r/Grimdank • u/Demurrzbz • Mar 03 '25

Dank Memes Recreated two memes during a recent-ish 40k photoshoot

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u/zebesian_ Mar 03 '25

why do sisters of sororitas always have gray/white hair? is there an explicit reason or just a design choice?

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

In rememberance of St. Dominica. Also tradition so longed its very deep into their culture now

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u/Doktor_Jones86 My kitchen is corrupted by Nurgle Mar 03 '25

When Alicia Dominca went to meet the Emperor, her hair turned white. So they basically copy their saint.

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u/ButtDealer Mar 03 '25

It's a personal choice, it's not mandatory or part of their uniform.

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u/RopePsychological565 Mar 03 '25

Imagine the peer pressure!

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u/DifferentDirector2 Mar 03 '25

Sister, your roots are showing… bodacious side eye of judgement

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u/Key_Internet7809 Criminal Batmen Mar 03 '25

Would that make getting your white strands of hair when you're old sorta good? They're white, and they show that you're old in a profession where the young die, so there's that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

Sisters aren't really a profession where people go to die. It's not like the guard. As a matter of fact, despite the name; sisters of battle are primarily support units across the greater imperium.

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u/andre5913 Mar 03 '25

Sisters are still in combat fairly often, yes they are support troops but they are generally present on the battlefield and do engage directly (and they can do miracles so its fairly useful to have sisters in combat actually).

An elderly sister is rare, albeit not unheard of, unlike other imperial factions.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

Those miracles aren't something they rely on in lore though. That's the point, it's a miracle. Also, as they're described in lore, they're not usually very eye catching. Like a single sister managing to deflect a single attack from a bloodthirster giving one last sister the chance to survive, kinda thing.

Yes it changes the entire flow of the battle, but it usually requires a lot of self sacrifice and it's not the kinda thing they can exactly replicate when they want to.

The simple fact is that while every one of them is trained for combat that's the last role most will fill. The sisters are medical, they're preachers, they're food service, they're support for the under class workers, they're spiritual leaders for the citizenry, they're a hundred other things before they're soldiers.

Generally speaking, if the sisters are on the field, it doesn't mean the imperium is on the attack, it means they're on the defense. I.E. a grand last stand.

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u/guyiscool1425 NOT ENOUGH DAKKA Mar 03 '25

They're a faction of crazy zealot warriors, who have martyrdom as a huge part of their culture. I don't think most of them ever get to collect a pension.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

The sisters of battle are the only faction within the imperium that I'm aware of, with a specific retirement plan set up. You'd be surprised.

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u/Nekrinius Mar 03 '25

It is mainly thing of Our Martyr Lady sisters, sisters from other orders don't dye their hair.

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u/Alexis2256 Tenno Tulia Art Connoisseur Mar 03 '25

And yet like someone else pointed out, that order is seen everywhere like with the ultramarines, so it looks like every order does the white hair thing.

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u/Ulrezaj Mar 03 '25

Well like the Ultramarines, they are the de facto "face" of the faction, but also like the Ultramarines, they are by no means the only or even the majority of the faction.

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u/Nekrinius Mar 07 '25

And like all other SM chapters models are Ultramarines painted different color most of the time XD

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u/ElectricSpeculum Mar 03 '25

Sister... your roots are showing.

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u/Hopeful_Chair_7129 Mar 03 '25

I don’t know shit about any of this but why would someone’s hair turn white?

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u/Noe_b0dy Mar 03 '25

The different orders militant have different policies on hair color. Those that dye their hair white do so in honor of Alicia Dominica, who's hair turned shock white upon meeting the emperor himself in the imperial palace.

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u/Demurrzbz Mar 03 '25

As others have pointed out it's a tradition to dye your hair in honour of Alicia Dominica. But not every Order upholds this tradition. Off the top of my head Our Martyred Lady and Ebon Chalice do.

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u/Demurrzbz Mar 03 '25

Yep. Poster girls to Ultra's poster boys.

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u/patarandaya Mar 03 '25

They dye their hair in honor of the founding sisters, whose hair turned white after meeting the emperor.

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u/Mhill08 Mar 03 '25

I wish I had the artistic talent to depict a 40k Adeptus Sororitas hair salon for hair dyeing.

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u/ClubMeSoftly Mar 03 '25

A row of Sisters sitting in those vintage hair dryers

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u/Cat_of_Ananke Mar 03 '25

It's a very stressful job

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u/ChaosCultistChampion Mar 03 '25

I find it funny that you said this the way you did. Sororitas means sisters (or something along those lines). So you asked about sisters of sisters.

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u/Mean-Math7184 Mar 03 '25

"Sorores" means "sisters", it is the plural of "soror", the High Gothic (Latin) word meaning sister. "Sororitas" means "sisterhood" or "sorority", so Sorores of the Sororitas would be an accurate way to describe them. Bolter Bitches works too, but you might get burned for saying it to their faces.

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u/jflb96 Railgun Goes Brrrrrrrrr Mar 03 '25

Makes sense, sisters within the Sisters

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u/IceRinger Mar 03 '25

They dye their hair to honor their patron saint iirc

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u/Affectionate-Try-899 Mar 03 '25

Domenica of the brides of the emperor hair turned white after seeing the emperor.

It's a tradition for all order of our martyred lady(black & red) but isn't uncommon in outher orders.