Under the Mask
Vanity responds to being told to "be yourself" following the Good Morning sketch, suggested by Joemama6787!
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Glad to hear I wasn't the only one who said it, but now we have to keep saying it! We wanna know everything about you and your personality and likes and dislikes girl. Your soul and your love and happiness. Nobody else can be you!
Masks amongst masks, Vanity is quite stocked with them lol Maskception! :)
Wow this makes her character a lot more tragic and scary Poor Vanity
ja adoro los finals felices
A little late for Halloween but this hits the nail on the head!
There is someone left, the fact you are afraid that there could be nothing is proof of someone IS being there. Who, likely the person too afraid to be themself when you picked up the first mask. Let her out and live a little too c:
Normally I would agree. In this case, though, there's magic of an unknown type in play and the original purpose for hiding behind the original mask was to spy, not just to hide one's own insecurity. https://www.patreon.com/posts/86187720?utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=android_share
What does Vanity wear under her mask? Nothing.
Another mask, just in case
she's weird
A mask worn too long becomes the face.
What if they're worn consecutively? Multiple personalities maybe?🤔🤔
Wasn't there a voice actor who had done so many voices he'd forgotten what his real voice sounded like?
I don't know about any voice actor but Peter Sellers said almost the same thing to Kermit during his "Muppet Show" appearance: he's played so many different characters that he's forgotten who he really is.
Remember, each one of those masks has a captive soul within it. Someone denied the agency to live out their lives.
WOW! Unexpectedly tragic and angering.
Whoa I wasn't expecting this from the overly-flirty fox character
If Vanity is answering questions, I have several. Can Vanity breed wearing a "face?" Is the soul of the mask immortal, or does it eventually fade?
I'd counter "but aren't you being yourself right now? Just let it all flow naturally and be with me."
I used to have a character with that exact same train of thought
Maybe she's like Gangle? Just a ribbon under all those masks.
Scariest Halloween piece yet.
So you're saying Vanity has layers?
An onion. A foxy onion.
I must say that the concept of Vanity's character makes me excited and I'm very interested in seeing her in the comic in the future because she can be either serious or comical depending on the situation. Furthermore as plenty of people have already noted, she's in her own way a tragic and pitiable person due to the implied loss of self-identity and memories of her "actual" life, and I do feel bad for her sorrow here - however at the same time she's a villain who apparently ruthlessly imprisons others into her masks to use their likeness, and her regretful predicament is ultimately her own doing for having delved too far into this form of shapeshifing. So I suspect she'll eventually be paying for it, voluntarily or otherwise.
There's a moral to her story. In fact, she points it out herself! She was in awe of Keiren because of his conviction to his values. The moral is: be yourself! Stick to what you believe, even when you're wrong, people still notice your strength. 😉😉
Oh dayum o_o
I would ask her who/what she wants to be.
Maybe a Spacecraft?
I suspect, Vanity is actually a human.
Yes! Ithink she's the facestealer: https://www.patreon.com/posts/86187720?utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=android_share
Jesus. Same, sister
Sad.
Daaaaaamn that dark.
Aaaaaaaaaaand she's an SCP. ... Still would.
... Yes. Entirely Yes.
...hawt.
Well she's precious all the same, whether she wants to take that last mask off or not
Don't care. I still want to know what's under those masks. I want to know her.
Hot damn, this very thing was on my mind when she was introduced. How beautifully tragic.
I love her. That is all. She is simply adorable and wants to be comfortable not showing her true form, which honestly, could be an abyssal void god for all we may know. lol
It's not going to work. We already know she's basically the Thing, and we still think she's cute.
ok, then what mask do you feel most comfortable in then?
"Be the person that best reflects your personality".
Kinda reminds me of the Changeling from Warhammer Fantasy.
Scary even to herself.
Vanity: We are many, you are but one!
Is she though? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
ADORABLE!!! SEXY!!! NAKED!!!
That's scary
Well that’s horrifying
well it seems like "Be yourself" was popular and but it kind of backfired Is this canon?
Most likely so... Perhaps the twist is: "There never was anything under that final mask, just an idea given form and desire."
The cute character of severe Identity Depression...or should I say 2nd one 🤔 Sorry Tommy, but both Vanity & Natani must be protected; we shall work everyday until we all find out who we are, behind every mask... 🙏🏾
Wow, not only is there a good sign of just how deep the psychosis goes, but he also gave her a second Hexadecimal reference. She IS the mask.
I really hope these Hex refs are intentional on Tom's part. That would be so cool. She was SUCH a great villain in Reboot.
Oh. Wow. That's surprisingly dark, but nonetheless interesting, character info.
The cutest existential horror I ever did see
I'd also submit that the comic itself shows Vanity has quite a few personality traits. She seems to have a sense of justice as she brings up the situation with the wolves unprompted to Keiren with no real need to mention the subject. She seems very cynical about the world, probably justifiably, yet genuinely admiring of heroism and selflessness. And when the chips are down, she saves Keiren's life, without any 'reason' and at risk to her own goals (far easier to make a clean escape if you're not dragging someone out a fire and treating their wounds, and if your only witness conveniently doesn't make it). For someone who fears there's nothing left, I think there's a lot more there than she gives herself credit for!
Unless those are just remnants of other masks she's worn, anyway.
Wait does that mean shes not a fox? I'd be sad if she's not a fox
*LITERAL* imposter syndrome. Relatable
I can’t saying. Hope her memory will come back. I am praying for her
remind me somewhere about use 1,000 face till can't remember what her real face and name. sad
That is *still* a blush you're trying to hide, Vanity!
shiiiiiet, thats rough :c
:(
I love this character concept! She’s going to be so much fun to explore 🤩
Damn i fell bad on vanity poor girl :( and yeah she sould really really get therapy fr
Yup, she needs some therapy. Okay, a lot of therapy.
They had me in the first half, not gonna lie
I think many can relate
As I replied to someone else here: "we all wear masks, (y/n), but which one is real? The one that hides your face... Or the one that IS your face?" (Points to whoever catches the reference)
Don't know the reference, but it's still a valid point. In answer to the question, I think sometimes the first can become the second.
I can relate to this so much.
Same
This is kind of how I expected this one to go.
Oof. This hits so hard and close to home. Moved a lot growing up and eventually "I'll be whoever they need me to be" became my new kid social survival strategy. It took a long time and a LOT of work with professionals to unlearn that and find myself. Then I had to learn how to hold onto myself & let myself grow without other people pushing me
This immediately came to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSJc72OC7Dg
Dedication to your art? Perhaps pathologically so?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pirandello was right after all
I want give Vanity a hug.
You can't hug a blackhole. 😪
...Was not expecting such a heartbreaking reply to that. I... need to go find some light and funny now.
Maurice Sendak wrote, "You can't make something out of nothing," then proved that statement wrong by making a story out of it. And in the end, when life's been lived and death's been died, all that remains of our inner selves are stories. Whoever Vanity originally was, she has grown through her masked exploits, and that has shaped who she is now. That said: There is always something in the core of one's psyche, often many somethings, however deeply hidden and difficult to identify they may be. At the barest minimum, there are instincts & learned behaviours: all living beings possess the former, and the latter is hardly exclusive to "sentient" beings. Therefore, even if Vanity were to turn out to be a slime mould or a lichen, there would still be a "someone / something" left inside.
But would it be Vanity, or an amalgam of many others fighting for survival?
:,(
Well, that's terrifying. I wonder who she'd say she's being right now.
I thought I commented before but may have forgot to send it, oops But I wonder if it's a situation where she has used masks for so long that her body has become a corporeal mass of energy. Where if she removes all, she's just energy and either slowly dissolves away without the masks, or just remain energy due to her magic. It really is interesting to think about! Or perhaps...they were male originally lol. Still, they're a very interesting character!
There are times I've felt that way myself....
HEY! I resemble that remark!
I'd be glad to take her home and figure out who she really is. Give her a life outside of being a spy for someone decidedly not nice.
Okay, that's more than a little horrifying... And sad...
Is Vanity one of the Templar leaders in disguise? The one that also wears masks? They both wear the same bow. And I think I remember the Templar planning something sinister a while ago. Orchestrating a keidran attack on a city, to fuel the hate and distrust of humans, sounds just like something they'd do.
She's definitely at least based on her, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if they were meant to be the same character.
Vanity is as tragic as a Shakespeare play, yet also surprisingly soulful and comprehensive of her own mortality and fate, being so many people at once, I do wonder who she is under all her masks and I feel some very similar to how she feels and I think everyone has felt this way before to some extent. I feel like she is a just SUCH a interesting character to see in the TK-verse And I need all of her lore lol
YES!
DANG IT, WHY DID YOU ALL TELL TOM TO TURN HER INTO A TRAGIC VILLAIN?! 😭
Another story: on the old " Muppets Show " Kermit said to Peter Sellers " while on the show to relax and be himself ". Sellers replied he could never do that because he has no basic self. Kermit asked how and Sellers said well he did have one at one time " but I had it surgically removed ".
That's... that's got to be hard. I hope she finds someone who gives her both the courage and support to try, and the care afterward, regardless of result, to truly come into her own. Someone who's become that, like that... through magic in a fantasy world, or far more shameful things in our own... there's no way that isn't trauma of one kind or another. Of course, for the author/artist, there's the easy way out, but... I'm MtFemme NB trans, and furry is part of my identity. [To the inevitable haters: I appreciate your concern. I will be okay. I hope you will, someday, as well -- since one does not come into that place without pain of one's own.] Identity and 'masks', for me in the strictly metaphorical sense only, of course, are very much things I have and continue to struggle with, particularly since one of my parents is transphobic. (Thankfully not in any of the more virulent forms of that, but... it makes something that is already extraordinarily difficult much, much harder.) I do this sort of thing *very* rarely. But... please. Whatever else you do with her character... Vanity deserves to find herself, and she deserves to have that be part of the main storyline somehow, at least as a sideplot. There are just too many people out there, who need someone like this to come out on top, at least however *she* sees it, to *not* give them someone like Vanity. Vanity matters. Let her find herself, whomever she is. I don't care that I'm not in the story... if nobody else will help her through that and accept her, *I* will.
I hope things work out for you, friend. Sometimes I think we're all wearing masks of one sort or another.
Also for anyone who may be curious I suggested this because I thought it would be cute and fluster her LMAOOOOO
Bro thought he'd see a flustered vanity, but got something deeper lol
I would love there to be continuation of this. Where I or the viewer can reach forward whether I'm wearing gloves or not, the whole this person's face and slowly remove the mask to one by one and even though they may not have any idea what they look like anymore we will and we will embrace them for it.
She's an interesting notfox
Kinda. What I expected. I think this is what Captain America meant when he said to Black Widow: 'That's a tough way to live.' To become someone else, you must destroy who you are. 😪😪😪
Which flick was that? I eould like to rewatch that scene
“I’m sorry to hear that,” I say to Vanity as I embrace her. “It may be hard for you to know who you are or were. But we can find your true self together.”
Need to get Reni to 'peer' into her mind like she did Trace. See what's buried in there.
Yeah, I wonder Reni would be unsettled by what she sees.
Oooo... this is some nice horror.
Resonates a lot with me as a pwBPD! There's a deep underlying sense of emptiness and lack of any real "identity", so we throw different masks on every day. I've started discovering myself more recently, and things I genuinely enjoy instead of capitulating and going along with things others do! Never too late to start making someone under those masks, Vanity!
Crazy thing to drop such an interesting character so late into the story tho
There are constantly new characters being introduced. It's an evolvong story and an evolving world. Just like life, sometimes we meet "interesting characters" that may even become significant ones -decades- after the story started
A fox is noone.
Awww, pore dearie.
The sad truth for many of us; we identify with what we do, and nothing after that. It comes with age, Vanity. Talk to Rose, or Nora. I'm sure they'd point you in the right direction.
Now there would be a lot of interresting dynamic and character writing opportunities there. A quest for identity is always interresting. That kind of question is always a fun direction to take a character, especially if they have a dynamic with someone who wants to know their "true" self. Will they find out who they were ? Decide to forge a new sense of self and their own face ? Give up and take refuge becoming someone else until they have to relinquish that identity back, giving more control to the owner of the face they borrow ?
That is kinda horrifying, I can't help but want to hold and comfort her...
Wouldn't it be nice to be an anchor for someone like that? Alas, the anchor needs a ship. I don't think there's a ship anymore.
....yep, okay, this is to be expected from the mind that gave us Detritus. deeper wotld psychology. loving it~
She is a tragic, evil cutie. Fascinating
She’s needs a hug.
And now we have a combination of existential eldritch horror and "I can fix her"
That... Kind of makes me just wanna hug her tightly.
I do hope we see her having to confront "herself" and learn to embrace it. It would make her quite an interesting story and make her an interesting anti-hero to the universe.
Wife material
I too love a tragic figure for a waifu
HOLY COW, A REQUEST OF MINE GOT MADE...AND IT WAS THE VERY FIRST ONE I MADE SINCE I RE-SUBCRIBED????! Also nooooo, that's so tragic :( Lemme hug her bro pleaseeeee
The amount of theories of her true identity is starting to increase more and more
DDLC music begins to play
This deserves a color. Tom doesn't go dark often enough. Curious if she can actually put masks upon masks 🎭
Still would
who is this character?? i don't remember them when i last read the comic. ..then again i started from the beginning and did get to the end... but that was back in like, 2020...
ah okay, thank you. guess i should start reading twokinds again.
If that right panel is metaphorical due to loss of identity that's kinda tragic. If that's 'real', that's terrifying.
I'm honestly having a hard time deciding which is worse.
Close enough welcome to the Cannon, Arya Stark
Why do u put on a mask before peeling off the old one, silly?
Im fine with any version of her. I would still smash.
I hate that feeling. ;_;
Reminds me of the shapeshifter on "The Flash" who forgot her original face.
So who came before, Vanity or the mask? This one is snuggle worthy
Vanity has certainly made a splash in the community. This character is so dang cool that every lil bit of her backstory is like a golden nugget
Indeed it is like a golden nugget. I know that feeling oh so well. But do not be fooled with a fools gold. Good luck separating actual lore and character development from patrons' fantasies.
Poor fox
That sound low-key scary
Her base form looks human. I might be right!
Awesome, cute... And creepy. 😏
T-T
Philosophy time
So sad🥲
This is not creepy at all
I help taking them off. No need to fear your true self.
Deception is a heavy drug. So much so that the real deal is drowned out by the lies
Dude..... this is freaky, i like this idea but still.....crazy....
..... As evil/bad/mean as she seems I still feel a desire to protect her.
Sounds like a you problem.