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Nurses are iconic monsters from the Silent Hill franchise by Konami, taking on many similar yet distinct forms depending on the source material. The Silent Hill: Homecoming version of the character was released as a playable monster for the Silent Hill DLC pack of Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals,[1] which also features Robbie the Rabbit, Cybil Bennett, Heather Mason, and the level "Silent Sacrifice", which takes place in the town of Silent Hill itself.
Description[]
The Nurse featured in Monsters & Mortals is stated to be based on Demon Nurses of Silent Hill: Homecoming,[1] though she also clearly takes inspiration from earlier incarnations of the character, like the Bubble Head Nurses of Silent Hill 2 (which served as the primary influence of most of the other nurses in the franchise), and the Dark Nurses from the Silent Hill films.
Like all of the aforementioned examples, the Monsters & Mortals incarnation of the Nurse is a grotesque and heavily sexualized creature. Her face is based on that of the Dark Nurses, grotesque, rotting, covered in several scars exposing the flesh beneath, but otherwise featureless. The monster's head sharply contrasts with her erotic body, only scantily clad in short, revealing dresses made of skin and white heels with pointed toes on their feet. In her right hand, she holds a sharp, single-edged knife that is around the length of her forearm.
Personality[]
Most Nurses in the Silent Hill series are known to be twitchy, erratically shuffling, bending, and even making sickly cracking sounds, with their rigid, almost-mechanical movement sometimes interrupted by sharp, sudden jolts and spastic bursts. Nurses may be equipped with a variety of weapons, like pipes, pistols, revolvers, and syringes. They are, however, most commonly associated with scalpels and a variety of other knives, weapons that they effectively use to slash and stab at nearby foes in quick succession, attacking those in their vicinity (even other Nurses, albeit accidentally) with blind, almost-uncontrollable viciousness.
Abilities[]
Currently, the Nurse is the only monster that is part of the Support class (with the four other support class characters in the game being mortals). The Nurse has 280 hit points, as well as decent movement speed and attack cooldown on par with - if not slightly better than - Balanced monsters, though her attack power is only slightly stronger than that of Speed class monsters, dealing 22 damage with a slash and 44 damage with a downward stab. As with the Support class mortals, the Nurse can use her heavy attack to heal her allies for 5 hit points, an effect that can only be observed in Maze Escape mode, which pits two monsters against four mortals.
Upon using her ultimate ability, "Fear Cuts Deep", the Nurse growls, summoning darkness which inflicts fear on all other players on the map (except other monsters when playing Maze Escape mode) for ten seconds, reducing the damage they can inflict by 70% and their attack speed by 50%. At the same time, the Nurse has her attack power boosted. Contrary to what the game says, however, she only gets a 10% attack boost instead of 20%, allowing her to deal 24 damage with a slash and 48 damage with a stab (if fixed, she can deal 26 and 52 damage while using her ultimate ability).
Tactics[]
Against the Nurse[]
- Using a Frenzy Mode item may be able to diminish the effects of the fear inflicted by Fear Cuts Deep, though not by much.
- It is better not to engage the Nurse (or others players) directly when she uses her ultimate ability, which lasts for ten seconds, unless one is a Ranged class character who could continue shooting the Nurse with less risk of being hit in return. It is better to either flee or rely on helpful items like Primal Fear (stuns enemies for four seconds), invincibility (lasts for eight seconds), or ultimate abilities that rely on evasion (like Doug Houser's "Escape Plan"), deflection (like Glowstick Vince's "You'll See!"), or inflicting very high and constant damage (like Malak's Eye of Suffering), against which the Nurse's damage decrease might as well be negligible.
As the Nurse[]
- Fear Cuts Deep is best used when the Nurse is close to her target. The main benefit it provides is in weakening the enemy rather than strengthening the Nurse, as her 10% attack buff is rather small (though in certain situations, even that 10% increase in damage could be a deciding factor in combat).
- When playing Maze Escape, as suggested by its class, "Support", the Nurse is better meant to be the secondary fighter. The other monster (assuming that they are stronger) can deal with pursuing mortals and killing them directly, while the Nurse can do her work from afar, collecting harmful items for the mortals like Soul Bundle (deducts 25 shards from their total shard count) or Soul Corruption (reverses controls for five seconds), then charging up her ultimate ability to inflict it at the critical moment, when her ally would benefit from the mortals getting weakened.
Themes[]
- This is for the monster character. For the themes of the town of Silent Hill itself, see Silent Sacrifice.
Symbolism and Parallels[]
Throughout most of the Silent Hill series, the Nurses are meant to represent the twisted view of women as objects. They are highly sexualized, clad in revealing outfits, and, due to their perceived lack of value past this appeal, do not have any recognizably unique features on their masked or mutilated faces. Some Nurses, like the ones from Silent Hill: Homecoming, even show the consequences of objectifying women; when illuminated by certain light sources, they reveal an unborn fetus in their translucent stomachs. Similar themes can be seen in Dark Deception's very own Reaper Nurses, who may have been inspired by the Nurses of Silent Hill.
Phobias[]
As with most monsters in Dark Deception, the Nurse likely represents various phobias.
Phobia | Relevance |
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Aichmophobia Fear of Sharp Objects |
The Nurses of Silent Hill have been seen wielding syringes, scalpels, and, most commonly, scalpels and other types of knives. |
Caligynephobia Fear of Beautiful Women |
Nurses are mostly meant to reflect the experiences of several Silent Hill characters when they were hospitalized. The sexualized and objectified nature of Nurses is also made apparent throughout the Silent Hill series. For James Sunderland, the Bubble Head Nurses share the same form and swollen head as his wife, Mary, who he felt sorry for yet at the same time also resented for being a terminally-ill burden prone to lashing out against the people who cared for her (due to the illness degrading her mind), motivating him to fatally suffocate her with a pillow. In the films, Alessa viewed the nurses around her as faceless nobodies, and envied them for being more beautiful than she would ever be, for she was burned and disfigured, having barely survived being sacrificed as a child. Alex Shepherd speculated that nurses as wear sexualized to please patients in military hospitals (his way of coping given how he never served in the military), and his view of the Nurses as violent was formed by his experience of being sedated by them. |
Iatrophobia Fear of Doctors, Nurses, or anything related to Medical Care | |
Tomophobia Fear of Medical Procedures | |
Necrophobia Fear of the Dead and anything associated with Death |
Like all monsters in Dark Deception, Nurses can be seen as a symbol of death, not just for their murderous actions, but also for resembling a corpse, sometimes moving stiffly like reanimated body in the stage of rigor mortis (postmortem rigidity), other times jittery like people in their death throes. This goes all the way back to the Bubble Head Nurses of Silent Hill 2, their twitching, suffocated movements reminding James of his wife Mary, who he smothered with a pillow, ending her life and, along with that, their desire to have a child (which is symbolized by how the lower portion of the Nurses' masks resemble an infant's face). |
Thanatophobia Fear of Dying |
Skins[]
Image | Name | Rarity | Description |
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Bloody | Exclusive | Silent Hill Collection
The Nurse gains a dress rendered yellow by dried blood, making her appear more putrid and rotten than before. |
Voicelines[]
The Nurse is voiced by Natasha Lloyd, who also voiced Elise Houser and Doug Houser's mistress in Dark Deception, as well as Cybil Bennett and Heather Mason in Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Voiceline | Used | Audio |
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*grunts* | When taking damage. |
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*Exhausting noise* | When stunned. | |
*death scream* | When killed. |
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*growls* | When using a light attack. |
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*growls* | When using a heavy attack. |
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*growls* | While using ultimate ability. |
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