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We can say Henry is probably similar to what we see in game, but how intensely similar? Is he a bit more energetic and speaks a little faster when he slept better? Does he feel strong about anyone, in a not kind way at all?

We know he is angry at Walter...but how much angry? Insulting in his head angry?

Is he ever judgemental?

I identify with Henry but I feel like I have to slow down to write him, and sometimes, I fear I write him too nice or too bland because he isn't very reactive.

One of the reasons I love DratTheRat's Henry.

He so doesn't give a fuck (although he calls his neighbor an asshole lol) to the point he feels too practical at times.

I wanted so much more of that! The theme of the game is still a rare one: but I'm not gonna spoil - maybe you haven't played it lol

But yeah, most games were horror oriented and I was not that much on horror games yet. I'm pretty sure I started on the horror train because of Outlast or Layers of Fear (LoF is SO FREAKING BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!! I can listen to the soundtrack of it any time, it is so good! I used to have a wallpaper of it.) But my favorite game of theirs is >Observer. And I was looking at reviews on Youtube when I just...watched a 30 minute video about SH (from Zangado, a Br gamer). I don't even remember how I felt about that back in the day, but I surely got interested on it. Then long story short, I found John Wolfe's channel and I watched all the SH games and many others. It was like 2019. I talked about it, wrote fanfic and then I let it go...Didn't feel like I was characterizing James right or something. Last year was the year that I decided to play all of them myself. I think I played the first 5 games in two months? Less than that? And now I'm back on my bs and I have like 15 drafts on AO3, just sitting there. lol I'm still pretty terrible playing horror games, specially games that demands stealth....I have no patient TUT I LOVE Outlast's lore, for example, but I would never try playing that again. It's too stressful, I would just get the camera on and off all the time while running. Plus, I don't have a good notion of space (I still look at the map countless times in SH2 and SH4 even tho I've played all the endings already.)

Maybe I'm grasping at things; maybe there are hints or talks from the devs about it that show it has nothing to do with him, but I've been thinking about the paintings in the prison and what could that relate to him.

Since I related Mary's clothes being together with sewing-related accessories/instruments as meaning she was a seamstress, I thought maybe James had a passion hinted in the game.

And that's why he understands her passion for music (I'm assuming here it is a passion beyond some random hobby), not just because he was in love with Mary but because he is not Very good at his own secret passion, either - maybe he could have gotten better if he had allowed himself to explore it further.

I know it might sound so different from anything he thinks and does in Silent Hill, but if you think about it...He's on a single-minded mission to find an illusion of certainty; anything ordinary is not an acceptable aim for his attentions...unless it reminds him of Mary...

(Although!

Why does he care about "gossip" magazines talking about murders and mysterious disappearances at sea?

I know diaries are just too deliciously mysterious tbh x)

Maybe he really likes mystery novels...We know he is a very curious person, so maybe he really does like mystery novels, too! But not to the point of writing, just reading, tho.)

Maybe his first and fleeting (because he didn't allow it to take form in his head) inclination when he was in high school was to do cinema ("are you taping again?"), but then as he got older and more domestic with Mary, he got a real like to carpentry, toy-making sort of, especially (his movements are so careful and measured and minimalist in the game).

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Idea:

And maybe he didn't even realize he liked art-handicraft that much before Mary took art therapy to deal with her illness' expectations...So he started making her company by going and painting with her, to show support...

And he actually liked it very much in secret.

James mostly only paints with Mary, as if using her company as an excuse to let himself go a bit.

But it all goes to hell as her disease gets her more debilitated to hold a pencil or a brush.

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Ps.: Like the wooden toy-making thing born from his need for a hobby, to not be completely dependent on Mary, and he would use to craft some stuff with his father, maybe, small furnitures and it was relaxing to him and it was one of the few bond moments he had with daddy, so he took it again and started playing around, secretly, with making small cute crafts.

TL/DR: James having a "secret" interest on handcrafting/art.

At first, it was only cinema/being sort of part in journalistic projects in hs. But he gives it up, turning into a sort of secret hobby while "doing the masculine" professional journey.

Only to find a more subtle and relaxing "hobby": making small memorabilia and when he is settled with Mary, he starts daydreaming about making toys for his future child.

Mary loves the idea, of course. He doesn't really tell her at first, but he ends confessing as she finds him doing something.