Story:Love Can Bloom
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It all started so simply....
Love Can Bloom is the title of one of the most heretical, and tl;dr who let the Ecclesiarchy in here? cringe inducing, commonly-known pieces of shit ever to curse /tg/. Once upon a time, there was a drawfag named Miko. like all namefags/women who need to ruin things, this vagina made a comic about a Vindicare assassin falling in love with Taldeer from Dawn of War: Dark Crusade and Dawn of War: Winter Assault. The scene was genuinely deviantart tier so despite it causing rage with anyone not from reddit, /tg/ deemed it worthy of note.
And then, as if to take the above and accelerate it into something worse, a dipshit writefag drew a fanfic for this. There was a mixture of rage and tumblr delight. As the story panned out it told an lore raping and deep as a puddle tale that is widely considered some of the worst to come out of /tg/ in the last few years. The story was beloved by the tubernets, who either broadly appreciated it, openly mocked it, or more commonly, both.
The story tells of LIIVI (52.6 in the Roman Numeric system), the aforementioned Vindicare temple assassin, assigned to eliminate a fleeing, critically-injured Taldeer following the fall of the Eldar stronghold in Dark Crusade. Genuinely moved by the sight of the woman and the fact that she is the last of her kind on the planet, LIIVI goes against his orders for some dumbass and forced reason and becomes Taldeer's guardian, fighting through increasingly-difficult odds in a galaxy determined to destroy them both. The engineered killing machine that is LIIVI discovers his humanity, and Taldeer confronts her inner demons - figuratively and literally. somehow they both don't die. because reasons "It has spawned [[::Category:Stories/Love Can Bloom|at least 2 spin-off works]], not the least of which is Core of Brutality and Imber, a continuation of the series. There is also Lofn which is just d'aww." -literally a redditor
GeeDubs may or may not be aware of the story. Their business partners, however, know full well about it. Specifically, Relic decanonized the whole thing by killing Taldeer off, though they weren't super callous about it, making the recovery of her soulstone an important subplot. Then, Fantasy Flight Games canonized the name LIIVI as the Vindicare attached to the Kronus Liberators in their splatbook Dark Heresy: Ascension. The book also contains a picture of a Farseer stalked by a Vindicare.
"Win!"
Of course, if you really want this story to still be considered canon, just imagine LIIVI falling in love with a goddamn Wraithseer. let that sink in how dumb that sounds. If matt ward wrote this, everyone would be shitting on it. but because uguu animuu art it's fine.
Someone actually managed to create a short animated video of the beginning chapter