1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Step 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: one Never Told You production of I Heart Radio. And 3 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: today it is time for another segment of fictional women 4 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: around the World Halloween. In addition, yes it's yes, this 5 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: one is on a character from one of my very 6 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: favorite franchises of all time, Silent Hill. We're talking about 7 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: Heather Mason from Silent Hill three and buckle in because 8 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: this one is going to be just so confusing, which 9 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: I think is fun. Salent Hill is confusing. I don't 10 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: I don't understand. Keep going. You've seen You've seen some 11 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: of the movies, right, Samantha, Yes, I've seen the first movie, 12 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: one movie, all right, which the movie was also confusing, 13 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 1: So all right, here we go. Um. I did want 14 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: to put in some quick notes in the beginning here. 15 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: This one is like I'm not gonna go to in depth, 16 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: but they're kind of disturbing, so just to put that 17 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: out there. There's some talk about um, potential miscarriages, cults, 18 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 1: god's evil gods. Also, if you play d d R 19 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: as a kid, Silent Hill three did have a d 20 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: DR song and I was an expert at it, and 21 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: I'm sure if I did it again, today, I would 22 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: continue to nail it. And in fact, at an event 23 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: you had a couple of years ago, Samantha, Yes, there 24 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: was a d d R game there and we my 25 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: friend Katie, we did this song from three. We did 26 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: not We did not nail it, but we at one 27 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: time did. Also we just talked about the Coonami code 28 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: and our spoiled Saturdays on Fear Street. Uh. Silent Hill 29 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: three has the opening menu. If you enter the Konami code, 30 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: you can get some some extras, but it does do 31 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: a very sexual sound when you put it in. Um, 32 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: so just put that out there. And also this is 33 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: one of those games where there's a lot of costuming 34 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: choices for Heather when you get to the end. Um 35 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: and some of them are pretty sexualized. But okay, here 36 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: we go. Heather Mason is the main playable character of 37 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,399 Speaker 1: the two thousand three survival horror game Silent Hill three, 38 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: though she technically first appeared in the first entry of 39 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 1: the series, Silent Hill. So Sili Hill, Like I said, 40 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: it's one of my very favorite franchises. I used to 41 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: play them. Silent Hill two is one of the scariest 42 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: games I've ever played, but I would play them all 43 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: this time, and we, like my brother and my friends, 44 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: would play it, we would watch each other play it. 45 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: We would just get so scared. Um So. Silent Hill 46 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: is the name of this franchise of video games that 47 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 1: revolve around the town called sent Hill that may or 48 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: not be purgatory, depending on your interpretation. They're very very 49 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: psychological horror. They're very very interrogating you as the player 50 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: about who you are. So especially the ending of Silent 51 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: Hill too is I think kind of a almost a 52 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: judgment you are based on what ending you get. Um So. 53 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: In the first Silent Hill, this guy named Harry Mason 54 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: accidentally crashes his car in Silent Hill, um trying to 55 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: avoid a young girl on the road. And this young 56 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: girl is named Alessa, And when he wakes up, he 57 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: cannot find his daughter, Cheryl, who had also been in 58 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: the car with him, so he goes he goes about 59 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: this creepy, foggy town of Silent Hill looking for her, 60 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: which is also a tourist town, which kind of blows 61 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: my mind. And it seems that things are fluctuating between 62 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: reality and literal hell. Like one minute it's sort of 63 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: a foggy town, in the other minute, it's like actually 64 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: hell perhaps um. It turns out that Alessa, a supernatural 65 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: being of sorts, is being tortured, has been tortured by 66 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 1: a cult and Silent Hill in order to impregnate her 67 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: and rebirth a god uh from her, and that her 68 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 1: nightmares are becoming reality through all of this. So basically, 69 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: she's having these nightmares and that's what that hell escape 70 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: world you're seeing is um. And also she lured Harry 71 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: and Cheryl there because Cheryl is the missing part of 72 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: her soul due to a ritual gone wrong, and by reuniting, 73 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: she could kill herself and prevent an evil god from 74 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 1: being birth from her. Yes, this is the plot of 75 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: a video game. Depending on her actions, the actions you 76 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: made as a player throughout the game, Alessa combines with 77 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: Cheryl and becomes a demon or a potential demon. And 78 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: just I'm condensing this like so so much. If you 79 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: ever want to talk about Silent Hill with me, I 80 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: could go on and on and on, but for the 81 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: sake of this episode, I'm condensing it way, way, way 82 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: a lot. Anyway, Harry battles the gods and Alessa's mother, Dahlia, 83 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: who's the leader of this cult, and once if he did. 84 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: Alessa and Cheryl are refused together and reborn into a 85 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: single soul and a single baby, and Harry names this 86 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: baby Heather. Of course, okay, so here we go. He 87 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: moves to Portland to raise Heather, though he debates strangling 88 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: her um, otherwise killing her or abandoning her, but ultimately 89 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: he decides to raise her and the two love each 90 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: other um and doing so. In raising her, he has 91 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: to fend off the cults of Silent Hill attempting to 92 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: abduct her. He dyed her hair blonde from its original 93 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: brown to conceal her identity. So seventeen years after the 94 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: events of the first game, Heather Mason makes her debut 95 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: as the main character and Silent Hill three. She's a 96 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: teenager in this gray hoodie with cut off sleeves and 97 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: army green mini skirt, and she's got these boots, and 98 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,919 Speaker 1: she's got this like short blonde hair hanging out of 99 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: her hoodie. And she's hanging out at the mall. Of course, 100 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 1: of course, malls are never good in horror movies or 101 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:35,159 Speaker 1: horror games, and strange things start to happen. The mall 102 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: is all red. Suddenly there's chains everywhere, like very creepy, 103 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: very hell scapey. There's a creepy, bloody bunny mascot Robbie 104 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: the Rabbit um and monsters, and the building seems to 105 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: be trying to trap her inside. Every time she tries 106 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 1: to leave, she gets trapped inside. She returns home, she 107 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: finally gets out. She returns down to find that her father, Harry, 108 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: has been murdered by a monster that she then has 109 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: to face. The cult has found her and is trying 110 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: to bring her back to Silent Hill. She also confronts 111 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: Detective Douglas Cartland, who is investigating her, and she is 112 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: very suspicious of him. Um Nonetheless, after the murder of 113 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: her father, she agrees to accompany him to Silent Hill, 114 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: and what follows is a pretty horrific journey where Heather 115 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: confronts her past and resurfaces these memories, finds out these 116 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: truths about who she is and her her own past. 117 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: She proves incredibly adaptable to disturbing situations. She's determined, she's 118 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: tenacious and kind. The relationship between Cartland and Heather becomes 119 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: somewhat of a father daughter one, and the endings vary 120 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: based on the decisions you make throughout the game. All 121 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: silent Hell games are like that, or most of them 122 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: are like that. But generally Heather decide it's to change 123 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: her name to Cheryl Mason to honor her former self. 124 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: And this game was pretty popular. This character has appeared 125 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: in movies uh and also a few other games. She's 126 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: pretty blunt, capable, quick to anger, snarky, sarcastic, a lot 127 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: of things that are often attributed to teenagers, which I 128 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: think was very purposeful the whole is it a monster 129 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: adolescents trope, especially at the end, because there's one ending 130 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: where we're like, oh god, if she's a monster, she 131 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: just being like a teenager at Cantell. She's a big 132 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: fan of Glasgow literature. There's this whole there riddles in 133 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: the game, and there you can set their difficulty and 134 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: there's one that's all about Shakespeare and the axe in 135 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: there and it's so difficult. Oh my gosh. Uh. She's 136 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: anti religious and or atheist. Um. She's got a lot 137 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 1: of trauma. She's very independent, she's brave. She doesn't really 138 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: get scared. Um like the part of them all in 139 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: the beginning. She she's just kind of like rolling with 140 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: the punches, like okay, and she yes she does have 141 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: so many costumes that and you can find of note, 142 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: her main costume, while Feminum isn't really sexualized. A lot 143 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: of these costumes are, but her main one isn't, and 144 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: a lot of people write about that when they write 145 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: up about her, because she is someone who comes up 146 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: as like one of the best women in survival horror 147 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: characters you can play. The ending is like, uh, okay, 148 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: so she vomits up a fetus, has to kill it. Yeah, 149 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: so that's pretty gruesome. Her ending depends on what you 150 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: did throughout the game, as I said, but she Yeah, 151 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 1: she generally like plays a prank on Douglas and it's 152 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: implied that they're going to be okay. Um. There's also 153 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: the Possess ending where she kills Douglas slash Cartland um 154 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: and the UFO ending where Harry is alive and commands 155 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: aliens to destroy Sound Hill. So every sound Hill game 156 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: has the ending where the aliens come in and destroy 157 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: sound Hill pretty much or the dog did it or whatever. 158 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 1: They're they're like funny ending, um dog ending yep um. Yeah. 159 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: And I I really liked Heather when I played her 160 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: um because she's she's she feels to me like she's, uh, 161 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: she's a pretty good um rendering of a teenager. She's feminine, 162 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: but not too feminine. She doesn't look like she kind 163 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: of looks word out and tired all the time, which 164 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: I think they did on purpose. But she's she's funny 165 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: and snarky and uh, she just really gets things done. 166 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,839 Speaker 1: She's like, no, I'm gonna go do this. And her 167 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: story is revenge based a lot of it, but then 168 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: it becomes a almost empathetic to her past self into 169 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: the sort of sister Claudia her past self. So I 170 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: really like it. I think the Silent Hill games, especially 171 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: the first three, have a lot of interesting things to say. 172 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: Sometimes they did do well and sometimes they didn't. But 173 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: kind of this idea of being used your nightmares, being 174 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: used your pain, being used as a woman to birth 175 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: a god or a demon. Of course, is there is 176 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: throughout in these games that torturing women or using women's 177 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: pain to benefit or to create something monstrous. So yeah, 178 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 1: maybe one day we'll do a whole episode on Silent Hill. 179 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: I would love that. Well, I've watched the first movie, 180 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: that's what I can continue. Yeah, so you know she Erroll, 181 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: who's a young girl from the first movie. But let's 182 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: say that's all I got. Okay, well that's something I'm 183 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: into it. Thank you, You're welcome. Wow. This brings us 184 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: to the end of this edition of Fictional Women Around 185 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: the World. 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