Warmonger. Fan-Theory Contest · 7:26pm Nov 28th, 2017
I hope you all enjoyed my latest chapter of Lost Reflections. I hope it was worth the wait.
The next chapter of my Dark Prequel Fic Warmonger is in the making.
Question for you.
How badly do you want the truth to the Deeprisen Expedition revealed.
Why not place your theories in the comment box?
In case you're wondering, I have my own idea, honest. 
This isn't just getting you to do my thinking for me, I'd just like to know your theories.
Big question you need to answer.
How does it involve Cascadius?
You see, I've been taking an interest in the Silent Hill franchise and the lamentedly cancelled P.T.
While I don't play the games, I've been taking lessons from them in the style of story-building surreal horror and mystery, letting the audience make their own conclusions about what's going on.
'For our fears are our own and in our minds are where they are most terrifying'
Well, I don't have a theory, yet I can imagine that this must have been very bad. Nice to see another one liking Silent Hill and P.T. THe latter has a reference in Metal gear 5
I've not read your story yet, so I'll do that now, as for Silent Hill, there are times I'm disillusioned to any long runners in any genre when it comes to the story. Often times when a series overstays it's welcome, and doesn't complete or add anything to the overall plot, due to it being a cash grab. Though I've not played the remake, I assume there's one since last I heard it was cancelled. I simply hope for any series it has some sort of closure in the end.
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I do get that. It ran into quite a few problems with delivery in its later sequels but Silent Hills P.T swept the internet and its cancellation was a blow to any gamer.
I'm just hoping Hideo Kojima's independent company can salvage what was lost because I lost a lot of faith in Konami.
If you've never heard of P.T, look it up.
To be honest, I'm more interested in Silent Hills' story mechanics, how it twists the protagonist's mind, plays with the world they find themselves in. The villains and monsters, while all pretty creepy, are never tremendously powerful as antagonists (Pyramid Head arguably being an exception) but that's largely because the true villain, the true horror, is Silent Hill itself.
This eldritch location that we never really know exists in real-life or just in the protagonist's psyche, torturing all those trapped within yet seemingly never without a reason and seems to not so much be found by the player characters as actively seeks them out with the story somehow drawing the player into the hellish place and forcing them to escape. The psychological horror is kind of story-based but that's its charm. Without actually saying it up-front, its essentially the protagonist's own Circle of Limbo, dooming them to relive traumatic moments in their past, and forcing them to revisit, confess and suffer for sins. And though this seems almost justified, through the ordeals they suffer and live through thanks to us, the player, the main characters remain sympathetic and their plight leads to their redemption.
And P.T told that exceptionally well. For its minimal self-exposure, anomalous first-person and silent protagonist and tragic, tragic end, it earned its fame. and not just because it was the first video game to have a bleeding undead foetus screaming in a bathroom sink.
Yes, those are words I just wrote. It's pretty surreal.
You start off in this abandoned house, seemingly once home to a happy family now left to ruin. No backstory is explained, it doesn't even tell you how to play it at first but as you progress, you steadily work things out and the true nature of the horror lurking within is discovered thanks to your own initiative.
This is the best kind of immersive horror as, rather than simply flying out at you, slowly sinks in as more and more horrific secrets are revealed, not so much unfolding themselves as being unfolded by you.
There's a ghost about but it never attacks at a scripted point. And the ghost is terrifying to say the least.
And once you find out who it is and how it got there, even more so.
You don't even know how its a Silent Hill game until you realise why you're there in the first place or even who you are and as it sinks in, you start to realise what you're up against and the true terror sinks in.
Even the jump-scare, clichéd to death you may have thought, works perfectly.
The ghost finally finds you, seemingly at random, and runs at you...right past you. You turn around, nothing. So you walk on...then you realise there are three footsteps instead of your two...and there's breathing behind you. You turn around, nothing.
Then as you turn back, the lights go out.
And you will not be thankful, when they come back on again.
Honestly, give it a watch. I found Caddicarus's review for it, I'd recommend watching that even if horror's not your thing. His humour makes it endearing.
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Ah, I see so you are fascinated by the fear of the unknown, reminds me of Stephen King. I have played PT, and the scares were very creative, I thought it's all in your face jump scares. The minimalist aesthetic astounded me as well, and it blew my mind when I found out it has a minimalist story too, I thought I got every detail of whats going on but it turns out I missed so much...
I admire that type of storytelling, the only thing I'm having a difficult time with is, when a franchise becomes popular the writers will eventually make it up as it drags on. When I was a kid, the first Silent Hill was very ground breaking, you can tell while you're playing that there's a sinister cult that believes they're doing good. I always thought that Silent Hill was always commenting on religious fundamentalism or extremists.
So my main guess is, you are going to mimic the theme for your story: The evil gods and fighting faith or fate, plus minimalism that gets the readers begging for more.
Minimalism is the best term I can think off.
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Yeah, I can understand that. Sad but often the case.
Yeah, I'm trying to keep it minimalistic with all the twists and turns building up to something of great importance. The uncertainty but inevitable harshness and savagery of a primal force is deliberately left as ambiguous as possible.
Hence why I've never described Cascadius's appearance in detail so far. Not only builds his air of mystery and his propensity for disguise but also to build a sense that he's someone who isn't quite of the world we know in MLP.
6samuelb described him as kind of like if a villain from the darker edges of Doctor Who found his way into MLP, playing by his rules and throwing everyone off, forcing them into a world they're unfamiliar with and want nothing to do with. And this was kind of my goal.
With so much power on the side of heroes in MLP, a unique and capable villain was something I worked very hard on.
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Sorry for answering late, time zones are a thing
Nice concepts, although I can't comment on it much, cause you seem to be a fan of Doctor Who. I would have loved to watch it but can't, it's not on Netflix in my country, so I just watch Midsomer Murders. Based on my understanding you are going to crossover the concepts you found in Silent Hill and Doctor Who, well good luck with that. I'm honestly wondering how you can write the duality in the mix. Can't wait to read your fic.