Centurion has always stood at Juno Guilliman’s side. As the son of a prominent nobleman, Centurion and Juno were often called to the same places by the duties of their fathers, and it was this commonality with one another that founded their relationship, though nothing would come until Juno became the ruler of Macragge and thereafter the entirety of what would be Ultramar, naming Centurion the Prefect of Espandor. When the Empress arrived, Centurion was the second to bend the knee, right after his beloved Juno, and from there, they never left the other’s side. It was love in a very pure way. Neither side made it obscure the affections they held for each other, and many a love poem, story, painting, and much more media besides were produced by the Remembrancers attached to the Thirteenth Legion.
To Juno’s grief, Centurion would be apparently slain during the Betrayal at Calth, sending the Primarch into a mad fury, which resulted in the mauling of the Word Bearers to the point of retreat. In the aftermath, Centurion would reappear, having unknowingly possessed the ability of a Perpetual. Thus reunited, the couple would regather their strength, establish Imperium Secundus, and fight through the Heresy, Centurion developing a personal grudge against Little Light, Aurelia’s partner, who had himself dealt Centurion’s death blow in the high orbit of Calth. When Juno was mortally wounded aboard Fulgrimia’s flagship ‘Pride of The Emperor’, it was Centurion who lead the counter charge, recovering his beloved’s body and taking her back to Ultramar. For ten thousand years he sat at her side, choosing stasis-sleep beside his beloved, for what was life without his Juno?
However, his anger, his wrath, his fury, and his stubbornness would be needed once more, as he was awakened alongside his Juno in a strange new millennium with enemy Astartes right in his face.
Suffice it to say, ten thousand years of pent up anger, misery, and despair carved a bloody swathe through the intruders of Ultramar- how dare they sully his home!- and pushed back wave after wave of heretical scum. In the years since, Centurion and Juno have wasted little time in making up for the years lost, much to the disgruntlement of anyone adjacent to their quarters.
As for Centurion himself? Well, even though his beloved is returned to him, and the Imperium still stands, he still has centuries of spite to work through, though, he admits, it feels good to be beside his sons once again.
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