Henry Townshend
Gender: Male
Age: Late 20s
Status: Living
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
Occupation: Unknown (possibly photographer)
“I don't... I don't know where to start. There was this strange hole in my room. I saw people getting killed... all these weird other worlds... and I saw you get attacked, too."
—Henry, explaining his situation to Eileen Galvin.
Henry Townshend is the main protagonist of Silent Hill 4: The Room. He is the last sacrament of the 21 Sacraments ritual, and is given the title "Receiver of Wisdom."
Henry Townshend is somewhat of a quiet soul, shy and introverted in personality. This is emphasized as he doesn't speak much, and is more of a listener. Henry's shyness and occasionally awkward behavior may indicate that he is somewhat of a hermit. No mention is made of any friends or family throughout the game, and even his neighbors only know him in passing. Henry's confrontation with Walter Sullivan forces him into a situation where he must change (and leave the apartment), or die.
He is a keen and adept photographer, proven by the many scenic pictures that hang on the walls which he himself shot. He has an eye for natural beauty that goes beyond the superficial as he once 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." Also, his desk has several books, a scrapbook and pen, and a leather portfolio. Henry mentions he has always had a habit of collecting scraps of information, organized in this scrapbook, containing various magazine, book, and newspaper clippings.
Judging from the pictures Henry has in his possession, it is apparent that he has visited Old Silent Hill before. The photos serve as reminders of past Silent Hill games. Two in particular depict the Balkan Church and the old lighthouse, both landmarks of Silent Hill 1. Henry even makes a comment about the lighthouse picture saying that "There was even a rumor that a UFO came flying right by the lighthouse." This is a subtle reference to the UFO endings of the three previous games.
There is a car magazine that is on his coffee table, entitled 'Bikkuri Cars'. Henry is also a collector of books, mainly "cheap novels", yet for the two years he has been living in South Ashfield hasn't read any of them or even touched them. Henry also comments on his high school life as being unmemorable at one point in the game. This may suggest that Henry was also a loner throughout school, as well as the present.
Henry shows remarkable altruism throughout the game: he is constantly trying to help the people he meets, regardless of his own situation. When meeting Joseph Schreiber, he instinctively keeps Eileen Galvin behind him until the man leaves.
In the beginning of the game, Henry is locked up in his own apartment, Room 302. He has gone mostly unnoticed in his building for the past two years; he passes his next door neighbor Eileen Galvin occasionally and they give each other nodding glances of acknowledgment and courtesy, yet no further relationship develops. He is equally distant from his other neighbors, most of whom he seems not to know by name and vice versa (Richard Braintree calls Henry just "That guy that lives across from me").
In the first world of the game, Henry meets Cynthia Velasquez, a woman who believes she is dreaming. Cynthia flirts with Henry and promises him a "special favor" if he helps her find a way out of the subway station. At the end of the subway world, Henry stays with Cynthia as she dies. He tells her that it's just a dream before he wakes up in the real world. Henry visits other worlds, where he watches Jasper Gein, Andrew DeSalvo and Richard Braintree's deaths. In the apartment world, Henry questions whether Eileen Galvin or Walter Sullivan is the next victim (having not known what Walter looked like as an adult yet). When Henry enters Eileen's room, he watches her as she dies and he falls to the floor in grief. While exploring St. Jerome's Hospital, Henry sees photographs and x-rays of Eileen and wonders if Eileen is still alive. Henry soon finds Eileen and they reunite to find the "ultimate truth". It's around this time Henry finds out only he can use the holes that transport him back to his apartment. Using a key given to him, he unlocks a spiraling staircase that he uses to re-visit the first four of Walter's Otherworlds. All the doors that were previously locked (marked with Halos of the Sun) can now be opened in the worlds.
At the end of the staircase, Henry and Eileen find a diary in front of Room 302 of the past, where he meets the ghost of Joseph Schreiber and obtains the Pickaxe of Hope. Joseph explains what he's learned to Henry about Walter Sullivan, completing Henry's role as the 'Receiver of Wisdom'. Going back into the current Room 302, Henry uses the Pickaxe to discover a secret room in between his bedroom and bathroom. Here, he discovers the corpse of Walter Sullivan nailed to a cross and finds the Keys of Liberation in the corpse's coat pocket. Using this, Henry escapes Room 302 to find he is in the apartment world again where he reunites with Eileen. They then retrieve Walter's umbilical cord from the Superintendent's room. Afterwards, Henry returns to the room with Walter's corpse to find that it has disappeared. Jumping down the hole below the cross, Henry finds himself in a final confrontation with Walter and his "true form".
Gender: Male
Age: Late 20s
Status: Living
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
Occupation: Unknown (possibly photographer)
“I don't... I don't know where to start. There was this strange hole in my room. I saw people getting killed... all these weird other worlds... and I saw you get attacked, too."
—Henry, explaining his situation to Eileen Galvin.
Henry Townshend is the main protagonist of Silent Hill 4: The Room. He is the last sacrament of the 21 Sacraments ritual, and is given the title "Receiver of Wisdom."
Henry Townshend is somewhat of a quiet soul, shy and introverted in personality. This is emphasized as he doesn't speak much, and is more of a listener. Henry's shyness and occasionally awkward behavior may indicate that he is somewhat of a hermit. No mention is made of any friends or family throughout the game, and even his neighbors only know him in passing. Henry's confrontation with Walter Sullivan forces him into a situation where he must change (and leave the apartment), or die.
He is a keen and adept photographer, proven by the many scenic pictures that hang on the walls which he himself shot. He has an eye for natural beauty that goes beyond the superficial as he once 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." Also, his desk has several books, a scrapbook and pen, and a leather portfolio. Henry mentions he has always had a habit of collecting scraps of information, organized in this scrapbook, containing various magazine, book, and newspaper clippings.
Judging from the pictures Henry has in his possession, it is apparent that he has visited Old Silent Hill before. The photos serve as reminders of past Silent Hill games. Two in particular depict the Balkan Church and the old lighthouse, both landmarks of Silent Hill 1. Henry even makes a comment about the lighthouse picture saying that "There was even a rumor that a UFO came flying right by the lighthouse." This is a subtle reference to the UFO endings of the three previous games.
There is a car magazine that is on his coffee table, entitled 'Bikkuri Cars'. Henry is also a collector of books, mainly "cheap novels", yet for the two years he has been living in South Ashfield hasn't read any of them or even touched them. Henry also comments on his high school life as being unmemorable at one point in the game. This may suggest that Henry was also a loner throughout school, as well as the present.
Henry shows remarkable altruism throughout the game: he is constantly trying to help the people he meets, regardless of his own situation. When meeting Joseph Schreiber, he instinctively keeps Eileen Galvin behind him until the man leaves.
In the beginning of the game, Henry is locked up in his own apartment, Room 302. He has gone mostly unnoticed in his building for the past two years; he passes his next door neighbor Eileen Galvin occasionally and they give each other nodding glances of acknowledgment and courtesy, yet no further relationship develops. He is equally distant from his other neighbors, most of whom he seems not to know by name and vice versa (Richard Braintree calls Henry just "That guy that lives across from me").
In the first world of the game, Henry meets Cynthia Velasquez, a woman who believes she is dreaming. Cynthia flirts with Henry and promises him a "special favor" if he helps her find a way out of the subway station. At the end of the subway world, Henry stays with Cynthia as she dies. He tells her that it's just a dream before he wakes up in the real world. Henry visits other worlds, where he watches Jasper Gein, Andrew DeSalvo and Richard Braintree's deaths. In the apartment world, Henry questions whether Eileen Galvin or Walter Sullivan is the next victim (having not known what Walter looked like as an adult yet). When Henry enters Eileen's room, he watches her as she dies and he falls to the floor in grief. While exploring St. Jerome's Hospital, Henry sees photographs and x-rays of Eileen and wonders if Eileen is still alive. Henry soon finds Eileen and they reunite to find the "ultimate truth". It's around this time Henry finds out only he can use the holes that transport him back to his apartment. Using a key given to him, he unlocks a spiraling staircase that he uses to re-visit the first four of Walter's Otherworlds. All the doors that were previously locked (marked with Halos of the Sun) can now be opened in the worlds.
At the end of the staircase, Henry and Eileen find a diary in front of Room 302 of the past, where he meets the ghost of Joseph Schreiber and obtains the Pickaxe of Hope. Joseph explains what he's learned to Henry about Walter Sullivan, completing Henry's role as the 'Receiver of Wisdom'. Going back into the current Room 302, Henry uses the Pickaxe to discover a secret room in between his bedroom and bathroom. Here, he discovers the corpse of Walter Sullivan nailed to a cross and finds the Keys of Liberation in the corpse's coat pocket. Using this, Henry escapes Room 302 to find he is in the apartment world again where he reunites with Eileen. They then retrieve Walter's umbilical cord from the Superintendent's room. Afterwards, Henry returns to the room with Walter's corpse to find that it has disappeared. Jumping down the hole below the cross, Henry finds himself in a final confrontation with Walter and his "true form".
