Why did the Emperor wear the bulky Astartes styled power armor variant when he could have gotten the sleeker and more...

Why did the Emperor wear the bulky Astartes styled power armor variant when he could have gotten the sleeker and more advanced versions like what his Custodes and a few of his Primarchs wore?

because

Same reason marines wear bulky armor: to be intimidating.

Because he is more than a man. He is a symbol. His armour is an extension of his image. The emperor is mighty, his armour must look full of might.

>implying Custodes armor isn't also bulky

The only reason armor is "sleek" is because they sculpt it to be so, such as BA abs and nipple armor. So why didn't the Emperor go for sleek artificer armor? Because his artificer armor was already covered head to toe with eagles, feathers, and faces.

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But still, his boots are absurdly oversized unless he has club feet

because people took that one obviously stylized image at face value and he's stuck with that look forever now

Old Custodes had big boots too. The only reason the new ones have tiny feet is because GW is just using their shitty AoS Sigmarine style computer sculpting on everything, from Custodes to SoB.

>Leads big guys
>user wants him to wear armor that wouldn't make him the biggest guy

Come on son

If he takes off the armor, will he die?

It would be extremely heretical

Sir, you saw the quads. Any further questioning will be considered heresy.

Since the Orks believe he is the biggest guy, that makes him even bigger.

He's a big guy.

40,000 U

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He's a fucking master biomancer, he can look whatever he wants to look like. In his "real" form he's the size of a normal human of no particular notice, a prehistoric Anatolian.

"The Emperor" is a character. Everything about him is designed to tap into messianic imagery and display power and majesty. The man who would become the Emperor actually sat down and used his near-cosmic intellect to consider the most universal aspects of the human psyche when it comes to absolute rulers and golden champions and designed the Emperor specifically to fit that mold, putting on the golden armor in much the same way Kal-El became "Superman". Some of the lore goes so far as to state that the Emperor's appearance changes based on whose looking at him, each person seeing the Emperor in a personally idealized light.

>fug of war :DDDD

Why is emps wearing an Eldar helmet?

is that the warhound titan sized warboss from the crusades?

That looks like just a custodes, and it is before the eldar stole all our stones

Why did he wear armor at all when he was a god-like being on par with the 4 chaos gods put together?

Because he didn't want to be considered as a god. If he showed his sick abs, humanity would have directly fallen into hardcore adoration.

For example, OP would see teh emps as pic related.

If he was Jesus, wouldn't it have been easier to unite Humanity under the Rapture rather than creating something else entirely new?

As Jesus, he'd know the Rapture was protestant heresy and refuse to do it.

It fit the outdated 80's style 2000 AD British dystopian comic art of the setting.
Any other explanation is well after the fact bullshit that is fluid and they don't care about at GW and will change or ignore literally on a whim.

Thats the way the artists at GW drew him. sometimes.

Because he was Veeky Forums as fuck

You think that's his cerimonial armor, but it's just the weighted armor he used for training.
The traitor legions knew they had to strike hard and fast, or the Emperor would shrug off those extra tonnes, and then it would be ON.

It is sleek version. The Emprah is just fucking huge.

Thanks.
For e canon example of his powers, have a look at the lasst church.

Does that mean the sisters of silence saw the emprah as a 50000 yo anatolian grampa?

DEEPEST LORE

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they expect one of us on the golden throne, battle brother