What does a Callidus look like under the suit?
>>44233476
Naked
>>44233476
Full of cancer.
>>44233476
A big guy.
>>44233545
A big girl?
>>44233545
>>44233568
Does anyone actually know what they look like in the first place? For all we know, they could be using their polymorphene.
>muscles are visible
>nipples are not
>>44233691
Could be them using their disguise drug or something.
>>44233691
Do you have any idea how much it would chafe without padding on the nipples?
>>44233476
Like this
>>44233691
They can retract their nipples
>>44233666
the people in charge of recruiting and training them, yeah
otherwise no
>>44233666
They probably do the Witcher sorceress thing and get a hot default form once they get accustomed to shapeshifting if they did not have one before.
>>44233855
I prefer if they're just musclegirls. Look at those thighs
>>44233948
Well that counts as attractive and athletic desu.
It must get insanely smelly and nasty inside that rubber suit. Like jesus christ ew.
>>44234233
I'm pretty sure it's not rubber.
>>44234342
>>44234342
It's some kind of mimetic fabric that changes shape with them
>>44233476
Exactly.
>>44233476
What I want to know is why in the fuck did they make room for that braid?
Why? What purpose does it serve? At what point in an assassination mission could a five foot long rope of hair serve a single functional use?
>>44235273
It's attached to the suit, not the person.
>>44235273
>What purpose does it serve?
spare biological material to use in transformations
>>44235297
It is? why?
Anyway, seeing as the Callidus are more or less all about the job and not the person, I would imagine they have a shaved head, maybe a few scars on the face from combat/surgery, with a normal, generic looking face. Like a Kreigger.
>>44233476
Body-wise, I'd imagine they look something like this. Possibly a bit thinner overall.
>>44233809
>>44233476
I imagine the synskin for them, is literally their new skin. Beneath it they're flayed, with the suit bonded to their body by polymorphine.
This serves several purposes. One, it makes the suit far more a part of the assassin, it changes with them, and it feels natural to them.
The second is that it enables direct access to the flesh beneath. When at the temple, the suit is removed in parts, to allow direct access to organs and such for modification. This aids in replicating xenos species that are especially alien, such as genestealer hybrids.
As a third result, the suit helps stop Callidus assassins turning traitor. When the polymorphine wears off, the suit begins to separate from the body. And the assassin is left a skinless freak, soon to die.
>>44235273
>40k
>Function/practicality
Anon pls
>>44233476
Dat muscle tone
Dem giant titties
>>44235809
Give this man a fucking job, GW
>>44233476
>>44235326
This
>>44235273
>At what point in an assassination mission could a five foot long rope of hair serve a single functional use?
The strangling part?
>>44235809
Take your fetishes out of here.
The suit is somewhere between shrink wrap and spray on. The biggest difference with it off is that things will be fles coloured instead of black.
>>44237828
How is that fetish?
He just came up with fucking amazing description of the Callidus assassins
There was an old white dwarf comic about a Callidus impersonating a corrupt gov aide to get close to the government before killing him. She looked like a blond at athletic woman before the suit morphed on her.
>>44233476
like a flayed body, the suit is grafted into her skin
>>44237978
Jesus guys, the suit is spray on super space tech. Old novel described an inquisitior's callidus' gear, which included several applicatiors of suit and solvent to remove the suit
I am surprised nobody has posted the assassins comic. Doesn't it show like the whole time what the assassin looks like underneath, then the assassin finally puts on their suit thing at the end? Or was their initial look a disguise and totally not what they look like underneath?
>>44233476
>>44233476
>>44233476
That pic reminded me of that one thread where people thought about what if someone had an Temple Assassin for a parent.
It was a good thread.
>>44233476
Wouldn't even need to hide the hair.
>>44233476
>every ninja ever looks exactly the same under the mask.
>>44235809
>looks nice on the surface, just some regular supersoldier
>aaaand beneath that it's a process rife with trauma and horrible things
Yup, GW, give that man a job.
>>44238528
Dat ghost ass
>>44238431
We don't know whether that was her default form, though there's nothing to indicate there's anything freaky in their default looks (or the looks of other Assassins for that matter) in their appearences in GW fluf starting all the way back from Meh'lindi.
>>44238528
I can't even count the times I've busted a nut to Nova's ass on this specific picture when I was a wee lad
I even kept several video games magazines with this picture and tracked it relentlessly from the first time I saw it
When I look back to it, this might have been one of the defining points of my sexuality
Not one mention of mehlindi. You had one job /tg/
Here, have a picture of a callidus assassin who is impersonating an eldar. The Inquisition war trilogy is full of descriptions of callidus assassins outside of their suits, as one of the main characters is one.
>>44243013
I like that version of Eldar armor
>>44243013
Oh that was a callidus? All this time I thought that was a real eldar
>>44243013
Draco's tale shows clearly how Inquisitors' priorities improve through their careers. The first book was your typical hunt for an ancient conspiracy to destroy the human race. By the third book Draco's primary concern was resurrecting his Callidus waifu.
>>44243013
let's ignore the fact that those books were written in the RT era and most of the fluff presented in Inquisition War changed.
for example meh'lindi is manually injecting polimorphine to shapeshift, or that polimorphine is even a thing.
read Nemesis from the HH series. the Callidus presented there is way different. for example, it no longer has a gender, it's just an androgynous creature with facial features more akin to a grey alien than a human being.
>>44243313
That's a 30K callidus. 40K calliduses are different
>>44243205
Can you honestly blame him? She was a high tier waifu.
>>44243318
well, 40k calliduses are shitty. calliduses need no real identity. their whole life is about impersonating others for a mission.
>>44243363
anon what was it's name, how did it hurt you?
>>44243321
>>44243205
She had the fascination with scat he needed in life
>>44235518
nnngggh
>you will never reveal you were a callidus all along
>>44233476
Why does she wear the mask?
>>44243522
Well her face gotta change too.
Uuuu
>>44243318
It depends. Koyne in the Nemesis book used a neutral form (and was brainwashed so didn't remember the original sex), but that was not the default form of all Callidus and the leader of the temple used a female form in meetings with other temple masters and Malcador. M'shen also defaulted into female form in the flashbacks of Soul Hunter.
>>44243835
Most calliduses are female originally because females can use polymorphine more often than men. It's probably something about the XX rather than XY chromosome combination.
If they adopt a neuter or even male form later that's just because they can shift.
>>44243893
Dorn forces the Temple Masters to expose their true selves in that book. Their default forms are also nothing alien, though the identities were super secret.
>There was a moment of hush; then movement. Sire Vindicare was first, pulling the spy mask from his face as if he were glad to be rid of it. Then Sire Eversor, who angrily tossed his fang-and-bone disguise on to the table. Siress Callidus slipped the silk from her dainty face, and Vanus and Venenum followed suit. Sire Culexus was last, opening up his gleaming skull mask like an elaborate metal flower.
>The assassins looked upon their naked identities for the first time and there was a mixture of potent emotions: anger, recognition, amusement.
>“Better,” said Dorn.
>“Now you have stripped us of our greatest weapon, Astartes,” said Siress Callidus, a fall of rust-red hair lying unkempt over a pale face. “Are you satisfied?”
>>44243960
>anger, recognition, amusement.
Why would they recognize each other? Assassins are trained in temples from birth, they have no outside identities other than false ones during missions.
That smells like retcons to me.
>>44244201
Dude. These guys were the ones that started the Officio Assassinorum.
>>44244201
That may be true for the rank and file but not for the leadership of the temples.
>The Sigillite knew that if he put his will to it, he could uncover the true faces of every one of the Directors Primus. But he had never pursued this matter; there had never been the need. The fragile state of grace in which the leaders of the Officio Assassinorum existed had served to keep them all honest; no single Sire or Siress could ever know if their colleagues, their subordinates, even their lovers were not behind the masks they saw about the table. The group had been born in darkness and secrecy, and now it could only live there as long as the rules of its existence were adhered to.
The assassins aren't killbots without personalities, though they are devoted. Asaid Virenus and also that Maerorus temple incident show that they can go traitor even without Chaos involvement though.
>>44233844
Can they... expand them... to accommodate... smuggling andm u-uh... other spy-related things?
>>44244273
The masters in 40k work similarly, at least Syncella the leader of the Culexus temple had a noblewoman alter ego.
>>44244596
Good taste she has.
>>44233476
A jelly blob. The suit molds them into the shape you commonly see.
>>44244334
>The assassins aren't killbots without personalities, though they are devoted.
By the 40th millennium they certainly are. Read the Assassin fluff from the recent WD articles and the fluff for execution force.
>>44242746
>>44236242
This. You need to be on their writing team.
>>44244596
>Syncella the leader of the Culexus temple had a noblewoman alter ego.
People would certainly feel awkward around her even in disguise.
>>44244948
Canon
>>44245027
>Read the Assassin fluff from the recent WD articles and the fluff for execution force.
did you read Execution Force? Because I don't think you did.
Women in catsuits and disguises are my fetish. There's no novels that actually feature a Callidus as a protagonist, are there? Other than the Draco novels which sucked.
>>44245328
There was a comic, if I recall.
>>44245328
The Execution Force novel and audiobook.
>>44237828
You don't know 40k very well if you think that, of all things, is a fetish in said universe.
>>44245230
She had a suppressor collar that kept the soulless aura hidden, without it they'd be more than awkward.
>>44245384
>you will never discover your cute GF is actually a horrifying soulless assassin
>she will never get really bashful over it and put the collar back on, mumbling an apology
>>44245027
It's like you've never read the thorian sourcebook
>>44245027
>>44245266
Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing. I was surprised as hell that the Eversor actually had a name
>>44246053
I think the expectations of some fans are warped by all the speculation and hyperbole thrown about in the internet. Temple Assassins are more "normal" than some might think, space marines aren't deformed musclemen whose dicks have been devoured by their abs etc etc
>>44246053
>Bob Eversor
>>44246253
I think it's a combination of really pervasive internet fanon and some remnants of older fluff which isn't canon anymore. A lot of people on /tg/ seem to still believe that more or less anything you read in a book published under a previous version of 40K still holds true even when it's probably been changed several times since then.
In the case of assassins, the Codex Assassins was released for either 2nd or 3rd edition (can't remember) and it's really quite outdated by now fluff-wise.
>>44245266
Execution force was a good read. Anyone listen to The Emperor's Judgement by Joe Parrino ?
>>44246598
There's actually little to no big retcons regarding Assassins, Codex Assassins compared to the modern BL books and dataslates doesn't really contradict.
>>44233476
Don't know about looks, but it bet it feels like nothing at all.nothing at allnothing at all
>>44233809
Is this supposed to look like Barnacle Cucumberpatch or is it just a coincidence?
>>44233476
I wish to be the little assassin girl.
>>44248969
Maybe you already are.
>>44233476
Dem thighs
>>44246253
But Eversors still are right?
>>44240934
>not labeled "like one of your French girls"
>>44233476
Like they look like with the suit on. When the polymorphene wears off they look like men.
>>44255469
Only when baked out of their minds on combat stimulants. Read Execution Force. It's short, and the Eversor is easily the best character in the novel.
>>44255607
This is the dankest meme
>I'm pretending that's a cameltoe, and I suggest you do it too
And I believe it's a spray on suit. It's why muscles show, but nipples do not. Nipples get pushed down.
In that Assassin comic book, the "morphed" person they're impersonating sort of ripple fades away, they then are just "the assassin" and the victim knows that the Emperor's Judgement has come.
I think the Mont'ka books also mention this.
>>44255778
>literal spray-on suit
>they can have sex without taking it off
Wellp
Found it.
>>44256099
Is she using a stub/auto pistol?
Seems a bit underpowered for anything the Imperium would give to a full fledged assassin.
>>44256614
She was disguised as somebody else, so I assume the pistol was the side-arm the 'character' she was pretending to be used.
So, might as well.
I also assume this is official comics, but I can't tell any more, not after that 40k manga.
>>44256776
>40k Manga
What kind of heresy is this?
>>44246253
Novels refer to SMs as done like angels, thats a direct if lesser known reference to castration and / or the whole penis removed but I think it varies between chapters SW for example seem to have none of that shit.
People headcannon the fluff because its inconsistent, half remembered, and often presented subtly.
Pretty much anything involving orks and eldar fluff you can expect the bulk of /tg/ to be brutally inaccurate.
>>44236242
>>44238261
>>44237978
>>44242746
>>44245143
obvious samefag, stop spamming your shit
>>44257760
>>44233476
They are shape shifters. They look like what ever they want.
>>44255778
Dem muscles though
>>44257760
YOU DON'T PRAISE HARD ENOUGH
>>44258011
In the HH books and the GK novel there are also spess mareens showering or otherwise showing at some point that all parts are intact.
>>44233809
That chummy lad needs some more butter.
>>44235518
oh by terra yes
>>44255625
>Execution Force
There was a book? I had no idea, need to check that out.
The only redeeming thing in the HH book Nemesis was the batshit crazy Eversor, in my opinion.
>>44262529
>batshit crazy Eversor
Is there another kind?
>>44255902
It's so durable that it has to be taken off for that, otherwise you might just as well be wearing power armor.
>>44262535
Yes.
In the "I am Slaughter" there was a retired Eversor. He seemed like a chill guy.
>>44262553
Seems a bit OP really
>>44256099
Reminds me of that black shit from Spiderman
>>44262583
According to the dataslate, Assassins utilize best tech Imperium has (in their augmentation and equipment), and at least some of it doesn't exist outside of Terra. You'd expect their stuff to be good.
>>44262583
>>44262613
Yeah, their weapons are also quantifiably better and more deadly than the stuff the Guard get and even better than some of the Marine stuff. Exitus rifle C'tan phase blade etc
>>44262554
Wait, Eversors can retire? Aren't they the drugged up balls-to-the-wall insane killfrenzy assassins with giant bombs strapped to them?
How does a guy with a job like that get to be too old to do it any more and then come out the other side even remotely sane?
>>44262893
I was gonna ask the same question.
>>44262893
They aren't all insane, especially their grandmaster has to have some wits to attend all sorts of meetings and was depicted as such in Nemesis. He was still angry but didn't go boom when arguing etc.
>>44262919
Are there girl Eversors?
>>44233476
Naked?
>Check it out
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9pWgMGfXiA&list=PLy55WVLwDMPlyr7qFDehv8aCI9wnuDvZd
I dont care. I buit my own years ago.
>>44258257
Even if they are a samefag, they're not me.
I just figured that Callidus needed some more grimdark, and a way to control them. Otherwise you'd see more rebels like Virenus, although she's the worst of them, given the hyperpolymorphine she has.
>>44263252
None depicted so far, but perhaps possible. The way Assassin candidates are selected and the nature of the temples' roles probably makes it the least likely though.
Assassins are recruited as teens, and mostly from the Schola. The recruiters put them through hunger games immediately in the ships on their way to Terra, and only on Terra is their temple decided. Eversors take the youngest candidates because their augmentation requirements. Safe to say that the probability of youngest survivors being girls, and not suitable for either Callidus or Vindicare temples is not high.
>>44263581
I thought I read that the temples recruit extremely promising candidates from other sources as well, like Vindicare snipers from IG regiments? Though now that I think about it that probably wouldn't work with Eversors anyway
>>44264113
According to the dataslate the vast majority come the schola route. I think the exceptions are mostly Culexus, but there may be others. Virenus (the rogue Callidus) was not from Schola but a criminal and an impostor from some hive world with an impressive record for a teen.
>>44264254
I imagine Culexus have to take what they can. No guarantee any of the kids at the Schola have the null gene.
Callidus and Vindicares could be recruited from other sources too I guess.
>>44242581
>>44235518
Anybody else think that muscled (not bodybuilder type, rather lean) girls are the best? Fuck thin gurls
>>44264522
Well duh, ESPN body issue exists for a reason.
>>44264522
That's why the Callidus art is so sexy to me. Dat body
>>44263581
>no cute girls forcibly recruited from nobility and forced to become /fit/ callidus badasses
Makes me sad
>>44265053
Might happen during extraordinary circumstances, like if the girl is unnaturally talented and an inquisitor notices.
Generally nobles who want self-improvement are forced to just go to gym which keeps them within normal human limits. All augmentation technology available to them even from the black market is in some way inferior to Space Marine augs and even more so to Assassinorum augs. Cybernetics make you a badMagos at best, and gets Mechanicus pissed off. Chaos can give you strong powers but chances are you'll become hideously ugly and insane and will probably get killed by a real Marine or Assassin.
>>44262535
Normally they are kept dormant in a state of semi-hibernation. They are conscious but insane and are programmed to immediately go after the target they are implanted with during transport.
In one of the HH books, a group of assassins is sent after Horus, I don't remember which one exactly but I think it involved the Mechanicum so probably Mechanicum. There they have an Eversor, shoot him full of tranquilizers, he doesn't have a set target yet and he gets time to regain his senses.
>>44265258
yeah I was thinking more in the "Noticed by an Inquisitor" type of situation, not some self-made wannabe.
>>44256099
>>44255778
Was the Callidus temple founded by a descendant of Peter Parker?
>>44266513
Well it was founded 28,000 years after Spider-Man so it's pretty safe to say most people would be descdendants of him by then, considering genetic spread.
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>>44266513
>>44266958
There may be some resemblance.
>>44233476
>What does a Callidus look like under the suit?
lewd
>>44269458
Nah, they can hide their nipples and probably seal their vag with polymorphine.
>>44262583
Assassins' stuff is SUPPOSED to be hugely OP. They get the best of the best of the best of the Imperium's technology.
The downside is there's not enough of the stuff to make any real difference.
>>44233666
I recall in Nemesis the was mention of a lot of shaping organs implanted into them to help them. I wanna say there a mention of them being removable too, like surgical zips all over the body so they can change their implants as the mission dictates for the broad strokes of changing their mass while the drugs help with the fine details. Though I might be confusing the zips and scars for that walking organ incubator/cooler/donor from Franken Fran.
Honestly, I'd imagine they just look a lot like Deadpool when they're not in disguise; nasty twisted splotchy and generally unkind on the eyes
>>44242581
Undertale is shit.
Like an athletic human I imagine.
>>44277282
Fandom a shit, game is pretty good
>>44233545
For you
Go to 0:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEoKSF7qRc
Probably a lot like Cammy from Street Fighter V.
>>44280594
>SFV Cammy physique Callidus
I did not know I wanted this, but I do. badly.
>>44265567
It was the book Nemesis.
