Hope spots?

What are those occasional times where either you see a hope spot in 40K or just see a nice moment? Like a space marine saving a civilian or children playing?

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>Space Marines not acting like assholes to the IG.
>Chaos Lords killed without some warp "just as planned" fuckery.
>Interfaction alliances that do not end in backstabing.
>Exterminatus avoided.

The first few chapters of Death of Antagonis. Of course, spoilers happen that render it pointless, but I won't go into that for the sake of spoilers.

Basically anything that the Salamanders do.

Avoid Iron Hands and DA.

>Sanguinius stood forward and centre as befitted his status as Imperial Regent. He shone with his customary radiance, but appeared troubled even so. He said little, and the enigmatic Lion El’Jonson even less. Today was their brother Roboute Guilliman’s day – the master of Ultramar and the XIII Legion. Today the sacrifices of his realm, his people, were to be remembered. His words boomed out across the square – dozens of names, dozens of victories, dozens of heroes born from the horrors of defeat. Guilliman honoured the unenhanced first, scores of mortal men and women who had defied the traitors whether by lasgun and blade, or through acts of less obvious heroism: a scholam mistress who had led three hundred children to safety, a fabricatory adept who had worked for ten days without rest when his fellows had fled, and the sole survivor of a hundred port workers who had marched their industrial loaders into the enemy
>The night before. With Guilliman there was always a night before, or a night after. Feasts and parties went with his honour-giving like bolts went with boltguns. He held it important for his sons to mingle with the citizens, another chore in preparing themselves for peaceful duties once war was done. It was clear now that those days would never come. Corvo expected ambivalence at the thought – he was made for war, after all – but found melancholy instead. Guilliman’s dream was fading.

Wouldn't the sudden ascent speed and inevitable landing powder that girls bones?

>TVTropes
Don't spread their toxic terminology or we'll end up a lot worse than 'BBEG'

Salamanders

Lamenters

"BBEG" was coined by Veeky Forums, user. I dunno what you're on about.

Brothers of the snake - Everyone is bro tier and not a dick to backwater peasants

Ugh.

Shhh, no science. Only Space Marines being heroes now.

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LOLI NEEDS SAVING

>being this butthurt about semantics

Settle down, Skull Face.

We need more heartwarming Primaris Marine stories.

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

>avoid DA
Sapphon let looters steal DA relics so they could use them to feed their families. Azrael goes out of his way to avoid causing conflict with others. Asmodai is a cunt. I'll give you that.

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I read a pretty cool story on 1d4chan about a female guardsman who survived for days after a Nurgle cult took over her world and the Blood Angels came to cleanse the world.

>tumblr screencap of a reddit post
JUST

"Hope Spot" comes from wrestling.

Does it really matter user, it's just nice short writing?

There's a similar scene in the Black Dragons novel Death of Antagonis.

then it turns out the children and civilians were all in the second stage of being zombies, and the zombies who were attacking them were third-stage but remembered their humanity and tried to end it all before they turned.

This is adorable.

I assume she was killed at the end because she had been exposed to Chaos?

There is a great series of interactions between the Imperial Guard and the Black Templars in Priests of Mars. Particularly in a section where they are both fighting for their lives in a corrupted tech-priests lair.
The chaplain actually puts his life at risk to save one of the guardsman from getting sliced.

The Blood Ravens coming along to help the Ultramarines out in the Space Marine game was pretty nice

I know it's the Ultramarines and, "they wouldn't save civilians" or "she'd be deaf from the bolt pistol" but I always liked this picture. You have this idea that nothing is going to harm this child and if the marine ends up perishing I feel like he'll be sacrificing herself to make sure she's okay.

Side note some buddies and I came up with a story idea based off this picture. The idea is that this marine ends up saving this little girl and gets her to the evac zone. Decades later he is a captain and he's pinned down by a different group of Orks. He thinks he's doomed until a squad of sisters of battle come and save his hide. They escort him and his remaining battle brothers back to the base camp where the sergeant of the sisters of battle reveals she's the little girl from all those years ago. Then they team up and win the day in a series of awesome action montages.

This was nice. Especially after they used a bunch of SOB for their blood. I hope to see some better interactmenr between the two.

Source?

And then she was gutted clit to crown and her fluids used for body paint.

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Let this hopefully continual beautiful moment progress.

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Oddly touching and depressing in the same fell swoop.

HH War without end.

There's a bit in the Crimson Fists novel where Pedro Cantor (I think, its been a while) is watching a bunch of civilians trailing along behind his formation and he has a moment of clarity where he accepts responsibility for them and scoops up a mother and child to help them continue the march.

They weren't there to help Titus, they were there to be "gifted" with all the cool shit Titus is carrying. You think that was a Space Marine sized inquisitor that "arrested" Titus in the end? Think again, motherfucker.

>They just wanted his Iron Halo
At last I truly see...

I was just waiting for them to steal my guns when it happened quite honestly

>Inquisitor Corvae Sanguinte, I don't understand why me "gifting in honourable arms exchange" my venerated Thunder Hammer and state of the art mine launcher to the Blood Ravens is "of outmost importance" in my purification ritual? Especially if I am to receive a "highly advanced and sanctified xeno 'grot poker'" in return.

>only the iron halo
Why do you think they took him whole? In the next game he would have had a red paintjob and a psychic hood.

Just submit to the T'au, dear Gue'va

Would have enjoyed if not for

It's the middle of summer and all the boards are steadily awash in newfags. Just enjoy the story, at least it's content instead of shitposting.

>Asmodai is a cunt
Repent motherfucker !

MODS

Honestly, for all the critics he get (most of which I don't get but whatever), Thorpe's view on Amodai in his DA trilogy was really good. Him going completely batshit crazy and basically being like a WE under the Nails when he's torturing a fallen is pretty scary and cool.

Salamander and Lamenters, total bros.

Because he's written to be completely one dimensional. Even other DA don't like him and azrael says he's constantly having to fix the conflicts he causes with other members of the imperium.

Near the end of Angel Exterminatus, Fulgrim picks the brain of Perturabo in an attempt to bargain with him at the height of his ascension. For a brief few fleeting moments, we see what Perturabo wanted to be and what he had wanted of Olympia:

a peaceful and prospering society in the heart of a city square, adorned with feats of art and architecture that surprised even Fulgrim. Perturabo is a renaissance man who looks over his city, walking its streets daily among the people doing what he can to aid others.

They briefly drink wine before Perturabo dismisses Fulgrim's attempts at bargaining, saying any chances of achieving that dream are long gone. He can never look back because to do so is to admit failure and everything he's done was for nothing. Fulgrim claims he can undo all of it if he ascends to Demonhood with the newfound powers of Slaanesh, but Pert calls BS and decks him.

>a peaceful and prospering society in the heart of a city square, adorned with feats of art and architecture that surprised even Fulgrim. Perturabo is a renaissance man who looks over his city, walking its streets daily among the people doing what he can to aid others.
>They briefly drink wine before Perturabo dismisses Fulgrim's attempts at bargaining, saying any chances of achieving that dream are long gone. He can never look back because to do so is to admit failure and everything he's done was for nothing. Fulgrim claims he can undo all of it if he ascends to Demonhood with the newfound powers of Slaanesh, but Pert calls BS and decks him.

Sounds familiar.

I mean, being so utterly dedicated tp his job it becomeq annoying is kinda what he's known for.

I like the flowers.

>Would have enjoyed if not for my crippling autism

>"Get 'im, Mr. B!"

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