Alex Shepherd
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Status: Living
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Central Heterochromic:
Brown (outer rim)
Gray (inner rim)
Occupation: Soldier
"Where's... my... BROTHER?!"
—Alex, snapping at Mayor Bartlett
Alex Shepherd is a player character and protagonist of Silent Hill: Homecoming. Alex is a soldier who comes home from overseas to find his father and later his brother Joshua have disappeared and his mother has gone into a catatonic state. Alex begins to search for his brother, leading him through Silent Hill and the new town of Shepherd's Glen.
The player is first introduced to Alex in a hospital, where he starts his search for his brother, Joshua. Every time he reaches out to his brother and gets closer to him however, Joshua runs away. He eventually wakes up in the passenger seat on the truck belonging to Travis Grady, who is driving Alex to Shepherd's Glen, Alex's hometown.
When Alex makes it to Shepherd's Glen, he realizes the town is covered in a foggy atmosphere, and parts of the road are missing and have fallen apart. On the way home, he runs into Judge Holloway, the mother of Elle Holloway. She acts surprised to see Alex, and tells Alex he should go visit his mother. When he makes it home, his mother, Lillian Shepherd, is in a near-catatonic state, and tells him that his father, Adam Shepherd, has gone to look for Joshua. Alex then tells his mother he promises to bring Joshua back. While doing this, he takes a gun from his mother's lap. He then hears a sound coming from the basement, where he soon discovers that the monsters from his nightmares are, in fact, real. Alex comes to see a currently locked room, in which he remembered once almost entering, and his father stopping him when he opens the door, shouting at him to never enter that room again. Alex then proceeds to leave the house.
Eventually, Alex runs into his old childhood friend, Elle Holloway, outside of the police department. She informs him that many other people in the town have started to go missing, and is seen putting up missing posters. When he tells her he is going to go look for his brother, she hands him the radio Deputy Wheeler gave to her, so they can keep in contact.
While searching in a graveyard near Alex's house, Alex goes to a repair/junk shop owned by Curtis Ackers, and asks if he could fix the gun he took from his mother. He eventually trades in his gun for a newer gun, and learns that all of the clocks stopped at 2:06 everywhere in the town, and cannot be fixed.
When Alex goes to the Grand Hotel, he runs into Mayor Sam Bartlett, who he saw earlier at the cemetery (but did not know it at the time), partly drunk. Bartlett's son, Joey, used to be friends with Joshua. Alex attempts to gain information from Bartlett, but a monster, Sepulcher, comes out and attacks Bartlett, crushing and killing him. When Alex fights and defeats Sepulcher, a hole appears in the floor, and he collapses into it.
He awakes later in a prison cell and meets Deputy Wheeler. He tells Wheeler that he is looking for Joshua, and tells him what happened to Bartlett. Deputy Wheeler eventually agrees to help Alex escape and find Joshua after learning that Alex too has seen the monsters. Wheeler becomes separated from Alex as a Siam drops through the ceiling. When Alex escapes the jail, he sees Elle being attacked by yet another Siam. After rescuing her, they realize more creatures are coming, and both decide to go into the sewers. Alex learns that Elle's sister, Nora Holloway, is also missing. Eventually, they both end up separated, and Alex makes it out of the sewers.
Alex receives a radio transmission from Wheeler, telling him to find and meet up with Dr. Fitch. Alex ends up running into Dr. Fitch, who is covered in cuts and blood. Alex follows him into the clinic and enters the room of Scarlet Fitch, Dr. Fitch's daughter. The room is filled with many dolls, and eventually, Nurses come and attack Alex there. When Alex finds the key to a box in Scarlet's room, he picks up a doll and it starts to deteriorate, losing its hair and eye, and then the room turns into the Otherworld - a rusted and bloody place. Here, he sees Joshua a few times, and eventually runs into Dr. Fitch again. Dr. Fitch is seen cutting himself to "repent for his sins". A monster created in the likeness of Scarlet appears and attacks Dr. Fitch, biting his head off. Alex eventually kills it, and reawakens in the normal clinic, to find that a key was hidden in the doll he found in Scarlet's Room.
Alex then heads to the Town Hall, and unlocks a secret passageway. While sneaking through the passage and avoiding the Nurses who are guarding the area, Alex finds a ceremonial dagger. The dagger looks like the door handle from the room he was not allowed to enter when he was younger. When he enters the room (which was his father's hunting room), he finds a key to the attic. Alex goes up to the attic, and has a flashback of his father giving Joshua the family ring. The ring was passed down generation from generation, and was supposedly very important. Joshua was told not to show anyone, not even his brother Alex. After the flashback, Alex finds a note written by his father, saying that he was told he had to choose just one of his sons for something unknown. It also mentions the town of Silent Hill.
Alex intends to confront his mother with this note, and ask her about it and Silent Hill and how they are connected with his father and Joshua. Before his mother can answer his questions, a group of masked people, soldiers of the Order, come and attack Alex and kidnap his mother. As the Order members are in the process of escaping, the door locks itself, and it transforms into the Otherworld. At this point, Alex comes to, and realizes this. In order to escape, Alex has to complete four different puzzles, all of which involve his family's past and the personal guilt of all his family members.
After the puzzle, the house returns to normal, and Alex escapes, only to run into Elle, and eventually Wheeler. They agree to go to Silent Hill to find everyone. On the way there, via boat on Toluca Lake, Alex mentions how his and Elle's parents told them to never go to Silent Hill. Wheeler tells Alex about a cop, most likely Cybil Bennett from Silent Hill 1, who went missing and only her motorcycle was ever found, outside the city limits. Then Elle tells Alex she was wearing a locket she took from her mother's room since her sister vanished. She hands it to Alex, and the boat gets ambushed by the Order. The Order kidnaps Elle and Wheeler and sends them to the penitentiary, while Alex gets knocked unconscious again, and washes ashore near Silent Hill after he slips into the water. After this, Alex attempts to save both of Elle and Deputy Wheeler, running into Wheeler along the way. Still looking for Elle, he ends up entering a room with his mother, Lillian, who is strapped to a stretching rack, and is being tortured. Depending on whether Alex kills her or not, out of mercy, will effect the ending. If chosen to kill her, Alex will shoot her before the machine rips her in half, if not chosen to kill her, she will be alive while the machine rips her in half.
Alex meets back up with Wheeler and they enter the Otherworld. They eventually find Judge Holloway, strapped to a chair that the two men believe is about to be used to perform a dosage of lethal injection. They try to save her, with Alex unstrapping her as Wheeler goes to shut off the gas lines. However, Wheeler gets attacked by a monster, Asphyxia. While Alex proceeds to help Wheeler, it is shown that Judge Holloway was not really scared, but had a devious intent. After Alex defeats Asphyxia, he sees Joshua, who runs outside to the church. While there, Alex enters a confessional booth, and is told a confession from a man, most likely Adam Shepherd, Alex's father. He tells how they (Alex's parents) feel sorry for always mistreating Alex, and that they really did love him, they just could never show him. Alex tries to tell Adam he is sorry, but Adam explains to Alex that he was never a soldier, and that the dog tags and jacket Alex wears are from Adam's own previous duty. He further adds that Alex's delusion of himself as a soldier began after an accident of some kind. Alex then sees Pyramid Head, whom he knows as the Bogeyman of Silent Hill, who proceeds to punish Adam, slicing him in half. Perhaps due to anger at the monster's execution of his father, he proceeds to chase after the menacing beast, only to encounter a mine shaft and steam jets. To keep from being burned by the steam and proceed in any shape or form (which he now must do as the Otherworld or whatever is controlling the happenings covered his escape route with barbed wire), he dons an abandoned Order uniform. He soon comes to an elevator, where he is surprised to see Curtis Ackers also there. They take the elevator down as Curtis chats nonchalantly at the person standing beside him, although Alex keeps quiet, presumably to keep from revealing his identity. As the elevator stops, Curtis allows him to go first and clobbers him over the head, knocking him out.
He reawakens in a room, where he is locked to a chair. Judge Holloway appears, and informs him as to the intent of the Order, and that the true reason the children were missing was because of a ritualistic sacrifice. She then tells Alex that the founding fathers, from the four families: Fitch, Bartlett, Holloway, and Shepherd, were all from the town of Silent Hill. They were allowed to leave the town under one condition - they had to sacrifice one child from each family every fifty years. In doing so, they would protect Shepherd's Glen from the terrors that Silent Hill suffers from due to the wrath of their god through an appeasement of blood. Though the other sacrifices were made from three families, one family, Shepherd, did not sacrifice their child. Adam never sacrificed either of his sons, thus throwing off the Order. The only thing left was to go back to their original views and back to Silent Hill. Holloway said they needed to kill the town's people who opposed the change - most specifically Alex, Elle, and Wheeler. She then attempts to kill Alex using a powerdrill, and succeeds in causing mild damage to his left thigh, only to die when Alex's restraints fail and he forces the drill through her jaw. Alex later admits to being glad she died after all that she did.
Alex rescues Elle from the facility, and kills her intended murderer, Curtis. They work their way through the Order's Lair to find Wheeler severely injured, having had several knives stuck into his chest (it is possible that it is Wheeler's screaming the player hears after Elle has been saved). Saving him is another option, requiring the use of a medical kit if chosen to save him, but it will affect the ending as well in this game. Alex proceeds on to find Joshua, leaving Elle behind, and enters a room with the four family tombs with the list of the children who were to be sacrificed. According to the list of children that were supposed to have been sacrificed for the 150th anniversary of Shepherd's Glen, the children were Scarlet Fitch, Joey Bartlett, and Nora Holloway (Elle's missing sister). Alex then realizes his name is also listed as well, and experiences a flashback about Joshua.
Alex was never really a soldier in the Army as believed. For five years, he has been in a mental institution (Alchemilla Hospital), instead of a hospital for war injuries. He then learns what really happened to Joshua: the night Joshua received the family ring from his father, Alex takes Joshua on a boat on Toluca Lake (where technically, Alex was told not to go, since it was part of Silent Hill). He teases Joshua, which provokes him to show Alex the ring. Alex takes the ring from Joshua, who lunges at him in an attempt to retrieve it, only to rock the boat, fall, break his neck on the edge, and drown. When Adam Shepherd retrieves Joshua's body from the lake, Alex goes into a mental shock, leading him to believe he can fix the problem. Adam then tells Alex there is nothing he can do, and as he was the one who had been chosen for sacrifice, he had ruined everything for everyone. They send him to a mental institution, and lie to everyone telling that he instead joined the Army. Since Joshua dies instead of Alex, the ritual took Joshua's death, and the pact was thrown off.
After a flashback, Alex realizes why his parents were always cold towards him, and he is thrown again into the Otherworld. He is confronted by the final boss, Amnion - a cruel representation of his younger sibling. After defeating the monster, Alex cuts Amnion open and finds the corpse of his brother, Joshua. Alex finally has the chance to apologize to Joshua, and does so, leaving the family ring and his flashlight on Joshua's chest. He walks away, leaving Joshua's body. What happens to him after this point depends on what ending the player receives.
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Status: Living
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Central Heterochromic:
Brown (outer rim)
Gray (inner rim)
Occupation: Soldier
"Where's... my... BROTHER?!"
—Alex, snapping at Mayor Bartlett
Alex Shepherd is a player character and protagonist of Silent Hill: Homecoming. Alex is a soldier who comes home from overseas to find his father and later his brother Joshua have disappeared and his mother has gone into a catatonic state. Alex begins to search for his brother, leading him through Silent Hill and the new town of Shepherd's Glen.
The player is first introduced to Alex in a hospital, where he starts his search for his brother, Joshua. Every time he reaches out to his brother and gets closer to him however, Joshua runs away. He eventually wakes up in the passenger seat on the truck belonging to Travis Grady, who is driving Alex to Shepherd's Glen, Alex's hometown.
When Alex makes it to Shepherd's Glen, he realizes the town is covered in a foggy atmosphere, and parts of the road are missing and have fallen apart. On the way home, he runs into Judge Holloway, the mother of Elle Holloway. She acts surprised to see Alex, and tells Alex he should go visit his mother. When he makes it home, his mother, Lillian Shepherd, is in a near-catatonic state, and tells him that his father, Adam Shepherd, has gone to look for Joshua. Alex then tells his mother he promises to bring Joshua back. While doing this, he takes a gun from his mother's lap. He then hears a sound coming from the basement, where he soon discovers that the monsters from his nightmares are, in fact, real. Alex comes to see a currently locked room, in which he remembered once almost entering, and his father stopping him when he opens the door, shouting at him to never enter that room again. Alex then proceeds to leave the house.
Eventually, Alex runs into his old childhood friend, Elle Holloway, outside of the police department. She informs him that many other people in the town have started to go missing, and is seen putting up missing posters. When he tells her he is going to go look for his brother, she hands him the radio Deputy Wheeler gave to her, so they can keep in contact.
While searching in a graveyard near Alex's house, Alex goes to a repair/junk shop owned by Curtis Ackers, and asks if he could fix the gun he took from his mother. He eventually trades in his gun for a newer gun, and learns that all of the clocks stopped at 2:06 everywhere in the town, and cannot be fixed.
When Alex goes to the Grand Hotel, he runs into Mayor Sam Bartlett, who he saw earlier at the cemetery (but did not know it at the time), partly drunk. Bartlett's son, Joey, used to be friends with Joshua. Alex attempts to gain information from Bartlett, but a monster, Sepulcher, comes out and attacks Bartlett, crushing and killing him. When Alex fights and defeats Sepulcher, a hole appears in the floor, and he collapses into it.
He awakes later in a prison cell and meets Deputy Wheeler. He tells Wheeler that he is looking for Joshua, and tells him what happened to Bartlett. Deputy Wheeler eventually agrees to help Alex escape and find Joshua after learning that Alex too has seen the monsters. Wheeler becomes separated from Alex as a Siam drops through the ceiling. When Alex escapes the jail, he sees Elle being attacked by yet another Siam. After rescuing her, they realize more creatures are coming, and both decide to go into the sewers. Alex learns that Elle's sister, Nora Holloway, is also missing. Eventually, they both end up separated, and Alex makes it out of the sewers.
Alex receives a radio transmission from Wheeler, telling him to find and meet up with Dr. Fitch. Alex ends up running into Dr. Fitch, who is covered in cuts and blood. Alex follows him into the clinic and enters the room of Scarlet Fitch, Dr. Fitch's daughter. The room is filled with many dolls, and eventually, Nurses come and attack Alex there. When Alex finds the key to a box in Scarlet's room, he picks up a doll and it starts to deteriorate, losing its hair and eye, and then the room turns into the Otherworld - a rusted and bloody place. Here, he sees Joshua a few times, and eventually runs into Dr. Fitch again. Dr. Fitch is seen cutting himself to "repent for his sins". A monster created in the likeness of Scarlet appears and attacks Dr. Fitch, biting his head off. Alex eventually kills it, and reawakens in the normal clinic, to find that a key was hidden in the doll he found in Scarlet's Room.
Alex then heads to the Town Hall, and unlocks a secret passageway. While sneaking through the passage and avoiding the Nurses who are guarding the area, Alex finds a ceremonial dagger. The dagger looks like the door handle from the room he was not allowed to enter when he was younger. When he enters the room (which was his father's hunting room), he finds a key to the attic. Alex goes up to the attic, and has a flashback of his father giving Joshua the family ring. The ring was passed down generation from generation, and was supposedly very important. Joshua was told not to show anyone, not even his brother Alex. After the flashback, Alex finds a note written by his father, saying that he was told he had to choose just one of his sons for something unknown. It also mentions the town of Silent Hill.
Alex intends to confront his mother with this note, and ask her about it and Silent Hill and how they are connected with his father and Joshua. Before his mother can answer his questions, a group of masked people, soldiers of the Order, come and attack Alex and kidnap his mother. As the Order members are in the process of escaping, the door locks itself, and it transforms into the Otherworld. At this point, Alex comes to, and realizes this. In order to escape, Alex has to complete four different puzzles, all of which involve his family's past and the personal guilt of all his family members.
After the puzzle, the house returns to normal, and Alex escapes, only to run into Elle, and eventually Wheeler. They agree to go to Silent Hill to find everyone. On the way there, via boat on Toluca Lake, Alex mentions how his and Elle's parents told them to never go to Silent Hill. Wheeler tells Alex about a cop, most likely Cybil Bennett from Silent Hill 1, who went missing and only her motorcycle was ever found, outside the city limits. Then Elle tells Alex she was wearing a locket she took from her mother's room since her sister vanished. She hands it to Alex, and the boat gets ambushed by the Order. The Order kidnaps Elle and Wheeler and sends them to the penitentiary, while Alex gets knocked unconscious again, and washes ashore near Silent Hill after he slips into the water. After this, Alex attempts to save both of Elle and Deputy Wheeler, running into Wheeler along the way. Still looking for Elle, he ends up entering a room with his mother, Lillian, who is strapped to a stretching rack, and is being tortured. Depending on whether Alex kills her or not, out of mercy, will effect the ending. If chosen to kill her, Alex will shoot her before the machine rips her in half, if not chosen to kill her, she will be alive while the machine rips her in half.
Alex meets back up with Wheeler and they enter the Otherworld. They eventually find Judge Holloway, strapped to a chair that the two men believe is about to be used to perform a dosage of lethal injection. They try to save her, with Alex unstrapping her as Wheeler goes to shut off the gas lines. However, Wheeler gets attacked by a monster, Asphyxia. While Alex proceeds to help Wheeler, it is shown that Judge Holloway was not really scared, but had a devious intent. After Alex defeats Asphyxia, he sees Joshua, who runs outside to the church. While there, Alex enters a confessional booth, and is told a confession from a man, most likely Adam Shepherd, Alex's father. He tells how they (Alex's parents) feel sorry for always mistreating Alex, and that they really did love him, they just could never show him. Alex tries to tell Adam he is sorry, but Adam explains to Alex that he was never a soldier, and that the dog tags and jacket Alex wears are from Adam's own previous duty. He further adds that Alex's delusion of himself as a soldier began after an accident of some kind. Alex then sees Pyramid Head, whom he knows as the Bogeyman of Silent Hill, who proceeds to punish Adam, slicing him in half. Perhaps due to anger at the monster's execution of his father, he proceeds to chase after the menacing beast, only to encounter a mine shaft and steam jets. To keep from being burned by the steam and proceed in any shape or form (which he now must do as the Otherworld or whatever is controlling the happenings covered his escape route with barbed wire), he dons an abandoned Order uniform. He soon comes to an elevator, where he is surprised to see Curtis Ackers also there. They take the elevator down as Curtis chats nonchalantly at the person standing beside him, although Alex keeps quiet, presumably to keep from revealing his identity. As the elevator stops, Curtis allows him to go first and clobbers him over the head, knocking him out.
He reawakens in a room, where he is locked to a chair. Judge Holloway appears, and informs him as to the intent of the Order, and that the true reason the children were missing was because of a ritualistic sacrifice. She then tells Alex that the founding fathers, from the four families: Fitch, Bartlett, Holloway, and Shepherd, were all from the town of Silent Hill. They were allowed to leave the town under one condition - they had to sacrifice one child from each family every fifty years. In doing so, they would protect Shepherd's Glen from the terrors that Silent Hill suffers from due to the wrath of their god through an appeasement of blood. Though the other sacrifices were made from three families, one family, Shepherd, did not sacrifice their child. Adam never sacrificed either of his sons, thus throwing off the Order. The only thing left was to go back to their original views and back to Silent Hill. Holloway said they needed to kill the town's people who opposed the change - most specifically Alex, Elle, and Wheeler. She then attempts to kill Alex using a powerdrill, and succeeds in causing mild damage to his left thigh, only to die when Alex's restraints fail and he forces the drill through her jaw. Alex later admits to being glad she died after all that she did.
Alex rescues Elle from the facility, and kills her intended murderer, Curtis. They work their way through the Order's Lair to find Wheeler severely injured, having had several knives stuck into his chest (it is possible that it is Wheeler's screaming the player hears after Elle has been saved). Saving him is another option, requiring the use of a medical kit if chosen to save him, but it will affect the ending as well in this game. Alex proceeds on to find Joshua, leaving Elle behind, and enters a room with the four family tombs with the list of the children who were to be sacrificed. According to the list of children that were supposed to have been sacrificed for the 150th anniversary of Shepherd's Glen, the children were Scarlet Fitch, Joey Bartlett, and Nora Holloway (Elle's missing sister). Alex then realizes his name is also listed as well, and experiences a flashback about Joshua.
Alex was never really a soldier in the Army as believed. For five years, he has been in a mental institution (Alchemilla Hospital), instead of a hospital for war injuries. He then learns what really happened to Joshua: the night Joshua received the family ring from his father, Alex takes Joshua on a boat on Toluca Lake (where technically, Alex was told not to go, since it was part of Silent Hill). He teases Joshua, which provokes him to show Alex the ring. Alex takes the ring from Joshua, who lunges at him in an attempt to retrieve it, only to rock the boat, fall, break his neck on the edge, and drown. When Adam Shepherd retrieves Joshua's body from the lake, Alex goes into a mental shock, leading him to believe he can fix the problem. Adam then tells Alex there is nothing he can do, and as he was the one who had been chosen for sacrifice, he had ruined everything for everyone. They send him to a mental institution, and lie to everyone telling that he instead joined the Army. Since Joshua dies instead of Alex, the ritual took Joshua's death, and the pact was thrown off.
After a flashback, Alex realizes why his parents were always cold towards him, and he is thrown again into the Otherworld. He is confronted by the final boss, Amnion - a cruel representation of his younger sibling. After defeating the monster, Alex cuts Amnion open and finds the corpse of his brother, Joshua. Alex finally has the chance to apologize to Joshua, and does so, leaving the family ring and his flashlight on Joshua's chest. He walks away, leaving Joshua's body. What happens to him after this point depends on what ending the player receives.
