This is something I should have realised before now.

[blue_soaring]

I totally have a mask kink.

I'm watching an ep of Criminal Minds with Roomie. The unsub-who-is-into-snuff-films (and-is-a-total-worm) hauls on a ski mask to enact his real life fantasy of such, and all of a sudden, he's kinda hot. Which is a total huh moment. It really is. Until I, y'know, think about it.

Inner!Tony is making frowny faces at me for this, but Captain America and Batman, mask-wise, are at the bottom of my hot list here. (Cap tops several other lists, so he's not allowed to complain, and Batman gets Joker, so he just needs to shut up before he says anything at all.) After about, oh, five minutes of thought, I figured out why.



Steve Rogers is Captain fuckin' America. End of story. But his cowl doesn't really conceal much of anything.



Batman's has the same basic shape around the mouth, but the eyes, man. Completely whited out.



The same for Wolverine's. So along comes this pic of Cap...



And suddenly his hotassery skyrockets to include mask unf. Which brings me to...



The full face covered a la Iron Man.



And Deadpool (who beneath that mask is not rockin' the hotass so much, but with it oh unf).



And Spidey Venom. Okay, okay, Spidey too, but probably only because of the mask. Sorry Pete.



And finally, to Rorschach, whose mask only has the vague suggestion of features and expression, specifically the least emphasis on the eyes. Which leads me to some conclusion about possible xeno and/or dehumanization, but I'm full of so much unf after uploading all those pics that my point has become a vague wobbly suggestion of a thing.

To sum up: Masks. UNF.

Comments

[ponderosa]

So you're saying I should be cosplaying Rorschach again.

XD

[blue_soaring]

Why yes, I believe so. \o/

[ponderosa]

That interrupts the all RDJ all the time programming. XD

[blue_soaring]

Who said anything about doing it at YCon? Ahahar.

[iniq]

:3
Same vague full head mask, different crazy.




But what a crazy~ I cried reading that fight. He's got a point! *shakes Batman* Mmmmm, verbal fighting. *kinkspike*

[blue_soaring]

I am so behind on DC, man, it's shameful. Or it would be, if I wasn't up to my eyeballs in sniktcest. XD

I may possibly have to read up on the current arcs with Red Hood. Just because.

[rekindle956]

Nothing wrong with that. Thank you for the pretty. :)

[blue_soaring]

My shame, I has none. XD Glad you enjoyed my erm, public fankinking? Ahar.

[penny]

unf indeed. I have a uniform/costume kink, but this is a pretty convincing argument for a separate category for masks. :D I am totally with you on Rorschach because of the dehumanization and how alien his mask's patterns are. *purr*

[blue_soaring]

There's so much more going on when you factor in who's wearing the mask, and that probably has a lot to do with which ones I find hot, but the masks themselves are worthy of a little extra unf or two. I mean, I could perv on Steve's costume all day, and that's pretty much all because it's so much a part of his identity, even when he's not the one wearing it. :d

[starbird]

[....touches the pictures]

[runs away]

[....runs back and leaves this]

[blue_soaring]

Yes, see, that. That works. Yes it does.

I'm also dying laughing now, because Pond just pointed out that while a zillion other people post these things as fandom secrets, I just... whipped it out there. Because it's hot oh yeah.

[anongrimm]

My top mask would have to be Wolverine (but possibly because he's my tops, anyway). Iron Man, Venom, Deadpool, utter agreement on the hotness. Alas, I can't include Sabretooth, being that he's sans mask, but then again, I always liked that about him. I may not count for a legitimate mask kink, though, even if those mentioned are hot in them. Half the time I prefer Wolvie and Tony without their masks.... Huh. Weird, for a costume-wearing nut. Oh well.... I'm still working on talking my boyfriend into dressing up as various slasher film monsters at a con for me; but I guess I shouldn't gripe: he dresses up as the Grim Reaper all the time, and it's very hot! When is YCon? It's in San Francisco, yes? I was born there, and I want to go! *sigh* (I go to too many as it is, and they're expensive). Haha! My captcha is "adultery Dr"!

[blue_soaring]

That's more like a character thing. And yes, a thousand times yes the person wearing the mask ups and downs the hot factor appropriately, but there is just some extra unf in there for me. Tony is delicious when he's down to a tank and up to his elbows in grease. :d

And Deadpool is just crazy. So crazy. I want him to do team ups every other week. XD

[anongrimm]

To true about Deadpool. I love the tag line in the newest volume of his comics run: "As crazy as a sack of ferrets." As far as I can figure out, they even have two narration voices in boxes that are both Wade, so you can hear him argue with himself.

But you've distracted me:
Tony+grease=mmmm.