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Ohhh I love the care and thought you put into the primarchs medical and mental states, they’re human at the end of the day- they can be mentally ill, disabled, any of it, and you have an interesting viewpoint! /pos !!

Hehe, thank youuu! My point of view is that the vast majority of the population deal with various health issues, from the relatively minor to the extremely debilitating, and still somehow manage to do their things. The human body is a wonderful lil machine, even if it brake, *constantly*. The primarch may be super humans, they still live long, dangerous life, and have to deal with extreme stress and trauma. It's logical that it affect them in some way. In fact, here is the list of "issues" I see in each primarch, because it make me pleased to write about them!

Lion: Clinical sociopathy and psychopath. This boy was all alone until he was a teen, and never had anyone to care or love him during the most critical phase of his life. He cannot empathise with others, he cannot understand emotions, it's literally something he does not relate too.

Angron: I won't go TOO far into that one, because I have to sit down and read about frontal lobe trauma, trans orbital lobotomy, and other happy fun practice, and THAT'S gonna be a hoot. In all case, the nails fucked everything, and I need to properly write down what I think they do, in big medical term. Stay tunned.

Sanguinius: His poor, poor ligaments. Flying cannot be good for your joints. His muscles must be incredibly strained and soar all the time too, and I will headcanons that his bones density is much lower for a primarch. Has high level of anxiety disorder, with the whole vampire thing stressing him out.

Roboute: Autistic, and pretty functional! Tho, after his big nap, the man definitely has a solid case of depression. Has general anxiety too, and is always just a few hair short of a mental breakdown. Need glass, for no other reasons that he would be sexy with some.

Lorgar: Ptsd. Ptsd up the wazoo. All the bros have variations of it, but Lorgar is one of those that got the cake. Mentally he's a mess, and I would maaaybe dare to advance that he's either Borderline or Bipolar. The big deal with him is that his abuser is still around (fuck you Kor Phaeron!!), And it's a constant re-trauma for my man.

Magnus: this one is... Complicated, because Magnus is an amorphous pile of warp goo technically. Post heresy, for sure, huge, GIANT depression. Pre-heresy... I can actually see him sometime loosing a grip on his form if he was too tired, and just becoming a shifting mess. Oh! And more than likely a solid helping of mania.

Vulkan: sometime, in downtime situation, he start shaking uncontrollably. Think of old time, wwI shell shock. He was not raised to be a soldier, he just want to protects others. Sometime, it's not enough. And even if his body is fine, he *remember* dying, over and over. That can't be good for one's mental state.

Konrad: *wave hands* he got.... Everything??? Did, mania, psychosis, depression, anxiety, ptsd... And that's without counting the malnutrition/starvation in early childhood. Or the various injury he suffered. Probably has major liver problem too, wich does not help his metabolic ones. Hypersensitivity to sunlight and bright light in general.

Perturabo: This man has depression the size of a mountain. And like. I don't WANT to get into his neural implant... But i cannot beleive that they aren't occasionally inflamed and that they don't cause occasional major headaches. Has really bad stress migraine.

Jaghatai: This man has poor circulation. I can also see him having general bad joints. In comparatively good health, physically and mentally! Aside from the obligatory PTSD but like, everyone has it.

Rogal: our second autistic boy, a lot more rigid! Probably has a solid helping of OCD and repetitive behavior too. Slowly loosing sensitivity in his nerves due to the pain glove, and it could technically be considered a form of self harm.

Corvus: Not an issues in any way, but trans woman, because I need to hammer it home to yall. Hypersensitive to lights. Probably get some circulatory issues from growing up on a freaking moon with little to no natural atmosphere and what was probably weird gravity.

Alpharius / Omegon: perfectly average, without a single physical health problem. Mentally, however... They experience severe dissociative episode due to the nature of their legions. Omegon especially seem to have some severe depression too.

Leman: extremely high metabolism, and actually need to eat a lot more than other primarch to keep up. Overheat extremely easily. Quite smart, but his neural pathway are completely strange: he was raised by wolf, and as such has entire different tough process than most humans, and can have a hard time relating to others if he's not masking.

Mortarion: read his own post, because there is so. Fucking. Much. Lmao. In competion with Konrad for "most starved looking primarch".

Ferrus: Body dysmorphia, with a healthy dose of asomatognosia (aka not recognising your own body part). He's perfectly fine most days with his arms, but in period of high stress, he may zone out and get into one of those tough spiral.

Fulgrim: OCD as big as the galaxy. His anxiety level are so high, his blood pressure is worrying. Rapid cycling bipolar, and his manic episode are legendary. All this as a tendancy to push him into disorder eating, wich does not help his OCD.

Horus: ok, hear me out, it's a weird one: actual, honest to god, schizophrenia. Mostly of the auditory kind, with a solid helping of paranoid delusion. He had it under relative control, with a mix of self medication, self-check and a robust support system. Erebus, chaos and the fucking evil sword basically shattered all the safeguard he had carefully build his entire life, and his delusions took over with the chaos gods now also joining the voices in his head.

I know the Horus one is.... Quite wild, but hey, it's a personal headcanon, and I think it make the character a lot more interesting, imo. As always, yall are free to simply disregard anything I come up with, I'm just a stranger on tumblr lmao.

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