Henry Townshend
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| Henry Townshend | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Age | 20s |
| Hair color | Brown |
| Eye color | Green |
| Occupation | Freelance photographer |
| Appearance/s in Silent Hill Series | Silent Hill 4: The Room |
| Voice by/ Portrayer | Eric Bossick |
Henry Townshend is the main protagonist of cult hit video game Silent Hill 4: The Room by Konami.
[edit] Personality
Henry Townsend is somewhat of a quiet soul, shy and introverted in personality (however he is quite capable of defending himself when necessary). He is obviously a keen and adept photographer, proved by the many scenic pictures that hang on the walls such as in his room and the living room are by his own hand. He obviously has an eye for natural beauty that goes beyond the superficial, he remarks, "This is a photo of the church I ran across while I was visiting Silent Hill, for some reason I was really attracted by the way it looked, so I took the picture."
Henry is certainly no stranger to Silent Hill, the tourist town and central focus of title and previous games. From the pictures we can discern that he has visited Old Silent Hill by way of a vacation, with pictures of what appears to be the Balkan Church and the old lighthouse, both landmarks of Silent Hill 1. One photo, a boy on a bike found below the lighthouse picture says downtown Silent Hill. All the photos represent past reminders to the last Silent Hill games (also, Henry comments at one stage on the light house picture that 'There was even rumor that a UFO came flying right by the lighthouse.' - a subtle hint to the 'UFO endings' in the last three games as well.
We can also see that he has a penchant for cars, shown by the car magazine that is on his coffee table, entitled 'Bikkuri Cars'. He is a collector of books, yet for the two years he has been there he hasn't read any of them or even touched them.
Henry has gone unnoticed in his building; he passes his next door neighbor Eileen Galvin occasionally and they give each other nodding glances of acknowledgement and courtesy, yet no further relationship develops. He is equally distant from his other neighbors. The Hitchcock-style windows are perhaps his only comfort, where he can watch the lives of other people. But this is the same case as with his neighbours.
Henry is depicted as very shy person and an observer type, and even his occupation - photography - is all about watching. (Later in the game, when he discovers he can watch his neighbor Eileen through a hole that has opened in his wall, he watches her voyeuristically as she goes about her daily business.)
Henry, unlike earlier Silent Hill protagonists, enters the series' nightmare world without a lot of obvious traumas or emotional problems to work through, other than his distance from other people. It is notable that while the monsters of the previous two games were seemingly inspired by the fears and guilt’s of those games' protagonists, the monsters of Silent Hill 4 seem to spring from the twisted mind of the game's villain, Walter Sullivan.
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