User:Marissa Hunt

Marissa Hunt
"Hell, it's a funny word. It can refer to a lot of things, but I think I know where it is, it's right here. And I'm living it." Marissa is the main character and the protagonist in the Silent Hill Fanfiction, Of Time to End.

Personality and Appearance
Marissa is a well thoughout individual who focuses more on her work than her private life, often times getting sucked into her job more than anything else. She often ends up locking herself in her apartment, wanting to simply be left alone to work, which ends up taking away from her private situations. Marissa, while reading an old journal of hers, commented on her loosing a fiance' several years earlier, but she doesn't seem to have gotten over it. Marissa is naturally curious, often times getting her into trouble, such as her interest in Silent Hill. She isn't bad tempered, but she gets irritated if she gets upset, often quick to find someone else to blame for something. Despite her cold personality, Marissa isn't an evil person. She likes children, and wishes to have a family, but isn't quite ready to blame her focus on her work for her lack in sexual activeness. She is friendly to most people, and nasty to others, which is a heavy conflict in her own nature. Marissa is haunted by a past that she can't remember, and loathes people that persist in asking her about it.

Life Prior
Marissa has little to no memory of her childhood and past life, only remembering up to the past six years. She was born in Silent Hill with her twin brother, Marcus, but her family lived in Shepard's Glen, where she grew up in a small house in the forest near the Wish House. She attended school with Alex Shepard, Elle Hollway, and a newer character named Nathan Laun. She was very close friends with the three, often times sneaking out to play with him. She had a little crush on Nathan, but was too shy to tell him. Shortly before the death of her parents, she acidentally killed Nathan's younger sister, Julie, when they were playing at a peak over Toluca Lake. She slipped when Marissa playfully pushed her, and she fell to her death. Marissa was on her way to tell Nathan what had happend when she discovered her house in flames Her parents, and mistakenly, her brother, were killed, although she found out later that her brother wasn't killed. She was put into the Wish House, where she resisted the forceable teachings of the Order, and was punished often for it. She eventually managed to escape the Orphange, where she ended up in Ashfield, meeting the young Walter Sullivan. She was unexplainably terrified of him, and often threatened him with a pocketknife whenever he got to close to her. When she was 18, she was struck by a car and suffered head injuries, where she lost most of her memory. She moved into South Ashfield Heights, and received free rent in return for helping with building matience and cleaning. She rarely left the building except to get grocieries for the superinetendant or to sweep the porches, again, with her solitary nature. She lived in an apartment down the hall from room 302, in 301, before Mike moved in. During her stay, she wasn't well liked by the tennants, but they tipped her for cleaning the halls. Marissa acidentally killed a man who had been following her by impailing him on a fence. She moved out two weeks before the events of Silent Hill: The Room.

Marissa moved to Valet Town, which is a three day drive from Silent Hill, where she picked up a job as a journalist's assistant, and managed to get her own apartment. Her interest in photography gave her an interesting hand with a camera, and her boss gave her a job as the head photographer. She eventually managed to become a skilled journalist, and beacuse the second in command at her office.

Biography
During a seemingly routine trip home, the bus Marissa is on is mysteriously teleported to the streets of Silent Hill. Armed with a switchblade she finds in the seat, she is attacked by a Feral, which she kills quickly and limps out of the bus. Heading towards Alchemilla Hospital in hopes of finding treatment, she spots Pyramid Head in the distance, and ducks into a library. While skimming the shelves, she discovers a book with a photo wedged in it of her with Alex and Elle. She gets a nasty headache and sinks to the floor, clutching her head. She hears someone enter, and she crawls under a table, still suffering from a pulsating headache, and fearing she'll get caught, she kills herself with the knife.

Waking up in her apartment with a splitting headache, Marissa gets out of her bedroom and walks to the kitchen, finding the swtichblade from her dream on the counter. Picking it up for safe keeping, she walks around her apartment a little, commenting on how she misses painting and that her oils are probably dried from lack of use. Opening her shoulder bag, she pulls out a flashlight and tucks it away. Leaving her apartment to go for a walk, she notices that her superinentant, his door is open. Curious, she heads down to check it out. When she enters, she picks up a handgun that's lying on the floor in the living room. While exploring, she makes the unfortnate discovery of both her superintenant and his wife dead in the bathroom. Disgusted, she wonders if she should call the police, but discovers that the phone is disconnected. Leaving, she runs into a young man who looks alarmingly like her, and he comments on her looking like she's seen a ghost. She backs away and asks him who he is, to which he responds that she'll remember eventually, and she collapses from a sudden migraine. He leaves, and the world melts away into the Otherworld, where she is attacked by a Feral. Realizing that the stairs on the outside to her apartment has collapsed, she goes in through the laundry mat, where she gets the radio. Heading through the construction zone in the building, she goes up a ladder and to her neighbor, Allison's apartment. Opening the door, she finds that the apartment is now home to a giant cage, where the first 'boss' monster is, the Seducer. Upon it's defeat, the world returns to normal, and Allison wonders why she's standing in her apartment with a gun.

Slightly paranoid from her experience, Marissa goes into work early, but stops at a coffee shop on her way. While there, she meets Allison again, who was waiting for a client, whom she asks about last night. Allison comments that the lighting outside got different and a weird man came to her door, and after that, she must've been dreaming. Marissa says she wasn't sure, but doesn't press for further answers. Allison then comments that the superintentant and his wife were found murdered that morning.

While at work, Marissa asks her boss, Micheal, about the town of Silent Hill. He tells her that she shouldn't go poking around in things that'll get her killed. Confused, Marissa asks what a town could do. Micheal ignores her comment, and tells her to take a vacation. Confused, Marissa leaves the office and takes the subway to Ashfield, her favorite vacation spot. While on her way there, Marissa slips into sleep, and wakes up in the Otherworld, in a very similar version of Walter's Otherworlds. At the enterace of the subway, she runs into Allison, who complains that her client lied to her about the meeting place. Marissa warns her about the subway, but Allison tells her to take a chill pill and enjoy the scenery, following which, she goes down into the subway. Marissa leaves. and stops at Ashfield Heights to say hello to Frank Sutherland, during which she runs into Henry Townshed. He is surprised to see her, and asks her if she was the girl that lived down the hall from him, telling him yes, they strike up a conversation about what had happened to them during the past few years. Suspicous that Henry isn't telling her something, she asks him about Walter Sullivan, and Henry tells her about the room. Curious, she asks if he was framilar with the town, Silent Hill. Henry, who was obviously getting uncomforable with the topic, tells her not to push herself into something she wouldn't want to get involved in. Before he leaves, he gives her a camera, which he tells her was left in her apartment and he kept it for safe keeping.

Marissa checks out the camera and discovers that there were photos in there that weren't devolped. She discovers that their photos of twisted versions of places, a forest, the apartment building, the subway. Much to her dismay, she discovers that Walter Sullivan had gotten a hold of her camera and carved his name in the bottom. Disgusted, she throws the camera away, and keeps going. While at a late night cafe, she uses her laptop to research Silent Hill and studies the town itself, the resorts, and hospital, the towns, and sewers. Annoyed that her boss thinks she's paranoid about a lovely looking vacation spot, she decides to go to Silent Hill. Asking the bartender if he knows anyone who could give her a ride, he directs her to Alex Shepard, who was visisting Ashfield. He is surprised to see her, and asks her how she's been. Slightly disturbed that he knows her, she asks if he could give her a ride. Alex rejects her, but then asks if he could just take her to the outskirts. He is then curious as to what she's so desperate to learn about, to which she replies that she wants to know whos messing with her life. Alex accepts, with some convincing, and they drive to Silent Hill.

During the drive, Marissa falls asleep and has another memory lapse. She sees part of her childhood, before snapping awake. Alex comments that she was muttering in her sleep, and asks what she was dreaming about. Annoyed, she doesn't respond, and they pull into Shepard's Glen shortly after. Alex gives her his dog tags shortly before he leaves and tells her to be careful. Marissa thanks him and goes off. Stopping at Alex's house, where she picks up the shotgun, and discovers a photograph of her and Alex on the desk, where she has another memory lapse and faints. Waking up, she discovers the same man waiting for her at the door, and asks her if she's remebered yet. Threatning him with the gun, she leaves through the back door and runs to the centeral town.

Arriving at Alchemilla Hospital, she meets Nathan Laun, a doctor, who is alarmed by the state of the staff and patients and has taken up arms to defend himself. They join eachother and fight their way through the halls, arriving at a small room where a little girl was waiting. Nathan exclaims that the girl is his little sister, Julie, but it was impossible, beacuse she died several years eariear. She runs away, and Nathan attempts to follow, but they are stopped when The Mentals arrive to kill them. After they are defeated, Nathan takes Marissa to the cemetry where he shows her the grave of his sister, but is distraut to discover that the grave site had been descrated. Marissa leaves him to mourn and goes to explore the graveyard, where she runs into Julie again and tried to follow her, which leads her back to Nathan, who is being attacked by order soliders and carried away. Marissa hides, and becomes annoyed that she is now locked in the yard. Scaling the fence, she arrives a the Greenbriar hotel, which she explores and finds the key to the gate. Leaving the graveyard, she follows the soliders to a chapel, which she sneaks into through the basement, and finds Nathan badly injured in a cell, where she gives him a first aid kit and runs to go find the soliders. Having another memory lapse, she faints again, and wakes up with memories of her brother, and the painful memory that she killed Julie by accident when they were both little. Running to the major part of the church where she faces her brother, where he tells her that he wants her to join him with the order. Disgusted, she tells him to go to hell. Upset, he turns into a monster, entiating the final boss, Nameless. Upon his defeat, he tells her that he's sorry and she forgives him, where he dies in her arms. Leaving, she finds Nathan recovered with a truck waiting out front for her. She apologizes for the death of his sister, where he forgives her. They leave together, and Nathan comments that she hasn't changes, and she says she has.

Trivia

 * Her cameo in SH4 is not imporant to the story, but Henry does comment "There was a weird girl who used to live here, wonder what ever happened to her..."
 * In SH3, she is sitting in the Happy Burger where Heather wakes up in, she leaves shortly before Heather.
 * Even though she lived in Shepard's Glen, her family was not part of the four founding ones.