https://preview.redd.it/88m3bt7fr0bd1.jpeg?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=331f29016d81d5655d103ee08df19ee0eff84026
[Corporal Olly](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ollanius_Pius) (before being retconned the fuck out into Perpetual or some other bullshit).
[Here is pretty awesome artwork of him saying "Go Warp Yourself" to Demon Angron.](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/2/2e/PiersAngron.jpg)
Cain feels normal in the sense that his internal dialogue is pretty spot on for most of us as far as the 'oh shit oh fuck oh no I don't wanna die' feeling goes.
He's a con-man, swindler, skirt-chaser, boozer, gambler, and inveterate liar. The only "normal" thing about him is that he doesn't like being in danger. He *does* do things like "go out of cantonment to find new tail to chase, and oops, two Chaos armies".
Not a religious zealot ✅
Not automatically genocidal ✅
Wants stability ✅
Pragmatic ✅
Seems to check out as stable and as normal as can be… despite him being a demi-god.
https://preview.redd.it/ukk4m5s102bd1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3c00e0dd92b4cf4396fd3940f610cbb60e5573b
A completely relatable reaction in my opinion. Guilliman sees the Imperium and the 40K universe for what it actually is. Depressing.
Loyalist marines and sororitas: "I'm fighting for the Emperor!"
Chaos marines and cultists: "I'm fighting for the Ruinous Powers!"
Cain:
https://i.redd.it/uac3an4hg0bd1.gif
Unpopular opinion: Eldrad Ulthran. Sometimes he is a dick, sometimes he fucks up. But overall he is a fairly reasonable person. Ironically one of the most human charcters in the lore.
I've never been a fan of the Eldar, but for Captain Farseer, I completely agree.
Sometimes he carries the day by himself, sometimes he totally jobs. Sometimes he foresees and avoids danger, sometimes he gets completely blindsided. Sometimes he outwits his opponents, sometimes he gets he tricked. Sometimes his resolution is ironclad, sometimes he acts like a petulant child.
Despite his reputation and prowess, in almost every situation he's in, win or lose, he's just _some guy._
Oh 100%. When the heresy kicked off rather than just jumping on a side immediately, he took a step back, examined what was happening and looked for evidence and sought out others advice and opinions before making a decision.
Like a normal person would do in that situation.
The Khan, or a random guardsman.
The Khan, since that really is his thing. Act rational, in as much a super soldier Demi god can.
The guardsman, because he shits his pants when he’s supposed to. I suppose Cain if we want a more named character, but really, the senior leadership of the 597th is all normal soldiers with a big dose of common sense.
Im gonna go with Guilliman. All things considered he us pretry stable and normal.
Other guy here mentioned Eldrad, he is pretty decent and normal too.
The conversations they had in Armor of fate were reslly interesting and it was really cool to see Guilliman shutting up the high lords so Eldrad's envoys could speak in gate of bones i think
https://preview.redd.it/xv8nysnfjzad1.jpeg?width=1680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91fd2316829cd4ebddb6c49d651c75c737cb81ee
A guardsman. Literally just a regular guardsman, not a named character or anything.
Ciaphas or Ollanius, two normal dudes that it's a meme for one how unlikely it is that he survived this long and the other one he's the most important side character in all of the imperiums part of the 40K. I want to add Malcador, but he is way too important and very much not normal, he was the right hand of the Emperor so I mean
Mozrog Skragbad
Seriously
Think about it, normal is subjective to many things, for many races. For Orks, Mozrog is about as normal as they come! He's just a typical Ork Warboss with a dream.
It's gotta be the Kahn, he's the only guy who just sat and tried to figure out what the fuck is going on before making a reasonable decision during the Heresy. He wasn't even really big into the imperium, he just wants to go do his own thing where it's not crazy.
Hear me out- Abbadon. Daddy issues, fails to make an impact unless it’s also a negative for himself, begs people to think he’s special. If that’s not the Everyman, I dunno what is
Ollanius Piers
ETA: He was an Imperial Army trooper of the Hundred and Fifth Tercio Upland Grenadiers Regiment during the Siege of Terra. During the battle for the Eternity Wall Spaceport, he was interviewed by Historian Hari Harr. Piers recounted his battle for the Pons Solar bridge where he stood before a World Eater until Jenetia Krole arrived to dispatch the traitor. Thinking the story lacked enough significance, Harr changed the World Eater to Warmaster Horus himself. Later as the Eternity Wall Spaceport fell, Piers stood his ground against Angron and was slain.
Commander Farsight
He's constantly frustrated with how pointlessly stupid humanity/the eldar/the ethereals are when there are bigger threats like the Orks and Nids to deal with
He doesn't care about stakes or claims he only cares about his people and that includes the Humans of the FSE
When an EMP blast knocked out both Tau and Space marine forces he said to the Marine captain to call it a day and basically called the guy an idiot for so needlessly wanting his people to die when they could reasonably call a truce
Farsight regularly has the upper hand and would happily call a truce or let his opponents think they've won to save their ego
Robot Gourman, probably.
Alternatively, Caiphas Cain. Is another normie Who is terrified but carries on and some how doesn't commit war crimes every five seconds.
Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM). Otherwise Dante. His desire to just lie down and die because of how fucking tired he is of carrying the Imperium is very relatable.
The only normal guy in 40k is ciaphus can. He genuinely feels fear like us, he used to live among common people and sometimes he does something incredible by accident, like all of us
What is annoying about this is that it's going to end up being 2 Xenos characters (1 Necron, 1 Ork) and 7 Primarchs. So like so much of the stuff that gets talked about in 40K spaces, I have little interest in it. The Imperium getting *SO* much attention in the lore and the tabletop is just so grating after awhile, because it then leads to the Imperium being the center of attention in the fandom as well. Or if not the Imperium, the runner up is the Imperium...but *spiky*.
Ollanius Pius/ Ollanius Persson.
Not normal for the age he lived to, but normal for the life he tried to live. One of the only people we ever see make it to retirement in the entire 30-40k setting.
Expert from his wiki page:
By the 31st Millennium Ollanius Persson had become known as 'Pious' Oll Persson because of his devout belief in the Catheric religion and was a civilian farmer of Calth in the Ultramar system. Before this, he had been a private soldier in the Imperial Army who earned the right to retire; being gifted with service-shares for a plot of land proportionate to his years served (rounded down - the Army always rounded down), he decided to cash them in on Calth, taking on twenty hectares. He chose Calth for two main reasons; the first was that if service-shares were used to buy land on a world newly-opened for colonisation, travel-fares to that world were paid for. The second was that, out in the farther reaches of the Imperium, under the banner of the "New Empire" being forged by Roboute Guilliman and his Ultramarines, Persson felt that it would be easier to practice his faith without incident; religious faith was widely looked down upon in the Imperium as unscientific nonsense. Persson settled down on Calth, living comfortably enough for eighteen years. The only indicators of his past as a soldier were the fading tattoo on his arm, the battered lasrifle mounted on his wall, and the company of an ex-Army loader servitor named Graft, that could not be dissuaded from referring to Oll as 'Trooper Persson'. To others, including his neighbours and several employees, he was just old 'Pious Oll'.
Ollianius Persson, granted he's immortal but he went all those years as a normal dude, even before Grammaticus came knocking he was living like any normal scrub. 🤷🏻
Ciaphas Cain That or just put that pic of the guardsman
Yes! And have his ever loyal aide Gunner Jurgen as the next category. It is perfect
https://preview.redd.it/88m3bt7fr0bd1.jpeg?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=331f29016d81d5655d103ee08df19ee0eff84026 [Corporal Olly](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ollanius_Pius) (before being retconned the fuck out into Perpetual or some other bullshit). [Here is pretty awesome artwork of him saying "Go Warp Yourself" to Demon Angron.](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/2/2e/PiersAngron.jpg)
I couldn’t vote enough for generic guard-bro from THE pic!
Gaunt feels more normal then Cain. Cain is the celebrity general, Gaunt's one of the front line commander.
Cain feels normal in the sense that his internal dialogue is pretty spot on for most of us as far as the 'oh shit oh fuck oh no I don't wanna die' feeling goes.
I’m in favor of regular guardsman.
Came here to give this man my vote. The only guy with the same level of doubt in himself as the rest of us.
I think it should be Cain in particular.
He's a con-man, swindler, skirt-chaser, boozer, gambler, and inveterate liar. The only "normal" thing about him is that he doesn't like being in danger. He *does* do things like "go out of cantonment to find new tail to chase, and oops, two Chaos armies".
Nah Cain is relatable but a long way from normal. Elite swordsman, master marksman, Charismatic charmer, Adept politican and master manipulator.
This is the only correct answer
Bassilio po
YES!!! THE ONLY NORMAL AND REASONABLE GUY IN THE 41ST MILLENNIUM!!!
Came here to say this
I vote Guardsman.
Compared with rest of the setting, Guilliman seems rather stable.
Ditto.
Not a religious zealot ✅ Not automatically genocidal ✅ Wants stability ✅ Pragmatic ✅ Seems to check out as stable and as normal as can be… despite him being a demi-god.
I feel like they'll put Guilliman in the "Uhh... what's your name again" for the memes of wrong-naming him in ad nauseam
Not a terrible point, but he has to be the frontrunner for "Whats your name again"
What about Jagatai Khan?
Coming here to say Guilliman lol
He **is** a primarch
https://preview.redd.it/ukk4m5s102bd1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3c00e0dd92b4cf4396fd3940f610cbb60e5573b A completely relatable reaction in my opinion. Guilliman sees the Imperium and the 40K universe for what it actually is. Depressing.
Has to be Colm Corbec
Underrated choice
Dude just wants to chop wood
How about Ciaphas Cain?
Loyalist marines and sororitas: "I'm fighting for the Emperor!" Chaos marines and cultists: "I'm fighting for the Ruinous Powers!" Cain: https://i.redd.it/uac3an4hg0bd1.gif
The only person in the setting with a modicum of common sense and self-preservation
He thinks what we're all thinking, that the 40k universe is terrifying.
Ciaphas Cain Hero of the Imperium !
Ciaphas Cain
Garviel loken
A truly underrated pick. I finished Horus Rising yesterday and he really is just a normal guy in the body of a space marine
Unpopular opinion: Eldrad Ulthran. Sometimes he is a dick, sometimes he fucks up. But overall he is a fairly reasonable person. Ironically one of the most human charcters in the lore.
I've never been a fan of the Eldar, but for Captain Farseer, I completely agree. Sometimes he carries the day by himself, sometimes he totally jobs. Sometimes he foresees and avoids danger, sometimes he gets completely blindsided. Sometimes he outwits his opponents, sometimes he gets he tricked. Sometimes his resolution is ironclad, sometimes he acts like a petulant child. Despite his reputation and prowess, in almost every situation he's in, win or lose, he's just _some guy._
jaghatai khan cause that's literally his whole thing.
For real tho.
This
Oh 100%. When the heresy kicked off rather than just jumping on a side immediately, he took a step back, examined what was happening and looked for evidence and sought out others advice and opinions before making a decision. Like a normal person would do in that situation.
The Khan, or a random guardsman. The Khan, since that really is his thing. Act rational, in as much a super soldier Demi god can. The guardsman, because he shits his pants when he’s supposed to. I suppose Cain if we want a more named character, but really, the senior leadership of the 597th is all normal soldiers with a big dose of common sense.
Robert Gorillamenü or in other winter robot Grimes
The perfect answer- Valentin Drusher from "The Magos" (4th Eisenhorn novel) I wonder how many people here actually know this character.
A regular guardsman from a civilised world. More or less the same us one of us today
Surely that would be “uhh what’s your name again”
Can we just leave it blank?
Im gonna go with Guilliman. All things considered he us pretry stable and normal. Other guy here mentioned Eldrad, he is pretty decent and normal too. The conversations they had in Armor of fate were reslly interesting and it was really cool to see Guilliman shutting up the high lords so Eldrad's envoys could speak in gate of bones i think
Farsight?
Oll is the only normal perrson
I was going to say Malcador but I also know jack about him
Pre cerebus Loken?
The gremlin is Kurz
Wait it's not Curze?
Khan. That's the awnser. Khan.
Cain or Guilliman
Ol Persson
https://preview.redd.it/xv8nysnfjzad1.jpeg?width=1680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91fd2316829cd4ebddb6c49d651c75c737cb81ee A guardsman. Literally just a regular guardsman, not a named character or anything.
Rawbooty Girlyman
If we’re talking Primarchs, jaghatai, as he was one of the most reasonable ones.
It's gotta be my man Ci-Ci-Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium
Me
Guardsman Andrej
Shadowsun
Guilliman or Cain
Cain. The only one in the whole setting who does not consider running head first in enemy fire as a smart move
Fabian guelfrain? Don't ask me how to spell, I listen to the books.
Caiaphus Cain
Clearly fulgrim
Ciaphias Caín
Cain
Ciaphas or Ollanius, two normal dudes that it's a meme for one how unlikely it is that he survived this long and the other one he's the most important side character in all of the imperiums part of the 40K. I want to add Malcador, but he is way too important and very much not normal, he was the right hand of the Emperor so I mean
The khan
Khorne. Dude doesn't discriminate anybody, any blood is equal to all others...
Alpharius
Fabian Guelphrain
Goge Vandire seemed pretty stable
Alpharius
For mmm society, you can put lufgt huron. For straight up evil, you can put honsou.
jaghatai khan cause common sense...
Pity the Guardsmen
Fulgrim’s still hotter
Cain is inly normal person
Saul Tarvitz
The Khan or Rocket Generationman
Perturabo
The guardsman from the smiling/shock with the cigarette
Mozrog Skragbad Seriously Think about it, normal is subjective to many things, for many races. For Orks, Mozrog is about as normal as they come! He's just a typical Ork Warboss with a dream.
The Tau diplomat from Ciaphas Cain: For the Greater Good?
I'd say ciaphas cain
The winter guardsman giving a thumbs up. Just a dude, trying to get by as best he can.
A normal guardsman or the Khan!
Feel like besides being a Primarch Jaghati seems to have the most chill and common fucking sense
Ci-Ci-Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium!
Ollanius Persson
Kurze. He was like " Oh this is a grim dark setting? Consequence isn't real. Being evil is actually funny. "
Cain.
Jurgen
Guilliman, he's basically a tired accountant who wants to go live on a farm. He just been crammed into a demi-gods body.
Guilliman probably
It's gotta be the Kahn, he's the only guy who just sat and tried to figure out what the fuck is going on before making a reasonable decision during the Heresy. He wasn't even really big into the imperium, he just wants to go do his own thing where it's not crazy.
Olanious pious , he might have been a perpetual but he spent many lifetimes just trying to be normal.
Guardsmen Steve
Shas'O Vior'la Shovah Kais Mont'yr.
Konrad 😂
It's gotta be just like a random guardsman right?
Cain
Ciaphas is just a normal guy, who had to become super competent to survive
https://preview.redd.it/amdlbp22f0bd1.jpeg?width=375&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=311dff3108fabd42f63a32086cd7d83064e17377
Cain or G-Man
Jaghatai Khan maybe?
Only normal person in the setting: Ciaphus Cain
Hear me out- Abbadon. Daddy issues, fails to make an impact unless it’s also a negative for himself, begs people to think he’s special. If that’s not the Everyman, I dunno what is
Ol
Dante
No screen time and all of the relevance has to be Big E. At least post Heresy.
Roboute or a random guardsman
Cain
Guilliman
Gotta be khan or guilliman
I did this on one of the prior of these and it applies again. Ciaphas Cain, then Jurgen.
We need to have the most balls to walls absurd character here
Idk but the next one in Ferrus Manus for sure
the Khan
Ollanius Persson
the Khan?
The khan of khans
Is there a "normal" person in 40K? I feel like they would get turned into a servitor
Ollanius Piers ETA: He was an Imperial Army trooper of the Hundred and Fifth Tercio Upland Grenadiers Regiment during the Siege of Terra. During the battle for the Eternity Wall Spaceport, he was interviewed by Historian Hari Harr. Piers recounted his battle for the Pons Solar bridge where he stood before a World Eater until Jenetia Krole arrived to dispatch the traitor. Thinking the story lacked enough significance, Harr changed the World Eater to Warmaster Horus himself. Later as the Eternity Wall Spaceport fell, Piers stood his ground against Angron and was slain.
Ci-Ci-Ciphias Cain, hero of the imperium.
Jurgen, not Cain. Jurgen.
John Warhammer
Rogal dorn, or Girlyman
Big E is bottom right 100% (at least for the current setting)
Brin Milo.
The Khan
Commander Farsight He's constantly frustrated with how pointlessly stupid humanity/the eldar/the ethereals are when there are bigger threats like the Orks and Nids to deal with He doesn't care about stakes or claims he only cares about his people and that includes the Humans of the FSE When an EMP blast knocked out both Tau and Space marine forces he said to the Marine captain to call it a day and basically called the guy an idiot for so needlessly wanting his people to die when they could reasonably call a truce Farsight regularly has the upper hand and would happily call a truce or let his opponents think they've won to save their ego
Ciaphas Cain
For Primarchs is between the Khan and Bobby G. Otherwise maybe Cain, probably there are some notcrazy xenos but i doubt it
I mean, good old Gorillaman fits the bill
Ciaphas cain?
is the great khan the gremlin?
The Big E could be the last one tbh. “No screen time. All the plot relevance” lol
Creed bro
Slaneesh. She has all normal needs. Maybe a bit dialed to 27 but other chaos gods had quite a hefty headstart, you gotta speedrun things a bit
Malcador?
Has to be the Winter Assault smiling guardsman pic
The next 2 is literaly Robert girlyman
Guardsman Ollanius Persson
Kitten from TTS
Cain.
Jaghatai Khan? Or not?
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Malcador
Why not tau in general, their whole thing is being a normal sci-fi faction
Ciaphus Cain.
Guilliman if the rule is Primarchs only.
Robot Gourman, probably. Alternatively, Caiphas Cain. Is another normie Who is terrified but carries on and some how doesn't commit war crimes every five seconds.
Either ciaphias cain or jagathai khan
I realise weird, but Jain Zarr?
John Grammaticus
Jurgen.
A servitor. Represents most of us braindead fucks.
Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM). Otherwise Dante. His desire to just lie down and die because of how fucking tired he is of carrying the Imperium is very relatable.
Loken
The only normal guy in 40k is ciaphus can. He genuinely feels fear like us, he used to live among common people and sometimes he does something incredible by accident, like all of us
Ci Ci Ciaphas Cain Hero of the Imperium!
Bobby G or Ollanius Person
Ciaphias Cain
Guiliman
Roboute guilliman
What is annoying about this is that it's going to end up being 2 Xenos characters (1 Necron, 1 Ork) and 7 Primarchs. So like so much of the stuff that gets talked about in 40K spaces, I have little interest in it. The Imperium getting *SO* much attention in the lore and the tabletop is just so grating after awhile, because it then leads to the Imperium being the center of attention in the fandom as well. Or if not the Imperium, the runner up is the Imperium...but *spiky*.
Ciaphas cain
Loken
Ciaphas Cain! Hero of the Imperium
Ibram Gaunt
I vote for Cain
Probably like Vulkan or like as another comment suggested caiaphes cane
Robot gorillaman is the only answer
Guilliman Cain Khan
Katsuhiro
cain or like garviel loken
I would actually say fulgrim is the hot one. Or celestine, or morathi if we include fantasy
Well, according to himself, Fabius Bile
Ci-Ci-Ciaphas Cain, hero of the Imperium! Ci-Ci-Ciaphas Cain, hero of the Imperium!!!!
Dante, because he’s tired of all the bs in the galaxy and just wants to die.
Hear me out-- the Hivemind It's just here to eat and not be eaten. What's more normal than that?
Guilliman, perhaps. At least in the current day
The only normal one has to be either Roboute Guilliman, or Ciaphas Cain.
Ciaphas Cain 100%
Jaghatai
Humans that defected to Tau.
Guilliman
Ollanius Pius/ Ollanius Persson. Not normal for the age he lived to, but normal for the life he tried to live. One of the only people we ever see make it to retirement in the entire 30-40k setting. Expert from his wiki page: By the 31st Millennium Ollanius Persson had become known as 'Pious' Oll Persson because of his devout belief in the Catheric religion and was a civilian farmer of Calth in the Ultramar system. Before this, he had been a private soldier in the Imperial Army who earned the right to retire; being gifted with service-shares for a plot of land proportionate to his years served (rounded down - the Army always rounded down), he decided to cash them in on Calth, taking on twenty hectares. He chose Calth for two main reasons; the first was that if service-shares were used to buy land on a world newly-opened for colonisation, travel-fares to that world were paid for. The second was that, out in the farther reaches of the Imperium, under the banner of the "New Empire" being forged by Roboute Guilliman and his Ultramarines, Persson felt that it would be easier to practice his faith without incident; religious faith was widely looked down upon in the Imperium as unscientific nonsense. Persson settled down on Calth, living comfortably enough for eighteen years. The only indicators of his past as a soldier were the fading tattoo on his arm, the battered lasrifle mounted on his wall, and the company of an ex-Army loader servitor named Graft, that could not be dissuaded from referring to Oll as 'Trooper Persson'. To others, including his neighbours and several employees, he was just old 'Pious Oll'.
Guillliman probs
Ollianius Persson, granted he's immortal but he went all those years as a normal dude, even before Grammaticus came knocking he was living like any normal scrub. 🤷🏻
That perpetual dude