Silent Hill Heaven

Though something that's always had me scratching my head is when she remarks, "Huh? Are you blind or something?" when he asks her what she's doing in Silent Hill. It seems to me that Laura is pointing out that her presence in Silent Hill should be obvious to him--but why would she imply this if James only really gets acquainted with her in Silent Hill?

But here's another thing--in the Born From A Wish scenario, Maria enters a room with a teddy bear and comments that Laura would love it, yet this most likely happens before James even meets Laura. So, assuming that everything Maria knows is channeled from James' knowledge and memories, how would she know this? Unless you adhere to the idea that Maria might actually be some sort of reincarnation of Mary and not truly a manifestation, brought to fruition though the Otherworld.

She is definitely not Mary's direct reincarnation.

AuraTwilight wrote:

Though something that's always had me scratching my head is when she remarks, "Huh? Are you blind or something?" when he asks her what she's doing in Silent Hill. It seems to me that Laura is pointing out that her presence in Silent Hill should be obvious to him--but why would she imply this if James only really gets acquainted with her in Silent Hill?

He also explains the town is dangerous when it isn't for her, and she knows about James even if he forgot about her. They both visited Mary, so they probably crossed paths at some point. James seems like the type who'd ignore and forget about some dumb eight year old.

But here's another thing--in the Born From A Wish scenario, Maria enters a room with a teddy bear and comments that Laura would love it, yet this most likely happens before James even meets Laura. So, assuming that everything Maria knows is channeled from James' knowledge and memories, how would she know this? Unless you adhere to the idea that Maria might actually be some sort of reincarnation of Mary and not truly a manifestation, brought to fruition though the Otherworld.

Maria was created by both James and Mary. Her sexualized, flirty nature is implied to be Mary's desire to be what she thinks James wants (since James seems put off by her differences and doesn't seem to enjoy the way Maria differs from Mary).

She is definitely not Mary's direct reincarnation.

While I agree utterly, I do want to point out that both Alessa and Cheryl, and Mary and Maria, have been officially described as "bodily halfs" of each other.

I always thought Laura was in the town when it was alive and while she was there she met Mary and Mary told her of James.

There conversation when Laura was on the wall suggests that Laura doesnt see anything odd. To her Silent Hill is an abandoned town and nothing more.

Below wrote:Considering that James isn't directly involved throughout the events in Born from a Wish, isn't it implied that Maria doesn't exist solely in his presence?

WelcomeToNowhere wrote:I always thought that a big part of the reason for Maria's existence was a big revenge plot by Mary. After all, Maria has no real purpose than to torture James; so, let's say Mary uses the power of the town, mixed with James' regrets and fears, add a little spite into the mix, a little sex appeal, and boom, the perfect revenge.

Or maybe I'm just crazy.

I don't even really think there's much in the way of 'repressed sex' going on for James. I'm sure he probably misses it, he seems like a healthy guy and all, but every single time sex is presented to him bluntly in the form of Maria, it just makes him confused and angry. He never comes across as "hey, this is a welcome change in my life".

Violence is a theme in the game as much as sex, but James is not a violent man. He is a man who committed a single act of violence when an extreme situation pushed him over the edge. Yet, his otherworld is stalked by a walking mascot of extreme violence and assault. Why? Simple answer, to me: his desire to solve problems with force (which everybody has) is being amplified to almost cartoonish extremes because his single, potentially justifiable, act of violence has caused him a profound amount of guilt, and no doubt it has been overfed by all the anger, confusion, and hurt this experience has inflicted upon him. Pyramid Head is the result.

In that same vein, sex is introduced in extremely blatant fashion, from the sensual motions and slender figures of the monsters to the obvious sluttiness of the nurses. This doesn't mean that James has spent three years in a frenzied battle with his own relentless hard-on. It means that the illness, and death, of Mary has robbed him of all that is good in marriage--not just sex but the romance, intimacy, and even the very love itself. James may ultimately kill Mary as an act of mercy, but no doubt he has resented not being able to enjoy, for a very long time, all the pleasure and joy of being a young husband. Just as his impotent anger over the situation helped manifest a being of slaughterhouse-level ultra-violence, James' impotence in matters of love, sex and romance manifest in extreme and base ways: slutty nurses, nude, slender mannequins and Lying Figures, and a version of his wife who is forward and promiscuous... not necessarily because this is what he really wanted Mary to be, but to make up for all the years in which she could offer him absolutely nothing.

People make the sexual angle out to be a huge aspect, but really, it's just one thread in the cloth.