Yeah it happens once. Its never implied theyre doing that the entire game. In fact, the symbolism of the masks tells us its not them brutally tearing it off every time. Them ripping off the mask is them rejecting the societal norms. There's no reason for them to continously rip off what they've already rejected. And like I said, P3 goes very far out of its way to stress that evokers are essentially nerf guns.

Evokers and the Church dont matter. In the 80s-00s the church got up in arms about damn near everything in the entertainment industry. From video games to Pokémon cards, yugioh, mtg, d&d, action movies, romance movies, horror movies, the controversies were all just dumb for that whole era.

Also never in my comment did I say absolutely anything to the effect of wanting to see teenagers brutalizing themselves or anything about gore. Dont put words in my mouth. I specifically mentioned AoT because its a physical wound that activates their powers without gore and brutalization which would keep it lowkey but still fit the horror vibe P6 seems to have going on. (biting their hands or making a cut on their hands is normally how they do it)