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A fairly p*rny Callidus Assassin
🕑 Added 2021-11-21 19:22:19 +0000 UTCHey all,
So before I get to talking about this chick up there, let's address why it's late, AND why there's no big release this Sunday.
See I got into a little trouble with our generous patreon overlords presiding over us, apparently some of my content fell outside of their community guidelines, specifically about my heavy usage of tags implying certain things that go against their TOS, but there were also specific drawings.
So I basically spent the second half of this week on a back and forth with a patreon representative, went through three rounds of deleting and editing old content to make it within TOS again, and basically lost a lot of time that way.
I know I know, excuses, though unlike last time where I on a whim decided I'd try animating a previous drawing because it seemed like a neat project, this time it's out of my hands (aside from of course it being my fault for not paying attention to TOS), but this does bring me to a point, maybe I should do the big pieces bi-weekly instead of weekly, because the weekly thing isn't working out anyway, for various reasons we've had delays now since my comeback, with a total of one (1) big piece of the promised three done, after... 4 weeks? Should've been done with all three, but now I'm missing the deadline of the second, which I shifted back once already. And I'm not sure I'll ever be able to get back to my older pace at this point, I've just grown slower, and am pouring so much more time into each individual piece that even giving me a week for it at this point is barely enough, and it just takes one minor setback to miss deadline after deadline.
The big piece is progressing smoothly by the way, most of the work goes into the lining, which is mostly done at this point. So if I set it back for next Sunday, I'll have a lot of free time next week for other stuff, maybe more sketches, maybe some RQR's, we'll see.
But yeah that's the new plan, as I said at the start, the schedule I set was tentative anyway, so I don't feel too bad about changing it. And I hope you don't too.
Anyway, Warhammer40K
We go back to our lovely Imperium of man, with another assassin from one of the main big temples. Unlike the previous two, being ranged and close combat specialists respectively, the Callidus assassin is a champion of many, but a master of none when it comes to combat, she's really good in all aspects, but not at the nigh-legendary levels her fellow assassins operate at.
So why does the Callidus get to be one of those legendary assassins anyway? Because the Callidus assassin's expertise lies not in a specific kind of killing, but in blending in to their surroundings and get in close to their targets without them even knowing she's there.
Funnily enough, her area of expertise is NOT stealth, though she can be plenty stealthy if she wants to be. No the Callidus assassin is a master of disguise, together with her acting chops and a polymorphine drug, which she can take to morph herself into literally anyone, like mystique but with less blue, and also less scales if we go by the movie version. She is a redhead though, and by that I mean the massive braid they always have is usually painted red in official models and art from GW so it's basically cannon that the Callidus temple is just full of beautiful redheads that can modify and morph their body to look like anyone at will.
So for once, my super-sexualized version of a warhammer40K chick is actually canon for once, because the Callidus assassin CAN do that with her body.
You ready that right, those melons she's sporting are technically canon, the best kind of canon.
Even though Warhammer40K doesn't really do 'canon'.
Another thing, the Callidus temple is the only all-female assassin temple, I don't actually know if any of the other are single-sex deals as well, but the Callidus are female only.
So quite unlike her dear colleagues from the other temples, the Callidus hasn't been drilled and trained into being an emotionless robot who only aims, or a crazed murderous ball of drug-fueled rage and slaughter. But is expected to not just be able to socialize, but to excel at it, in all situations and any circumstance, understand the intricacies of all kinds of cultures and people the galaxy over, to successfully blend in, kill and replace a person who can get close to her actual intended target, so that she can secretly off him and make it look like a complete accident. With none the wiser an assassin was ever sent out or involved with their deaths.
In that way, you could call the Callidus assassin the truest assassin despite her borderline-heretical way of getting there. Because her gear doesn't just end with the polymorphine drug, they also come equipped with something called a C'tan phase blade (that's that green thing on her arm), which is actually xeno tech, that's extra heretical. Most assassins come packed with high-tech gear that's borderline heretical in nature, but she's the only one with a weapon literally named after the gods of an alien race the imperium is actively at war with. At least to my memory, the assassin after this has some really strange stuff too, but more on the fourth Imperial assassin later.
SoCarter out.
