26th April 2006, 12:40 PM
DJ every SH takes place in the mind of the characters. everything is unreal.
here's the best way to understand it I think, imagine a city has the triforce built under it. You have a triforce on your hand, making you speciol, so you go there. As soon as you arrive the town is reflected off of your mind, if you're a person with a guilty conscious you live in hell, if you're feeling fine and have no personal demons you see nothing out of the ordinary. here's the difference: Imagine the triforce under the city has already been claimed by another person with the triforce in their hand, and they can make whatever they want in the city. So even if you're a good person, you'll be attacked by THEIR nightmares and what not and you will see Silent Hill based on what THEY think.
now, in a nightmare on elmstreet kinda way, if you fail while in this dream world it will effect the real world. Die in the dream world, die in the real world. That sorta thing. But not everyone can enter Silent hill, you have to be speciol, harry's adopted daughter contained half the soul of Alessa so she was called to silent hill in order for the souls to combine (they were split to keep God from bbeing born), James killed his wife while vacationing in SH and felt so guilty he actually relapsed and forgot it happened, this overwhelming guilt opened silent hill to him where he can fight his own demons and the memory of his wife who he thnks is 'missing' - there has to be a very specific reason why Silent Hill will let you in because SH is a consciousness (like the triforce) and you have to be sensitive to it in order to interact with it, otherwise it stays hidden from our perception of reality.
In a way, Silent Hill is a real life purgatory, from it you will clear yourself and enter a state of guiltless understanding, realization, etc. Or completely drown in your guilt, being overtaken by your fears even the things you try to laugh at manifesting themselves in to the worst case scenario you can imagine. and then, you have the people who are on a mission, people that have died (harry in a car wreck) but are kept alive in order to stop a great disaster (the birth of god), if he makes good, he is given a new life (so is his daughter who is now two people = plot of SH3) and it raises the question in the stories does God exist or is the will of the characters who make good and become archangels foor good, (having defended good, are ultimately cursed afterward to continue being a servant of God for the good of man) litteraly speaking.
but SH is what it is because it left a scare, a man-made scare from the civil war where men butchered other men and asylums carried the insane in to slughterhouses for the wicked to torture as either a display of power or just to sooth their own desires to perpetuate anger and fear. because of those events SH is the emotional heart of Earth that carries this negative energy flow, which is why it was decided that god will be birthed in Silent hill's hidden reality (a pocket in a multiverse created by the pain of the murdered) that is created and forged by the unborn God as he gestates in two different people (representing the original person's good and bad side). Alessa creates 'alternate' Silent Hill and ffills it with her nightmares (nurses, demon children etc), walls made of blood and that sort of thing while harry's daughter sees a more shrouded SH trying to give harry clues as he moves forward exposing the truth of SH and what harry needs to do, your daughter creates the people who help you. Eventually harry's daughter is 'killed' (she never actually existed anyway)combined with alessa and god is born, the people merged, god is killed by harry, and the baby (collection of both soul-halves) becomes one, at which point this 'version' of Silent Hill no longer exists and harry wakes up in his car with a massive headache and a baby in his arms.
this is why SH2 was so different, it went in a completely different direction story wise. But when Harry's daughter reaches 16 or 17, she is thrown in to Silent Hill where ever she goes, even when not in the borders of SH because she has the god inside her, it survived just as she did and it's creating these alternate worlds based off the fears and mind of harry's daughter. While harry was attacking what would become, harry's daughter is being attacked by what has been and her Silent Hill along with harry's silent hill is reborn so to speak, as memories she must recollect and experience in order to kill god who's main driving force is the so called mmother of God Claudia who sacrificed her own daughter to use as a vessel for god, harry's daughter denounces god, vomiting it on to the floor and Claudia takes it in to her, swallowing it, you kill claudia and the undeveloped god forces himself to be birthed at which point you kill it once and for all.
fuck I love silent hill.
here's the best way to understand it I think, imagine a city has the triforce built under it. You have a triforce on your hand, making you speciol, so you go there. As soon as you arrive the town is reflected off of your mind, if you're a person with a guilty conscious you live in hell, if you're feeling fine and have no personal demons you see nothing out of the ordinary. here's the difference: Imagine the triforce under the city has already been claimed by another person with the triforce in their hand, and they can make whatever they want in the city. So even if you're a good person, you'll be attacked by THEIR nightmares and what not and you will see Silent Hill based on what THEY think.
now, in a nightmare on elmstreet kinda way, if you fail while in this dream world it will effect the real world. Die in the dream world, die in the real world. That sorta thing. But not everyone can enter Silent hill, you have to be speciol, harry's adopted daughter contained half the soul of Alessa so she was called to silent hill in order for the souls to combine (they were split to keep God from bbeing born), James killed his wife while vacationing in SH and felt so guilty he actually relapsed and forgot it happened, this overwhelming guilt opened silent hill to him where he can fight his own demons and the memory of his wife who he thnks is 'missing' - there has to be a very specific reason why Silent Hill will let you in because SH is a consciousness (like the triforce) and you have to be sensitive to it in order to interact with it, otherwise it stays hidden from our perception of reality.
In a way, Silent Hill is a real life purgatory, from it you will clear yourself and enter a state of guiltless understanding, realization, etc. Or completely drown in your guilt, being overtaken by your fears even the things you try to laugh at manifesting themselves in to the worst case scenario you can imagine. and then, you have the people who are on a mission, people that have died (harry in a car wreck) but are kept alive in order to stop a great disaster (the birth of god), if he makes good, he is given a new life (so is his daughter who is now two people = plot of SH3) and it raises the question in the stories does God exist or is the will of the characters who make good and become archangels foor good, (having defended good, are ultimately cursed afterward to continue being a servant of God for the good of man) litteraly speaking.
but SH is what it is because it left a scare, a man-made scare from the civil war where men butchered other men and asylums carried the insane in to slughterhouses for the wicked to torture as either a display of power or just to sooth their own desires to perpetuate anger and fear. because of those events SH is the emotional heart of Earth that carries this negative energy flow, which is why it was decided that god will be birthed in Silent hill's hidden reality (a pocket in a multiverse created by the pain of the murdered) that is created and forged by the unborn God as he gestates in two different people (representing the original person's good and bad side). Alessa creates 'alternate' Silent Hill and ffills it with her nightmares (nurses, demon children etc), walls made of blood and that sort of thing while harry's daughter sees a more shrouded SH trying to give harry clues as he moves forward exposing the truth of SH and what harry needs to do, your daughter creates the people who help you. Eventually harry's daughter is 'killed' (she never actually existed anyway)combined with alessa and god is born, the people merged, god is killed by harry, and the baby (collection of both soul-halves) becomes one, at which point this 'version' of Silent Hill no longer exists and harry wakes up in his car with a massive headache and a baby in his arms.
this is why SH2 was so different, it went in a completely different direction story wise. But when Harry's daughter reaches 16 or 17, she is thrown in to Silent Hill where ever she goes, even when not in the borders of SH because she has the god inside her, it survived just as she did and it's creating these alternate worlds based off the fears and mind of harry's daughter. While harry was attacking what would become, harry's daughter is being attacked by what has been and her Silent Hill along with harry's silent hill is reborn so to speak, as memories she must recollect and experience in order to kill god who's main driving force is the so called mmother of God Claudia who sacrificed her own daughter to use as a vessel for god, harry's daughter denounces god, vomiting it on to the floor and Claudia takes it in to her, swallowing it, you kill claudia and the undeveloped god forces himself to be birthed at which point you kill it once and for all.
fuck I love silent hill.