It actually didn't make any difference what mask John chose,because in a War
what mattered was the War,not the tf.
Now amongst the Beasts had been two wild feral dragons,a male and a female.
The male,had chosen to switch sides to the Masks,to gain intel the Masks might have had
on the Regime,the Resistance and any other faction who were
not Beasts or Masks.
She had chosen to stay behind with the Beasts,but not before she'd given him a few bottles worth of her mutagenic female dragon beast saliva and blood and venom.
They were both acting as double agents,and though the Masks and Beasts were technically
enemies,there was plenty of give and take
between the two factions.
Then she had vanished,perhaps handed over by the Beasts to the Regime?
So it was
this male feral dragon Beast double agent who
was looking in on John deciding which mask to chose.
The feral dragon knew ALL the masks available to John were coated with his missing lady loves venom,blood and saliva,so whatever John chose he was going to be turned into a feral female dragon Beast.
A potential agent to slip back into the Beast Fortress,or possibly leave here with the Masks
whilst the dragon headed back to check on his missing love.
And so,before the night was done,a female feral dragon Beast was bursting out of
John's clothing,the coyote mask slipping off her
lengthening snout and falling to the floor.
The male feral dragon Beast now had a choice to make
Send her back into the Beast Fortress to gather intel
Leave her her amongst the Masks to act as his go-between.