Possessed Marine
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Possessed Marines are Chaos Space Marines who decided that just worshiping the Dark Gods was not enough, and decided to show their devotion by allowing daemons to enter their bodies. It is worth noting that, unlike in most cases of daemonic possession, the daemon inside a Possessed marine never devours the soul or mind of its host; the two minds instead work in concert to bring as much death and slaughter to their enemies as they can. The bodies of the hosts are wracked with unpleasant looking mutations as the daemons inside gear them towards RIPPING AND TEARING, often growing talons and pincers easily capable of shredding or crushing power armor, yawning maws filled with razor sharp teeth, and copious amounts of tentacles, spikes and horns.
In Black Library books, Possessed marines belonging to the Word Bearers do not look like a horrible abominations all the time - instead, they transform their body and armor to "battle form" during fight and shift back after. It is not known if this is a unique ability of Word Bearer Possessed (not unreasonable -- the Word Bearers are the Legion that works the most with daemons), or if all Possessed Marines transform only for battle.