The Great Laura Debate! Who really is Laura from Silent Hill 2?

[geeksicle]

Well, shootz, even if Laura's real, she was still called there to teach James something. I like the idea about the different sides of Mary being represented too - both through Laura being innocent and the fact that she could be a nasty little piece of work (we know from that tape that Mary got very nasty towards the end because of her illness). Though I think the nastiness was the side of Mary that James despised, not her "innocence". I always saw Maria's overt sexuality as reflecting James' frustration about not being able to be physically intimate with his wife for god-knows-how-long while she was hospitalized, rather than an indication that he disliked her for being innocent. I think Laura taught James important lessons about doing what's right and protecting someone who can't protect themselves, even if they're not you're favourite person at the time.

And hey, it's a stretch, but she could be real in the sense that Lisa was real - a real person, yes, just not alive at the time you meet her. It's difficult to conceive of a child her age getting to Silent Hill unassisted with nobody trying to find out what she was doing and where her parents were.

[shootzombies]

And hey, it's a stretch, but she could be real in the sense that Lisa was real - a real person, yes, just not alive at the time you meet her. It's difficult to conceive of a child her age getting to Silent Hill unassisted with nobody trying to find out what she was doing and where her parents were.

That's kind of what I thought also. It just seems weird to me that if Laura was real why no one came looking for her. Then again, maybe Laura was a orphan at wish house, and that's why she has no parents and because of her innocence she doesn't see the monsters that James sees. Also, Laura could have a much deeper history with James that just hasn't been revealed quite yet, maybe in a future SH game we will find more about her and her reason for being in Silent Hill.

[Wolfofwar]

I thought laura had a father, who apparently raped her. Thats why she saw the Abstract Daddy monster. Or am I confusing people again? I dunno, I just got Restless Dreams for the xbox for christmas, gotta play it now lol.

[shootzombies]

I thought laura had a father, who apparently raped her. Thats why she saw the Abstract Daddy monster. Or am I confusing people again? I dunno, I just got Restless Dreams for the xbox for christmas, gotta play it now lol.

no that was Angela not Laura.

[Lobsel_Vith]

Laura coud be Xuchilbara, but no even to my dogma that doesn't work.

[=AoD= Captain]

I think were over thinking this. Laura is just a real little girl who fulfilled a necessary part in James' story and was therefore drawn by the town to aid him. Not everything is SH must be complex. There is importance to a story element's face value.

[geeksicle]

The fact that she's a real live little girl makes me more interested, to be honest. If she was just a creation of the town, I think the story surrounding her would be pretty basic. But knowing she's real raises a lot of questions for me. Why was she in hospital when Mary was there? The fact that she had time to develop such a relationship with Mary indicates that it was more than having a broken arm set or a tonsillectomy or something. And she's fairly well dressed and seems healthy and clean, so I'll assume she isn't a street kid but has parents/guardians - where are they? Did this 8 year old child manage to get away from her guardians and travel to another town unnoticed by anyone? Are they on holiday in Silent Hill and simply seeing a nice, quaint little town that they're happy to let their child roam unattended? I realise I'll probably never get answers to any of that, and that it's probably not really important to the story anyway, but I can't help but wonder.

[=AoD= Captain]

The opening collage for SH2 does show Laura and Eddie together with Eddie sitting on the ground leaning his back on a white van. She kicks him I believe, almost as a "let's get going" sort of thing because he waves her off. The only other vehicle parked at the Observation Deck was a white van as well and we know Eddie came from elsewhere to SH. It is quite possible they both entered the town the same way James did; perhaps they even travelled together. Also in the Leave ending, Laura is running ahead of James as they go back along the trail and one could infer she knows where she is going, having taken the path before.

I do not know what truth there is to this and haven't reached a decision either way, but throwing the theory out there couldn't hurt.

[shootzombies]

The opening collage for SH2 does show Laura and Eddie together with Eddie sitting on the ground leaning his back on a white van. She kicks him I believe, almost as a "let's get going" sort of thing because he waves her off. The only other vehicle parked at the Observation Deck was a white van as well and we know Eddie came from elsewhere to SH. It is quite possible they both entered the town the same way James did; perhaps they even travelled together. Also in the Leave ending, Laura is running ahead of James as they go back along the trail and one could infer she knows where she is going, having taken the path before.

I do not know what truth there is to this and haven't reached a decision either way, but throwing the theory out there couldn't hurt.

I don't remember that scene from the opening collage in SH2...

[Alessa]

Yes, I remember that scene of Laura and Eddie, too. Rather than a clarification, that scene confuses me even more... or maybe I'm just stubborn.