#silent hill 2 spoilers

[judey-80085]

#SIGNALIS #SIGNALIS spoilers #silent hill 2 #silent hill 2 spoilers #silent hill #dead space #survival horror #survival horror games #Elster #Elster signalis #Lstr signalis #robots #or smthn #i like elster : 3

[little-flame-prince]

finished a replay of Silent Hill 2 and the ending was completely RUINED for me because the whole time, this gif kept playing on repeat in my head:

#silent hill #silent hill 2 #james sunderland #silent hill 2 spoilers #momohaus shenanigans #that tag because my fucking roommate showed me that gif

[itsfarashi]

The beginnings of a Silent Hill comic that I want to do my darndest to finish, starting with a recap of the leave ending.

#silent hill 2 spoilers #Silent Hill #Silent Hill 2 #silent hill fanart #fan comic #digital painting #i meant to wait until i had more pages complete to post this but #alas #i am impatient #and these took a week and a half to do #you can be SURE the rest of the comic won't look like this #cel shading... #how i miss you... #james sunderland #mary sunderland #maria silent hill #sh2 #are these too many tags #idk bro #imma keep going #tag tag tag

[h-worksrambles]

James' interactions with Eddie are something I've found myself thinking about a lot since finishing Silent Hill 2. Pretty much every character in the game serves double duty as being fleshed out as individuals, while also serving as a commentary on some facet of James as a character. Maria is the most obvious, but you also have Angela's self loathing and suicidal ideation, which reflects James' own self flagellation through Pyramid Head. Laura echoes many of the regrets James himself feels about his distance and possible neglect of Mary before she died, and throws those thoughts back in his face out of her own anger. By that same logic, I'd argue Eddie is a means for James to confront his denial as well as his capacity for violence.

Eddie comes to Silent Hill on the run after lashing out against those who bullied him since childhood. After being mocked for years due to his appearance and weight, he shoots both his bully, and the bully's dog, and so ends up coming to the town. Like James and Angela, he too committed a crime of passion (assuming Angela did indeed kill her abusive dad as is implied), and all three are trying to come to terms with what they did. Unlike Angela, who knows what she did and has been conditioned by her abuse to blame herself, Eddie is closer to James, seeming to actively deny what he has done. Or at least only sometimes. It's not entirely clear (and I invite anyone to correct me if I'm minsinterpreting) but Eddie seems to experience multiple personalities. He flips between being more aware of his surroundings and past, and more out of it and unaware. Sometimes he's gleefully boasting about how the people he's killed had it coming. Sometimes he's sat eating pizza like he isn't even aware what kind of place he's in. And we see this flip when James confronts Eddie in Toulca Prison, finding him standing over another body. At first he revels in his kill, and rationalises it, before seeming to flip, and attempt to feign ignorance, as if the prior conversation never happened. For all his bravado, I'd imagine the blood on his hands is extremely traumatic, just as it is for James, and this is likely a psychological coping mechanism. With his false memories repressing his past actions and allowing him to deny it, Eddie mirrors James in that respect. As well as how they're both mild mannered people but who are capable of acts of terrible violence when pushed far enough.

What really stands out to me is that every encounter with Eddie is done in a way that allows James to claim the moral high-ground. When James finds Eddie vommiting in the apartment bathroom, he expresses concern. When Laura runs off from the bowling alley, James berates Eddie for not showing more concern for her safety (giving us one of the most iconic meme lines in the series). And most blatantly, James is horrified when he finds Eddie, having just shot somebody dead. Most tellingly he says "You can't just kill someone just because of the way they looked at you!" And yet, isn't that precisely what James did? He killed Mary because of the exhaustion of caring for her in the late stages of her illness. Because of the way she spoke to him. The way she looked at him. James spends all his interactions with Eddie trying to convince himself that he's a good person. A better person than Eddie. But the more he encounters Eddie, the more Eddie becomes a mirror to him. He definitely has his own struggles as a character and makes a very prescient point about what happens when people are constantly rejected, mocked and socially isolated by society, convinced that they are unlovable (in some ways, Silent Hill 2 was making some very relevant points about incel culture in 2001). But he's also a means for James to confront the parts of himself he doesn't like. His frustration, self-loathing, denial and violent streak. When Eddie tells James that they're the same, that they were both called by the town for a reason...he's right.

And ultimately, for all of James' posturing, all his denial, all his attempts to be the moral voice of reason, James still ultimately ends standing over Eddie's corpse.

Once again, he's killed another person. And confronting that side of himself one of the last things he does before arriving at the Lakeview Hotel and being forced to fully accept the truth...

#this game is so good and i feel like i have to start putting my thoughts down about the story #i feel like you could do something like this for james' dynamic with every character tbh #eddie dombrowski #james sunderland #silent hill 2 #silent hill #silent hill 2 spoilers #canon typical cws

[helloemptyset]

[ image: A large group of doodles of the main cast of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared dressed as characters from Silent Hill 2. Red Guy is dressed like James Sunderland, Yellow Guy is dressed like Laura, and there is a drawing of Duck as both Mary and Maria. Starting from the upper left corner and going clockwise: There is a drawing of Duck as the final boss, hanging upside down dressed in a dirty, bloodied hospital gown and strapped into a spikey metal frame. Bandages cover parts of his head and close his beak shut. A drawing of Red Guy in a rowboat on a lake, the three's house in silhouette in the distance, cloud and rainbow included. A full body drawing of Red Guy in James Sunderland's outfit, gesturing and saying "Don't be ridiculous." A drawing of Yellow Guy in Laura's outfit, hands brought up in fists and angry eyebrows as he says, "You hated him! You killed the other one!" Two drawings of Duck side by side, the first being Duck dressed as Mary in the hotel video, saying "Oh, I just love it here! It's too bad we have to leave...", the second Duck dressed as Maria, gesturing with a hand on his hip and one brought up to his chin, saying "Do I look like your housemate? Don't get so mad, I was just joking." A drawing of Red Guy doing the infamous 'looking in a mirror' scene, sliding his hand in front of his face in a darkened bathroom mirror. In the very middle, a drawing of Yellow Guy sitting on top of a grey brick wall, looking blankly at the viewer. There is graffiti of Shrignold and Tony the Clock on the brick wall. ]

There’s no use explaining why I drew these

#dhmis #don't hug me i'm scared #silent hill 2 #apologies to everyone #silent hill 2 spoilers

[four-armed-angel]

Yeah pretty much

#my art #silent hill #silent hill 2 #silent hill fanart #silent hill 2 fanart #pyramid head #james sunderland #mary sunderland #silent hill 2 spoilers #tw death #tw murder #based off of an old markiplier video with the seven second challenge #i heard this line and connected some dots #he did in fact shit his pants #say i love you #and then kill her

[bishops-severed-torso]

#silent hill 2 #fogposting #james sunderland #silent hill #silent hill memes #silent hill 2 spoilers

[raccoonrobot]

#rookz art #sam & max #silent hill #silent hill 2 spoilers #silent hill 3 spoilers #james sunderland #heather mason #sam (freelance police) #max (freelance police) #maybe spoilers? idk but ttiv's events mentioned

[recipient0fxxxx]

Silent hill games are really funny/weird/interesting/amazing...

Like...you may go to the games to get/feel something... I went to get destroyed...

And then play and play and at the end you're like: "so what?" "Well I don't feel and think anything at all I'm just kinda empty"

Are you disappointed? No...

Are you dissatisfied? Kinda... it's like...I haven't find what I wanted...but what did I wanted to find?...I don't know...

Then you go on living like you always do...the same thing...wake up, eat, do nothing and waste your time and at the end try to sleep...

THEN it's 4AM and you're wide awake with one thing in you mind:

+"Wait...aren't I James?"

_"ugh just shut up you're so meaningless that you try to find your meaning with this kind of projections"

+"yes...but..."

-"Well you're not a 29 yo man and you did not have a wife to loose and__"

+"I don't but...I did have something That I lost 4/5 years ago...and I'm dying to get it back...or even something slightly like that...and guess what?...yeah...I ruined it for myself and everyone else...of course I want to make connections but I'm not good at it and I'm afraid so I rather don't..."

Fuck it I did wanted to get something from it ...I was looking for something about myself in somewhere I didn't belong and I may be actually projecting meaning for myself...but still...It was actually unexpected...

And not to mention I put the save point pic on my profile and my sisters literally thought it was me with filter like what the fuck is the universe trying to tell me🤐

#james sunderland #silent hill 2 #silent hill 2 spoilers #silent hill #don't know what i'm doing with my life #i'm meaningless #is it wrong for me to think that? #i'm speechless

[softpaladin]

thinkin once again about a silent hill 2 / columbo crossover

gee isn't that funny? you said your wife died three years ago, but Laura here says she talked to your wife just last year. wow, what a beautiful car, does it have leather seats? mind if i take a look?

#columbo #silent hill #uh #silent hill 2 spoilers #i guess?? there's a remake coming and perhaps not everyone knows the plot lol

[alicemicrowave]

discussing the silent hill 2 dog ending

#talk #silent hill #silent hill 2 spoilers #hitchiker's guide to the galaxy

[leonkennedymoaning]

I kinda hate the maria ending because it means james doesn’t learn anything, but at the same time it kinda works since it makes sense he would ignore his problems and runaway with maria, despite her being ultimately not real and him being doomed to repeat history until he does overcome it. i still love the Leave ending though and I think maria should be happy

#silent hill 2 #silent hill 2 spoilers #maria silent hill #james sunderland #maria ending #sh2 #the leave ending

[hivemindhypnosis]

SPOILER WARNING FOR SILENT HILL 2 (even though it’s a damn old game)

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I want you all to know that unless you have beaten the Pyramid Head bosses with the Great Knife that you find in the Hexagon Labyrinth Room, you truly haven’t felt alive.

#silent hill 2 #pyramid head #listen it’s a fuckin fun time #silent hill 2 spoilers

[2x4plank]

Okay, yes. I know I wrote that entire thinkpiece about David and I should've stopped there. But I'm on Permadeath and keep having to replay the winter act, and I feel like I still have so many thoughts about not only David, but the entire act. I'm talking game-only, because I don't feel like watching the show, so spoilers for that if you want to play the game.

The more you acquaint yourself with David, the more you hate him. He is one of the only videogame characters that ever upset my stomach.

When you replay the game, his allyship and empty flattery just becomes that much more disgusting. Having to depend on him to fight enemies off of you (because on the higher difficulties especially, he's useless otherwise! Thanks for all those losses due to Ally Death, David!) and looking to him for help and helping him just feels terrible.

I notice that even James is surprised when David talks to him in that demanding tone. Part of me wonders if he used that tone to impress Ellie or something, like saying that he's the top dog around here. I hate it.

Sidenote: When Ellie calls David an "old man", I like to think she pulled that from Henry calling Joel that. I like to think. Henry and Sam are my favorite allies.

Paying more attention throughout the act, I noticed two kind of repetitive symbols: deer and fire.

The deer symbol is pretty obvious: Ellie starts out hunting a deer; she hides out in a hunting lodge; and all throughout the steakhouse, there are pictures of deer and deer mounts which I somehow didn't notice before.

But I never thought about the fire. How she starts out quite distant from the fire that David started, even though it is freezing cold in winter and she's rubbing underneath her nose because somebody needs to give this girl a scarf! But after they fight together, she gets closer and immediately regrets it because these two men she met aren't normal.

While navigating through the wintry hellscape that is David's town, fire lights your path as you crawl through buildings (I found the inclusion of an arcade interesting; it felt like a marker of childhood to me, and there's even a stuffed giraffe). And then of course, the Steakhouse is on fire, and that fire slowly spreads. The use of fire during this act sort of reminds me of the use of fire in Silent Hill 2, where Angela Orosco who experienced sexual abuse lived in this personal hell of narrow, fiery corridors.

And as I hear, "Ah, thank you, Lord!" for the millionth time, I realize that seeing David as similar to Joel still does not work for me. I just continue to contrast them. The only two things that allow for comparison is that David is an older man who also boosts her up to a higher platform. Otherwise, I don't see many similarities.

As I've said, Joel wants to protect Ellie--both mentally and physically. He doesn't want her to see the burning dead in Bill's town. He doesn't want to traumatize her by letting her shoot other people, or encourage her to jump on the frontlines by giving her a gun. He very much acts like a father who wants to take on all those burdens so his child doesn't have to.

David, on the other hand, exposes her to stuff as a weapon. He locks her in the cage in the same room they chop up bodies. He gleefully smiles as he almost cleaves off her head. He is more than happy to make everything worse for her.

And maybe it bears repeating: JOEL WOULD NEVER ABUSE A CHILD LIKE DAVID WOULD! Which is a vast land of difference when it comes to characterization.

Upon returning the steakhouse, it genuinely felt like going back to a place where something terrible happened, and you don't even want to think about it. It's so quiet, but you're collecting health kits to protect yourself because you know it's about to be something. It's this particular kind of dread. And then David bursts in, starts a fire, takes away your weapon, and you have to face him.

So come the next act, when I see Ellie staring at that deer like she can't pull away from it, it's very painful.

#tw sa mention #tw sa #<-- Please heed this warning even moreso than the last David piece #I get into a bit more here but nothing graphic #tlou david #They say the line between love and hate is thin #But with David the line is really thick for me! #I hate him! A lot! #tlou part 1 #tlou game #tlou winter #2x4plank essay post #silent hill 2 spoilers #the last of us #the last of us spoilers #ask to tag

[lstr-master-of-unlocking]

#signalis #signalis spoilers #resident evil #resident evil 7 #dead space #dead space remake #silent hill #silent hill 2 #elster #lstr 512 #ethan winters #isaac clarke #james sunderland #survival horror

[savingthegeneration]

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories ↳ UFO Ending

#silent hill #silent hill shattered memories #shsm #michael kaufmann #ufo ending #gamingedit #gamediting #shedit #silent hill 2 #james sunderland #shattered memories #shattered memories spoilers #did my best to clean these up #been replaying sh2 and thought of this ending lol