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Name

Walter Sullivan

Fandom

Silent Hill 4

Age

34

PB

Kurt Cobain.

Job

Crime Scene Investigator

Sexual Orientation

Pansexual. No real interest in a relationship, but can and will have sex to amuse himself, relieve stress, or just to prove that he can (caution: will be rather aggressive during sexual intercourse).

Appearance

All in all, Walter is a rather attractive man. He has long, dirty blond hair (almost brown), and green eyes; and he sports a permanent, impressive 5 o' clock shadow.

He's taller than average; and has a large, well built body, covered by long, heavy rain coats (no matter the weather), which only makes him look more imposing. He tends to hide his face with his hair by looking down- but when he actually looks up, you'll discover he has quite an eerie, intimidating smile; and he tends to stare at people, scaring them away.

Personality

Quite a bit off. Clever and brilliant, but at the same time quirky, strange, and rather insane, with a bit of a split personality, you never know when he'll go off. Extremely possessive about what he enjoys. Does not believe in keeping secrets, despises people who lie. In general, he does not like women; he's something of a misanthropic in most cases, considering his history. Absolutely fears and loathes dogs and cats -- but mostly dogs. Does like children.

Walter is a violent man, though he rarely loses his cool. In canon, his victims were killed in varied and gruesome ways. Eileen was perhaps the only person he felt connected to; he saw her as the mother he never had (hence she was chosen as “The Mother Reborn”), and he was still capable of beating her to near death with his own fists. His religious and personal beliefs fueled his violence—but despite his capacity of murder, he never killed randomly. Each victim was carefully chosen for fulfilling the ritual to purify his mother.

History

Walter Sullivan was born in the town of Ashfield in Room 302 of the South Ashfield Heights apartment building. Just after his birth, his biological parents fled the apartment and left the newborn child behind. The infant was later discovered by the building superintendent, Frank Sunderland, who turned the child over to the nearby St. Jerome's Hospital. After a stay in the hospital, he became a ward of the state and was turned over to the Wish House orphanage in Silent Hill. It was there that he began his tutelage in the ways of The Order, the cult that operated the orphanage. He was also tortured for years- kept in a damp cell, beaten and possibly raped, too.

In time, after learning of his tragic birth, the young Sullivan gradually started to believe that Room 302 itself was his mother, and the child started making weekly trips to Ashfield to visit "her," much to the dismay of the apartment's current residents. During his late adolescent years, he learned of the "21 Sacraments," an obscure ceremony in the Order's teachings that Walter could use to "awaken" his "mother". He was instructed on how to perform this ritual by Dahlia Gillespie, who hoped to use him as a failsafe in case the Order's other main hope to create a new world, Dahlia's daughter Alessa, failed in her endeavors. Around this time, Walter had also learned to write and kept a diary.

Sometime later, he briefly encounters five-year old Eileen Galvin while homeless. Eileen, out of sympathy, gives the perplexed Walter one of her dolls then walks away conversing with her mother. The scene of Eileen happily walking with her mother, while he holds her doll in hand, inspires a profound sorrow within Walter to which he sobs uncontrollably.

When Sullivan was 24 he began his killing spree, murdering 10 people in as many days, removing their hearts and carving numbers into their bodies. The first corpse had 01121 carved into it, the second 02121, the third 03121, and so on up to 10121. He made no effort to cover his tracks, even going as far as to carve his own name into the flesh of his victims. He was captured, tried, and convicted, and was thought to have committed suicide by stabbing himself in the neck with a metal soup spoon and severing his own carotid artery while in prison. He was buried in an unmarked grave near the Wish House, however, in Silent Hill 2, investigation of the graves in the catacomb reveals the possible real grave of Walter Sullivan. Three days after his suicide, a man fitting his description was seen exiting Room 302 of the South Ashfield Heights apartment building.

Three years later, another body was found, killed in a very similar manner to Sullivan's previous victims, and the numbers 12121 were carved into the body. The police suspected a copycat, though the heart was not removed, nor was a name carved into the body. However, Joseph Schreiber, an investigative journalist, developed his own theory at this time. He believed that the police had failed to capture the real Walter Sullivan, and began to investigate Walter's life in conjunction with an earlier investigation into the Silent Hill cult. Eventually finding Walter's grave, Schreiber discovered there was no body inside and that numbers, 11121, were carved into the coffin. Two more bodies surfaced over the next few weeks, carved with the numbers 13121 and 14121 respectively. Joseph Schreiber went missing from room 302 shortly thereafter. What the police failed to realize was that the numbers, 01121-14121, actually meant 01/21-14/21, meaning that Sullivan intended to kill 21 victims in all.

Through the Order's teachings, Sullivan believed that the deaths of these 21 victims would help free his "mother," Room 302, and wake her up again so that he could live within her "womb" once more, safe from the world that terrorized him. In the game, most of his victims appear as Ghosts.

In game history

Born in an accommodated family, Walter was an only child for most of his life. He was spoiled endlessly by his mother- but he was always a nice child, for the most part (the gardener barely managed to save the cat from strangulation? Who would suspect of little Walter?). He was a smart child, with more intelligence and less innocence than other kids his age. The kind of boy you wouldn't offer a cookie to. He had the means to make other people adore him- but he never in his life has bothered in trying to make other people like him (if he won’t get a reasonable profit out of it, that is).

Walter, however, has been always startlingly close to his mother. She is the only person he will openly admit he cares about. …What he doesn’t like to admit is that he is torn between love and hate for reasons he doesn’t quite understand.

He speaks fluently in German, French and Spanish and has a brilliant mind for math, chemistry and biology, but he tends to keep those abilities to himself.