For as long as I can remember, my older sister has had two significant fears: zombies, and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2. When I was younger, you couldn't even mention Pyramid Head to her, and because of how petrified she was of the character, I couldn't exactly look him up or even play Silent Hill 2 to really understand why she was quite so scared. I just had to exist with the knowledge that there was some sort of creature out there that scared my incredibly goth sister so much you couldn't even utter the name.

As you can imagine, my child brain ran wild with theories of what it could look like from the vague descriptions she'd given which, in turn, petrified me. Until the day I remembered her terror and finally experienced Pyramid Head for myself. Don't get me wrong, Pyramid Head is a scary horror villain, however it's nowhere near what I was led to believe it would be. Even now, I could name a hundred enemies scarier than Pyramid Head (with the Janitor from Little Nightmares being right at the top. No I will not elaborate.)

But over the years, my exposure to Pyramid Head has definitely been helped by just how many people love him. For reasons I will not write about in my innocent weekly column, I know that Pyramid Head has a pretty large fanbase, which in turn has resulted in hundreds if not thousands of people wanting to bring the character to life through cosplay.

I can't even imagine how hard it must be to craft such a large headpiece from scratch, let alone wear it all day at a convention. But what I really love is when a cosplayer puts a unique spin on a character to make it suit them better, and there have certainly been some phenomenal examples with this character in particular.

I cosplayed pink Pyramid Head at Dokomi a few days ago :)