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Sexy, Creepy or Weird? Just something I've been thinking about since I'm thinking of converting my Chaos Space Marines to that of Emperor's Children.

Depends on which models you're referring to since there is a wide variety of choices.

My love for Slaanesh came from the best charecter of all time.
"DOOMRIDER!"

I always imagined him riding into a battle like a wwe wrestler, music blaring as he enters the field, playing something hard from motterhead like Ace of Spades.

He does cocain you know. . .

And he fits all 3 options weirdly.

Wish they would bring him back. But it's kind of hard to smell the coke when he has no head....

Can you add none of the above to the poll

Your poll is missing the real answer, "goofy". This can be either a good or bad thing of course; Noise Marines are good-goofy because dudes that blow your brains out with the power of heavy fething metal is as ridiculous as it is awesome, while Slaanesh daemons are bad-goofy because they look like a socially awkward alien's approximation of what humans think is sexy.

Wel apart from Slaanesh being multiple things rather than just sex but on that aspect something to keep in mind is that they aren't temptating with looks. You might(and likely would) find IMAGE of Slaanesh daemons repulsive but if one would appear in your front they would suddenly be hard to resist. So miniature wise they can be whatever sculptor wants.

tneva82 wrote:
Wel apart from Slaanesh being multiple things rather than just sex but on that aspect something to keep in mind is that they aren't temptating with looks. You might(and likely would) find IMAGE of Slaanesh daemons repulsive but if one would appear in your front they would suddenly be hard to resist. So miniature wise they can be whatever sculptor wants.

I think it's a missed opportunity on GW's part. You should be able to have a Slaanesh army of incredibly gorgeous miniatures, not a horde of mutant freaks. If I was building a Slaanesh army, I'd use Primaris Marines and probably convert the plasma guys to Noise Marines.

The thing that attracted (no, not like that) me to Daemonettes is in the second Word Bearers book in the Dark Apostle trilogy. The Dark Apostle of the story summons a host of daemonettes to fight some Dark Eldar that he wants dead (I'm trying to refrain from spoilers here). The book describes how they appear in a cloud of musk, and at first glance look overwhelmingly beautiful. Then, as you look closer and breathe in their musk, you see just how utterly *wrong* they are. The soul-less eyes, the crab claws and so on. By then it's too late, because you're paralyzed and unable to resist as they chop you into ribbons. That's how I choose to see them - I use the older Juan Diaz sculpts myself because I feel they find a better hybrid between attractive and horrifying. That being said, I imagine the current plastic daemonettes are how they *really look* without the benefits of the musk.

 Yougottapaythetrolltoll wrote:
Sexy, Creepy or Weird? .

Yes

you should totally convert up some EC

Why all three of course, taken to the furthest extent of depravity. Excess isn't just a motto its.....everything. Slaanesh loves you no matter what your into as long as its excessive. Emperor's Children and Slaaneshi Daemons run the entire gambit. From the heavily mutated, to extreme body modification, to achingly beautiful. You can do whatever you like really. Heck use captured Dark Eldar or Dark Elf wyches as counts as cultists. I can tell you from experience that Primaris marines make some excellent base for Noise Marines especially Hellblasters. If you like a lightly corrupted pretty boys like me you can also bits order some Stormcast Eternals Vanguard Hunters heads for a few bucks. They some excellent tassels like the FW EC helmets; and a really nice bare head with long flowing tresses that could serve for a ex-Lord Commander. If you don't like the current Fiends for or think the Daemon prince models to bulky for instance you can use Vargheists from AOS. There easy to mod and fit the lean muscular aesthetic of Slaanesh Daemons. You have lots of choices, really. Google image search is you friend here.

 Yougottapaythetrolltoll wrote:
Sexy, Creepy or Weird? Just something I've been thinking about since I'm thinking of converting my Chaos Space Marines to that of Emperor's Children.

Very often, none of the above. Thematically disparate is about as kind as I can be.
Hermaphrodites but single breasts but sometimes multiple breasts and crab claws and pink anteaters and multi-armed cows and more breasts, but sometimes no breasts at all, but guitar-guns instead of sex and just what. It's like the EC worship a completely unrelated god but don't want to admit it, but instead fell in love with Goffik Rokkers.

Neither. Decadent, perverted and disgusting would be how I see them.

Voss wrote:

 Yougottapaythetrolltoll wrote:
Sexy, Creepy or Weird? Just something I've been thinking about since I'm thinking of converting my Chaos Space Marines to that of Emperor's Children.

Very often, none of the above. Thematically disparate is about as kind as I can be.
Hermaphrodites but single breasts but sometimes multiple breasts and crab claws and pink anteaters and multi-armed cows and more breasts, but sometimes no breasts at all, but guitar-guns instead of sex and just what. It's like the EC worship a completely unrelated god but don't want to admit it, but instead fell in love with Goffik Rokkers.

The EC just fell in love with a different kind of sensation and pleasure, that of destructive sound instead of physicality. I find it quite fitting thematically, Slaanesh isn't just about sex or sensuality but pleasures of all kinds. Slaanesh comes into play when you take things too far, or go down the rabbit hole with whatever it is that pleases you.

Creepy, but only because they are poorly made.
Properly made they should be a mix of alluring and disturbing.

They're garbage. Conceptually Slaanesh is awesome but aesthetically the diaz'nettes are the only Slaanesh has that stands out from other 40k minis in any meaningful way. And gameplay wise GW has pretty much never gotten them right with the exception of sonic weaponry. Locus of Beguilement was pretty nice though.

 Arachnofiend wrote:
Slaanesh daemons are bad-goofy because they look like a socially awkward alien's approximation of what humans think is sexy.

Hey, don't be so rude about nerds in the 80s man. Not cool.

Someone in the studio was listening to Bat out of Hell when they sculpted the Night Lord range.

Now they need to put on Stark Raving Love and go and take a look at the Slaaneshi range.

"Too much is never enough!"

 Thargrim wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Yougottapaythetrolltoll wrote:
Sexy, Creepy or Weird? Just something I've been thinking about since I'm thinking of converting my Chaos Space Marines to that of Emperor's Children.

Very often, none of the above. Thematically disparate is about as kind as I can be.
Hermaphrodites but single breasts but sometimes multiple breasts and crab claws and pink anteaters and multi-armed cows and more breasts, but sometimes no breasts at all, but guitar-guns instead of sex and just what. It's like the EC worship a completely unrelated god but don't want to admit it, but instead fell in love with Goffik Rokkers.

The EC just fell in love with a different kind of sensation and pleasure, that of destructive sound instead of physicality. I find it quite fitting thematically, Slaanesh isn't just about sex or sensuality but pleasures of all kinds. Slaanesh comes into play when you take things too far, or go down the rabbit hole with whatever it is that pleases you.

That is the fluff, more or less. But model wise and game wise, Slaanesh is about models with breasts and headswaps using crab claws to murder people. And since the big 4 gods are pretty much static, that is the sum of slaanesh, just as khorne has degenerated to the rather boring god of 'murder people with axes.'

Shooting people with keytars is just a wacky quirk of pink spikey marines.