List of Silent Hill characters

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The following is a list of characters from the video game series Silent Hill.

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[edit] Silent Hill

  • Cheryl Mason is Harry's seven-year-old adopted daughter in Silent Hill. Near the beginning of the game, she disappears after her father's Jeep swerves off of the road.
  • Cybil Bennett. A police officer from the nearby town of Brahms, in Silent Hill to investigate the loss of communications. Cybil is Harry's ally in the game, providing him with a handgun and meeting him periodically throughout the game. Her fate depends on the player's actions at a key point in the game and will alter the ending achieved. She is voiced by Susan Papa.[1]
  • Michael Kaufmann / Dr. Michael Kaufmann is the director of medical staff at Alchemilla Hospital. He is apparently connected to The Order (the town's resident cult) as a drug dealer, but during the game he turns on them and attempts to prevent Dahlia Gilesspie's plans. He is voiced by Jarion Monroe,[1] and also appears in the prequel game Silent Hill: Origins. [2]
  • Lisa Garland. A former nurse on the staff of Alchemilla Hospital. Harry encounters Lisa multiple times in the "otherworld" hospital, uncertain of what exactly is going on and unable to remember what has happened to the town. By the end of the game she is driven to the conclusion that she is in fact a ghost manifested by the town and shortly after telling Harry this she disappears. She is voiced by Thessaly Lerner.[1]
  • Dahlia Gillespie. An eccentric old woman who owns an antique store[citation needed] in Silent Hill. Underneath this façade, Dahlia is a key member of the Silent Hill cult and the mastermind behind Alessa’s birth and injury. Dahlia is Alessa's mother, though their relationship was anything but loving. Dahlia coerced Harry, via his quest to find his missing daughter, into helping her find and subdue Alessa in the Otherworld so she could make the girl birth the God. Upon the God’s birth, Dahlia was killed by either the Holy Woman in White (Incubator) or by Incubus. She appears in the first Silent Hill video game (voiced by Liz Mamorsky[1]) and the Silent Hill film (portrayed by Deborah Kara Unger[3]).
  • Alessa Gillespie. Alessa is the daughter of Dahlia Gillespie, the leader of a cult known as The Order that operates out of the fictitious titular town of Silent Hill. She was originally meant to follow in her mother's footsteps and take over as spiritualistic medium for the religious group, but her role in the franchise is greater, her history directly influencing all events in the Silent Hill universe. She appears in the first Silent Hill video game, voiced by Sandra Wayne; and in the film, portrayed by Jodelle Ferland.[3] A mimicked form of Alessa also appears in Silent Hill 3, in an encounter at the Lakeside Amusement Park.
  • Andy. A boy with a crush on Cheryl that stows away in Harry's jeep during the first game. His story is only unlockable in the Silent Hill Play Novel.

[edit] Silent Hill 2

Main article: Characters of Silent Hill 2
  • James Sunderland - is the protagonist of Silent Hill 2, who is searching for his dead wife.
  • Mary Shepherd-Sunderland - is James Sunderland's dead wife, who is waiting for him in Silent Hill, at their "special place."
  • Angela Orosco - is a mentally-disturbed girl who was sexually abused by her father at a young age. She is searching for her mother in Silent Hill.
  • Eddie Dombrowski - is an obese man who dresses like a child and carries a revolver. At first he appears to be easy going, but towards the end of the game it becomes apparent that he is also mentally unstable after years of abuse regarding his weight and appearance.
  • Laura - is a young girl who appears to hold some sort of unexplained grudge against James, as well as knowing Mary's identity.
  • Maria - is the player-controlled protagonist in Silent Hill 2's "Born From a Wish" scenario. She bears a striking resemblance to James' late wife, Mary.
  • Ernest Baldwin - is the man whom Maria encounters in the "Born From a Wish" sub-scenario. Although they never see each other and have conversations through a locked door, Ernest is the primary reason that Maria finds and accompanies James in Silent Hill 2.

[edit] Silent Hill 3

  • Heather Mason. The player character and protagonist of Silent Hill 3. Heather is the matured Cheryl Mason from Silent Hill 's "Good" and "Good +" endings. As the reincarnation of Alessa Gilesspie from the first game Heather is instrumental in the antagonist Claudia Wolf's efforts to bring about the rebirth of "god", and most of the game revolves around Heather's attempts to thwart her.
  • Douglas Cartland. An aged private investigator hired by Claudia Wolf and The Order to locate Heather. When this results in the death of Heather's adoptive father Harry, he feels guilty and accompanies Heather into Silent Hill as an ally. If the player gets the 'Possessed' ending, Heather kills Douglas, implying that she herself has been 'possessed' by her 'true self'.
  • Claudia Wolf. A priestess in The Order, and the main antagonist of the game. It is said during the game that she was abused as a child. Claudia is attempting to carry on where Dahlia Gilesspie failed in Silent Hill and use Alessa Gilesspie (through her reincarnation as Heather) to birth "the god".
  • Father Vincent. A high priest in The Order. Vincent is apparently more hedonistic and less dogmatic than Claudia, and opposes her actions. Vincent appears to be on Heather's side during the game, but is often seen as vindictive and hypocritical.
  • Leonard Wolf. The abusive father of Claudia Wolf and former leader of The Order. Heather encounters him in the Brookhaven mental hospital to acquire an artifact he and Vincent believe can prevent the birth of "god", where he takes the form of a monster.
  • Harry Mason. The protagonist of Silent Hill. Harry appears in a limited capacity as Heather's adoptive father. Prior to Silent Hill 3 Harry kills a member of The Order who tracked the two down and is placed in witness protection. During the game he is killed under Claudia's orders out of revenge and to further her goal of having Heather birth "god". Heather can also read Harry's journal and his notes left as save points in the first game serve as save points in some areas of Silent Hill.

[edit] Silent Hill 4: The Room

  • Henry Townshend - The player character and stoic protagonist of Silent Hill 4: The Room. Henry is suddenly trapped in his apartment for five days prior to the beginning of the game and begins to suffer from recurring nightmares. He discovers a mysterious hole in his bathroom, through which he enters several distorted "otherworlds" and encounters the other characters in the game. There is little known about Henry other than he may be a professional photographer, or at least enjoys doing it on his free time. He apparently has very few acquaintances, and barely knows any of the other tenants in his apartment building writen on the front door say .
  • Eileen Galvin - A young woman who lives next door to Henry in Room 303. Walter intends to make her his 20th victim (having met her when she was a child and he was a homeless teen), but her murder is disrupted by the intervention of the child Walter, though she is badly wounded. Henry finds her again in the Hospital world, where she accompanies him throughout the other levels as an ally. Her fate directly affects the ending achieved.
  • Walter Sullivan - The antagonist and arguably the central character of the game. Sullivan is a serial killer who had been raised in The Order's "Wish House" orphanage, where he came to believe that the place of his birth was his actual biological mother. His killing spree is part of a ritual he is attempting to carry out, the 21 Sacraments, to "purify" "her" (Henry's apartment). He has undergone the mysterious "Ritual of Assumption", which seems to grant him immortality as well as other vague mystical powers. He was born in Room 302 itself, and with the enforcement of Dahlia Gillespie, he began to gain his mad understanding of the room in his early years at the Orphanage where he was abused for years. Sometime near the time in which Silent Hill 2 occurred, Walter killed 10 people in 10 days, and was caught shortly afterward. He completed the Ritual of Holy Assumption by killing himself in prison, and created the twisted 'Otherworld', where he killed the victims leading up to the 4th Game.
  • Young Walter Sullivan - An incarnation of Walter Sullivan's younger self, separated from adult Walter through the adult's supernatural activities. Young Walter's role is somewhat mysterious; he doesn't seem to understand the older Walter's intentions (or even to know who he is). When Henry meets Joseph Shreiber, the latter reveals that apparently Little Walter is the last glimmer of innocence in Sullivan's soul, being the part of him that only wanted to be with his mother when the older version split with him to become an inhuman, insane killer.
  • Cynthia Velasquez - The first of Walter's victims that Henry encounters. Cynthia is a young woman trapped in the "subway" world who is convinced that she is in a dream and offers Henry what is presumed to be a sexual favor if he helps her escape. At the end of the level Henry finds her dying from multiple stab wounds as Walter's 16th victim and when he returns to the subway world her ghost is waiting to attack him.
  • Jasper Gein - A young man with a noticeable stammer Henry finds in the Wish House/Forest world. Jasper has a strong interest in The Order and Silent Hill occult activity in general. He is closely linked with Walter Sullivan's second and Third Victims, and he was in fact at the scene of the crime when his college friends were Strangled. He is burned alive by Sullivan at the end of the level as Sullivan's 17th victim, apparently pleased in his last moments with having met "The Devil," and haunts the area as a ghost when Henry returns.
  • Andrew DeSalvo - A nervous, middle aged man Henry meets locked in a cell in the Water Prison world. Prior to the game DeSalvo was employed by The Order as a guard at the Wish House and the Water Prison, (although he was apparently not a member of The Order himself) where he was abusive towards the children there. It is hinted at in the Forest World's stone diaries that he killed Little Walter's childhood friend 'Bob' and made him drink something with leeches in it. After Henry frees him from the cell he is disturbed to meet Young Walter and is last seen drowned as Walter's 18th victim. When Henry returns to the Water Prison he has to fight DeSalvo's ghost to acquire a key.
  • Richard Braintree - A violent and stressful man who lives in Room 207 of Henry's apartment building. For over thirty years Richard had lived at the South Ashfield Heights, and had always been an aggressor towards Walter in his younger years. During the time that Joseph lived at the Apartments, there was an incident where he brutally beat a fellow Tenant named Mike, who stalked nurse Rachel, who may have been the same Rachel from silent hill 2. During the game, Richard is encountered in the "building" area, where he angrily accosts the child Walter. At the end of the level he is killed by Walter using an electric chair, attempting to identify his killer to Henry before dying. Like Sullivan's other Victims, he is encountered as a ghost in the world where he is killed. His ghost form is the only one which does not float, though it attacks with great celerity and can teleport.
  • Joseph Schreiber - An investigative journalist who was investigating the Sullivan murders and the Wish House prior to the game. Joseph is the former resident of Henry's apartment and Sullivan's 15th victim. In the beginning of the game , the player can actually control Joesph. The room has Henry's belongings and he asks where his type writer is. When he sees a picture of Henry, he asks "Who is this person?" Thus confirming you are not Henry Townshend, but Joesph Schreiber. He is killed in the beginning of the game by a ghost. All this proves he was still alive when Townshend was living in the apartment, but was trapped in the other world. He later appears in the game as a friendly ghost offering advice on how to defeat Walter. During the game, the small red notes that he left behind give insight to certain aspects, and in some cases tips to defeat powerful enemies; for example in one case he left behind a note stating that Holy Candles and Saint Medallions could weaken them dramatically, as well as Dispel Hauntings. Over time, it is revealed through his notes that Joseph was imprisoned in room 302 much like Henry was, and at some point he went mad and was killed. There was a reference to him in Silent Hill 3 where Joseph's "Wish House" article was found by Heather at the 1st floor of Brookhaven hospital, saying she "knows that place from somewhere."
  • Frank Sunderland - The superintendent of Henry's apartment building and the apparent father of Silent Hill 2 's James Sunderland. Frank makes an effort to investigate what is going on in Henry's room during the game, but is unable to open the door or otherwise enter the room. For some reason, he has kept Walter Sullivan's umbilical cord for over 30 years.

[edit] Silent Hill Origins

As Origins is a prequel that takes place seven years before the first game, Alessa Gillespie, Dr. Kaufmann, Lisa Garland and Dahlia Gillespie all appear in the game.

  • Travis Grady (1947?-???). The player character and protagonist. Travis is a mentally disturbed trucker who rescues Alessa Gillespie from the house fire mentioned in Silent Hill. It is revealed that he was abused by his mother, who attempted to kill him at a young age. She was subsequently admitted to Cedar Groves Sanitarium, where she rationalized her actions. She mentioned that Travis was a pest, and that he also had a devil in him.[4][5]
  • Helen Grady (1920?-1959). Travis' mother who was committed to the Ceder Grove Sanitarium in 1959 when Travis was a boy.
  • Richard Grady (1917?-1959). Travis' father who fell into a deep depression after his wife was institutionalized. He later committed suicide when Travis was young.
  • The Butcher. A monster that Travis witnesses flaying monsters on several occasions. His actions and appearance are similar to those of Pyramid Head. He is 'killed' by Travis after a fight in Riverside Motel's kitchen.

[edit] Silent Hill: Homecoming

  • Alex Shepherd (1986-). The player character and protagonist of Silent Hill V. Alex is a soldier who comes home from overseas to find his father and later his brother Joshua have disappeared and his mother has gone into catatonia. Shepherd begins to search for his brother, leading him through Silent Hill and the new town of Shepherd's Glen. According to EGM he is 22 years of age. His surname is the same as Mary Sunderland implying that there will be a connection between the protagonists of Silent Hill 5 and Silent Hill 2.
  • Elle Simpson (1987?-). An old school friend of Alex. It is confirmed that she will aid Alex on his journey and she will have a role similar to Maria's. According to EGM, she is spunky like Maria as well as cute like Heather Mason. Probably within early twenties.
  • Joshua Shepherd (1996?-). Alex's brother and only sense of stability after what has happened to his mother and father. But with Alex's return he somehow disappears, leaving Alex to find him, hoping not to lose the one last thing he cherishes. Joshua continues a tradition just as Cheryl from Silent Hill and Mary from Silent Hill 2, as being the lost loved one the main character sets out to find. No direct picture of Joshua, but according to EGM he is around 12 years of age.

[edit] Silent Hill: The Arcade

  • Eric Lake (1975?-). Featured in Silent Hill: The Arcade, Eric is one of two playable characters and apparently has a connection with the Little Baroness, a steamboat that disappeared in Lake Toluca 89 years ago.
  • Tina Townshend (1973?-). Another playable character in Silent Hill: The Arcade, Tina comes to Silent Hill with her friends Eric, Bill, and Jessie to visit a little girl named Emilie and her father, Frank.She may be the sister of Henry Townshend

[edit] Silent Hill Film

Note: Though it exists outside the continuity of the game series, many of the characters in the film are interpretations of game characters.

  • Rose DaSilva (1972-), played by Radha Mitchell, a female version of the protagonist from the first game, Harry Mason.
  • Christopher DaSilva, played by Sean Bean.
  • Sharon DaSilva (1995-), played by Jodelle Ferland, a version of Silent Hill 1's Cheryl Mason.
  • Cybil Bennett (1970-2004) (Silent Hill 1), played by Laurie Holden.
  • Dahlia Gillespie (1932?-)(Silent Hill 1 & Orgins), played by Deborah Kara Unger, is a former member of the Order who, after the failed sacrifice of her beloved daughter, has descended into madness. Regardless of her mental state, Dahlia's concern for her daughter leads her to try and protect Sharon from the Order's agents. In the end, Dahlia is left alive, but forever trapped in Silent Hill. In the film, her full name is mentioned as Cassandra Dahlia Gillespie.
  • Thomas Gucci, played by Kim Coates, is a jaded police detective from Brahams who is investigating the disappearance of Cybil, Rose and Sharon. Though he humours Christopher's desire to search for his wife and child, he ultimately has little desire to explore the town of Silent Hill. As a young man, he found the injured Alessa and took her to the hospital, burning his hands in the process.
  • Christabella(1922?-2004), played by Alice Krige, is the leader of the small group of Order refugees living in their old church. It was Christabella that orchestrated the sacrifice of Alessa Gillespie and after the darkness took over the town, created the only safe haven within. Alessa kills her at the climax of the film, causing a strand of living barbed wire to penetrate her vagina and tear her in half from the inside.
  • Red Pyramid (Pyramid Head) (Silent Hill 2), a helmed figure who stalks the town to find and kill the members of Christabella's sect. (Whether it is under Dahlia's or Alessa's command is sometimes disputed. In one scene, when Dahlia was threatened by Order member Anna, the Red Pyramid appeared and executed her. This can be interpreted either as Dahlia directly summoning it, or Alessa doing so to protect her mother.)
  • Alessa Gillespie (1965-) (Silent Hill 1, 3 & Origins), a game character in the Silent Hill series who is portrayed in the film by Jodelle Ferland.
  • Red Nurse (a.k.a. Lisa Garland) (Silent Hill 1 & Origins). This is the attending nurse to Alessa in the hospital. She bears a striking resemblance to Lisa Garland from the first Silent Hill game.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Silent Hill at imdb.com
  2. ^ Silent Hill: Origins preview at Gamespy.com
  3. ^ a b Silent Hill (2006)
  4. ^ Reed, Kristian. Silent Hill Origins interview with William Oertel. Eurogamer, 2006-11-05. Retrieved on 2007-07-13.
  5. ^ Summary of IGN 9-minute preview. Silenthillorigins.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-22.
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