Since I can remember as a child, I loved masks and helmets! Till this day, if I could get away with it I would always wear mask. Not just in public, but in private too. We control every part of our appearance to represent ourselves, except our faces. We just live with our faces and don't complain about it. We can apply make up, tattoo it, and pierce our faces. However no matter how much you do that, your face is mostly still the same. Clothes or lack of are much more sign of who a person is then their bodies, they can tell you what they value, who they are loyal to, or how secure they feel. The face can constantly be changing, and to careful manipulator be much better at hiding intent then any mask. Smile in just the right way can convince somebody of terrible idea, while words alone would not. A mask is more honest because once you picked it and you are out there, you can't change it unless you are carrying a bunch of masks with you. Carrying more the one mask is quite impractical. You put that mask on and you go out there, you are saying vary loudly this is what I am about. This is who I am because the mask does not change and goes where people look first on a person, the face.
Now you might wonder how this came up in my mind or what kind of mask I would use. This came up due to a brief exchange with @chef in my last blog. If you want know what someone is really like, let them be anonymous for a bit, remove the pressure of society. All those trolls on the internet are not just trolls, that is who they really are. Because when not threaten with punishment from society, they would choose to hurt rather then help.
In terms of masks I would wear. I love the masks of the Nameless Ghouls from the band Ghost.
I want mask that is still human looking and let people see the eyes. I would not have the nose so define, because I don't have functioning nose in real life. No horns, no hair ridges. Half formed lips and mask be porcelain white so I could paint it. Or I let other people paint my mask, be a fun thing to do with kids. On sad day make the mask darker colors, happy days paint it bright colors.
