that binds us all. Each person fights for each other, the Impirium binds the people's.

Damn you unfeeling robot...

Then why are you sad that WK left? He did it for YOUR best interests, he went to fight FOR YOU. He wanted your last image of him to be him smiling spending time with you, not in his grave or as a pile of body parts in a body bag.

Why.... why (marla) I fething married him. Gak hunter you think that ment nothing? It was hollow?

I'm not perfect but I did mean those fething vows... you don,t know we what that ment... you never will....

Did you really think it would last? You married a guardsman. A private first class, you may think on the human scale he matters but on a level like the generals; they don't care.

*slowly reached into his breastplate and took out a ring connected to a chain on his neck*

I know loss as well.

OOC: Yep, that was Commissars big bad secret. He was engaged.

Then.....wait..... you know. You know even if it lasts only a short time it's more valuable than nothing that lasts a eternity. It ment everything. I cared that's what matters..

A single day beats a life time of regret.

I do know. But I also know that I'd rather see my Fiancee pictured happily with me on a patio rather than impaled on a steel shard from a wall.

*sip*

(marla)
Then you also know you would fight a entire planet for a single day... its... look sorry but you get used to people being there.... the silly stuff...

The smallest stuff is everything...
Maybe you are human after all...

I know... But I've moved on. I'm sorry for being rough on you, it's just... I've coped differently than you.

[Pinches bridge of nose] Hunter, why are you actually here, if you don't respect anyone enough to go a day without actively trying to hurt their feelings?

Marla is a Sister, a medic. You think she is somehow blind to death, simply due to loving a man? Being able to suspend disbelief and ignore that bitter truth long enough to hold happiness in your hands... that's the only thing we have.

Or are you so fething jaded that you can't bear to see other people happy any more?