How to improve the "Genefather"-novel in one easy step.

Idea by @leaofthewolves.

an alternate timeline

And it's signed by Guilliman, so they can't do shit.

text posts + necrons

Most, possibly only relatable Cawl moment

How can you make Cawl "better" Say another techpriest does some wacky stuff that changed the lore. How woudl you write it? sorry if i wrote it mean

If they absolutely had to have him make his primaris marines and his automatic plasma weapons and his funny AI, fine. GW wants to sell minis and those things alone place him around the intelligence level of someone like Amar fucking Astarte. That is a huge compliment. That is insanely impressive and still actively undoes like half the Imperium's tech shortcomings via a series of illogically "secret" tech advancements.

What they shouldn't have done. What they couldn't help but do, right, is have the overlong slab of plot devices show off how smart he is by diminishing other factions. Why is he able to reverse-engineer the Pharos device? Why should he know where all the blackstone is? Why should he know how to jailbreak scarabs and modify engrams, one of the single most advanced pieces of tech in the entire fucking setting?

If GW must have someone's early-era ff.net OC clogging up the setting, he would be massively improved by actively showing that he doesn't understand xenos technology, and that he realises his lack of comprehension is a frustration and a problem that cannot be brute forced. That he must further commit heresy by engaging in diplomacy with them, and he's not good at it. Give him a shred of depth. Make him a character. As it stands, he is the narrative equivalent of a person whose entire personality trait is "I need everyone to know I am smart and they are not", except he's being constantly rewarded for it.

Fabius Bile is a thousand times better than Cawl because he's limited, despite his intellect. His reincarnation process is endlessly flawed. He's only as good as he is because he had to go and learn from the Drukhari, who he still acknowledges are smarter than him. He has to fight for quality resources, for gene-seed, for access to materials, for his authority. He has to bargain and trade. He has to do things involving Eldar without understanding them, to his aggravation and intrigue. His brilliance at cloning keeps biting him in the ass. He's interesting because of that constant challenge.

oc spam time: battlesisters

okay so this is my “hey if james workshop came down form on high and was like YOU. RANDOM LESBIAN. GIVE ME THE ORIGINS OF FSM!” This is how i’d do it take. Cawl works around guilliman’s orders to avoid using traitor geneseed by creating chimera geneseed of loyalist/traitor combo. Guilliman then found out and got a bit pissed however: there are six five year old girls who kinda look like the brothers he misses so greatly. Sidenote i do need to draw guilliman in a “i’m not the stepdad im the dad who stepped up” shirt. They are primaris, if only because i couldn’t see a reason why cawl wouldnt make them primaris, and were raised in a variety of places such as cawl’s forge and labs, terra, various ultramarine vessels and at least one fortress monastery.

ANYWAY. Sargent Sister. Tank Sister. Knight Sister. Psyker Sister. Silent Sister. Radiant Sister. These are sort of… informal nicknames used between the squad and get shortened down even further to sarge, tan, ny, psy, sil and ray. They do have proper fancy space marine names but i haven’t picked those out yet.

Sargent wants to kill perturabo so bad, because she feels ashamed of him. is it not the right of a young woman to kill her father? Or at least one of them. the rest of the squad are far more normal about both their fathers, except for psy, who unironically thinks both her “dads” are really cool.

still can't believe this picture is supposed to be a young Cawl

He looks radically diffrent from his present self.

My little Cawly-boi from a while back, took me almost 10 hours, I was tearing out my hair with the golden armor trim and I essentially used almost every metallic shade in the GW collection, but I think he came out really nice!

That little Servo behind him broke off like 3 times while I was working on it, but I salvaged it in the end! =)

Some Warhammer 40k doodles because I started reading 'The Great Work' and feel like I gotta get the ideas out before continuing because life sure is a struggle like that

so, i read Genefather

(based on this meme)

my gender is whatever the fuck belisarius cawl has going on

You know what, forget Genefather, Cawl vs. Bile is too mundane no matter who writes it. I want Mad Scientist Academia. I want Cawl, Bile, Szeras, an entire fucking kabal of Haemunculi, whatever, all working in The Worst Institute together. I want petty academic bickering. I want elaborate schemes to steal each others' resources. I want byzantine politics, I want hapless interns running thither and yon, I want weekly bonding session where everyone complains about Funding.

Somehow, The Worst Institute must take place in the actual 40k setting. Each Horrible Scientist has a grant from their respective faction (there's grant proposals and everything) and is actively trying to kill/torture/traumatize their colleagues' factions, but for some reason they all work together. No one knows why. No one is brave enough to ask. They are The Worst Institute. They all hate each others' guts. And there is nowhere else in the galaxy that they'd rather be.