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"I don't look like a ghost, do I? See, feel how warm I am!"
(Canon: Silent Hill 2)
ROLE: Maria is a manifestation created by the town of Silent Hill. She is humorous and friendly, cares about children and likely will do your hair and nails on a girls' night. Alluring and flirty, she will pole dance for you and give you special favours offscreen...But most notably she is, as canon says, "Born From A Wish": she will mimic your loved ones with a little tweak, bettering those fatal flaws about them that hurt you so much, with the aim to punish you and replace them, finding a role for herself to validate her own existence through your belief in her.
ATTACKS: If she got ahold of one, she would be able to use a gun or a knife, but is more inclined to do so out of self defense. Maria will only get actively violent if you reject her, shifting into her monster form that strangles you/hits you with her tentacle and shoots moths at you. Other than that, she can shapeshift, and she can also inherit the memories of the person she is mimicking and use them against you.
WEAKNESSES: Maria has died from physical damage the way a normal human would only to come back shortly after, multiple times. The only way for her to be taken away from this world is to have her rejected by everyone AND to have her reject herself, urging her into self destruction. Unless you want to use a shortcut*. It's not impossible to redeem her into being a helper rather than a villain, but she is willing to inflict extreme trauma to get what she wants.
SUGGESTED PLOTS: Positive CR for funny lighthearted moments, memshare adjacent plots, breaking or otherwise testing couples and other character relationships. Due to her nature, waves of reality warps may make her more powerful. This could be a good way to set timings for aforementioned meaningful experiences.
( It doesn't matter who I am. I am here for you, James. See? I am real. )
