Flesh Lip and Mary

 

These monsters are from the game Silent Hill 2. This game was released for PlayStation 2 in 2001. It is set in 1993. 

In the beginning of the game, James Sunderland(the protagonist),  arrives in Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his wife, Mary (who he died three years prior to this, from a chronic illness). In the letter, Mary requested to see James at their "special place", which confused James, as the whole town of Silent Hill was their "special place". While searching around Silent Hill, James discovers the town has become foggy, rotted, and abandoned. 

((so actually James murdered Mary a few days before the game starts. He suffocated her with a pillow. He believed she died three years previous to the game, and that he'd just received some mysterious letter from her. In the game, he finds a video of him murdering her, and he regains his memories.))

Flesh Lip: there are only three of these in the game. It is a bloated mass of meat and flesh, with a pair of legs on the underside. There is also a large mouth on the underside. The monster is suspended in a rusty metal frame. It makes an animalistic groaning noise.  

Symbolism- The metal frame could represent a bed, and the large mouth could resemble Mary's cruel words that she would say to James before she died(with the illness, she was convinced that was ugly and a monster). 

The contraption the monster is in could also symbolize the confinement Mary had to deal with, in bed with a terminal illness. 

~why i like them~ I like the character design, because it's just a gross, lumpy meat sack thing and I think that's hella rad.

Mary (boss): Mary's corpse in a metal frame(similar to Flesh Lip). Her arms and legs are tentacle-like. She attacks by spewing flesh-eating moths at James, hitting him with the metal frame, or strangling him with her tentacles. 

Symbolism- this form of Mary represents James's conflicted emotions towards her. The metal frame could symbolize her confinement of being bedridden. The moths could be representing death. Mary can strangle James with her tentacles, hinting at his suffocating her with a pillow. 

~why I like her~ I really really really like her character design. Like how she's just splayed all weirdly(weird=best word 2k14) on the metal. And her icky flesh and bloodiness. 9/10.

close up of the mouth on a Flesh Lip

Mary.

Mary strangling James.