| “ | Astrid, I'm afraid I'm not getting out of these meetings what I would want to. But maybe it would help if we could see each other... as we really are.
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Aurora is a character appearing in Silent Hill: Ascension. Aurora is the social worker in Norway dealing with Astrid Johansen, while hiding her double identity as a devoted member of the sect of the Heralds.
History[]
Background[]
Aurora and her sister Barbara were both important members of the Heralds, a splinter sect of the Foundation that believed in welcoming the Withering for cleansing. They took part in a large scale plan intending to connect two Withering spots in the world, with Aurora's part consisting in using her job as a social worker to get closer to a blighted family. [1]
Silent Hill: Ascension[]
Aurora and Astrid meet.
While Barbara started her side of the plan in Hope's Junction earlier, it didn't take long for Aurora to be contacted for a family checkup in Stilledalen, Norway. Astrid Johansen had lost sight of her son Orson during an hour due to becoming lost in the Otherworld, prompting a bystander to call for CPS. After some digging into the Johansen family history, Aurora met them by the town's docks and presented herself as a kind and helpful person, reassuring Astrid that she had no intentions of taking custody of her son. After listening to Astrid's account about the day she lost Orson, Aurora showed understanding and proposed getting him a toy to show that she cared about him, suggesting a doll of either his late grandmother Ingrid or of a scientist, like Astrid. Ending the meeting in a good note, Aurora left by herself. [2]
Aurora offers "homeopathic pills."
Upon doing further research, Aurora found the Johansens to be the perfect target for the sisters' plan, due to the deep rooted generational trauma running through the family and a violent incident fifteen years prior where Eva Johansen went on a mass shooting in town. Their next meeting took place in the Johansen farm grounds, where Aurora came across a panicked Astrid screaming due to experiencing an Otherworld shift. After checking on her and noticing that time had distorted for Astrid, Aurora gave her a flask of suspicious pills, claiming they were homeopathic medicine to calm her anxiety. Astrid showed distrust at her offer, to which Aurora lightheartedly commented on her issues accepting help and insisted on them being good for her.
Discussing the funeral.
They met again the next afternoon to discuss Astrid's approach to Ingrid's funeral. Astrid was troubled about the flowers to pick for the casket, while Aurora was interested in having Orson pick the flowers for her. Noticing that Astrid was still stressed and tense, Aurora was disappointed to find out that Astrid threw the pills away earlier instead of taking them. Instead of pursuing it further, she admitted to looking into the Johansen family and suggested Astrid to focus onto her parting words to Ingrid instead of the flowers. She encouraged her to be honest about her abusive experience without fear of repercussions, and to find peace in sincerity. [3]
With the first phase succeeding for both Barbara and Aurora, they moved onto the next stage of the plan: the kidnapping of the family's child. In the middle of Ingrid's funeral, Orson and his grandfather Karl became lost in the fog, where Aurora took the young boy and left the family to search for them incessantly for the next week. Aurora kept Orson in a hideout in the forest, where she fed him the root of a plant with hallucinogenic properties that connected him further to the Otherworld. Meanwhile, she exacerbated the violent traits he'd inherited from Ingrid and Eva as well as the trauma that was spread to Astrid, making him dangerous and distant. [4][1]
Aurora sends paramedics to take Astrid.
When Astrid became more desperate in her search, Karl grew fearful of her mental state declining. Believing it to be the best course of action, he got in contact with Aurora to send an intervention on Astrid's search. Being beneficial to her plan, she obliged and had paramedics visit the Johansen farm and restrain Astrid, taking her to the hospital and drugging her for psychiatric tests. Although she was released the next day, the intervention served the purpose of deepening Astrid's anger and frustrations. [5]
Once the "re-education" process was done, Aurora released Orson and had him return home, although in a near catatonic state. While Astrid took him the hospital, Aurora called her to arrange a new meeting and to check-up on Orson's state. In the middle of their call, Orson had a violent outburst on the doctor examining him, forcing Astrid to end the call and reconsider if she wanted Aurora to meet with him in that condition. [6]
Aurora hugs Astrid.
When the time for the visit came, Astrid reluctantly decided to let Aurora see Orson without any sedatives. After putting on an optimistic face for her, she opened the door to let Aurora into the house. There, Aurora cheerfully greeted Orson while he played with his toys, but that only resulted in Orson growling at her. As she approached him, Orson suddenly stood up and attacked her, biting her hand. With Astrid in fear at the prospect of Orson growing up to be like Ingrid and Eva, Aurora feigned compassion and reassured her that they'd handle the situation and, through more meetings and check-ups, they'd get through it together. [7]
Aurora injects Astrid with drugs.
Unfortunately for Aurora, the plan went out of control once their respective targets learned of the Heralds through the shared Otherworld between both towns. Rachel Hernandez, Barbara's target, warned Astrid about the Heralds likely coming after both of them, forcing Astrid to get ex-detective Olivia Haugen to help protect the house with her. While Barbara came clean about her true identity to confront Rachel, Aurora instead maintained her fake image and showed at the farmhouse for a wellness check. Although Astrid and Haugen received her with a scare by pointing their guns at her, she quickly managed to make Astrid lower her guard and let her in. At the table, she kept appearances for long enough to make Haugen relax as well, by asking routine questions about Orson's shift in behavior. Suddenly, she asked Astrid about her being an awful mother and a blight, before stabbing both of them in the neck with syringes. While Haugen fell unconscious from the drug, Astrid stood awake just long enough to see Aurora excited about the anger in her eyes, before Aurora "welcomed" her to the truth the Heralds would show her.
Calling Orson downstairs.
Once Astrid woke up, still heavily drugged, Aurora threatened her with overdosing Haugen if she didn't comply. After bragging about Barbara's work in Hope's Junction and priding herself in her work, she explained to Astrid that the Johansen family was picked for starting the Withering in Stilledalen, either by Karl killing Ingrid or by Eva's mass shooting. She then coerced Astrid into telling Orson of his dark heritage and of Karl being Ingrid's real murderer, or else Aurora would tell him herself. Upon calling Orson downstairs, he showed anxiety and fear of her presence. She then watched in delight at Astrid's account of Karl's actions, and began to tell him of the darkness running through the family. While Astrid lost consciousness again, Haugen managed to get back on her feet and attacked her, forcing her to flee the farm with Orson.
Aurora offers the root.
After leaving the boy in the forest, Aurora waited for Astrid to get taken to the hospital, where she spent the night. She then gave a nurse a note to deliver to Astrid, tauntingly summoning her for a meeting at noon in Stilledalen's town square. In possession of the same root she had previously given to Orson, Aurora waited by the fountain for Astrid to arrive. When she did come in company of Haugen, Aurora merely smiled while Astrid demanded answers from her, before making Haugen vanish into the fog. With only the two of them in scene, Aurora presented the root to Astrid, claiming it to be what she fed to Orson and the answers she was looking for. When Astrid threatened to force Aurora herself to eat it, she just mocked her, as it would have been blissful for her and it would just deprive Astrid of her answers. [1]
Aurora and Barbara in the Otherworld.
While Haugen called for Astrid in the distance, Astrid gave in and ate from the root, much to Aurora's delight. As she hallucinated of the Otherworld in disbelief, Aurora laughed at her for it, saying that the children are ready for their role and they wait for her. Content with seeing Astrid fall to the despair of the vision, she wandered through the Otherworld herself, eventually joining her, Rachel and Barbara in the shared plane between towns. She announced that the arrival of the Great Empath was near, and asked Astrid to let her into "eternity" by helping her die at the hands of the Smotherer, an emissary of their savior. Though Rachel tried to convince Astrid to not help her, Aurora urged her to give into her violent nature, and to get revenge that way.
Rachel and Astrid drag Aurora away from the Smotherer.
As the Smotherer drew near, the sisters praised and bowed before it. Aurora then dropped to her knees, calling the monster's attention to "take her pain and rot." Contrary to what she expected, Rachel and Astrid rushed towards her and pulled her away from the Smotherer while she frantically begged for them to let her die to it. After dragging her away for a short distance, Aurora broke free of their grasp and escaped out of their sight. Barbara arrived, saying that she'd have to find "another way of claiming eternity," before being killed herself by the Smotherer.
Upon returning home from the Otherworld, Astrid could only tell her sister Brit that Aurora "is alive, somewhere," which Brit called a fate worse than death. [8]
Behind the scenes[]
| “ | Aurora Nilsen. 30 to 40 years old; all ethnicities; woman. The state-appointed social worker assigned to look after Orson's well-being after his mother, Astrid, begins to exhibit strange behavior. She's direct and harried, like many government workers, but at times she's a little unorthodox in her methods and seems intent on making sure Astrid has the support she needs to take care of Orson. But despite her direct approach, she seems to truly care about the welfare of the children she's tasked with overseeing.
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Aurora first appeared in the interactive television series Silent Hill: Ascension, voiced by Pauline Yasuda (who also voices Barbara).
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| Characters |
| Major Characters |
| Astrid Johansen - Brit Johansen - Eric Hernandez - Karl Johansen - Rachel Hernandez - Toby Cirelli - Xavier Candless |
| Other Characters |
| Aurora - Barbara - Eva Johansen - Faith Hernandez - Ingrid Johansen - Joy Cirelli - Krista Lee - Lejo Kant - Mette Dahl - Nils Grønbekk - Nora Jackson - Olivia Haugen - Orson Johansen - Zayn Davies |
| Monsters |
| Crawler - Fighter - Hanger - Snarler - Stinger - The Bruiser - The Collector - The Entangler - The Immolator - The Smotherer - Wanderer |
| Locations |
| Hope's Junction - Stilledalen |
| Terms |
| Monster - Fog World - Otherworld - Paul Radcliffe - The Foundation - The Heralds - The Purifier - The Withering |
| Archives |
| Episodes - Story Branches - Cameos - Arcane Library - Soundtrack |