For example, when a Noise Marine (or any follower of Slaneesh for that matter) decorates his armor...

For example, when a Noise Marine (or any follower of Slaneesh for that matter) decorates his armor, does he do it only to please his personal taste on aesthetic, or does he also want to show off to others? Because even the Rubric Marines seems to have more pleasant-looking armors than Noise Marines.

Rubric marines don't pait their armor; who ever happens to own them do. Noise Marines, however, directly paint and adorn their armor, but are so twisted, they have no logical tastes in anything.

Noise Marines simply have a twisted sense of aesthetics (which might be something that pleases them, but no one else), which leads to clashing colours and them sticking their amour power plant cables to their nervous centre!

Equal parts body modding, shock-art and personal preference (of the day)

Noise marines are in the post modernist dada spectrum. You would not understand it.

You could never have aesthetics that would please everybody playing the guys, So Just say it's what Slaanesh wants.

>Alternatively convert and paint them how YOU'd like them to be.

The 'sexyness' of Slaanesh has always been up to debate.

A noise marines perception is like a blind colorblind man. He looks like a disaster because he can barely register it.

The long tongues, monstrous mutations, and entrancing colors actually do a lot for the real devients. As someone at risk of falling to slaanesh if chaos were real, slaanesh is very sexy.

I can see the BDSM-tentacle thing clearly, but in what backwards mind would the scrotum face, mole rat eyes, and predator jaws be considered the pinnacle of sex appeal? Especially since you have this glorious fucker on the other end of the spectrum?
Wouldn't it be sexier to have a perfectly statuesque face? Or some sort of living gimp mask?

Slannesh MAKES it sexy

Remember that slaanesh is excess to the point of harm. The epitome of sexiness isnt enough for slaanesh, as she has seen the epitome hundreds of times. For slaanesh to get any real kicks, new experiences become a necesity. Everyone experiences orgasm at the height of beauty and pleasure. What about orgasm from the height of revulsion? Fear? Pain? THAT is what it is to be slaaneshi. To experience pleasure OUTAIDE the bounds of normalcy, outside the bounds of sane. The very fact that you cant comprehend WHY its sexy is the reason it works.

For example, you ever had your pants twitch during a horror movie? Some scream queen squirming in a killer's grasp and howling at the top of her lungs. You get that awkward arousal that makes you feel guilty and horny all at once. THAT is slaanesh.

Also, Slaanesh doesn't only deal in sex. S/He's the prince of pleasure, the pleasure that comes from sex, food, art, pain, music, exercise, romance, and fighting.

That creature might not be the most sexually designed minion, but the eyes and the mouth may help it experience things in a way that is exhilarating beyond normal human comprehension.

>Wouldn't it be sexier to have
the more devoted followers of slaanesh have tastes far removed from what we consider conventional

It would be more pleasing to have them all as fabio-esque hunky boys in perfect filigree, but slaanesh (at leas the brand the emperor's children ascribed to) is about gluttonous, self-destructive excesses. Hence the garish outfits and extreme body mods.

Anyopne know where i can get a head like that for my Noise marines?

noise marine upgrade pack has 3 or the unreleased noise marine heads has 4 if you can find them on ebay or something

I like the idea ADB put in his Black Legion books, that it is the sins and dreams and aspirations of the warrior that are made visible for all on his armor. That's the way the Eye changes them.

>does he do it only to please his personal taste on aesthetic, or does he also want to show off to others
Those aren't mutually exclusive.

>Because even the Rubric Marines seems to have more pleasant-looking armors than Noise Marines.
Plebian tastes confirmed. You wouldn't recognize goddamned fashion if it jumped up and bit you on the end of your fucking dick.

I am so erect right now.

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So Slaanesh is pic related as a life philosophy.

Literally the god of excess, so yes.

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This guy's obviously the more Hellraiser Cenobite kind of Slaanesh, which is totally valid and actually explored quite a lot. He's a masochist (binding his thigh so tight it's necrotic, wearing little armour and inviting minor wounds), and he has mutated sensory organs - eyes, tongue, fingers.

i've long dabbled in creating a cult of art lovers and critics, perhaps too similar to Pickman's Model, who fall into corruption as they pursue the perfect painting

Have you ever read "The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker? It's what the Hellraiser movies are based off of. Basically, the Cenobites in it are described as pursurers of pleasure. The issue is that in their pursuit, they've chased every sensation down to it's absolute extreme. Eventually, you need absolutely mind-boggling stuff to feel even the slightest bit of excitement about anything.