yeehaw: Grey Child and Mumbler

These monsters are from the first game in the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill(or Silent Hill 1). Harry Mason, the protagonist of the game, encounters them throughout Silent Hill.

This game was released for the PlayStation in 1999. In this game, Harry Mason goes to the town of Silent Hill for vacation with his adopted daughter, Cheryl. At the edge of the town, he gets in a car crash. He wakes up and realizes that Cheryl is missing. The game follows Harry as he searches for Cheryl.

Some information:

Alessa Gillespie is a major character in this series. She is the daughter of Dahlia Gillespie(a priestess of a cult called the Order). She was born with amazing mental powers including telekinesis, premonitions, and astral projection(could enable her to project her desire for someone to die by using her thoughts). She was ostracized by everyone at the school she attended, and was called a witch. When she was seven, her mother thought that by sacrificing her own child, she could summon the cult's God. She was offered as a sacrificed by immolation. Travis Grady(protagonist of the game Silent Hill:Origins) rescued her body, but she became pregnant with the embryonic form of the God.

Grey Child: This is the first monster that is encountered in the game. They are only featured in the North American version of the game, where the Mumblers replace them in the European and Japanese versions. They were thought to be too creepy and resembled real-life children too much.

These monsters are found throughout the school, alleyways, and sewers of the Otherworld(a demonic and nightmarish "parallel" of Silent Hill, filled with grotesque monsters and horrific settings).

They resemble distorted, slender children with long arms.

Symbolism-They are the disturbing perception of Alessa's classmates through her eyes, and the ridicule they tormented her with. This is backed by the fact that they laugh childishly when attacking Harry.

~why I like them~ When I first watched the Silent Hill movie(the first one), I thought that the Grey Children(which are perceived a little differently in the film adaptation) were really cool and grotesque. Icky, weird creatures are very cool and interesting to me, and Silent Hill's monsters are like no others.

Mumbler: These replaced Grey Children for the original European and Japanese versions of the game. In the PAL version(for Europe and Australia), they only appear in the sewers.

They, like the Grey Children, are found in the alleyways, school, and sewers.

They look like headless teddy bears, with a hole where their face should be. Their name comes from the mumbling noises they make when they approach Harry Mason.

Symbolism-They resemble the small, menacing animals and demons from the fairy tales that Alessa read as a child.

~why I like them~ Basically the same reason for the Grey Child. They're just really cool and grossie and awesome.

((get ready for cool 1999 graphics))