Silent Hill (Remake)/Story

This page is related to the story of Silent Hill (Remake). ''' Be aware of unmarked spoilers! '''

Life of Harry Mason
Harry Mason was born in Silent Hill, Maine, roughly thirty-two years before the events of the game. He was born with a rare mental disorder that affects his memory, causing him difficulty in remembering minor events, such as people's names and faces. Due to his disability and perceived "nerdiness", he was often a subject of mockery and bullying by his fellow children. One day, when he was being tormented by his fellow children, he was saved and taken away by Dahlia Gillespie, a teenage girl who was the daughter of the leader of the town's underground drug trade. After receiving the permission of Harry's parents, who were addicted to the drugs being dealt by her father, Dahlia took him to live with her. Whilst he lived under her, Dahlia constantly forced her occultist beliefs onto Harry, being a member of a secret doomsday cult stationed in the town that was devoted to a mysterious "God" they were obsessed with birthing, whilst also physically and verbally abusing him in a passive-aggressive manner. Having a extremely twisted concept of love, Dahlia became intent of marrying Harry as soon as possible as her father's cult began to believe that it would be possible for one of them to birth the God, who would bring paradise to the world. Dahlia began to believe that she and Harry were destined to be the parents of the God and attempted to convince the idea to Harry, who was beginning to write novels as a means to escape his depressed life. When Harry turned eighteen, Dahlia coerced him into having unprotected sex with her, which was enough to convince him to run away from Silent Hill after stealing a stash of Dahlia's family's drugs and selling them to a minor drug dealer living on the outskirts of the town. He managed to hitch a ride from a sympathetic truck driver called Travis Grady, who agreed to help him start a new life.

Eight months later, Harry had three novels published under the fake name Kirk Graham after Travis sends a copy of the manuscripts to a friend who works for a publishing company, and began writing novels full-time. During one of Travis's deliveries, he briefly came across a heavily pregnant Dahlia, who asked him about Harry. After learning of Harry's activities, Dahlia asked Travis to give him a parcel, which he complied. Seven years later, Harry heard of Dahlia's home burning to the ground, but was reassured when Dahlia was confirmed to be unhurt. One year later, Harry's publishing company pressed him to write a thirtieth book, and Travis offered to give him inspiration based on a real event, in which he found and saved a severely burnt young girl from a burning home eight years ago. Theorising that this event was performed by Dahlia's cult, Harry travelled to Silent Hill to confront her, only to find that a strange event of a mass fire, a tsunami, a major earthquake, and a tornado had destroyed a large part of the town, and Dahlia was amongst the hundreds of reported casualties. While attempting to help the survivors and grieving for her death, Harry happened upon a swaddled newborn, with a note attached to her blanket. The note confirmed her as Dahlia's child and stated that she could not raise her, asking for Harry to take care of the girl if possible. Harry accepted the girl as his own child, and named her Cheryl.

Arrival in Silent Hill
Nine years later, Harry and Cheryl are preparing to take a vacation to Silent Hill to help with their mental states. In addition to Harry's memory issues, Cheryl was also born with a medical condition that has resulted in her suffering severe nightmares and sleepwalking all her life. Unbeknownst to Harry, Cheryl also has a severe Electra complex, idolising her father and harbouring sexual attraction to him, viewing him as more of a husband than a father. As they drive to Silent Hill, being passed by a police car along the way, they find that a immense snowstorm is occurring to the town, and while following the mountain road they find that there appears to be no-one else in the town. The two enter a convenience store on the outskirts of Silent Hill to try and find assistance, as well as get supplies for their trip. Finding the store empty, they are soon attacked by a apparition of a teenage girl, forcing them to run back to their car and attempt to keep driving. However, the girl reappears in the car and grapples Cheryl. Harry, in his attempts to force her away from his daughter, loses control of the car, which crashes into a river, knocking Harry unconscious as Cheryl and the girl vanish.

After sinking, the car inexplicably resurfaces, with Harry unharmed but still unconscious, and floats to the other side of the river. Hours later, Harry wakes up, and realizes that Cheryl is missing. After frantically checking his surroundings for her, Harry, after taking a flashlight and a box of matches from the car's glove department, sets out to find her. Heading through a nearby junkyard and car repair shop, he soon finds himself on the streets of Silent Hill. After briefly checking a clothes store, he hears a girl's scream coming from a nearby alleyway and heads there to investigate, hearing sirens coming from the alley. There, it suddenly becomes pitch dark, and when he lights a match, he finds that the environment has completely changed - the pavement has been replaced by rusted metal grating and platforms, the walls are a dark and grimy series of mesh and chain link fences, everything is covered in rust and blood, and through the fences there seems to be nothing at all. Scared out of his mind but determined to find Cheryl, Harry proceeds further into the alley, coming across a series of seemingly connected objects in the middle of nowhere - a IV drip stand, a overturned wheelchair with its wheels still spinning, a burning can, and a painting of a house with the word "DADDY" written on it in blood. At the end of the alleyway, Harry comes across a disturbing sight - the heavily burnt and mutilated body of the teenage girl who abducted Cheryl, crucified on the fence and covered in bandages. Moments after this, he is attacked by humanoid creatures with sharp claws and no faces, and attempts to escape from them only to find that the entrance to the alley he took is suddenly boarded up. The creatures proceed to beat and scratch at him, badly injuring him before he sees Cheryl and the girl whose body he found, now alive, standing before him and offering their hands out to him, which he takes. The girls then disappear, and Harry gains the strength to beat the monsters to death before collapsing from exhaustion and bleeding.

The Search Begins
Harry regains consciousness to find himself in a café, unharmed. He is soon confronted by a police officer who identifies herself as Cybil Bennet, and learns that Silent Hill has been isolated from the rest of the world, with massive boulders covering the roads.