Anyone else fascinated by the bizarre ass dynamic between sensitive, artistic Blood Angel Dominion Zephon and the crotchety super genius Arkhan Land?
Zephon self-exiled to Terra after losing both his arms below the elbow and sustaining mutilations to his legs in battle. The augmetics just would take. He could walk, but he his arms and hands were too twitchy to hold weapons or play an instrument. He gets dragged into the war in the Webway and Land jury rigs his arm so he can at least fire a bolt pistol.
Later, Land digs up some totally not forbidden tech and fixes Zephon’s limbs for real this time.
Short answer: yes!
Land's thoughts and behavior towards Zephon is always at odds with the effort he ends up putting into helping him. And Zephon is very patient with it. It's a dynamic goes between being really funny to sometimes quite sad.
While on the subject of these two already, you could dig up the quote where Land remarks that Zephon is beautiful, and before Zephon has finished saying "thanks, Sanguinius' gene-seed does that" Land immediately protests that he did NOT mean that in a flirtatious way and is far too smart and important to have feelings for people!
In front of a space marine who would not have made any of those assumptions in the first place and probably has no idea what Land is even talking about.
I thought that scene was hilarious.
Yes @dont-drink-paint that was quite funny. I dug that one up too: