Item from Sally Face by Steve Gabry (Portable Moose)
A smooth white mask covering devastation — the prosthetic that hides a shotgun-blasted face and a childhood ended by a cultist in a dog mask.
The prosthetic is not a costume, a quirk, or a character design choice — it's a medical necessity covering wounds inflicted by a shotgun blast when Sal was a child. Beneath it: his right eye is glass, the cartilage of his nose is completely missing, a diagonal scar splits his lips exposing teeth, and smaller scars scatter across what remains of his face. People react to the prosthetic before they react to Sal. Kids stare. Adults look away. Travis calls him 'Sally Face' as a slur. Larry is the first person who treats the prosthetic as a fact rather than a tragedy. The mask becomes iconic — a visual shorthand for the game itself — but within the story, it's a wound made wearable, a reminder that Sal survived something that should have killed him, and that the thing that did it to him is still out there.
A white prosthetic face with a faint pink patch over the right eye area, secured with straps hidden under Sal's blue pigtails. Smooth and expressionless — not quite flesh-colored, not quite mask-like. It covers his face from hairline to chin, leaving only his eyes visible. The prosthetic is functional, not cosmetic — it protects damaged tissue rather than simulating a normal face.
Also known as: The Mask, Sally Face, The Prosthetic