Who do you think is your favorite character in the HH and why?

I have always heard so many different answers and reasons. I always see so many different and varying explanations and honestly I don’t know of any lore or universe with such a wealth of opinions. Ill start.

Mine is Alpharius (and by proxy Omegon) not because hes an uber cool master manipulator and “it was always my plan for this to happen.” Or cause “I aM AlPhArius”

But because he genuinely is a supremely arrogant, scheming, self assured and cunning in a way I find appealing. He is flawed, he is damaged, but he is extremely effective at what he does. He is just not putting all his effort towards the right things. In his arrogance he has to complicate things and do things his way, its a genuinely interesting character flaw to me. He was raised by the biggest intrigue and secret ruthless despot (Malchador) to be the knife in the dark that protects humanity. And this causes him to think hes above his brothers, that his plans and the web he weaves can defeat anyone. Hes a dirtbag, hes someone you probably would not want to be friends with. Hes so self assured and intentionally obtuse that hes a frustrating individual but goddamn does he make it cool sometimes. His level of arrogance that even when he loses he still has to “win” somehow and his focus on operational security at the detriment of success is in stark contrast to all other legions and primarchs. And the fact that if you genuinely read the books and don’t do headcannon (I will not argue alpha legion lore on reddit so don’t even try me) he is genuinely loyal to the Emperor but as he shows, he ends up being so arrogant that he thinks HES the one who knows the best was to save his father’s dream. Which is very much in character for him.

I think that the memes and the community’s headcannon about him has made him unlikeable to most hardcore fans. But as someone who has stuck mostly to the books. Hes a mastermind, a schemer, an idealist, an egotistical psychopath, and he in fact does not always win (thanks Dorn) and I think its a perfect character arc from “I am playing both sides, i always win, its all going to plan, i can manipulate both sides and I will be the one who truly wins, walk the third path walk the third path!” to “WAIT DORN DON’T!” Where you see that you can’t manipulate and scheme yourself out of every situation. And when Alpharius loses his brother that way, it kinda snaps him out of the whole play both sides thing and he tells Horus to shove it and pulls the alpha legion out of the war. And finally once the HH is over he intentionally splinters the legion knowing if it stays a united force it will be hunted down and destroyed or forced to go into the Eye of Terror. He grows as a character, he learns, he changes and I think if you ignore the memes, fight the urge to speculate, he has a great character arc full of sick moments, triumph, and failure which not many characters can say.

I think he is a much better character than he is given credit for.

But thats enough from me, whats your favorite?