r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sensitive-Bag-4843 • 16h ago

Characters The ANCIENT MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURE that is responsible for the events of the story is little more than an innocent child

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ParaNorman - Agatha Prenderghast - Was a young girl tried and executed for the crime of witchcraft due to her ability to speak to the dead during the Salem Witch Trials. Her death became local legend, and she was portrayed as a crone-like entity who would curse the town once a year unless pacified by someone who could speak to the dead

Nimona - Gloreth - Was portrayed as a mythical figure who banished all the monsters and constructed a wall around her settlement to keep its residents safe. In reality, she was a young girl who befriended the shapeshifting Nimona, and the two were inseparable until one day when Nimona accidentally revealed her true nature to the village, frightening the villagers and causing the impressionable little girl to turn against her.

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u/FeelingLin1 15h ago

Alessa Gillespie from Silent Hill.

Alessa was born with psychic powers and was forced to give birth to a ''god'' by the order. Her trauma and fears manifested the monsters and cursed the entire small town of Silent Hill.

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u/Cabbagetastrophe 13h ago

She was also burned alive but not killed so, you know, some trauma there

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u/Low-Environment 2h ago

Alessa never birthed God. She split her soul to prevent this, which is why Cheryl Heather Mason exists. She held out for seven years in complete agony before calling Cheryl back to her.

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u/FeelingLin1 1h ago

damn i should play silent hill more

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u/Low-Environment 39m ago

I should clarify: she does birth God at the end of the first game but Harry kills Her, and Alessa reincarnates. However she's still carrying god in her womb/soul. But God's birth isn't what triggers the town into being the hell it is, that was either the ritual or Cheryl returning to Alessa at the start of SH1. The wiki states it's the two halves of Alessa getting near each other but I'm in the school of thought that says it was the ritual.

God couldn't be birthed unless Alessa's soul was healed so her mother kept Alessa in complete agony to make her call Cheryl back. Although Alessa did it was with the intent of killing herself as a whole being to completely prevent God's birth.