Robert Tower

Template:Infobox ComicCharacter Robert Tower is the lead character of The Grinning Man. A retiring state police officer, Tower was to spend his last day on the force giving his replacement the rundown of his beat. However, when a strange accident happens outside of the town of Silent Hill, Tower and his replacement, Mayberry, head into Silent Hill to stop a murdering madman and resuce the civilians left to the madness of Silent Hill.

Background

Before starting a twenty-five year career with a state police department, Robert Tower was a married father of one and working for the NYPD, having been field decorated twice. A man who doesn't allow things to to get inside unless he lets them, it was this attitude that may have cost Tower his marriage. Taking his job to heart, Robert doesn't take the events and disappearances in the town of Silent Hill lightly. It's his view that those who have lost loved ones in town don't need people to be feel sorry for them, but someone to take action for them, and those lost in that town need to be respected and remembered.

Contrary to rumors surrounding the strange events in the abandoned town, Tower has seen no oddities, and believes all the happening are probably the result of any of the drug dealers or murderers that may squat in Silent Hill.

Mayberry

As a distraught mother, whose son had gone missing in the town of Silent Hill, left the State Police precinct, Tower was ushered into a meeting with his replacement. In preparation for his retirement, Tower was given the chance to name his replacement, but was told his choicehad been denied. Instead, a former FBI agent and conspiracy theorist known only as Mayberry had been chosen by the state police commissioner for the position. Respected and well educated, those higher up the chain of command felt Mayberry would be able to bring closure to many of the open cases involving Silent Hill.

Tower doesn't introduce himself to Mayberry, but rather stares dumbfounded as his replacement leans against a bulletin board plastered with the photos of people who had gone missing in Silent Hill, mourning their loses and promising to 'carry their messages home'. Tower grows angry over the thought that someone like this would be assigned in his place, and begins to plan a way to scare Mayberry off of the force with a few of his fellow officers. Before ideas can be elaborated on, Tower is ordered to the scene of a recent accident, with his replacement in tow. The wreck, located outside of Silent Hill, is a bloody affair. Entrails litter the area and blood has pooled in many places. Unfazed, Maberry attempts to make small talk with Tower, though the man appears to be interested solely in the scene before him; what he assumes to be the scene of a murder. Tower begins to order all personnel to step back, when Mayberry intervenes and suggests Tower may be wrong. As Mayberry arrived on the scene, he had taken note of quite a few cans of dog food nearby, and so assumed the gore at the scene probably came from a pet owned by the victims involved. Also of note were fresh tire treads heading into the direction of Silent Hill. Mayberry concluded that they had a case of kidnapping on their hands, versus a murder.

Admitting to his replacement that his 'song and dance' had been impressive, Tower made it clear to Mayberry that it wasn't near enough to convince the older man that he had what it took to do this kind of job. Following Mayberry's suggestion, though, Tower declared that any answers to be had could be found in Silent Hill.

The Lakeview Hotel

Tower had intended this trip into Silent Hill to be nothing more than an opportunity to give Mayberry a chance to rethink accepting Tower's position on the force. Mayberry tried to use the opportunity to engage Tower in conversation regarding his world views and conspiracy theories, but Tower only grew aggravated. Coming upon the Lakeview Hotel and a strange light being emitted from the building, Tower instructed Mayberry to call the occurrence in. Getting nothing but static on the radio and with the car refusing to start, the two have no choice but journey in without backup.

Searching the hotel corridors, Mayberry inquires about Tower's beliefs of Silent Hill, and if he if actually believes something may be there. Tower replies that he does indeed; He believes drug dealers, crazies who'd skin dogs alive, burn victims, and freaks who get off on cutting people off may be. Mayberry asks if Tower had truly seen people like that, but Tower gives his replacement the brush-off. Pressing the issue, Mayberry confides in Tower that he may have seen something inhuman flying over the town. This statement pushes Tower past his breaking point and he begins to get physical with Mayberry, until three identical, white-haired men appear before the scuffling officers.

Tower demands they submit themselves to arrest, but they pay his request no heed. One of the men suggests consuming the two men, while another makes note of their weapons, claiming them to be armed "like their enemy", though they haven't yet been branded by him. The leader of the trio recognizes Tower, and instructs the men be left alone. The trio then vanishes in a flash of light.

As the light fades, screams can be heard from the top of the stairwell where the three strangers had been standing. Rushing to the source, Tower and Mayberry find a pair of women seated on a bed, glowing marks on their foreheads and a circle of similar marks surrounding them. The women claim they can't leave the circle, or the marks upon their foreheads begin to burn. Mayberry seems familiar with the markings and suggests he may be able to offer a counter-incantation. Tower, however, fires his pistol at the markings that rest on the wall, weakening the enchantment on the women.

The Grinning Man

Leaving the hotel with the rescued women in tow, Mayberry asks Tower how he's managing to hold himself together, but Tower ignores him. The police cruiser the pair had arrived in has been smashed, leaving the four of them no choice but to walk. The women begin to panic, thinking they'll never escape Silent Hill or the grinning man who brought them here. Tower asks for a description of the man, but the women remain silent. Mayberry suggests it may be the brand that's keeping them from speaking. Before anything can be elaborated on, two men, appearing to have long since died, arrive. Claiming to have once lived in the town, they say it killed them ten years prior. With the arrival of the Grinning Man, things have begun to change and the Grinning Man is attempting to take control of Silent Hill and make it his own.

They then ask Tower to release them from the Grinning Man's service, who promptly shoots them both in the head. Tower accepts the ghouls' story as fact, and would be more than happy to allow the Grinning Man to continue. Innocent people, however, have become involved and Tower can't sit by and allow that to happen.

Dead/Alive

Appearing only in a flashback of Christabella's, Tower is seen filling out paperwork at his desk as Christabella looks on, commenting that she had thought she killed the "sheriff".

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