The blepharoprosthesis; Orin loosens the eyelid

texture · nativity + later

• When: The original eyelid lost at nativity; the prosthesis later re-sutured.
• What: Mario's lower-hanging lid is a dermal-fibropolymer blepharoprosthesis studded with horsehair lashes (giving "a friendly pirate's squint") — his real eyelid was sacrificed when the fist stuck to his face was peeled away at birth. Orin's repeated attempts to snap the lid "like a stuck windowshade" gradually loosened it from its sutures, requiring another blepharoplasty.