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rionaleonhart) wrote2020-02-26 10:09 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2020-02-26 10:09 am
You Probably Shouldn't Include The Nails.
Riona: Why does the Silent Hill 2 manual feel the need to tell me that the plank James wields is between 32 and 40 inches long? What am I expected to do with this information?
Rei: Craft a custom dildo.
Riona: I don't like this answer.
My other favourite detail about the Silent Hill 2 manual: each character bio opens with a rundown of age and occupation, but it's just 'Age: Unknown. Occupation: Unknown' for every character. Apart from James, for whom we get 'Age: Unknown. Occupation: Protagonist'.
A few notes I forgot to include in my previous entries on replaying Silent Hill 2:
- It cracks me up that James's reaction, if you try to examine the stage with the pole on it at Heaven's Night, is '...Just a regular stage. There's nothing strange about it,' ellipsis and all. (There's also a great 'James desperately tries not to pay attention to how sexy Silent Hill is' moment if you examine the locker with a poster of a woman in a bikini on it: 'The locker won't open. ...This is no time to be looking at a stupid poster.')
- An unsettling detail I never noticed before: the prison morgue is not included on the prison map, suggesting this is not an entirely above-board affair. Although I should probably have guessed that from the fact that their corpse disposal system appears to be 'just shove the corpses in a big hole'.
- I examined the piano in the hotel, and James's thoughts slightly broke my heart. 'There's a piano here. I remember how much Mary liked to play the piano. She wasn't very good... But I still loved to hear her play. That was so long ago, before we were even married. Why am I thinking of that now...' Oh, James/Mary, one of my longest-standing and most doomed ships.
- Another devastating bit of internal narration I don't remember ever seeing before: 'There's a book open on top of the desk. It looks like a medical book. I've already read enough medical books. None of them ever did any good.'
- I actually missed examining the liquor bottles in Heaven's Night this time around, which I was sorry to realise, because it's the single piece of examination text I remember most vividly: 'Liquor bottles. I don't need that right now. It’s not that I don't drink. In fact, I drink a fair bit. To get away from the pain and the loneliness... But the drinking never changes anything... Anyway, I don't need it now. There's something I have to do.' It feels like a significant characterisation detail; I'm surprised that it's so easy to miss it entirely.
- god, James, you're such a wreck, I can't believe I love you so much
- 'The symbolism of Silent Hill 2 clearly illustrates that James is an ass man,' I appear to have written in my diary at some point. I regret this.
Rei: Craft a custom dildo.
Riona: I don't like this answer.
My other favourite detail about the Silent Hill 2 manual: each character bio opens with a rundown of age and occupation, but it's just 'Age: Unknown. Occupation: Unknown' for every character. Apart from James, for whom we get 'Age: Unknown. Occupation: Protagonist'.
A few notes I forgot to include in my previous entries on replaying Silent Hill 2:
- It cracks me up that James's reaction, if you try to examine the stage with the pole on it at Heaven's Night, is '...Just a regular stage. There's nothing strange about it,' ellipsis and all. (There's also a great 'James desperately tries not to pay attention to how sexy Silent Hill is' moment if you examine the locker with a poster of a woman in a bikini on it: 'The locker won't open. ...This is no time to be looking at a stupid poster.')
- An unsettling detail I never noticed before: the prison morgue is not included on the prison map, suggesting this is not an entirely above-board affair. Although I should probably have guessed that from the fact that their corpse disposal system appears to be 'just shove the corpses in a big hole'.
- I examined the piano in the hotel, and James's thoughts slightly broke my heart. 'There's a piano here. I remember how much Mary liked to play the piano. She wasn't very good... But I still loved to hear her play. That was so long ago, before we were even married. Why am I thinking of that now...' Oh, James/Mary, one of my longest-standing and most doomed ships.
- Another devastating bit of internal narration I don't remember ever seeing before: 'There's a book open on top of the desk. It looks like a medical book. I've already read enough medical books. None of them ever did any good.'
- I actually missed examining the liquor bottles in Heaven's Night this time around, which I was sorry to realise, because it's the single piece of examination text I remember most vividly: 'Liquor bottles. I don't need that right now. It’s not that I don't drink. In fact, I drink a fair bit. To get away from the pain and the loneliness... But the drinking never changes anything... Anyway, I don't need it now. There's something I have to do.' It feels like a significant characterisation detail; I'm surprised that it's so easy to miss it entirely.
- god, James, you're such a wreck, I can't believe I love you so much
- 'The symbolism of Silent Hill 2 clearly illustrates that James is an ass man,' I appear to have written in my diary at some point. I regret this.
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That seem impractically large.
NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR BEING HORNY! NOW IS THE TIME FOR BATTLING THE MONSTERS OF YOUR OWN GUILT! IF YOU TRY TO COMBINE THE TWO IT JUST GETS UPSETTINGLY WEIRD!
Yeah, that's not a sign of a well-run and ethical prison.
Aw, James!
I'm really coming to understand why you like the character!
Wow, yeah, that does suggest a lot!
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I told
RD: Is she implying the stick length is the same depth as his anus
Riona: ??? I don't think so? I don't think the suggestion is 'craft a custom dildo for use on James'.
RD: It absolutely is the suggestion.
Riona: It's presumably 'craft a custom dildo to replicate the sensation of James ramming his nail board inside you'.
RD: Oh god
NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR BEING HORNY! NOW IS THE TIME FOR BATTLING THE MONSTERS OF YOUR OWN GUILT! IF YOU TRY TO COMBINE THE TWO IT JUST GETS UPSETTINGLY WEIRD!
ALL THE MONSTERS OF HIS OWN GUILT ARE SO SEXY AND IT'S EXTREMELY TROUBLING. (I was going to say 'apart from Pyramid Head', but the three most kudosed Silent Hill fics on AO3, excluding crossovers, are all explicit fics in which You, The Reader bang Pyramid Head, so apparently Pyramid Head is also considered very sexy.)
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LOOK, JAMES IS GOING THROUGH ENOUGH WITHOUT FACING HOW MUCH HE WANTS TO FUCK HIS OWN GUILT! HOW DO YOU EVEN DEAL WITH THINGS LIKE THAT? (Wow, yeah, I just looked, and apparently that's very much a thing. As a fic called "James + Pyramid Head= Baby?" which is making me feel much better about my trouble coming up with titles.)
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This is an incredible (and true) line.
a fic called "James + Pyramid Head= Baby?" which is making me feel much better about my trouble coming up with titles.
I snorted aloud at this, while simultaneously being extremely troubled by the thought of Pyramid Head impregnating anyone. Hideous Pyramid Head/James is distressingly believable, but please don't involve a foetus!
I just took a look at the fic and came across this amazing line: His doctors are worried about his mental health and keep dropping little hints like ‘maybe you should speak to someone about your fear that your child will evolve a head shaped like a pyramid.’ (I also love the author's note 'Not sure if the title works.')