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farashibutjustfoolingaorund · 6 months

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I just noticed this picture in Harry and Heather's apartment that looks like a kid's drawing. We know Cheryl liked to draw, I wouldn't be surprised if Heather did too since they're kind of like the same person/a reincarnation/continuation of the same person.

Assuming Heather drew this, this drawing is very interesting to me. My instinct is to say Cheryl is the one on the left, Alessa is the one in the middle, and Heather is the one on the right. To me this feels like symbolism/foreshadowing of Heather eventually possessing the memories of both Cheryl and Alessa, becoming 'complete' in a way.

After Heather gains Alessa's memories, Claudia seems to expect her to switch sides. However, despite all the pain and hatred that Heather remembered as Alessa, she maintains her outlook on the world: that suffering is a part of life, but at the end of the day, we were put here to feel joy. Ultimately it's a positive outlook.

I feel like the drawing being a happy union between these three parts of a whole (if you wanna think about it that way) is symbolic of Heather's ultimately positive outlook on life and the world, despite everything she knows.

And she has this outlook because of Harry. Harry changed her life. Harry was a good father, and raised both Cheryl and Heather in such a way that even after gaining Alessa's memories and having full reason to hate the world, Heather chose not to. Harry thought many times about killing Heather when she was a baby, but ultimately chose to love her, and that really changed everything.

So I think it's significant that whatever drawing pad Heather drew this picture on was a gift from Harry. Heather was able to build her view of the world and of reality and create a positive outlook even from painful and hateful memories because of that gift of love and care that Harry gave her.

photo ref from here btw

#I may have some factual or interpretive inaccuracies here since I've only played SH3 once #so please feel free to call those out.#silent hill 3 #silent hill analysis #heather mason #cheryl mason #alessa gillespie #silent hill theory #sh3 #textpost #rambles #analysis #ramble #little details like this in the apartment man #a childhood drawing framed #a plushie on the bookshelf #a pot on the stove #harry and heather were gonna have dinner man #she was gonna come home and they were gonna have a regular family dinner

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aether-friskets · 2 years

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This probably sounds completely bonkers but

In a way, Chara is to Frisk what Alessa is to Heather

And Asriel/Flowey is like Claudia

I know I know it's a weird claim but what I mean is like:

Chara and Asriel were almost-siblings/friends who met through an unfortunate situation (Chara falling into the Underground and being trapped there), seemingly pretty close and had their own ideas of making things better (breaking the Barrier). Then Chara dies, Asriel later becomes Flowey and creates this sort of idealized version of his lost friend/sibling in his mind over time.

Alessa and Claudia were almost-siblings/friends who met through an unfortunate situation (both respective parents forcing them into the Order and just generally seem shitty), seemingly pretty close and had their own ideas of making things better (Paradise for everyone). Then Alessa dies, Claudia is alone in this horrible situation and creates this sort of idealized version of her lost friend/sibling in her mind over time.

Frisk is someone who arrives at the location where Chara and Asriel were at (the Underground) a long time afterwards, yet has a special connection to Chara (same SOUL type, Chara literally narrates for them and is with them almost the whole game, some even speculate there's some wacky reincarnation stuff at play). They meet Flowey as he is now, who is sure they're Chara and treats them as such, using them to further his own goals (guiding you to the True Pacifist requirements just so he can get all the SOULs/waiting for you to weaken Asgore so he can finish him off and take the SOULs). In a True Pacifist ending Frisk is able to fully assert themself as their own separate being and Chara can theoretically move on. In a Genocide ending (which, obviously, requires a lot of murder) Frisk/the Player becomes more distanced from themself, making Chara more present and stronger as they come to conclusion that their reawakening must be for the purpose of power. They presumably are possessing Frisk in subsequent Pacifist endings based on the credits.

Heather is someone who arrives at the location where Alessa and Claudia were at (Silent Hill) a long time afterwards, yet has a special connection to Alessa (literally her reincarnation). She meets Claudia as she is now, who is sure she's Alessa and treats her as such, using her to further her own goals (having Harry killed to instill her with an intense hatred, making sure she goes to Silent Hill, all to bring about Paradise). In a normal ending Heather is able to fully assert herself as her own separate person and Alessa can theoretically move on. In a possessed ending (which requires a buttload of murder) Heather is seemingly possessed by someone (Alessa? Her own anger? Something else?) that causes her to kill Douglas.

Frisk and Heather both likely have mixed feelings about Flowey/Asriel and Claudia respectively, for various reasons.

Anyway I must sound completely unhinged but I just had to mention this weird connection between two things I like that don't have much obvious overlap lol

#undertale #silent hill #silent hill 3 #frisk #heather mason #asriel #claudia wolf #flowey #chara #alessa gillespie #analysis #my analysis #silent hill analysis #undertale analysis #I'm counting this as analysis instead if a ramble because I actually sort of have a point I guess #safeutdr

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the-bar-sinister · 19 days

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It drives me nuts that nobody acknowledges that James Sunderland's jacket is a specific military jacket-- the M-65 field jacket-- and not the now-standard horror protagonist "LL. Bean" jacket. (like Ethan Winters wears)

it is important because it is a specific reference to the film Jacob's ladder, where the character is a Vietnam veteran.

#james sunderland #silent hill #silent hill 2 #jacob's ladder #classic film #film history #media analysis #silent hill meta #silent hill 2 meta #cosplay reference #cosplay resources

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vanifou · 6 months

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silent hill fact!!

the corpse sitting on the chair in front of the static filled tv is actually the same model as james sunderland (our protag), however, the camera angle is specifically designed so the player can’t see this. this also acts as foreshadowing to the hotel scene later in the game where james finds and watches the video tape of mary, ultimately revealing that he murdered mary.

#silent hill #james sunderland #silent hill 2 #facts #character analysis

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junkartie · 1 year

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The funniest thing ever is that in my baby album my mom made for me between the ages of 0-6 theres a little section for “favorite game” that you fill in yourself and its literally “afraid girl” in reference to silent hill 3 because as an actual fucking infant i would cry until my mom would sit down and play silent hill so i could watch. That is my autism diagnosis fr

#i wish i was joking but i was legit always like this #back then i was really into silent hill 3 because i loved heather and sh2 was too nuanced for me to understand and i hated james #it was only like at age 9 i got into those analysis videos and became insane #i bough 3 sketchbooks and only filled them in with hyperrealistic drawings of all the monsters #along with detailed descriptions of them and info on them from my research #i think it should have been obvious by then

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putting-wheatley-in-places · 4 months

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Sent him to silent hill

Silent Hill - Silent Hill 1

There’s something in the fog…

#ok but he would actually work pretty well as a Silent Hill protagonist #from what I know about the series you usually go to silent hill because you have this horrible guilt #I could be wrong #I should really rewatch some analysis videos #silent hill #silent hill 1 #portal #portal 2 #wheatley #wheatley portal 2 #wheatley portal #request

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scaredsick · 5 months

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hi! i'm canis, i use it/he/they pronouns, and i am a mentally and physically disabled young adult with a special interest in horror!

horror exists partially to vent personal and cultural anxieties and fears, and i would like to nonjudgementally find out why so much of modern horror surrounds the fear of physical and mental illness, injury, and disability.

posts will include trigger warnings as well as links to doesthedogdie.com , a great resource if you have the energy to parse through it

#queer horror #disabled horror #scared sick #horror #malevolent #saw #tma #silent hill #resident evil #hereditary #film theory #film analysis #horror analysis

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aemiron-main · 1 year

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“mother is god in the eyes of a child,”/“i can see your sin as clearly as god can”/“if i only could, i’d make a deal with god,” and why alice creel was the angel in the creel house and why virginia killed her.

I’m still working on my ST-Silent Hill analysis, but there’s a line in the Silent Hill movie (which has VERY BLATANT parallels to ST & Silent Hill is a confirmed inspo for ST) that I want to talk about right now:

“mother is god in the eyes of a child ”

Long story short, the character who says this line, Dahlia Gillespie, is extremely Virginia coded. But why is it relevant? Well, for the sake of this post, it’s relevant because it also aligns with something in Carrie (and the mother in Carrie is very Virginia coded too and there’s a TON of confirmed Carrie parallels in ST):

“Don’t you know by now, Carrie? I can see inside you. I can see your sin as clearly as God can.”

Carrie’s mother talks about how she can see into Carrie’s mind as clearly as god can (which ties into my theories about Virginia being able to reach into Henry’s mind but that’s a whole other post).

So, we’ve got TWO separate pieces of media that inspired ST/that ST references that both have a Virginia-coded mother talking about how mothers = god. Now, let’s look at another reference to god- “Running Up That Hill”.

If “mother is god” and Virginia is the mother, and “Running Up That Hill,” talks about “making a deal with god,” then the deal would be made with the mother to swap places- but the singer isn’t swapping places with god, the singer is getting god to let them swap places with someone else- someone else like Alice Creel. Not to mention that Henry refers to the spiders as gods, and Virginia’s reflection (when Henry “holds a mirror” up to her with his powers) is a spider in the bathtub- her reflection is a god. Henry wanting to swap places with Alice- but not only that. Why would Henry make the deal with Virginia if he supposedly killed Alice? Because he didn’t kill Alice. Because Virginia did. Hence, why he would make the deal with her, hence why she’s the one paralleled to god, because she’s the one making the decisions about who lives and who dies. Why would Virginia kill Alice, though? Well, Victor heard the voice of an angel. A voice that brought him out of a trance- and I’ve gotta finish the full analysis, but I suspect that there’s a solid chance that Alice also had powers and was messing with the radio, there’s one shot of her staring intently at it that’s super suspicious AND another scene where she literally flicks her head in time with the radio changing channels (plus some other stuff). Here’s Alice staring weirdly at the radio.

And the nod is pretty subtle but when you watch the scene with sound, you can tell that it lines up right with when the channel flickers again.

And so, if Alice was turning on the radio, and thereby bringing Victor out of his trance, that would’ve thwarted Virginia’s plans, hence why she’d have motivation to kill Alice. I think Alice may have even turned on the radio in the dining room because she knew what was going on between Virginia and Henry. This also explains why the “signals overlapping,” subtitle during the dinner scene is overlaid on top of a scene of Alice- the subtitle itself, IMO, refers to Virginia and Henry’s powers as “overlapping signals,” as they fight with eachother- and Alice recognized this, and likely turned on the radio as a pre-emptive salvation attempt- she may have already known that music worked against trances/against Virginia, after all, we do see a piano in the Creel house that Lucas plays while he talks about the idea that the piano might open a “secret passageway”. And in “Alice in Wonderland,” Alice finds a secret doorpassageway into the garden- the garden, which seems to be where Henry was shown killing the rabbit. I think that might be the moment when Alice realized something was up with Virginia, but I need to think on it more. And also, in “Alice in Wonderland,” there were three secret passages into Wonderland: the tunnel, the well and the hall of doors.

And also, there’s the whole “painting the roses red,” thing in Alice in Wonderland, and the rose imagery in the Creel house- and if we look at the members of the family as roses, they were literally painted red with blood, which sounds like a stretch, but the “painting the roses red,” scene in Alice in Wonderland was a reference to the Wars of the Roses, which, interestingly enough, in addition to confirming the idea that the red is equivalent to blood, was a series of civil wars- civil wars fought between family members. And it gets better with the Wars of the Roses, let’s look at an excerpt from Wikipedia:

“the modern term Wars of the Roses came into common use in the early 19th century following the publication of the 1829 novel Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott. Scott based the name on a scene in William Shakespeare's play Henry VI”

HENRY. And Henry VI himself was literally INVOLVED in the Wars of the Roses.

And now, back to in Alice in Wonderland, who ordered to have the roses painted red/ordered the deaths so to speak? The queen. Virginia. She was the one committing the murders.

Anyway, going back to what happened at the Creel dinner table that night with the radio- Virginia then started scrambling the radio, hence why it goes from music and starts flicking between channels- it doesn’t just go from music to static, it flicks back and forth between channels, almost like a tug-of-war.

And look at this- at first, it’s subtitled as “staticky signals overlapping,” but then as SOON as it goes to Alice it’s subtitled as “singals overlapping”- it’s because a.) she was making the signal clear by trying to turn it back to the music and b.) in a more meta sense, Alice, unlike Victor, is aware of what’s going on- her signal is clear, her understanding is clear.

And to top it all off, what line do we see in the lyrics of “Running Up That Hill?”

“come on, angel.” Alice was the angel. With what I’ve said here, “Running Up That Hill,” would be from the POV of Henry towards Alice, wanting to swap places with her- and Henry would know that Alice was the “angel,” the song is directed at Alice, and refers to the person the song is directed to as an “angel,” thereby referring to Alice as the angel. And Henry is one of the few characters whose family has very overt religious imagery in the family itself, not just in the town as a whole, with Victor talking about demons and angels.

Alice had powers. Virginia had powers. Henry, of course, had powers. Victor, is there something you’d like to share with the class? (he doesn’t have powers dw- at least as far as i know.)

Virginia killed Alice. This is something I’m going to talk about in the full analysis, but it’s worth keeping in mind that in Carrie, Carrie’s mother tries to kill her (and Carrie, in the movie, looks quite a bit like Alice), and after Carrie’s mother stabs her, Carrie ends up pushed to the bottom of the stairs, JUST like where Alice was laying.

Even Virginia comforting Alice after her nightmare is a Carrie parallel.

And take a look at that painting on the wall when Carrie falls down the stairs. It’s crooked.

And what other paintings are crooked? The ones in the Creel house when the Hawkins gang investigates it. Specifically, the one right near the stairs (above that table on screen right), just like in Carrie.

And to conclude, @laozuspo has made some fantastic posts (part 1 here and part 2 here) about Alice and Henry and “Running Up That Hill,” and Henry wanting to swap with Alice and this sort of stuff but the Silent Hill and Carrie parallels and the radio stuff just all hit me like a brick tonight, esp since those shots of Alice with the radio were making me absolutely insane last night. Anyway. I’m being normal about the Creels as usual.

#stranger things #st analysis #st music #st soundtrack #st running up that hill #st-silent hill parallels #henry creel #creel family

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hallowsweenie · 3 months

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The connection between Angela Orosco & Alessa Gillespie

Content warning: Sexual violence and abuse. Spoilers for Silent Hill 1 - 3

Something I always found interesting is the similarities between these two Silent Hill characters. To me, I see them as two sides of the same coin.

Silent Hill 2 is a self-contained story about a man and his late wife, following his experiences going through a town that wants him to explore his subconscious. We meet other characters in the story that James Sunderland did not know prior to coming to this town, some having to do with the plot and Mary (Maria & Laura) and some that have seemingly nothing to do with his storyline at all (Angela & Eddie). While Eddie Dombrowski is possibly reflective of the cold, callous nature it takes to become a killer, Angela has little to do with James and Mary's relationships and psyche. However, when looking closely, some things can be speculated.

Angela is a victim of abuse. Throughout her life she was sexually assaulted by her alcoholic father and brother repeatedly, with her mother turning a blind eye to the situation, speculated to also be verbally abusive to Angela. She is apparently not even twenty when James meets her in Silent Hill, and is looking for her mother specifically. We later learn through a newspaper clipping that Angela had actually murdered her father and brother, details left unknown, and she is seeking out her mother assumedly for finishing her circle of retribution on her family and cause of her suffering. Angela displays suicidal tendencies and severe mental illness, being detached from reality (If Silent Hill is reality) at times, as well as a kind of childlike-demeanor that switches to a colder, more mature side of herself. When James finds her with a knife when encountering her for the second time, she offers the weapon to him out of fear of her own misuse of it. However, as he reaches for it, she suddenly becomes frightful. Angela is very severely afraid of men. Also in the encounter in the room with the mirror and knife, Angela reveals she finds it "Easier to run" which is how she handled her abuse several times, to no avail as her father had dragged her back to her horrid living situation. She has an escapist mentality until recently, as one can assume now she is confronting her trauma after murdering her father and brother and now seeking her mother. During her journey in Silent Hill we get the idea that she still sees herself weak to her abuse and trauma, as she cowers during the boss fight we, as James, intrude upon. However, once James defeats the Abstract Daddy boss, Angela beats on the dying creature and lashes out at James, accusing him of wanting her sexually. Later, Angela mocks James by asking him rhetorical questions about saving her. Angela struggles with herself, seeing herself as a victim and her own savior at the same time. The last we see of Angela is as she ascends the burning stairs in the hotel on the lake, at the end of the game. She demands James gives her the knife back, but he declines, not giving her a weapon to assumedly commit suicide with. We can assume suicide because she asks him "Saving it for yourself?" and James claims he would never do such a thing. She questions James seeing the flames too, and says, "For me, it's always like this." Angela's end is left ambiguous. We never know how she handles her trauma. We can only hope for the best for one of the more tragic characters in the game. Masahiro Ito, monster artist of the game, did confirm on twitter that Angela dies. But the way she passes is not remembered and left ambiguous.

Alessa Gillespie is another victim of abuse in Silent Hill. She is arguably the most important character in the series, and credited as the 'cause' for Silent Hill being the way it is (However, this is debatable). Her father is left unnamed with nothing known about him - it's speculated that Alessa was the result of a magical ritual performed by her mother in the cult she was a part of, thus Alessa having psychic abilities and destined for the fate that is put upon her. However, it could be just as possible that Alessa is a product of rape, which is implied in the movie adaptation. Her mother, Dahlia Gillespie, physically and emotionally abused Alessa and involved her in the famous cult of the town The Order, which believes in old world magic and a God that will bring them salvation. Alessa, at the very young age of seven, was offered up to be sacrificed by ritual of fire in her own home, by her own mother because Alessa tried to act against her mother's wishes to birth god. The cycle of abuse continues after, as the 'god embryo' Alessa is assumedly born with does not allow her to die in immolation - she is locked away in a hidden room in the hospital, treated for severe burns, unable to interact with the outside world while on the chopping block for birthing a monstrosity at the whims of insane cultists. Lots of other abuse is left unsaid and can only be assumed. Alessa's psychic abilities are very powerful. She eventually musters up the strength to actually sever her soul out of spite to prevent the birth of God, and launched that soul out of Silent Hill as a roadside baby. A baby that is raised by the protagonist of Silent Hill's first game, Harry Mason. Eventually, Harry goes to the town by the request of his young daughter named Cheryl, who unknowingly is following her destiny to be reunited with her other half, Alessa. Harry uncovers the truth about Alessa while searching for his daughter and is misled constantly by Dahlia who does exist within the town, trying to manipulate Harry into helping her with the ritual in thwarting her daughter and bringing about the birth of God. In the end, Harry realizes what he has done and does right by Alessa, who gifts him a new baby that is the whole Alessa reborn with both halves of herself. She gives herself to a man she has deemed worthy of raising her into a better life, a man who has gone through literal hell for his daughter. We never get to know Alessa personally. Everything we know of her is through environmental storytelling in Silent Hill, and she is painted as the true victim of the story. No one in the series has undergone the level of pain, abuse, suffering and tragedy that Alessa has. Her psychic abilities on top of an already cursed land combined with her trauma supposedly created the Otherworld that Silent Hill is known for, the kind that calls to people struggling with guilt of their crimes like James Sunderland. We can maybe get an idea of who Alessa was personality-wise in Silent Hill 3, where you play as that baby Harry is given at the end of the first game, renamed Heather Mason. She's sassy, she's strong, she's so independent already as a teenager. Knowing she went to insane lengths to thwart her mother and the cults plans driven by spite, and considering that she survived everything she went through, we can assume that Alessa was also a very strong-willed girl. If she was given the choice and the room to grow, she wouldn't have been meek in any way.

Angela and Alessa are like two sides of the same coin. Besides the physical similarities and the similar names, they are the same in the way that they are opposite.

Angela is a normal girl with no psychic ability, a survivor with a damaged mental state that renders her, at first, submissive and meek on the surface and fearful of the world. But underneath, she is an angry soul who wants to right what was wronged unto her. She is without a mother, looking for her to (assumedly) kill her and seek retribution and revenge for herself. The men in her life have severely wronged and abused her, thus she hates the gender altogether. She is a victim of rape but also a murderer. She is a victim, but she is also her own savior. She rejects James's help and goes her own path in the end in flames.

Alessa is a supernaturally gifted girl who survives her situation, but not without literally dying. She never actually escapes her situation until she has to rebirth herself magically and start a literal new life as a baby. She is without a father, and while she has no siblings, she did grow up with a girl named Claudia Wolf (Introduced in Silent Hill 3) in the same cult who comes to believe the same brainwashing the rest of the cult undergoes. We can assume Claudia would have unknowingly been complicit in the pressuring of making Alessa birth God. Her mother is the person she seeks to get away from, and while it isn't explicitly said that Alessa is sexually assaulted, she does become supernaturally pregnant and is expected to give birth without her consent. Without any say in the matter, really. She is burned alive and left to suffer with the wounds, and only receives her freedom and salvation in the form of a man she deems worthy of becoming her new father. Her end is not ambiguous; she becomes Heather Mason, and the protagonist of her own game installment.

Family figures between the two girls are opposite. The views on men are opposite. One has turned to killing to resolve her trauma, and the other chose to withstand and send a part of herself away. Both go through horrendous living conditions - but one makes it out renewed with a seemingly happy ending, while the other is fractured, angry, and looks to suicide with a tragic ending. However, both girls have that fiery spirit within them that are angry about what has happened to them.

The spirit of Alessa is still present in Silent Hill 2, a game that is separate from the plot about Alessa and the Order, in the form of Angela. To James, Angela shows that not everyone can be saved, no matter how innocent they are in their own stories. The tragic suffering of a young girl like Alessa was arguably molded into a unique mirror for James once he came to the town, just like everything else in Silent Hill. Alessa's story can be seen in Angela's and one could even think that they might be the same person just in different lives, in different worlds, but there to hold a mirror up to James and his own crimes, no matter how blameless he may see himself.

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the-mercurial-star-o-vesper · 8 months

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THE LADY IN RED

God created beings to lead people in obedience to her. The red God Xuchlibari, The yellow God Lobsil Vith. Many Gods and Angels...

Think I've talked about this one before.

An archetype that appears in most Silent Hill games (Well, the original ones anyway), is what I dub the "Lady in Red".

Usually this is a woman dressed in a Red garb of some kind, often heavily associated with the underlying supernatural of Silent Hill. For SH1, it's Lisa Garland, for SH2 its Maria. SH3 doesn't show the archetype, but Lisa makes an appearance again (Albeit subtly), and SH4 occurs outside of Silent Hill.

Now, I don't actually think that the "Old Gods" of Silent Hill are at all ancient or old. I think, like the Cult that follows them, that most of the entities here are Stolen.

Cos remember, Silent Hill didn't get its full on Otherworldly power until Alessa stepped in. So any True "mythology" behind the Cult would've sprung from Alessa's powers first--the "proof" as it were.

Cos we also have to remember that the Cult's ideas are a Farce. SH1 outright proves that with the Hospital Scene. The only purpose here to obtain power, so all you need is to string some bullshit in the face of actual Supernatural ability (Like Alessa's reality warping, or the presence already present in SH--wouldn't shock me if one another were the same deal).

So everything is made up, and its highly based on whatever Alessa did in Silent Hill 1. This includes SH3's "Sun" track, detailing the "Creation Myth". If you look at it, it looks more like a delusional and distorted retelling of SH1.

Put Alessa as God. A Man offers a Serpent to the Sun (Michael Kaufmann, who is a Doctor, and Hospitals are represented by Serpents), and a woman offers a Reed (Well, process of elimination--Dahlia Gillespie) and "God" is created (Well when two people "love" each other very much...)

Alessa sets the stage by incident, the Fog World and the Otherworld. "God Creates Time", and the two Cycle "God Creates Day and Night".

"God creates the path to Salvation"--Silent Hill paths the way for you to learn from your mistakes. Its not gonna be easy, anyone who's played the games knows this--and it doesn't always end pretty if you don't learn.

"And then God created Beings (To lead people in obedience to her)".

There were no "Beings" before Alessa.

Everything the cult thinks is just their delusion, their projection or their lies. There was no Valtiel before Alessa--in truth, there technically was no Valtiel before Silent Hill 2 (Which means someone stepped into that role).

And Silent Hill cannot created something from nothing. Everything it does, its based around the town and whoever is experiencing it.

The Lady in Red, the Red God Xuchlibari, is the only person Alessa ever encountered in Red-- Lisa Garland.

And Lisa has incarnated repeatedly through the various Silent Hills since her Death (and Alessa... departure).

I propose, that Lisa is also Maria. This is why Maria is apart of the town, a reflection of James--and very human and conscious for a projection, almost uncomfortably so given the circumstance.

Lisa is the only known Spirit of any influence and personality, the only one who survived Alessa's onslaught of the otherworld, albeit as a ghost--with the implication that she was Allowed to survive as such.

She doesn't appear in SH4, because she's attached to Silent Hill proper.

Her minor appearance in SH3 could imply that the reason she doesn't appear outright, is because Heather doesn't remember and can't see the spirits as anything more than monsters at the moment.

But Lisa is our only god here.

ADDENUM:

As for our Yellow God, we'd have to ask who else was around when Alessa changed Silent Hill, who exactly else she was fond of that could become an Archetype of sorts. There really isn't anyone that's specifically associated with Yellow. But if we look at the "paintings" in Silent Hill 3...

With Red God on the left of "God" and the Yellow on the Right--look what he's associated with. A written Book, a Scribe. And next to him, what appears to be something akin to the Flauros...

And his name does mean "Bad Flesh Vessel"--so an angel that's possibly handicapped, or its body considered cursed or evil in some way.

... Well, we know of someone who's considered Vital but also a Villain to the Order, and who was explicitly a Writer, who's own Saved Points were Notepads...

Lobsel Vith is Harry Mason, and his arrival with Cheryl is what kicked Started Silent Hill.

And when he died, he seemingly "Vanished" into the otherworld of Silent Hill.

I think the reason none of our Archetypes appeared in SH3, is because Alessa is "God" here and that means Heather is too. The various "Beings"--being people who literally helped Alessa / Cheryl in life-- wouldn't have stood by and let Heather go through Hell for another's Delusions. So Claudia had each "Angel / God" surpressed. The Incarnating Lisa bound and gagged and tormented. And Harry murdered outright (which was probably the poorest decision, because Alessa's influence considers Harry a god, so Claudia effectively spelled her own doom by doing that. There's a good chance that Harry is the one who kept leaving helpful if odd items of use for Heather )

#Silent Hill #Silent Hill 2 #Silent Hill 3 #Lisa Garland #Maria #Harry Mason #Heather Mason #alessa gillespie #theories and analysis

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