Mok Sharib
From The Vermilion Mask
Mok Sharib is a main character in The Vermilion Mask, a young man trapped wearing the Mask of Smoke, which lets him control smoke but forces him to smoke to live. Kazuki Ura voices him in Japanese. No English dub has been announced.
About Mok Sharib
Mok Sharib is a young man who wears the Mask of Smoke and cannot take it off. The mask gives him control over smoke, and it charges him for it: his body now needs him to smoke regularly. He travels with Peru hoping to find a way to be free of the mask before it finishes consuming his life.
Appearance
Mok is rarely seen without smoke around him, visually marked by the mask he cannot remove. His whole look carries the series' central horror in miniature: the power is visible, and so is the price.
Personality
Mok lives with a countdown. The mask's bargain, power in exchange for a body that now depends on smoke, shapes a character who is part companion, part warning. He joins Peru not for glory but for the one thing Peru's mission might give him: a way out.
Background & Story
At some point Mok put on, or was given, the Mask of Smoke, and it never came off. The mask lets him command smoke in battle, and it has rewired his body so that he requires smoke to function. When he meets Peru, a man destroying masks to stop exactly this kind of tragedy, Mok joins the journey with a personal stake none of the others can match: one of Gaston's masks is wearing him.
Powers & Abilities
- Mask of Smoke: Mok's mask lets him control smoke, shaping it in battle for attack, defence and concealment. It is one of the clearest examples in the series of a mask's gift and its cost arriving in the same package.
- Living with the price: The mask forces Mok's body to need smoke regularly. His endurance is not a technique, it is daily survival, and it gives him an understanding of Peru's enemies that the others lack.
Key Relationships
- Peru d'Arrest: His hope of freedom. Peru is destroying masks for the world's sake, and Mok needs one particular mask destroyed for his own.
- Sonarue Maywood: His fellow traveller, whose steadiness helps hold together a party built from damaged people.
Quick Answers
Who voices Mok Sharib?
Kazuki Ura voices Mok in Japanese. No English dub of The Vermilion Mask has been announced.
Why can't Mok remove his mask?
Mok's Mask of Smoke cannot be removed, and it has changed his body so that he needs to smoke regularly. He joins Peru's journey hoping to find a way to be free of it.