Silent...Ponyville? · 4:43pm Oct 20th, 2014
The idea behind the series is that it's sort of a twist on Silent Hill, but, if I remember correctly, Pinkie Pie has to face up to buried horrors she's repressed for so long. And truth be told...this is not a bad idea for a story.
Why? Because it ties deeply into the core of Silent Hill. You, the protagonist, are having symbolism representative of your horrors or your guilt stabbed into you...sometimes literally...by the nightmares of your mind that the town is able to bring to life. It's like a force that shifts reality all around you, isolating you from all others but those also being punished, and even then you're not exactly gonna see what they're seeing necessarily. Either that or, in the case of the first, the third-kinda-sorta, and the FOURTH games...okay and SORT of for 'Origins'...the horrors around you are coming from the Cult of Silent Hill, the "Order". So it's either personal horrors or the horrors others are inflicting on you from their own twisted minds. For Harry Mason it was Alessa's terrors brought out for him to fight. For Heather Mason in the third game, it was a mixture of her own demons whilst combined with her "sister" Claudia's powers calling on the town to bring forth things to battle so Heather could nurture hatred and fear in her and it was SORTA similar to Travis Grady in Origins...most of what he saw was his own inner issues but it was also, to an extent, Alessa's inner demons being brought out for him to face. And in Four, all the foul things you destroyed came from the sick, sick head of the mysoginistic Walter Sullivan. Including himself as a near-unkillable ghost.
I honestly might explore this idea myself. It's certainly alluring. But I can see how some might say "Those other games didn't get that the Order was what caused the town to do what it did, taking the Order out of Silent Hill is wrong!" Look. Walter Sullivan wasn't TECHNICALLY a member of the Order but he was still using their rituals to bring his "mother" back. The best game in the series according to nearly all its fans, numebr TWO, didn't HAVE the Order. Downpour didn't involve the Order one iota.
To be honest, according to the lore of Silent Hill, the place was already kind of powerful. The Native Americans who lived there originally had legends of its might. The Order just tapped into something that was already there, really.
And one more thing, sorry I have to bring it up, but...
NO, it does NOT count as a cheat to have Pyramid Head in "Homecoming"! In the game, the "Bogeyman" is described as a masked killer that slaughters people by CHOPPING OFF THEIR HEADS. Well whaddya think the giant knife is for? Not to mention that the town of Shepherd's Glen was founded by former Order members who'd carry the symbolism of the Order with them, and the pyramid mask was part of the Order and the lore of the town, representative of the "Red God", supposedly, a figure of punishment who worked alongside the Cult's true God. So it's not so unreasonable to think a kid raised up in a town where Order lore is now common folklore would imagine a pyramid-headed headslicer as a Bogeyman. In fact, it's kinda clever when you think about it. People are FAR too mean to Homecoming.
Y'know, I'm gonna post all my analyses of the games up here as well as I read through the Silent Ponyville series on Fimfiction. I just love the series too much to ignore it.
