This guy is The Burden. He is a character/monster I created to live in the Silent Hill universe. The idea behind this creature is that he is a physical manifestation of the burden of masculinity. Everything to this creature is painfully arousing, yet he has no release. He is burdened physically and metaphorically; he doesn’t even have eyes to cry with for example. The character who’s past created this creature was in the military and had an abusive military father who drilled it into him that he needed to be a man, and prove himself; thusly this creature is born from the pain of that overcompensation.

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