This character dresses in dark clothing and a gas mask. This is meant to portray her mysteriousness and the audience's (and other character's) unsureness of her. The character is in fact a long term hallucination that is manifested by the main character, Rhys. The Lady in the Gas Mask is first brought into existence by Rhys' condition of schizophrenia. At childhood, Rhys' mind only holds this character as voice in his head. When he mixes his prescription drugs for his condition with LSD at a rave, his hallucination changes to a visual which continually develops it's 'power'; eventually her existence differs from in his mind to in his reality. Consequently, she can not only manipulate his mind but interact with him physically as well.
Rhys' relationship with his family and friends decreases significantly over time, making him more secluded, paranoid and hostile as his mental illness and drug abuse takes over. In turn, this causes the uncontrollable part of his mind to also become more hostile, resulting in The Lady in the Gas Mask becoming violent.
This idea was derived from the character of 'Frank' from the move 'Donnie Darko'. In this film, the main character (Donnie) is kept in the company of his sort of 'imaginary friend' which is a large grey bunny rabbit with a scary face. Donnie seems to change over time in the film and ends up doing crazy things, he also goes for therapy sessions and hypnosis as a result. At the end of the film we meet a character that supposedly exists in reality that looks like the bunny Frank, in reality it is a normal man called Frank in a halloween costume. The idea of a character moving from in the mind (in intellectu) and in reality (in re) appealed to us as a group and therefore decided the derive our own character of a similar nature - but with our own little quirky twist.
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