Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140912094911/@comment-5561191-20141018093050

Jacky 50A My theory about Torr's head cloth was - and still is - that those weird red eyes he's got are too sensitive and vulnerable to light, so he needs to protect them from it. Thus, he needs the cloth to cover them and Ferra to guide him around. That's why, as the second part of the theory, I mentioned he should be from a dark place, such as the dark pits of Netherrealm, which is also where many onis live.

But I think that if the scars caused by the disease you mentioned left Torr's face so vulnerable, then it would also be a very plausible explanation for the cloth. An infection in the nose, for example, can be deadly, as there are many veins in it and the infection could reach the heart and the rest of the body extremely quickly, so he needs a face cover.

On the other hand, if the scars ached continously, it would make his whole face an extremely weak spot, perhaps even to the point of Torr crumbling to the ground in pain every time anyone landed a hit on it. A tissue face cover wouldn't help much to reduce the force of the impact, you know. However, this specific detail could be ignored to give Torr a normal kombatant's gameplay (as much normal as this guy's gameplay can be, of course), so that he would fight normally without the weak spot thing.