#tragically heinrixpilled

[themagnificentmags]

Since I finished Rogue Trader yesterday I'm just gonna jot down some notes on my RT Eltura's character arc with Heinrix because it actually ended up playing out very nicely. Under the cut for spoilers.

Eltura was kind of an ass to him at first, both because he was throwing his authority around and because she was repeating the usual imperial disdain for psykers/mutants. So we got the snippy, "I hope you can control your power better now" / "ew psyker" dialogue options.

She started to warm up to him throughout act 2 (especially the crashed black ship -- oof, what a good way to dig into backstory) but generally kept to the friendly options, with the exception of making out at the Magnae Ascenscio. #worthit

After having a VERY STRESSFUL time of it all through act 3 (a noble/officer/master tactician and Yrliet without drukhari weapon proficiency was a very scary place to be), hot off of having to talk Cassia down from melting her brain, she found Heinrix and approached him as another psyker bomb to disarm... and instead he immediately recognized her and asked for help. The palm kiss!!!!

(Side note, is he using biomancy to identify the RT here? Nifty if so)

Their chat afterwards in the Pit was incredibly good. I love me some sad boys and my god did it deliver -- I didn't expect his backstory to be THAT fucked up. I have a drawing in my mind's eye: the two of them curled up on one of the shitty cots in the back of the Pit, Eltura using her coat as a blanket to get a bit of sleep before they go for the final push in the arena and Heinrix with a warp-haze around one hand finishing up fixing his organs. Maybe now that I've written it down I'll draw it.

(Then of course they went back to yelling as he chewed Eltura out for keeping Yrliet around. Some things never change.)

Then we get the full circle at the end of act 4: when Heinrix had his full-on psychic breakdown, Eltura willingly waded into the ice despite the freaky psyker shit and brought him back.

On Epitaph, when Calcazar tried to tell Heinrix to kill her, she just stood back with the smuggest smile on her face.

Having him as her Master of Whispers afterwards was also *chef's kiss*. 10/10 epilogue.

Bonus: screenshots from my liveblogging to a friend

[act 2]

[end of act 2, when Heinrix pulls you aside to warn you about Calcazar]

[act 3 begins]

[act 2 / act 4, fucking around and finding out with macharius]

[act 4, after killing Uralon]

[act 4, frozen chess table]

[act 4, pasqal's quest]

[act 5, dying inquisition agent on Epitaph]

[bonus bonus: act 1, psyker RT, when the parade gets ambushed. this one's not Eltura -- it's the heretic 2nd playthrough I started while waiting for patches, because I like this game a normal amount]

#rogue trader #I Like This Game A Normal Amount #tragically heinrixpilled