Thread:Dr0Shadow/@comment-9340689-20131223205234/@comment-9340689-20140120234815

As much as I like skeletons and skulls, I really don't want red death to be a skull or skeleton.

First, because he's based on the figure from Edgar Allen Poe's story, which did not describe a skeleton in any way shape or form. Red Death resembled a body in funeral shrouds and funeral mask, who had blood all over his body.

Second, Skulls and skeletons would be more like the dying man. We've already got two fear interpretations who have the dying man associated with them.

Third, skulls are kinda becoming overused in horror.

Fourth, we are making Red Death the fear of blood and PHYSICAL PAIN. You can't go through physical pain (or bleed) if you are already dead and have no skin left, so a bone thin, living person with blood coming out (but not too much, we don't want to overdo it) would be a better match for what Red Death will represent.