13th May 2010, 10:56 PM
yeah screw spoiler tags ;P
I think Cybil's name-meaning applies to her first incarnation as well. A prophet that shows up at 'important' times, but she is tainted and destroyed by the evil of Alyssa or her mother, not sure which.
Ergo, a false prophet. Leme paruse the story quickly.
Okay first off, Cybil tells you ITS DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE, TAKE THIS and hands you a gun. She also tells you that she's attempting to contact reinforcements.
The next time you meet, she says she saw your daughter "walk on thin air" and tells Harry it's worse (the town) than she imagined. She briefly touches on a drug trafficing ring that's been an ongoing investigation (as you know, part of the major plot to SH is the particular drug that is refined there which comes from a flower).
Of point of interest is where you meet her: In front of a 'church' with an altar. Harry goes off in to la-la land while talking to Cybil, entering alternate Silent Hill while Cybil tries to keep him in what she thinks is reality.
Next time you meet, it's the boat. Cybil finally meets Dahlia here. Cybil confesses she cannot comprehend what is happening in the town, even though Harry explains it. It's like Cybil WONT understand it. She tells Harry she'll do anything to save the child though and heads towards the amusement park, where Dahlia said would lead to clues.
Boom - Cybil's on the couresel in a wheelchair and has a huge parasite on her back. What in the fuck buckets right? But I think, measuring realities here, that Cybil was, in some way, portraying Harry's dead wife who had 'fallen ill' years ago and could not have children (hence the strong bond to the 'adopted' Cheryl). The parasite could be the sickness eating away at her, or how Harry's growing guilt of seeing his wife suffer and caused him to view her as a parasite, sucking the life out of him as she slowly died. Regardless, in the true story, during the fight with Cybil (who is not acting like Cybil at all) your douse her with the liquid and the parasite comes off - she returns back to normal.
My theory on it is that she is Harry's nightmare. Him and Cybil kinda felt for each other, didn't they? They were so happy to see each other in the hell they were in. As he grew attached to her, she became a monster to him, just like the wife. But now he can fight those demons, and save her.
Ryan will have better info than me on this, but that's my theory. So i think the hidden meaning of the name has clout here because Cybil is:
1. Devine in that she is the only normal person to survive. (Kauffman is killed by Lisa)
2. She has 'special knowledge' of the drug trafficing and helps Harry bridge the clues together of what's happening in the town.
3. She appears in the game at all the special locations that are important to Harry, Alessa, or Cheryl.
Now the best ending of SH has Cybil finding Dahlia and the monster in the wheelchair. This confuses me here. The wheelchair reference is made multiple times in Harry's story and here it is again with Alessa + Cheryl as Mr. Frankenfurter X-Treme.
Dahlia's bullshit: I was shocked to realize the talisman of Metraton was being used. In spite of the lost soul returning at last. Just a little longer and all would've been for naught. It's all because of that man. We must be thankful to him. Even though Alessa has been stopped, his little girl has to go. What a pity... *lol*
So now we get the whole story, a little girl was going to give birth to a demon God by being tortured severely and her pain and sufferng would bring the God out (talk about your long and painful pregnancies, oy!) but Alessa wanted help and created Cheryl out of what good that was left inside Alessa. As long as the two are apart no God can be made. But Cheryl was drawn to recconect with Alessa, or, Dahlia was using black magics to lure her back. Once returned, they are combined and the big ptereodon of evil is formed. Strange tho, it doesn't pop out until Kauffman throws the vile of liquid on it. I dont get that either.
Hmm, dammit, Weltall get in here!
I think Cybil's name-meaning applies to her first incarnation as well. A prophet that shows up at 'important' times, but she is tainted and destroyed by the evil of Alyssa or her mother, not sure which.
Ergo, a false prophet. Leme paruse the story quickly.
Okay first off, Cybil tells you ITS DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE, TAKE THIS and hands you a gun. She also tells you that she's attempting to contact reinforcements.
The next time you meet, she says she saw your daughter "walk on thin air" and tells Harry it's worse (the town) than she imagined. She briefly touches on a drug trafficing ring that's been an ongoing investigation (as you know, part of the major plot to SH is the particular drug that is refined there which comes from a flower).
Of point of interest is where you meet her: In front of a 'church' with an altar. Harry goes off in to la-la land while talking to Cybil, entering alternate Silent Hill while Cybil tries to keep him in what she thinks is reality.
Next time you meet, it's the boat. Cybil finally meets Dahlia here. Cybil confesses she cannot comprehend what is happening in the town, even though Harry explains it. It's like Cybil WONT understand it. She tells Harry she'll do anything to save the child though and heads towards the amusement park, where Dahlia said would lead to clues.
Boom - Cybil's on the couresel in a wheelchair and has a huge parasite on her back. What in the fuck buckets right? But I think, measuring realities here, that Cybil was, in some way, portraying Harry's dead wife who had 'fallen ill' years ago and could not have children (hence the strong bond to the 'adopted' Cheryl). The parasite could be the sickness eating away at her, or how Harry's growing guilt of seeing his wife suffer and caused him to view her as a parasite, sucking the life out of him as she slowly died. Regardless, in the true story, during the fight with Cybil (who is not acting like Cybil at all) your douse her with the liquid and the parasite comes off - she returns back to normal.
My theory on it is that she is Harry's nightmare. Him and Cybil kinda felt for each other, didn't they? They were so happy to see each other in the hell they were in. As he grew attached to her, she became a monster to him, just like the wife. But now he can fight those demons, and save her.
Ryan will have better info than me on this, but that's my theory. So i think the hidden meaning of the name has clout here because Cybil is:
1. Devine in that she is the only normal person to survive. (Kauffman is killed by Lisa)
2. She has 'special knowledge' of the drug trafficing and helps Harry bridge the clues together of what's happening in the town.
3. She appears in the game at all the special locations that are important to Harry, Alessa, or Cheryl.
Now the best ending of SH has Cybil finding Dahlia and the monster in the wheelchair. This confuses me here. The wheelchair reference is made multiple times in Harry's story and here it is again with Alessa + Cheryl as Mr. Frankenfurter X-Treme.
Dahlia's bullshit: I was shocked to realize the talisman of Metraton was being used. In spite of the lost soul returning at last. Just a little longer and all would've been for naught. It's all because of that man. We must be thankful to him. Even though Alessa has been stopped, his little girl has to go. What a pity... *lol*
So now we get the whole story, a little girl was going to give birth to a demon God by being tortured severely and her pain and sufferng would bring the God out (talk about your long and painful pregnancies, oy!) but Alessa wanted help and created Cheryl out of what good that was left inside Alessa. As long as the two are apart no God can be made. But Cheryl was drawn to recconect with Alessa, or, Dahlia was using black magics to lure her back. Once returned, they are combined and the big ptereodon of evil is formed. Strange tho, it doesn't pop out until Kauffman throws the vile of liquid on it. I dont get that either.
Hmm, dammit, Weltall get in here!