Well.. when it comes to fluff, I'm probably a self-loathing monodominant. Much as I hate squeeling nerds who take time to learn vast quantities of fluff then whine when people deviate from it (sorry X and others, not neccesarily you, just a general, stereotypical image!) I have to ultimately accept that I fit exactly into that profile myself.
This is because I have a very thin sense of belief to begin with.. It doesn't take a lot of deviation before I cease to see any consistency between the universe I know from the books and the one being presented to me in fluff. Since fluff is what makes this game interesting to me (I like painting and gaming, but I wouldn't do it unless I could ascribe background and meaning) retaining that belief is important to me.
The ideal example was when I started my current major army.. For a while, I was dead set on making my own renegade chapter. But as I began to sketch stuff down I realised I didn't want to deviate from the fluff. I wanted something which people would know came from the 40k universe they understood.. So I did Emperor's Children with the standard colour scheme, and very pleased I am with the little pink hedonists of death. I wrote a long, detailed fluff background for them, focusing on their history and experience as a warband, rather than concocting strange theories about their origins as I was going to do for a renegade chapter.
I'm afraid that's me, though I hate to say it. The worst thing is, as many of you have found out, I expect the same adherence to existing sources from others. Fortunately, I'm still at the stage when I recognize it's only a game, so I don't really mind.
My personality outside of gaming is a little different.. but fortunately this isn't the place to go into that.
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