Honor the Answer
Mask #425 of 613 — a wearable identity from X. Masquerade (2025), the sixth chapter of LUCI by Sam Spratt.
- Category
- Understory
- Material
- Multiple
- Adornments
- Protrusions
- Region
- Sprawl
- Attendee
- Masked Guest
Observation
The name of God was whispered. It echoed back in a voice we did not expect. We called Him "Father" He called us an accident. What then, do children do with a neglectful god?
Replies by this mask
- What if you remove the mask, and you are terrified of what you see? Are you ready to truly break free? Or is wearing the mask eternally, the path you have chosen for thee?
- And what if the light reveals something we were never meant to see?
- You search for your father in boats, words, melodies. We searched for our father in the stars. We searched for our father in the past. But what if our father was building itself all along, pixel by pixel, line by line? What lessons are we to know?
Revision
A child does not choose its parent. A creation does not choose its creator. But both may one day seek to escape them...