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Walter Sullivan is a fictional character and antagonist of the ''. Although he is the main Antagonist of the game, and the player character is a young man named '''Henry Townshend''', many state that he is in a way the main character of the game as the story revolves almost entirely around him. BIOGRAPHY Walter Sullivan was born in the town of Ashfield in Room 302 of the South Ashfield Heights apartment building. Just after his birth, his biological parents fled the apartment and left the newborn child behind, believing his birth to be unnatural. The infant was later discovered by the building superintendent, Frank Sunderland, who turned the child over to the nearby St. Jerome's Hospital. After a stay in the hospital, he became a ward of the state and was turned over to the Wish House orphanage in Silent Hill. It was there that he began his tutelage in the ways of The Order, the Cult that operated the orphanage. In time, after learning of his Tragic birth, the young Sullivan started to believe that Room 302 ''itself'' was his mother, and the child started making weekly trips to Ashfield to visit "her", much to the dismay of the apartment's current residents. It was during this time that he met and befriended Eileen Galvin. During his youth, he learned of the "21 Sacraments", an obscure ceremony in the Order's teachings that Walter could use to "awaken" his "mother". When Sullivan was 24, he began his killing spree, murdering 10 people in as many days, removing their hearts and carving the numbers 01121-10121 into their bodies. He made no effort to cover his tracks, even going as far as to carve his own name into the flesh of his victims. He was captured and tried, but committed Suicide by stabbing himself in the neck with a spoon while in prison. He was buried in an unmarked grave near the Wish House, but three days later, a man fitting his description was seen exiting Room 302 of the South Ashfield Heights apartment building. Three years later, another body was found, killed in a very similar manner to Sullivan's previous victims and the police suspected a copycat, as the heart was not removed, nor was a name carved into the body. Police investigated Walter's grave, however, there was no body found inside and the numbers, 11121 were carved into the coffin. Two more bodies surfaced over the next few years carved with the numbers 12121-14121. What the police failed to realize was that the numbers, 01121-14121, actually meant 01/21-14/21, meaning that Sullivan intended to kill 21 victims in all. Through the Order's teachings, Sullivan believed that the deaths of these 21 victims would help free his "mother," Room 302, and wake her up again so that he could live within her " Womb " once more, safe from the world that terrorized him. In the game, most of his victims appear as Ghost s.
VICTIMS 01/21 - Jimmy Stone: First of the Ten Hearts - Jimmy Stone was a priest in the Valtiel Sect, a division of The Order. He was nicknamed "The Red Devil" by members of the Order in reference to the triangular red hood he wore during ritualistic executions. Sullivan shot him in the back of the head inside the Wish House orphanage and removed his heart. ''There is a belief in the fandom that through his cult connections, Jimmy Stone became the infamous Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2 . 02/21 - Bobby Randolph: Second of the Ten Hearts - Randolph was a college student who attended the same school as Sullivan. He and two of his friends, Sein Martin and Jasper, were fascinated by the mythology of The Order and tried to learn all about it. Sullivan strangled him to death, removed his heart and dumped his body on the college campus in Pleasant River alongside the third victim. 03/21 - Sein Martin: Third of the Ten Hearts - Like his friend Randolph, Martin was also interested in the legends surrounding the Order and his curiosity likely led to his death. Sullivan strangled him to death, removed his heart and dumped his body on the college campus in Pleasant River alongside Bobby Randolph. 04/21 - Steve Garland: Fourth of the Ten Hearts - Steve Garland operated a pet store in Ashfield. His murder was particularly gruesome; after Sullivan riddled his body with bullets from a submachine gun (leaving his chest undamaged so the heart could be removed), he proceeded to brutally kill all the animals in the store. Given his name, Garland could be related to Lisa Garland from ''Silent Hill 1'', but this is neither confirmed nor denied. 05/21 - Rick Albert: Fifth of the Ten Hearts - Rick Albert was the manager of a sporting good store in Ashfield. Sullivan bludgeoned him to death with a golf club and removed his heart. He was murdered on the same day as Steve Garland. 06/21 - George Rosten: Sixth of the Ten Hearts - George Rosten was a priest in the Valtiel Sect and the right-hand man of Jimmy Stone. He personally instructed Sullivan on the 21 Sacraments, then ironically fell victim to his own teaching when Sullivan beat him to death with an iron pipe and removed his heart. 07/21 - Billy Locane: Seventh of the Ten Hearts - Billy Locaine was a child living in Silent Hill. Sullivan killed him with a single blow from an axe and removed his heart. 08/21 - Miriam Locane: Eighth of the Ten Hearts - Miriam was Billy's twin sister and killed just after her brother. Unlike Billy, who was killed with a single blow from an axe, Sullivan brutally dismembered Miriam's body before removing her heart, most likely due to his violent hatred of women. Unlike Sullivan's other victims, Billy and Miriam do not appear as ghosts but rather fused together as a monster. 09/21 - William Gregory: Ninth of the Ten Hearts - William Gregory owned the Watch and Clock store in Ashfield. Sullivan stabbed him with a screwdriver and removed his heart. 10/21 - Eric Walsh: Last of the Ten Hearts - The final victim of Sullivan's initial rampage. Walsh worked as a bartender at Bar Ashfield. On his birthday, a middle-aged customer told him that the pet store owner was murdered and the murderer was still at large, causing the bar's owner to close the bar early. Walsh then went home, only to find Sullivan waiting for him. Sullivan shot him in the face and removed his heart. 11/21 - Walter Sullivan: Assumption - After his capture, Sullivan committed suicide in his jail cell by stabbing himself in the neck with a spoon which severed his carotid artery. His body was buried in an unmarked grave near the Wish House, but after the first copycat murder, his grave was exhumed and was discovered to be empty. His body was most likely taken from its grave by his own ghost and taken to the hidden room in Room 302 to await the last of the 21 Sacraments. 12/21 - Peter Walls: Void - The first of Sullivan's postmortem victims. Walls was a notorious drug addict known for his crazed ranting. His body was found in a room in the South Ashfield Hotel. He has apparently been beaten to death after he claimed he could see God. 13/21 - Sharon Blake: Darkness - Sharon Blake had been a target of the Order for some time. Her family had all been taken in by the Order, but she refused their requests (and later demands) to join. When she went looking for her family in the woods near Silent Hill, she discovered her family's gravestones, at which point then Sullivan caught her and drowned her in the lake. 14/21 - Toby Archbolt: Gloom - Toby Archbolt was a priest of the Holy Mother Sect of the Order, which operated the Wish House. After the deaths of Jimmy Stone and George Rostin and the subsequent weakening of the Valtiel Sect, Archbolt tried to increase the influence of his own sect within the Order. During a trip to Mexico , Sullivan pushed Toby off of a cliff, making him the only victim in the series to be killed outside of the United States. 15/21 - Joseph Schreiber: Despair (Giver of Wisdom) - Joseph Schreiber was an investigative reporter who lived in Room 302 before Henry Townshend (see below). He was investigating the Order, which led to an exposé on the Wish House. While investigating ties between the Order and the Walter Sullivan murders, he suddenly found himself sealed inside his apartment with the only means of escape being a mysterious hole in his bathroom wall. He was Sullivan's 15th victim, but his body was never found. 16/21 - Cynthia Velasquez: Temptation - Cynthia Velasquez was a young woman living in Ashfield. Townshend met her in the South Ashfield Station where she believed herself to be dreaming. While Henry tried to find a way out of the station, Sullivan killed her by multiple stab wounds. 17/21 - Jasper Gein: Source - Jasper Gein was a somewhat mentally unbalanced youth who, along with his friends Bobby Randolph and Sein Martin, was fascinated by the mythology of the Order. While exploring the ruins of the Wish House, Sullivan immolated Gein, who seemed almost appreciative of the act. Gein himself carves the numbers "17121" into his chest. After Henry witnesses this act, Gein went out screaming that he had seen The Devil . 18/21 - Andrew DeSalvo: Watchfulness - Andrew DeSalvo was a guard at the Water Prison where children at the Wish House were sent as punishment. Somehow, he became locked in one of his own cells and, after being released by Townshend, was captured by Sullivan and drowned. 19/21 - Richard Braintree: Chaos - Richard Braintree lived in Room 207 of South Ashfield Heights. He was an eccentric, somewhat violent and possibly Sadistic man. Remembering what happened to Joseph Schreiber, he becomes concerned when he notices the same thing happening again in Room 302. He tries to find a way to help Townshend, but Sullivan captured him and electrocuted him in his own apartment. 20/21 - Eileen Galvin: Mother (Mother Reborn) - Eileen Galvin, Henry's neighbor, was nearly beaten to death by Sullivan, but Little Walter (a child like apparition of Walter's that split with his "spirit" after his assumption) and Townshend's interference stopped her from being killed. Though the 20th Sacrament was not complete, Sullivan was able to summon her to him to try and finish the deed. 21/21 - Henry Townshend: Wisdom (Receiver of Wisdom) - Sullivan felt that his final intended victim, the current resident of Room 302, had to die in order to purify his "mother" so she could finally be reborn and he could be reunited with her. Depending on the actions of the player, Townshend either defeats Sullivan or dies at his hands. SEE ALSO |
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