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why is he so hot?
or: what the fuck is wrong with you?
this deep into the site, you may be wondering why him. why is he the subject of this site and not some other, more conventionally attractive dc villain. it’s not like there’s no one else to choose from! why did i pick a cucked psychologist with a chinstrap beard.
in terms of my personal preferences, i have no answer beyond: he is kind of tailor-made for me? he hits upon all my specific issues and kinks scarily well. there has never been a character so well catered to all of my interests.
i do think other people can be brought to enlightenment, though. it’s easy to brush him off if you weren’t introduced to him in the sexiest light. but the fundamental aspects of his character are very hot. let me count the reasons why.
he’s vindictive and mean.
He is a sadistic bastard who likes to dehumanise others and make them suffer towards his ends. as a result, he fits well into sadistic, dominant positions, in ways that are harder to justify with more sympathetic DC villains who express any degree of remorse. you can trust that he will never hold back or have a simpering change of heart. the shallowness with which his evil is written is a feature, not a bug. you’d be hard pressed to find things he wouldn’t do to you. bodies are simply canvases for his art, for his own godlike acts of creation.
he will never not be hungry for domination and control.
hugo is a perfect vehicle for fucked up d/s scenarios because he is so obsessed with power. it’s easy to make boring, but it’s not the kind of power a grander villain might yearn for. specific targets obsess him, individuals he can’t help but want to break. he seeks mastery over the human body and mind rather than over the world. why can’t that body and mind be yours?
beneath the surface control and inhibition is an astounding and overpowering lack of it.
hugos written for adult audiences often carry a deeply human and libidinal undertone. by libidinal I mean that his hidden desires are tied to life itself, an obsessive need to spread his influence in ways that supplant the need to actually fuck.
he is incredibly, painfully sexually repressed and expresses his sexuality in the ways he plays god. kink instead of sex, experiments instead of partners. but there’s nothing wrong, or particularly ooc, with him fucking a subject’s brains out instead, in the heat of passion, wanting to know and claim their literal soft insides, after all the other parts of them have been conquered.
he holds many positions of power and authority desirable in sexual fantasy.
a college professor who wouldn’t mind bumping your grade up if you participate in his “research”. arkham’s chief psychiatrist, taking deep sadistic pleasure in exploiting and torturing the patients at his mercy. a therapist nudging his clients towards dysfunction and dependency in ways easily mistaken for recovery. a mad scientist with all his test subjects in cages vying for his approval and attention. a batman impostor ready to beat you to death while you wonder if the bat’s no-kill rule was an urban legend and he was just very good at hiding the bodies. a stereotypical supervillain who will call you “my dear” and caress your tearstained cheek while he disarms you, ties you up, dangles you off a ledge, and so on.
and, in every scenario and role, a fucked up older man who knows you have daddy issues and would love to take advantage of that. (you don’t need a PsyD to recognise the starkly obvious.)
his weaknesses are sexy too.
his resentment of the strength he lacks makes him even sexier because he feels the need to overcompensate with his own violence, physical and mental, which grants him even fewer limits.
they also make him a pathetic poor little meow meow. an appropriate candidate to be put in a maid outfit, given cat ears, and stepped on.
he is aesthetically horny and just flexible enough for any fantasy.
he has a distinct and eccentric sense of style that differs from version to version, but always conveys authority. it befits someone long past needing to care about serving anyone but himself with his fashion, and who has a good amount of money to spend on looking fancy. long past the original signifiers of his design, hugo reminds me of men i have seen in fetish porn and dark cabaret gigs… albeit a little more strait-laced. the markers of a real sexual pervert are there, though, the kind who in the worst possible reading is looking for a human fuckdoll to live in their house and trade board for sex.
hugo’s iterations run the whole gamut of body types, so there will always be a hugo for everyone. it seems like this fluctuation is common for the batman villains who don’t have to be a particular physicality as part of their concept… especially any who are a little ‘academic’ (read as: nerdy or dweeby). he oscillates between rake thin manlet and notably muscular (to match, or even exceed, batman’s bulk), with pecs you just desperately want in your mouth, if you are anything like me.
he is all sex and no intimacy.
this is likely just a me thing, and that’s alright. i appreciate and enjoy characters that risk minimal amounts of romantic intimacy. it doesn’t occur to him, it doesn’t exist. he wouldn’t be attached to his partners in any ‘normal’ way. he is cold, cruel and merciless. fucking for him would be to indulge a human urge, not to indulge any kind of fondness for the person he is fucking. and as a brainweird person who enjoys masochism and degradation and objectification, there’s a lot of pleasure in that, in knowing that you’re not going to be treated like a person with feelings deserving of respect, but like a set of holes with psychopathologies to overcome with enough mental adjustments and incisions.
maybe that’s just me?