i remember screaming when i was in school
detention was a blast - kinda like when i was in the 4th grade and read all those doom prophecies on the playground.
yeah... when you're allowed to read a lot at such a young age a whole number of books become your arsenal.
EITHER YOU EMBRACE THE DARKNESS OR BE OVERCOME BY THE DARKNESS.
Darkness seems to just drop on you or you fall into it.
Light would just blast you from any direction and off you go, through walls, a blur of a lifetime.
Then there is that grey haze you could be STUCK IN with that dull humming of stagnation, no direction whatsoever.
All these have one feeling in common: nausea.
I wonder how often Loki asks himself if the darkness knows his name...considering what he had been through and where he had been.
I fled like a cockroach, across the floor and out into the darkness, that something moving inexorably after me. The others were still back there, gathered around the firelight, laughing... their
hysterical choir of insane giggles rising up into the darkness like thick, many-
colored wood smoke. I went away, quickly, and hid. How many hours it may have
been, how many days or even years, they never told me.
i have no mouth and i must scream
It is almost heartbreaking that you actually believed we didn't exist.
We're older than your universe, we were dying out when your realm came to be.
You summoned me and you never unbound me. You hate me for shadowing you? Then why summon beings of shade? You forgot me.
You can no longer release me. I am with you.
Let this darkness consume you. Let it take you , you've already fallen.
I am real. I am with you.
Aoenru: Runes of Shade
Hiding from the horrors out there will not help you in anyway. You will acknowledge their existence and you will move on. If you linger and whine about not being shielded by every horrible fucking thing, the town will not accommodate your emotional baggage. It will throw it right back at you so hard you won't be able to get used to the new fear. It will become an age of torment, a new hell. Try to survive, hm?
Ami, Silent Hill: Dead & Aware
THE NIGHTMARE IS JUST BEGINNING.
You were stupid and you did something stupid and then something really fucking horrible happened to you. Don't look at me for sympathy, I'm the wrong type of entity for that. I don't exist to comfort you or to make your life better. I exist to ask you if you are enjoying your agony while you turn to ashes. It's as simple as that, babe.
Unknown, Silent Hill: Dead & Aware
And they kept running in the darkness straight to Nowhere.
No one needed the light
as there was no one there.
Power of the Town
Just what is the effect of the mysterious power of this town that was revered as a sacred place?
The shift to the otherworld that takes place outside the town depends entirely upon a unique power. The power that absorbs and reflects what people hold in their hearts is established as being exclusive to the town of Silent Hill. - Hiroyuki Owaku
Silent Hill was once revered as a sacred place. That power has been completely twisted over the course of history.
Originally Silent Hill was a holy place to the area's former inhabitants. It would seem that although the power of the town was not evil in nature, due to a number of factors including the spread of an epidemic and executions at the prison, the power that this place held was greatly distorted. Furthermore, due to the large-scale shift to the otherworld that occurred in the first game, the town has become a great catalyst for the manifestation of peoples' unconscious minds. It appears to have become a place that beckons to those who hold darkness in their hearts.
Embody The materialization of the darkness that sleeps in peoples' hearts
In the town of Silent Hill, a power exists that gives discernible form to peoples' innermost thoughts. As for the otherworld that appears in the series, the town is not merely showing the characters their nightmares, but actually manifesting elements of their unconscious minds.
Calling Those who have guilt are summoned
Due to the appearance of the otherworld on a massive scale in the first game, the town has come to be a place that calls those who hold a profound darkness in their hearts. It seems that people with afflicted minds are easily drawn to the otherworld.
Link Transcending time, minds are connected
It would seem that in the otherworld, time and physical limitations are transcended and peoples' thoughts are communicated. In accordance with this are the enigmatic phone conversation and Stanley's letters in the third game, as well the director's letters, among other things, in the second game.
The darkness of Silent Hill transcends the boundaries of the town? In the third game, the otherworld appears even in the shopping mall and subway, outside of the town called Silent Hill. It is possible that this is due to Claudia's abilities. However, if one imagines that the human mind is where the otherworld dwells and holds power, then perhaps the shift to the otherside could occur regardless of the location.
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Cross the rivers of blood
pass through the rooms of cold and darkness.
There is a room of bones.
The Lords of The Dead are there.
Find the road to the Stars.
carving on barn ceiling, Silent Hill: Dead & Aware
In the darkness there is this bizarre deafening roar that comes with the absolute silence. It also embraces you, you are held in the arms of darkness, gentle touches as you are caressed, lulling you to release yourself to it if you so choose. You are never alone in the abyss. You are not even alone in the silence. You can't see or hear this when in the light, you can't even feel it. So return to the shadows, your faith in them will sustain you yet do not shun the light or you will not know the comfort of the abyss at all.
In the abyss... a darkness formed.
How strange to see this place long before my birth... centuries before the corruption set in that would poison the land, and put me on the treacherous path I still followed. In the future, these edifices would be condemned to darkness and decay. I would cause their fall, and build my empire upon their ruins. Was it still possible that with the right knowledge, the right moves, I might one day see Nosgoth restored, the Pillars pure once more? My answer - according to Moebius - lay somewhere to the west of this place. I could restore the world, perhaps. But never again could I give Nosgoth back her innocence.
Kain, Legacy of Kain: Defiance
Even in daytime, darkness will cover the sun. The dead will walk, and martyrs will burn in the fires of hell. Everyone will die.
Dahlia Gillespie , Silent Hill