Don't Shoot Me Just Yet - Brother Aeris Annullos

[Alyster Wick]

I'm just going to echo the sentiment that you should go with a marine who is out of his armor 100% of the time.  It's almost never done and you have a perfectly acceptable reason why.  I honestly like the idea (and think it's plausible) that he was tortured for almost 70 years and then "rebuilt" afterward.  How much of his indoctrination would be left after that time period?  It's a difficult question to answer.

You might want to toy with the idea of hurting his mobility without compromising other stats though (-1 to distances moved, maybe make actions requiring strength tests to be risky actions since his joints "aren't what they used to be").  I think there are TONS of colorful options for hobbling your marine, why dock their stats?

Also, plotwise it makes sense for him to not have armor.  Would the Inquisitor who captured him really keep that armor around for the better part of a century?  Barring use of that armor, does anyone outside of the Space Marine Chapters have to ability to actually produce Marine armor (not asking this rhetorically, honestly I'm not sure if the mechanicus does it, I thought the marines kept that stuff in-house)?

Anyway, I think a lack of armor makes him more unique but still incredibly deadly.  I also like Harker for the body but are you planning on keeping the head?  It just doesn't seem dignified for a sane Marine (though there's a good case to be made for his lack of sanity, he just might now be that useful to the Inquisitor in that case).

[ScottM96]

I'm thinking I'll go for that idea actually, surprisingly, despite thinking of characterful ways to hobble the marine, taking away his armour never occured to me.

I'll be thinking of ways to limit him, in fact, one of his special rules might just be - "They just ain't what they used to be."

I think the Mechanicus actually produce the armour and ship it out to the chapters... but I don't think that they would be too happy about shipping out a single suit of armour... even if an Inquisitor was behind it.

I'll keep the head... the way that it is attached to the body makes it look extremely diificult to replace. I'll shave the mohawk flat for the bald marine look, and add a few service studs to change the facial profile so he won't be Harker with a cloak and chainsword.

Scott.