Picture the scene: my friends and I are watching an episode of Taskmaster. In the episode, contestants are trying to get a loo roll through a toilet seat dangling from a washing line.
'What, is Pyramid Head doing his laundry?' my friend Rei asks, scathing.
We take a moment to process this. What?
Pyramid Head has a toilet seat, Rei explains, when we express our confusion.
As in... he owns a toilet? He hangs around near a toilet in Silent Hill?
No, Rei says. Pyramid Head has a toilet seat on his head.
The rest of us are confused. What is on Pyramid Head's head is quite famously not a toilet seat.
Ah, no. Rei sees where the misunderstanding came in here. Pyramid Head has a pyramid on his head, obviously. Rei's not stupid.
The toilet seat is underneath the pyramid.
We ask: is there a human head with a toilet seat on top of it and the pyramid on top of that?
No, Rei says, incredulous that we'd suggest such a thing. There's no head. There's just a toilet seat and then the pyramid over it. Obviously. He's a monster.
Rei was absolutely genuine in their belief in Pyramid Toilet Head, and none of us can understand how this has happened.
(Me: Is it all right if I tell the story of Pyramid Toilet Head online?
Rei: Only if you make it clear that I'm as perturbed by all of this as you are.)