A Wild Headcanon Meme Appears!

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✭ A HEADCANON/QUESTIONS MEME ✭
Because there's never a wrong time for headcanon.

→ Post with a list of your characters.
→ Comment to other people asking them questions about their lineup. Ask anything you can think of: questions about personal headcanon, thoughts on your CR, hypothetical situations, off-screen interactions, future plans, serious business, random crack, whatever!
→ Respond to the questions you receive!
→ LEARN NEW THINGS ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S CHARACTERS THAT YOU NEVER KNEW BEFORE.
→ Discover things your characters have in common and forge excellent CR and shenanigans accordingly.
→ Repeat steps 2-5 forever.
→ Holy Voltorbs.

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[foolishwren]

Juuuuuuust

Heather Mason || foolishwren || Silent Hill, here!

[tsundroid]

I'm a big fan of the Silent Hill series so I've always been curious. How does Heather feel about her father now that she knows everything that went down with Cheryl as well as everything about Alessa, the both of them (her and Cheryl) being a part of Alessa, the cult, etc.?

[foolishwren]

Aw hey there! c: Me too (duh) SO WE'VE GOT THAT IN COMMON!

Heather's feelings on her father now that she knows the whole story are pretty powerful, but not really negative in any way.

She is in incredible awe of his strength but also incredibly sympathetic to the situation that she/Alessa inadvertently put him in. She's aware that even though she IS Cheryl (she displayed quite a few of the original Cheryl's memories growing up without realizing that they were actually from a past life) and that Harry more or less treated her as Cheryl as she was growing up, he still suffered what by all logic felt like the death of his child and had a NEW one thrust upon him-- one who, even if there were definite similarities, turned out differently enough that he himself admitted that it had been a mistake to name her 'Cheryl' again when he really should have been treating her like a brand new person since she was now 'whole' instead of just a fraction, like Cheryl had been.

She feels a lot of empathy for him-- not really much in the way of GUILT, per se (she doesn't regret giving herself new life at the end of SH1 for example, she was just SURVIVING), but she does understand and regret that Harry went through a lot of pain and emotional turmoil just to raise her, even WITHOUT all the danger that her presence put him in due to the cult's continued searching for her.

Even when she found out he had contemplated killing or abandoning her as an infant, a discovery that's frankly FAIRLY HORRIFYING, she didn't and still doesn't really blame him for it. If anything, she just loves him even more because of the fact that he found the strength NOT to and went on to care for and cherish her as his child anyway.

Harry is, when you get right down to it and for more reasons than one, the reason she even exists-- both in that he saved her life, saw her through a second childhood, AND taught her the values and skills that she needed to carry her through the events of Silent Hill 3. Which is even more important when you consider that the main thing standing between a 'good ending' (her defeating God, saving the world, and rejecting the role the cult had planned for her) and a 'bad ending' (her defeating God but ultimately, in her rage, taking on the role of the vengeful god HERSELF and still essentially bringing Claudia's plan to fruition) was the kindness that Harry showed her-- Silent Hill 3 is pretty much a story of "nature vs. nurture".

SO TL;DR while she of course loved him prior to knowing the full story, regaining her memories and learning the whole thing really increased her respect for him tenfold. In her opinion, he's the strongest person in the world and she doesn't mind saying it openly.

[angerpoints]

If Heather were to pursue higher education, what would she study?

[foolishwren]

That's something that she doesn't really know, and had been avoiding a little before she wound up coming to Johto.

Although she was never a bad student knowledge-wise (she acted out and slacked off at times but she was always pretty smart), she didn't really have many areas that she was passionate about.

Something more in the creative direction would be the likely candidate if anything, what with loving books/her father being an author, as well as the scrapbooking/mixed media collages and stuff you can find in her room in the game. But she's a little too casual about what little art she does to really picture herself devoting an entire student career to it, and while she does like literature all those essays wouldn't be something she'd be looking forward to.

I think if anything she'd go to school with an undeclared major and then see where that took her, deciding on a major once she found something that really clicked with her.

The only things I could see her definitely staying away from would be math-related majors (chemistry would be okay but most of the others = no). Otherwise I think she'd probably dip her toes in a little bit of everything.

That said, I think she'd probably really enjoy going abroad and seeing the world so she'd pursue those sorts of options whenever possible.