I‘m in a yapping mood today so I might just as well write this thought out and ask for your opinion on this!
When I was a teenager interacting with the KHR community online there were many theories on why Bel doesn‘t cut his bangs as to never show his eyes to anyone (most of them where wishful thinking and shipping hcs). But it‘s a fun detail to have literally 3 Varia members hide their eyes! Lussuria who seems to have fascinating eyes due to the OVA since everyone was so in awe when he took his sunglasses off. As well as Mammon who always remains mysterious as they are also an Arcobaleno at that! And I think it‘s very fitting for them. Since Lussuria can see through his glasses, but refuses to just be a pretty guy as he fights! And Mammon probably doesn‘t need to see anything through their hood since they‘re a powerful illusionist and probably just have the ability to know about their surroundings anyway.
I thought a lot about that and I have two direction of ideas about it.
The first one being that he has those scary red eyes which he doesn‘t want to show to other people. Maybe because in his opinion no one would be allowed to see a Prince‘s eyes anyways and therefore he just hides them. BUT: Why would a guy who thinks of himself so high and mighty and knows how scary he is hide something that adds to the scaryness?? If that would be a thing, he probably would show his eyes to his enemy staring at them on purpose to make them feel the panic even more.
My second idea sounds more plausible to me but I also get the feeling this could be wishful thinking and add to his Prince characteristics. Imagine he could have those blue beautiful eyes with long lashes and kind expression in them, it would be pretty clichee, right?? This would totally destroy the whole „Prince the Ripper“ thing for him. Imagine you encounter the legendary scary killing machine and look into his eyes only to find a strong sense for loyalty and expression of feelings other than the expected violence in them. That would destroy his vibe and therefore he would rather hide his eyes from when he was a kid. No one should see his feelings, his beauty and think of him as a pretty and kind ruler, because he wants to be everything other than that. He wants to keep up his bloody and maybe punk attitude plus remaining a Prince!
But how does he see through his bangs??? Does he actually see through them? Does the light blind him too much? Does it have to do with his mental state? Why wouldn’t he just use glasses as well? Does he just want to show off how silky and pretty his blonde hair is?? Or is it just to pretend he is awake when he actually sleeps in any meeting (his deadly sin is laziness afterall)??
I have many questions and no answers, so please if you have an ideas on this or agree/disagree with me, let me know!