[Warhammer 40K] The Emperor and I Are Father and Son? For Real?

In humanity's second millennium, Joachim escaped Earth Online. With his shared lease still in effect, he left behind his adopted son and roommate, Nios, and reincarnated in another world.

In humanity's thirtieth millennium, the Emperor of Mankind used his adoptive father's essence as raw material to forge the Second Primarch of the Imperium of Man.

Joachim, returned from the dead: ...What are you saying? My son became my father? (Pointing at his Legion, which is clearly in the middle of a massive rebellion.) And now my father is also making alt accounts so he can pop up now and then as my son?

Malcador: No, no... Yes, yes.

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Aboard the Vengeful Spirit, many years later

Horus: ...Please stop watching. This movie... this movie stars my father and his father, my brother and his son, my brother and my father... my father and his grandson... my brother and his grandpa...

The Emperor: +There isn't room for this many people here+

The Four Gods: Wow, there's even impa.

* A lethal dose of fathers and sons. The protagonist and the Emperor can climb to the heavens by stepping on each other's feet across generations.

* Expect all kinds of twisted family jokes, Slaanesh-induced misunderstandings, love and hate, and every variety of daddy issues, from the Emperor to the Primarchs to the Astartes. Even the Changer of Ways would have to star in two episodes of a tearjerker about returning home before it could leave. Croak! This is exactly what I write Warhammer for!

* Thanks to their bizarre father-son relationship, we'll see an ambitious Second Primarch, a Second Primarch who builds up his own forces, and a Second Primarch who bullies his inferiors and fawns on his superiors. And sometimes, when he shows his brothers tenderness and care like a senior family member, we get a Second Primarch who leaves them bewildered: Is Second Brother actually Mom...? Is Mom actually Second Brother...?

* The author has never taken part in the Siege of Terra or commanded a Chaos warband. The author's knowledge of Warhammer comes only from the warp's ramblings in the cloud.

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