Talk:Santana/@comment-219.92.112.206-20150709073801/@comment-37902906-20181223140359

Personally I think he already wore the mask, but just haven't really found out his Mode yet. The original Pillar Men in the flashback used weapons like spears and machetes, which means they can't manipulate their bodies, meanwhile Santana can use his ribs and even detach his flesh to leech off people's life force, so he most likely had worn the mask that enables body manipulation. Manga Santana didn't have a Mode, nor is his Mode shown in the anime, but in the anime there's a mural of the four Pillar Men showing their horns and hierarchy, where the other Pillar Men have light, flames, and wind carved behind their heads, and Santana's hair was shaped very similarly to waves. Going by that mural, his Mode is implied to be water/liquid. (unfortunately I don't have the picture, but if anyone is curious about the mural, it appears in the Part 2 ED and the beginning of episode 14 where Speedwagon pulled up a picture of the carvings and revealed that Santana was actually the lowest ranked Pillar Man).