SILENT HILL Quick referance: Why?
Questions that need answering:
1: What Happened to Alessa?
Dahlia Gilespie gave birth to a girl using a ritual to birth the girl with the seed of god inside her. As such Alessa grew up with special powers. Her peers called her a witch at school. When she was 7 years old Dahlia explained her purpose and Alessa would have no say in it, deciding she did not want to help Dahlias evil plans. As such Dahlia locked Alessa in her room in her house and burned her alive in a great fire that wiped out 5 blocks. Dahlia knew that the power within Alessa would keep her alive, but in a state of unconciousness. Living, Dead, until her 17th birthday when the god would be released.
2: What is Cheryls role?
When Dahlia burned Alessa, she discovered that only half of the soul of the dark god was within her. As such a new child was born with the other half of the soul and once Alessa became 17 the two would merge into one entity and birth the god.
3: What was Kaufmanns role in this?
Dahlia made a pact with Kaufmann, the director of the hospital, to keep Alessas body tendered to in secret under the hospital. Kaufmann chose a nurse who was addicted to the drug 'white claudia' to look after Alessa. The fact that Alessa was alive, but dead, drove that nurse crazy. That was of course Lisa.
4: What was Lisas role in this?
Lisa tendered to the burned corpse of Alessa for sometime, addicted to the drug only kaufmann could supply her. She slowly went insane trying to heal the girl who had wounds that wouldn't heal. Lisa discovered that Dahlia gave birth to another child, and didn't want to see the child have the same fate as Alessa, so she stole the child and ran to the outskirts of Silent Hill where she succumed to her drug addiction and left the child by the side of the road. That child was Cheryl. Lisa was shortly after killed by Kaufmann.
5: So why was Lisa in the story?
Lisa in the story was already dead of course, but she was the only person who was ever nice to Alessa and as such when Alessa created the nightmare world, Lisa was alos created out of the memories of Alessa. The Lisa that Harry interacted with was nothing more than an illusion.
6: Why was the nightmare world created? Who created it and how?
Alessa created the nightmare world, NOT the dark god inside her. The nightmare world was basically what Alessa remembered of Silent Hill, merged with her dreams of being burned alive, and the deep hatred boiling inside her for what had happened to her. It was merely an illusion she had created. The main reason was to spread the MARK OF SAMAEL subconciously across the town.
7: The Mark of Samael?
That is what Dahlia called it, but it was actually the seal of Metatron. In her burned state Alessa was not idle. She created a nightmare world to hide from Dahlia in, and then spread the mark over the town. The mark actually STOPPED the dark gods influence over the town. Dahlia had to find the form of Alessa in the town that Alessa had basically projected into the town out of her body to spread the mark. Dahlia needed to stop the mark being spread, and Harry was the perfect pawn to use.
8: How did Dahlia use Harry?
Dahlia tricked Harry into thinking the Alessa ghost he'd seen was actually creating the nightmare world to spread the dark gods power. She planted the mystical FLAUROS device on Harry which would destroy Alessas projected self and stop the spreading of the mark, thereby allowing the dark god inside Alessa to grow.
9: What happened to Cheryl?
When Harry drove into town the projected Alessa stepped infront of his car to meet the other half of the Alessa soul. Basically there was never a Cheryl, just two Alessas, and when Harry crashed the two Alessas became one Alessa.
10: Why did Alessa so Harry images of his daughter?
Alessa gave Harry all the signs of his daughter all over town, like the phone call in the school and the images in the mall, to make him think that his daughter was still out there and therefore help him help her by killing the demons in town and giving her a free path through the nightmare world she accidentally created from her tortured mind.
11: Demons? Why the Demons?
Here's a quick refereance to the demon meanings in the game/story:
DOGS/BIRDS/APES/LIZARDS DEMONS:
In a file found in SH it gives referance to the fact that Alessa when she was little visited a zoo and it scared her so bad she had nightmares about killer animals for months after. These were representations of the animals that scared her.
DEMON CHILDREN:
In school all the children picked on Alessa. In her tortured burned state the demon children represent the hatred she had for all the other children.
DEMON NURSES/DOCTORS:
All the doctors and nurses in the hospital, as far as Alessa was concerned, were partially to blame for the way Alessa had turned out. She thougth they all knew about her suffering all all played a part in it, besides Lisa of course. The demon docs/nurses were actually the REAL nurses and doctors of the hospital and Alessa had trapped them in the nightmare world and infected them with parastites like her own that made them lose contol and want to kill everything.
Heather:
Heather is the unborn child of Alessa. As Alessa died she used the last of her strength to resurect herself as another child, a whole child, to give herself one more chance without pain or suffering. Heather was intended by Alessa to be free of demon parasites or powers, but as Heather finds out as she nears her 17th birthday, she is no different than Alessa.
Heather IS Alessa.
Alessa is the mother of god. Alessa is the daughter of god.
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