The Silent Hill Meme

[dendrophobia]

Maybe you've come here by accident. Maybe on purpose, or together, or alone. Either way, the fog is settling down thick, and all roads leading out have crumbled away, leading only to deep cliffs and chasms. You're stuck.

Welcome to Silent Hill.

Instructions
1. Post your character with their name/canon in the subject line.
2. Tag around!
3. You can each choose or roll for a reason you're here.
4. You can even roll for a situation.
5. No powers! Sorry--enjoy that.
6. Oh, and try not to die.

NOTE: This meme can potentially contain triggers, for violence and psychological torture in particular. Please take heed!

why have you come?
1. You're searching for someone. A relative, a friend, a dead lover. Someone has led you to this quiet little town.
2. An accident. You got lost in the fog, the roads fell off into chasms, you thought you saw someone in the road and crashed. Time to venture farther in for help.
3. Returning visitor. You've come here before, to the lovely little resort town, and had a beautiful time. But this second trip will be different.
4. An escape. You're running from something ... or someone. A crime you committed? Grief? Too bad you ran to the wrong place...
5. Wildcard, or make up your own!

what horrors do you encounter?
1. You just met. You've only been able to find each other, no one else in town. Stores are deserted, doors are locked, silence is everywhere. What happened here? What's going on?
2. A shuffling in the night, the fog, or in a tight dark hallway of an abandoned building. A strange creature is moving toward you. Maybe humanoid, maybe not. They can be powerful. They can be slow. They can vomit acid. Time to pick up whatever plank, knife, or gun available to you ... if you both want to live.
3. A dark secret from your past is returning to haunt you. It manifests in hallucinations, the town reaching deep inside your mind to paint the surroundings in grotesque symbolism. Yet, the other person can't seem to see what you see.
4. The walls are peeling away. Or maybe you got knocked out and just woke up to an entirely different kind of town. There are chains, rust, fans, orange light, splatters of blood. A horrific version of what used to be around you. Welcome to the Otherworld.
5. That other person with you--you see them as someone they're not. Someone from your past that you loved or feel bone-wracking guilt over. And no matter what they say, that they're not, they're someone else, you just can't help but see...
6. The town has driven you insane. The monsters, the guilt you may carry. It's all coming back to you. You need to lash out. At anything. At anyone.
7. Wildcard, or make up your own!

Comments

Sabriel | Abhorsen Trilogy | OTA

[bybell]

Water slowly seeps into her boots as she makes her way through the underground sewers.

Her torch barely lights the path in front of her, the bulb flickering, making the shadows deeper than they should be, is something there?

[bonchance]

[It's so dark that Yvonne can't even see her own feet. The device hanging around her neck casts a faint yellow light into the dark. She thought she saw Calem head down here, but he's nowhere to be seen. The only sound is the distant drip of water and her own echoing footsteps. She turns the corner-]

[-and nearly slams headlong into Sabriel. She draws up short, hands raised in a defensive gesture.]

Ah! D-d-don't creep up on others like that!

Kon Hokaze | Ixion Saga DT | OTA

[pleasetakeit]

[This fog. Those sounds. The abandoned road that stretches out in front of him and the abandoned storefronts that line it. This can only be one place.]

BUT WHY?! Why Silent Hill? I don't deserve this! I haven't killed my wife or anything! I HAVEN'T EVEN LOST-- NEVERMIND THAT! WHYYYYY?!!!

[ooc: Need someone to frantically pummel at the fourth wall while you're trying to be angsty and terrified? Here's Kon.]

I don't know the character but his spazzing is beautiful.

[flagrare]

Shhh -

[Hermione glanced sharply at her companion. At that rate, he'd attract every monster and creature to where they were standing!]

Don't panic!

[She didn't know why he was talking about his wife, or lack thereof, and standing virginity, but it certainly didn't make things easier.]

We have to be calm so that we can navigate this place. Do you understand what I'm saying?

allison argent | teen wolf | use setup or roll own | ota

[compounding]

[ she knows sure as the ground she stands on that her mother was dead, had seen her body covered in the morgue.

but maybe, her mind whispers when she receives the letter, the bite had protected her. stranger things have been known to happen in beacon hills, after all.

although this isn't beacon hills that her mother said to come to - the staticky message left in the voicemail of her cell phone. this is silent hill, a town they only passed through for a day or two, unremarkable as far as she remembered.

the eerie silence and rolling fog are what prompt her to get her bow and arrows out of the back of her car. the noise to her left makes her raise said bow and point it, waiting for someone - or something - to emerge. ]

[bydefinition]

[ If Allison was expecting any sort of stealthy approach, her expectations would have been too high.

The squeak of metal of metal was merely a prelude of what was to come; the entire door falling off its hinges onto the floor, pieces of glass scattering from what remnants there were on the frame. ]

Nobody was going to use that anyway.

[ The words are spoken to fill the silence, and even the, they're hushed. The lack of noise an oppressive weight over everything.

Allison should be able to make out the vague outline of where Stiles is standing in front of a store, one hand still stretched out to where the handle of the door had been.

If pressed, he wouldn't have any reason to be here, but when has sense ever really played a part in unordinary happenings, like ever. ]

Jefferson | Once Upon A Time | OTA

[dolleman]

Tony Stark / MCU AU / OTA

[split_metal]

Bruce Wayne/Batman | DCU | OTA

[batofgotham]

[hoodforhire]

Jason's been stuck in this godforsaken town for two weeks now, and life fucking sucks here. Worse than Gotham. Worse than Blüdhaven. Which, y'know, is saying a fuck ton about how awful it is.

After two weeks, Jason's figured out a few things, though:

1. Nothing is what it seems. He was trying to hack a monster in half and it wound up being a little boy. Nightmares for goddamn weeks about that shit. So he took nothing at face value anymore.

2. There was a very distinct perimeter for the town, made up of fog and cliffs that disappeared to jagged rocks. Getting out was impossible from every angle.

3. He was alone. Despite hallucinations of monsters, kids, the Joker, Batman--Jason was around eighty-eight percent sure he was alone here. That didn't make it any easier to survive, though. The hallucinations were too real. Too much. He kept his guns loaded, ready to shoot.

Trucy Wright | Ace Attorney | OTA

[magicpanchira]

[ Her class had been on a field trip when the bus driver suddenly screamed and swerved. She hadn't seen anything at the time, couldn't imagine what the older man had seen, but too little too late; he swerved to the left, and hard, and the last thing Trucy remembered was the sickening spinning motion of the vehicle rolling over and over again, the sound of crunching metal and her screaming classmates, feeling herself being flung around... and then darkness.

She didn't know how long she'd been out; that was the last thing on her mind as she groaned and opened her eyes. She felt disoriented still, and it took her a moment to finally get her wits about her enough to push herself up from the floor-- wait, no. The roof... how?

Oh, right. The bus had flipped.

She pushed herself to her knees and glanced around, realizing that she was alone. They'd bailed on her... at least, that's what it seemed like. Maybe they'd gone for help; perhaps they'd thought she was dead. There was a sinking feeling in her gut at the realization that she was on her own. Even the chaperones had left...

Pushing her worry aside, she glanced out one of the crushed windows... fog? Since when...?

Deciding it was time to go take a look around, the magician managed to crawl along the roof of the bus until she was able to get to the doors, which... looked as though they'd been kicked out. Pulling herself out of the bus and mindful of the glass, she stared out at the terrain. ]

...Hello? Anyone?

[ She staggered for a moment as she took her first few steps since the accident, realizing that she was stiff; she was lucky, considering just how bad the bus itself looked. She could handle a few bruises and being stiff. With a sigh, she wandered away from the bus, pushing forward, until she saw a sign.

'Welcome to Silent Hill'.

That name sounded familiar... hadn't Valant, her mother, father, and her grandfather passed through here during one of their many shows? She'd been so young at the time, it was hard to recall.

This cross-country journey from Los Angeles to Washington had seemed like a fun, once in a lifetime opportunity for someone like her at the time when she'd happily saved up the money to go -- she'd been so proud of herself. But now? Now, she was so sorry she'd ever bothered.

Time to go check out this 'Silent Hill' and see if she couldn't find some help. ]

[delphinidae]

[Haru hasn't the slightest idea where he is or how he got there either, and it's certainly not like he's planned on any of this happening. He's not even sure he could tell a particularly clear story of why he's here wandering around in this miserable mist.

Mostly, he supposes, it's because his father's company had decided to send him to Portland--a place that Haru had never even heard of--for six months, and while they were evidently willing to leave their son behind in his home town when they were living a few hours away in the next big city, his parents were not so willing to leave him alone on the other side of the world.

So, much to his chagrin, he'd ended up in America, in a city that, despite its name, didn't seem to have much to offer in the way of ports at all. And then for some reason he still didn't understand, his mother had decided that they ought to take a holiday to some little town in the country that he was pretty sure no one had ever heard of at all.

From there, all it had taken was for Haru to decide that he'd go for a walk in the woods this morning. It had been a long walk, granted, and maybe he hadn't really been paying much attention to where he was going, but then the mist had started rolling in, and before long he'd realized that he'd gotten himself well and truly lost.

So he's somewhat relieved when he spots the "Silent Hill" sign. It means he's come to a town, at least, and he should be able to find some way to get a ride back to where he's meant to be.

Only it's hard to see anyone or anything clearly through such thick fog, and he hasn't heard any signs of life, until...]

Hello? Over here. [He turns towards the sound of a girl's voice, heading in the direction it seems to be coming from.]

Kain Highwind | Final Fantasy IV / Dissidia 012

[dragoon_pride]

Norman Babcock | Paranorman | OTA

[never_asked]

Hermione Granger • Harry Potter

[flagrare]

[carrierdove]

[He doesn't remember when he got here. One day, he was trapped in a library, invisible to students who shuffled in and out. The next, he was someplace gray and sad, which fluctuated wildly between fog and fire depending on who came along.

His form isn't consistent here. He changes easily, without real intent. Sometimes he's a bird. Sometimes he's a human. Sometimes he's both. It was difficult at first, but compared to everything else, it was easy to adjust to.

He was asleep. Then there were footsteps, and he was awake, peering up from his place curled up beneath a dusty bed.

And then the door of old bedroom swung open. A young woman stands there, holding some sort of light that he can't see as his eyes adjust.

She will see a young man with green hair and gold eyes, halfway through dragging himself out from under the bed, flinch back and instinctively cover his eyes as his pupils dilate. He's missing a shirt, and his skin is mottled, mostly pale but spotted with red burn scars and strange beige spots, and strange beige wings with black spots on them grow from his back, and now are folding around him defensively.]

Who are you?

Kili || The Hobbit

[morethanstubble]

Lyra Belacqua | His Dark Materials | OTA

[imnotyours]

Mako Mori | Pacific Rim | OTA

[redshoememories]

Silhouette the Hedgehog | [fem!Shadow]

[fakerette]

[ Silhouette came to Silent Hill because she'd received a letter... A strange, impossible letter, from a ghost long dead. Marion had written her a letter... It was definitely his hand writing. And apparently, he was in this desolate town.

But everything was foggy, there were some strange sounds... and not to mention the large cracks in the streets... And to top it all off, she couldn't tap into her speed. Now she appeared to be trapped here. ]

What is this place? What's going on here?

Old Snake | Metal Gear Solid 4

[imthe_shit]

[ OTA. Ghosts from his past could be amazing. ]

my otacon's of the mgs2 variety, i hope that works!

[robotaku]

[Hal... isn't sure where he is. He knows, at least, that he isn't in the Big Shell, or... anywhere near it. He woke up five minutes ago in a completely abandoned diner, and he doesn't have any memories of how he got here. Outside, the streets are just as deserted - at least, from what he can see. It's hard to see very far, considering the thick fog all around him.

He's alone, and confused, and extremely unsettled. This is a dream, right? Or... could it be some kind of advanced VR? He's never seen specs like this before. Even the systems used to desensitize and train soldiers aren't quite this realistic.

He tries to focus on the last thing he does remember, and when it comes to him, he immediately wishes he hadn't tried.]

E.E...

[He can't... well, he shouldn't break down about this again. He did it once, in front of Snake and Raiden, and that had been enough.

E.E. had been brave enough to do what she could to help. Now, Hal had to be brave, too. Right? Telling himself that wasn't working very well, but it was at least keeping him from crying again.

...Still, where the hell was this?]

...Hello? [He tried to call out, but the first time, his voice didn't come out very loudly. Clearing his throat, Hal tried again.] Is anyone there?

Mohinder Suresh | Heroes

[seekevolution]

Re: Mohinder Suresh | Heroes

[puffofsmoke]

Where he had appeared, Kurt has no idea. It had involved a terrible twisting in his stomach during his teleport and the deep knowledge something has gone horribly wrong before the world came in around him, leaving him in this strange place. Where he is, what happened, all questions hovering in the back of his mind.

So he starts to walk slowly through the misty evening, eyes narrowed as he stays close to buildings and the shadows. Probably looking a bit... Monstrous.

Saft | Original Character | OTA

[whitescalesbigmouth]

[She got here via a mixture of 1&2 with a little 4 mixed in there too. She's been on the receiving end of some very nasty calling cards from someone she thought was supposed to be dead and buried and for good and decided to get the hell away from home before things got any worse and people she cared about started to get hurt.

On the way here however things took an unexpected turn as she panicked and slipt down a chasm and twisted her ankle. Now she's limping around trying to make out head or tail of this place and hoping someone can help her out of here.]

Boo

[badasspapawolf]

[There's movement in the shadows, something large moving closer. The creature can see the young girl is hurt, but he's pretty sure a big wolf walking out of the dark and talking to her would scare her.

Of course staying in the shadows watching her is probably going to scare her anyway so what has he got to lose. He speaks up before stepping out of his hiding space. To see how she reacts to not being alone, before she finds out her company isn't human.]

Do you need help?

Stiles Stilinski (AU - see journal) | Teen Wolf

[bydefinition]

[ ooc: WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN??? ]

Edward Nygma | DC Comics

[questionslinger]

[ Of all the shitty places for a case to carry him, this tops the list. It's cold, damp, foggy, and no human life responds when his care broke down. He stick sout, in his green suit and purple sunglasses like the sorest of sore thumbs. ]

[ He unfolds the little map of the place, trying to figure out how to reach the police station. Was there a state of emergency? It was late, but surely, the cops would know how to direct him to the quarry, and it always paid to check in with the local authorities when you're out being a P.I.... ]

Adam Rinor / O5-12 || SCP Foundation || OTA

[o5_12]

Gentleman Ghost | Batman BatB

[suaveandspectral]

[Craddock has a lot of sins in his past, including the soul-stealing/deal-with-a-devil instance that left him in his current state. All those he has sinned against in life are long dead, but the stain remains and he has never atoned for what he's done.

He also has a lot of built up rage behind that proper gentleman's persona, with a hidden veneer of self-directed rage for his mistakes. The people of old London may get their revenge on him yet.]

Andrew Carter | Hogan's Heroes | 2

[stlg13bomber]

[Sergeant. Andrew Carter is a good man. A patriot who loves his country, a boy from small town America who always has a smile on his face, a determined little klutz for whom taking the wrong turn on a foggy road is a matter of course. Sergeant Andrew Carter is a credit to his unit.

Andrew Carter has over a hundred burnt corpses on his record by way of his bombs and not a shred of guilt over any of them. They were the enemy. He was following orders and was always praised for his successes. The thing tucked away in the back of his head that says "those were human lives you took, husbands and sons and fathers" is carefully buried behind impermeable barriers of sunshine.

When he steps out of his car to look for a friendly local, the scent of gunpowder catches his attention.]

Bruce Wayne | DC | OTA

[bat_byknight]

James Sunderland | Silent Hill 2 | OTA

[videotaped]

[I'm up for cross-canon or anything!]

( hi! hope a combination of 2-1/3 from my oc's side won't be a problem for you! )

[ensorcelling]

[She didn't really understand how she got here. One minute she was in the bus, falling asleep on Ms Ivy's lap as they entered a tunnel that would have been a step closer to the town they were visiting. The next minute she jolts awake and finds herself napping inside a dusty but not-too-bad dinner. She's sore, she's hungry but over-all she thinks it could be worse for her.

After a careful inspection of herself, all she has are the clothes on her back and odd soreness from sleeping hunched over. No bruises, no marks. That was good. Great even! The question is where is she?

She kind of gets an answer when she leaves the diner after calling out uselessly for someone to come out. The town she's in seems to be empty of people and she feels disappointment (and fear) swell in her until she peers down the road and sees someone. A guy in a green jacket and the disappointment turns into relief. A face! A stranger's face but a face nonetheless. And here she was scared for a minute something bad would happen.]

Hey--! Hey--! [Her voice wavers a bit, pitches up and down in excitement and hesitation at seeing someone new, different while being all by herself. She pushes the odd and uncharacteristic of shyness and starts to run down the street, trying to get to the man's side.] Mister! Can I talk to you for a second? You're the first person I've seen since I woke up!

Carlos | Welcome to Night Vale

[shearedlocks]

Re: Carlos | Welcome to Night Vale

[radio_madness]

(( Up for 2 and 2?))