Why is the main character a pin head?

[JolyJew СлаваУкраине]

I don't know any Christian things that indicate having a pointy head is somehow holy or virtuous so can anyone olease explain?

Also why is the pinhead protagonist fill his pinhead helmet with mutant blood and spills it over his head? That was a very unsettling moment and i cant understand it at all

[Sachimi]

The pointy hat is a reference to the "capirote". A traditional costume from the catholic culture from Sevilla.

[Hotel Security]

Pointed hats were was traditionally worn by sinners to take in public shame with this silly hat as a form of proving that you have real guilt over your sins. This game is all about theme of penance so they have a whole sect based on the hat.

In the game itself, there's multiple people with the hats and one of them suggests that it's pointing at the Miracle in the sky...so it's another form of showing devotion to the Miracle. In the case of the Penitent One, his entire journey is a Penance to prove his guilt and devotion to the Miracle so that's part of why he wears it.

Also why is the pinhead protagonist fill his pinhead helmet with mutant blood and spills it over his head?

It's a symbolic gesture to signify that his pilgrimage has started...he's kind of baptizing himself. He also absorbs blood from regular enemies killed so it's kind of a gameplay mechanic in a way.

[JolyJew СлаваУкраине]

Originally posted by Hotel Security:

It's a symbolic gesture to signify that his pilgrimage has started...he's kind of baptizing himself. He also absorbs blood from regular enemies killed so it's kind of a gameplay mechanic in a way.

thanks for all the information, but aren't the pilgrims supposed to wash their face with water? doing it with a blood of a dead enemy seems wrong on so many levels...

[figbyfigbyfigby]

Originally posted by Jolly Jew:

Originally posted by Hotel Security:

It's a symbolic gesture to signify that his pilgrimage has started...he's kind of baptizing himself. He also absorbs blood from regular enemies killed so it's kind of a gameplay mechanic in a way.

thanks for all the information, but aren't the pilgrims supposed to wash their face with water? doing it with a blood of a dead enemy seems wrong on so many levels...

The protagonist embarks on the quest to murder the ingame equivalent of the pope gone mad, making a pile of corpses high enough to reach his doorstep in the process. He doesn't need the comfort of fresh water, a baptism in the blood of his last former brother of the silent sorrow is fitting of the journey awaiting him.

[Sergeant Slaughter]

This game is basically southern Spanish Catholicism on angel dust. The pointed hat of penance and vow of silence are inspired by actual traditional practices. As for the blood, Catholics eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ on the regular so it isn't much of a stretch that someone in a world gone this mad with religion that one would choose a baptism/cleansing by blood.