Face

The **face** of Main Character exists as a separate but conjoined entity to the front of his head, though encompassing all of his head, hair, and a section of his neck when active.

## Personality

Ordinarily, the face is as inanimate as any living body part. When (at least 90%) exposed, it manifests as a mindless but unmistakably malicious monster that desires only to hunt, eat, spread out as far as possible, avoid interlopers, and if unable to flee, strangle the life out of anyone within its grasp including its owner.

The face rests when not visible, as Whoosis points out, like a bird in a cage underneath a blanket. The incapacitation of Main Character does not necessarily knock out the face, especially if the choking is done by itself; though if unmasked during natural sleep, it tends to be relaxed as it usually sleeps alongside its owner.

It is rather animalistic and therefore nearly impossible to reason with through conversation and only acts in what is interpreted as “good will” out of self-preservation. When active, it can even act to protect Main Character, but only because he is a vital part of itself, even if it wags his body around like a vestigial tail.

Such responses can be intentionally fostered as a form of training.

It is also spiteful and generally ignores or purposefully undermines any given commands or desires. However, it also has a connection to Main Character's emotional state.

The face often strangles its host despite its life being linked to his, thus it will not strangle him to death, only unconsciousness. Due to Main Character's consistent interference when the face manifests, the face decides that dragging 300 pounds of dead weight around unimpeded is preferable to fighting to move and eat. In its larger forms, the face can easily drag Main Character's body with its comparatively greater weight, or in the largest seen forms, even ragdoll him around like a lightweight tail.

## Abilities

When exposed, the face uses all body parts above a certain point on Main Character's neck, including the hair, to multiply its mass into exponentially anomalous sizes. The face often turns into abstract and eldritch concepts like blood/tar geysers and alien flesh flowers. Though preferring disconcerting faces and visages, it can assume more mundane forms such as animals, (sometimes vivisected) human anatomy, or people Main Character knows. It can even assume the faces of people he does not know, even replicating the under-mask appearances of people who he has not seen without a mask.

Due to their empathetic connection, the worse Main Character feels, the more terrifying the face becomes.

Despite being able to theoretically assume any form, it cannot form a functional right eye. Even when manifesting many eyes, at least one on its right side will remain defunct as a remnant of Main Character's malfunctioning eye.

In its later stages of growth, even if inactive but as long as its still maskless, the face can lend its unnatural longevity to Main Character. This is not by choice, merely the spread of its eldritch nature.

## Trivia

* The simplistic name, circumstances of its first appearance, and effects are a reference to the FACE event/entity from Yume Nikki.
* It is frequently described as a shoggoth strapped to the front of Main Character's head.
* Its Lovecraftian influence seems to creep further down his neck and body over time.