Haze: Worse & Nightmares: Alive

For those of you who read news would know, the haze is getting worse here in both Malaysia and Singapore till the point that my place here has become Silent Hill. In case none of you know where or what Silent Hill is, it's a survival horror video game as well as a fictional town created by the Japanese company, Konami where all your nightmares and guilt manifest as terrifying creatures that you alone must overcome to get out of the town. When the town is not in its hellish self, it is always veiled in this thick haze as a result of a major combustion.

Taking this opportunity with the haze, I have created these little critters. I purposefully blurred them out because that's what you would experience if you were in thick haze while creatures were lurking around you. So, a little intro. On your right, you have the ever famous Nurses. These Nurses are overly sexualized in a grotesque way and they are the manifestations of various game characters' desire, whether there's sexual intention or not (it varies between games). They are usually depicted in tight nurse outfit with mini-skirt while a face mask melt onto their face, illustrating little to no facial expression. With regards to mobility, their gait is similar to that of a zombie whereby they shuffle and fumble from time to time. For their weapon of choice, think of all the scary surgical tool you can find in an operation room. The one I used here is a syringe. Don't underestimate the pain inflicted from a needle. Personally, the Nurses to me are like Zombies to Resident Evil. They are so attached to the Silent Hill genre that you can't think about them when the name of the game is mentioned.

Moving on to the left, you have another famous nightmare from the franchise, the Pyramid Head. Ok, I know the guy doesn't exactly reflect a real Pyramid Head but that's the only somewhat triangular head I could come up with. Also, I don't have a huge knife LEGO piece so I utilized something from the Bionicles series. Coming back, Pyramid Head are depicted with a triangular-like torture device on their head which comprises of thorns inside, constantly poking the being. It's a manifestation of your guilt and it attacks with its great knife while isn't so great here (so, google it). Unlike the Nurses, it doesn't appear as much as them but it was the prime creature in Silent Hill (the movie).

Lastly, in the middle, it's just something that I randomly created with my gory imagination. I used the head of the Dementor from the Harry Potter series along with a squid's jaw for legs from the Atlantis series. The game is very fond of creating mismatched creatures which doesn't make sense sometimes anatomically. Try looking up for a creature called Asphyxia. Of course, your nightmares and guilt are never pretty to begin with.

With the resentment towards the haze and the group of people who caused the fire (directly and indirectly), it wouldn't be surprising if our hatred turned into nightmares that haunt the street at night.

Before I sign off, here another picture of the condition of haze here at my place.

Now you know why I did the Silent Hill reference.