I think Fulgrim emulates the evolution of art in its cycles
Like how the Greeks tried portraying the most realistic essence of mankind, but as their skill improved this became more easily done so they switched to making perfect embodiments of man - the gods. Then they got bored of that and started making really fucked up shit / waifus. Cue to modern day where we had the same shit, a run up to epic realism of dankest proportion, then impressionism, then 2deep4u, then 3deep5u bodily fluids on canvas "art"
Then 40k is just the same, with perfectionists like Fulgrim setting out a path for another 10,000 years of that cycle, wherein perfectionists perfect their skill until they start having to go 2deep4u because they're really bored with realism leading up to human sculptures from fabulous bile
I also like how 40k, their painters, photographers and journalists are called remembrancers
Yes... no.
One of the main characters, the remembrancer sculptor guy got it right and actually told Fulgrim before Fulgrim flipped the fuck out and pinned him to the statue of Emperor It's not about achieving the perfection itself (which was what Slannesh promised and you get pretty graphic descriptions of how it turned out), but rather the pursuit of perfection and the fact that the beauty in his stuff (including the mentioned statue of Emperor which Fulgrim was fucking angry about because it was soooooo good) is not from it being perfect but rather from it being imperfect and having "human" spark or something.
So basically learn from experimentation instead of imitation?
I think Fulgrim emulates the evolution of art in its cycles
Like how the Greeks tried portraying the most realistic essence of mankind, but as their skill improved this became more easily done so they switched to making perfect embodiments of man - the gods. Then they got bored of that and started making really fucked up shit / waifus. Cue to modern day where we had the same shit, a run up to epic realism of dankest proportion, then impressionism, then 2deep4u, then 3deep5u bodily fluids on canvas "art"
Then 40k is just the same, with perfectionists like Fulgrim setting out a path for another 10,000 years of that cycle, wherein perfectionists perfect their skill until they start having to go 2deep4u because they're really bored with realism leading up to human sculptures from fabulous bile
I also like how 40k, their painters, photographers and journalists are called remembrancers
Yes... no.
One of the main characters, the remembrancer sculptor guy got it right and actually told Fulgrim before Fulgrim flipped the fuck out and pinned him to the statue of Emperor It's not about achieving the perfection itself (which was what Slannesh promised and you get pretty graphic descriptions of how it turned out), but rather the pursuit of perfection and the fact that the beauty in his stuff (including the mentioned statue of Emperor which Fulgrim was fucking angry about because it was soooooo good) is not from it being perfect but rather from it being imperfect and having "human" spark or something.
I wonder is Kot is so boringly pro-human in all settings. "Nah, Hobbits sucks, only Gondor is worth it!". "Bah, Spock sucks, he's not even human!"
Actualy, I noticed it long time ago, when I was a kid. Like, for example, everyone was playing Heroes of Might and Magic as various races and even enjoyed being evil Inferno fucks or something, but I stuck to the boring Castle hardcore. People called me out on this and... I never actually got why it is like that. It doesn't have to do much with them being evil or good or European or whatever, because I do enjoy some good Human variation (also, Rohan > Gondor, they just need some wings and they would make pretty good Winged Hussars) and I don't have anything much against Xeno Aliums Fantasy Hobbits as long as they're bros with us, but I was seriously born with hardwired "HFY" into my brain.
I guess you aren't using it as an outlet for "bad". (I am talking about the aforementioned HoMM players.)
