lol, yes Collin. That was a bit of my inspiration, but the general idea was an iron mask. This particular character was part of an experimental organization, in which others made a leading success where he failed. The initial process was to create an army of substantial order to equilibriate emotions defying fear and courage and instilling a bleek mindset better layered with a hardened sense to kill. Like the marines they are taught to plan everyone they kill whether it be their child or any animate life form.
The problem with Vincent is that his emotions were scorned by a love affair created from the militant leaders superior who happened to be a princess of the land. She loved him for his appearance. In essence he was a beautiful man, but he fell in love with her younger sister who had coaxed him to sleep with her. Despite how ridiculous it sounds, she was actually more competent to emotions, and somehow that reconnected memories relating to his father and a rebellious love he shared.
Because of this he was able to dig into his human side. In anger the elder sister tried to kill her younger sister and the chilkd she was about to bore.
In able to abstain from the chaos, he pretended to love the eldest sister without ever mentioning anything to the youngest. After childbirth, the youngest sister died from the lack of energy to live through the pain.
The child was never heard from again, and Vincent continued to lie to himself about his emotions. However enabling such a thing allowed him to surpass his fellow soldiers. He questioned his abilities. He became too strong for many to even comprehend. The power he held exceeded the abilities that many could hold. The militant leader took him under his wing in a plot to take over the kingdom that his superior controlled.
Vincent followed this man and his teaching in order to utilize it for his own advantage. In doing so, his sanity slowly slipped from his fingertips. He began to lose sense of reality, but at the same time, his existence began to transcend from that of the normal human.
The depth of the soldier project became clear...the sovereign of the land was trying to develop a soldier that could level a continent, but in doing so he created a monster.
At an alarming rate, Vincent became so knowledgeable that he killed the militant leader, and leveled out the soldier program. The sovereign sought for his control, and placed an iron mask on him as an example of the shame he brought to his world.
The sovereign had been collecting such data to make himself stronger as well. It only took a single day for Vincent to escape and plot the demise of the kingdom the sovereign owned.
Vincent could not take off the mask because it ensued an immense amount of pain. The tubes inserted through the mouth piece where injects through his gums. The brace of the mask held spikes inserted through his cheeks, and skin fibers of the mask had attached itself to his face so that if it was removed, he would be unrecognizable to the world in it's entirety.
He made it a goal to kill the sovereign, but this only became stronger when he trained himself to once again abstain from human emotion.
A little girl tried to help him. She was in line for the soldier program. He spent days with her trying to give her a moment of humanity, but everyday she was slipping away from it.
She was under the roof of numerous children guarded by soldiers in which he coaxed them to jump off a roof. He tried to jump off himself and realized that his power had exceeded non existence. The girl was dead, and getting a closer look at her, he realized they shared the same eyes.
At this point he had no idea what to feel, what to believe...the chaos built in him grew. He managed to destroy a whole planet with a single snap of anger.
Vincent learned the danger of his strength. Ahead of his path where three warriors he fought to the death after witnessing a huge explosion (requires further explanation). Vincent was victorious flawlessly, however the power he held caused great pain in his heart.
His heart could not stabilize from the strength he held, thus he dissappeared in an immobile stasis where he would return to bring the world into a new order.
[I could explain this more if i wasn't drunk right now, but all you need to know right now is that, a main character i have in mind, and this guy have a connection so deep that it will twist everything about the story i want to create. ]
alright... i'm tired, lol