So I haunted the pyramids and ran with the gibbering ghouls until my mid 30s and then I met somebody who wore a mask and I said — why do you wear that mask? — and she said — well, I grew up in this weird castle and never saw another human being, and then I left until one day I saw this really horrible awful looking monster and I reached out and touched a surface of polished glass and I realized the monster was me and I decided to wear this mask and flee society and run with the gibbering ghouls. “No way.” I said. “Me too. Let’s hang out.” So we hung out for a few years until our kids got into pre-school and the teacher said hey, let me take a look at you, and we did and he said – you guys are fine. So it turns out the problem was more the growing up in weird castles full of ghouls rather than any actual objective physical deformity, which kind of makes more sense. Or at least equally.
Eric Linus Kaplan 