Helmet
A Helmet is a variety of hat which is designed to protect the wearer's head not just from cold and wetness, but also from external damage from blows.
Reasons for wearing a Helmet
- Sport Safety (Hockey, American Football, Bicycling)
- Workplace Safety
- Extra Vehicular Activity
- Hazmat Work
- Entering a Combat Situation
Materials to make a helmet out of
- Wood, if you have trees but metal is scarce or you are really primitive
- Wool, if you have sheep but metal is scarce or you are really primitive, this applies to other textiles as well
- Leather, if you have large animals but metal is scarce, you are really primitive or are at the bottom of the social ladder
- Bronze, if you are living in the bronze age
- Steel, if your society has mastered iron working and does not want to put up with importing tin and/or copper
- Plastics
- Ceramics and ballistic textiles, if you are in the modern age and want to stop shrapnel and pistol rounds out of your brain
- Tinfoil, to keep out the FBI/CIA/NSA/MI6/CSIS/Russian/European Union/Chinese/Indian/Templar/Google/Scientologist/Vatican/Wold Bank/NWO/MIB/Moon Nazi/Mars Soviet/Mercury Empire of Japan/Asteroid Belt Napoleonic Empire/Lizard Men/Pinniped mind control rays.
Helmets and Faces
Helmets are the most common type of combat armor employed in History. Helmets protect your brain, your most important organ, from damage. When compared to a breastplate or other such article of torso armor, fairly small and inexpensive to make. If you had to have just one bit of armor, you got a helmet. Helmets came in many shapes and sizes. On thing which could often be said was that covering as much as possible of the head often made a helmet, with a few small holes to look and breathe out of is better at it's job than its more skimpy counterparts.
However, for visual fiction these helmets can be problematic as they hide the faces of the character and as such, limit what emotion can be shown to the audience, as well as concealing his his/her identity and making them less relatable, ironically serving the opposite function of all other varieties of hats. For this reason, full head helmets are usually reserved for faceless enemies employed by the enemy to be killed with a minimum of audience empathy while heroes wear helmets which leave their faces exposed, or simply go helmetless into combat situations.
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