Clown mask a Gas mask

[Ed Venture]

I occasionally clown around, usually as Beelzebub, Lord of the Pies. The lack of being able to use the mask this way doesn't stop me, but I seriously don't get why there's so much push against it in any form.

Clown already starts with terrible shoes, and debilitating clumsiness. I've stabbed my own eyes out by fumbling a butcher knife. It was hilarious. It's not like being able to breathe in uniform is going to stop shenanigans.

Like, I get that you're supposed to be the comic relief. You're not there to save the day, to rampage and roar about. It's possible, but doing so is just an extension of your role of being funny since a successful clown flips expectations and that's what humor is all about.

I've offered up a compromise with balloons, someone else suggested making it a medal award to reskin gasmasks. I don't really care either way, it just feels like elitism to me. "I was clowning before it was cool"

For me at least for me it's not elitism. I've only recently started playing as the clown exclusively. I've never had that much trouble running out of a room with no O2. I'm somewhat in a grey area as I don't think it makes or breaks the job in all honestly. But to assume people like it the way it is makes them a elitist is quite a assumption and a dumb one at that.

Not wanting it to change is one thing, and there's nothing wrong with that. But acting like someone that just wants to play the game without dying should be ashamed of themselves, like clown is some kind of do or die role strictly for the best players who are skilled enough to play without internals, is silly. That's the elitism I'm talking about.

I only see one post saying you need to be a apex player to play clown and that's wrong for one. Almost all the other post just say that clowns have to sacrifice things for the sake of comedy. Plus it does not really make any sense for a clown mask to act as a gas mask and if we use that logic then all the mask should act like internals because why not?