Originally Posted by
Rater202
So I'm still catching up, I'm at the part where Yza brings up how Samus would reach to messages in Silent Hill and now all I can think of is... What would she be like in Silent Hill?
What would the Town do to her?
She's got Darkness in her past, and trauma but... By Dread she's overcome much of it. Like, Ridley, the one being she hates and fears, is well and truly dead. All that remains of him is in her after she ate the X that ate his fried-drie clone. The space pirates are dead and gone, Kraid was the last of them and Samus's response to unexpectedly running into him on ZDR was basically just "looks like we're doing this" and she just utterly destroyed the X that ate him after she killed him.
Ravenbeak is a new trauma button but he'd dead.
The Metroids are extinct, the X are extinct...
Basically all that' there would be lingering trauma from the Baby, which I think she's over... And Adam.
The way Samus thinks about Adam in Fusion does not line up at all with the way he acts in Other M and even with the worst of Other M being localization errors she still puts up with a lot of **** from this guy. Even AI Adam, in hindsight, seems to think that Meat Adam was kind of a ****.
So it's pretty clear that her cognition of the man is warped.
Given that Samus is much younger than you'd think and was in fact a literal teenager when she served under Adam pre-series, and that she hadn't fully processed her trauma of losing her parents and original home yet, and would ot have had much contact with other humans before joining the Federation. She'd have been emotionally vulnerable.
There is a distinct possibility that he may have capitalized on this in a predatory manner, effectively grooming the veritable, physically godlike supersoldier with access to unique, difficult-to-replicate equipment to submit to his authority.
If true, Silent Hill would likely compel her to confront that the commander she holds in such high regard was an abuser.