Born From A Wish (Maria Scenario)

[Spider]

After my PS2 had started ruining discs and Sony so generously fixed it for free and sent me a check for all of the games it ruined, I picked up the Greatest Hits V.2 to replace my original copy.

I was very happy to see the Maria Scenario but I wish there had been more. I was really looking forward to seeing what happened to her during the times she was separated from James (hospital, whole time from stabbing death until Pyramid Heads) but it wasn't there.

What was there was interesting enough and gave a little bit more insight into how Maria "evolved" into the character we know.

Do you think Konami should and/or should have explore/d this further?

[UberRetnuh]

I don't know if it should. Firstly, it is my belief that Maria didn't really die...If I remember correctly, she only "died" in Alternate Silent Hill, and so I'm led to wonder if it was the real her. Assuming, of course, Maria is real. I think the Born From a Wish scenario shows that Maria was created solely for James, and so her existence merely doesn't matter. She is an instrument of James' creation.

[ingloriousrat]

i guess there are some spoilers in here

Here's an opinion in response to your post. I believe they took the Maria story as far as they could go in her scenario. The reason it didn't show what happened after her and james split up is because there was nothing to show. Because she was created only for james, she was only there for james. Once she was run through by the pyramid head and james left, that was it until she was needed again. Although that then doesn't fit with her having her own scenario at the start, so maybe I'm just talking out of my ass. You decide.

[Anon]

*SPOILERS*

In the Born of a Wish scenario, you find a teddy bear in a child's room and Maria thinks "Laura would like this" then she thinks "who is Laura". This shows us that Maria has some of Mary's memories and that she is at least a partial reincarnation. It also shows that Laura is a real girl who met Mary when she was in the hospital.

[UberRetnuh]

Yes, but imagine this. You have an imaginary friend. In an attempt to make them more real, you give them a background. You give them memories. It's not surprising that some of James' memories of Mary would overlap with his creation of Maria. James didn't even remember Mary being in a hospital in Silent Hill. Isn't it possible that Mary would've written him letters about Laura? It's not surprising to think that in an attempt to give Maria a personality, subconciously, he would attach some of Mary's memories to her. Maria was basically what James wanted Mary to be anyway.

[ingloriousrat]

But james didn't know who Laura was... or about any letters at all.... In fact Mary was in this place meeting Laura after she was already dead.... I don't think his imagination is that wild

[Spider]

I still believe that Mary died a week prior, and that James created the three years in his mind.

Lends creedence to the letter from Mary to Laura in the hotel that James reads, where it states Laura's birthday is around a week away. James then asks Laura how old she is, and she replies eight, the age mentioned in the letter.