[Warhammer] Is There No Way to Survive This Game?!

Friendly warning: This game has many death endings.

A player whose online gender is male and whose username is Vostre Wayne hit the jackpot.

He won a DLC for the full-dive game Galaxy War, titled Space Marines.

Thinking that a free game was too good not to play, he happily started gaming.

First playthrough.

He was from Nostramo, one of the scumbag recruits sent to the Night Lords by Nostramo's terrible government. But he worked hard and soon won the favor of his direct superior. His workload doubled, and he kept getting promoted and receiving pay raises.

But he secretly caused trouble, his superior found out, and he got a death cutscene.

Second playthrough.

He was a perfect-score genius at the Terra Military Academy. He got into the best Astartes unit and became a member of the Luna Wolves. He worked himself to the bone, hoping to become his superior's most trusted subordinate. Then his superior met with misfortune, and to save him, a colleague took out his kidney. Death cutscene.

Third playthrough.

After triggering death cutscenes twice in a row, the player decided he shouldn't work himself too hard. He was going to slack off, then slack off some more. After securing a place in the Thousand Sons by entering from Prospero, he became the thorn in his fellow Legionnaires' and superiors' sides, though they both loved and hated him.

They "loved" his outstanding talent and hated his lack of study and empty head.

Fortunately, the player didn't care what they thought. He'd decided to lie low all the way to the end.

And the fate of lying low all the way to the end was...

turning into sand, heh heh!

Another death cutscene, and the player was furious!

He refused to believe that, as a player, he couldn't get a survival ending.

Fourth playthrough, start.

Content warnings

1. I haven't finished reading all the novels and military books, so there will probably be plenty of mistakes. Feel free to point them out; I'll fix what I can. There will be many original characters.

2. There are stereotypes and dark humor.

3. The player is an amoral agent of chaos who doesn't care about loyalty at all and plays very aggressively. The ending might not be happy. The blurb should make it obvious that this "game" is brutally difficult.

4. The player doesn't know the plot and has no omniscient perspective. He fights for whichever faction he's in at the time, and his views might not be objective. If you like those characters or want to learn their backstories, please read the original work. This is fanfiction, this is fanfiction, this is fanfiction. Important things are said three times.

5. It's just a game. He hasn't been drafted.

Theme: Finding hope in despair.