Dummy
Sour Times
By Scrunchii
001. Introduction
Dummy: Sour Times is a mix of the first three Silent Hill games and the two Resident Evil movies and a bit of the two books, Resident Evil Genesis and Resident Evil Apocalypse written by Keith R. A. DeCandido. I first started the Dummy series as a single fanfiction called Sour Times based on the song on Portishead's 1994 album, Dummy. I had just watched my Thea Tetta play Silent Hill as though I were watching a movie and the beginning of the song sounded like the song used on the introduction collage. I knew I wanted to write a fanfiction based on Silent Hill called Sour Times because of the similarity of the music but I didn't understand Silent Hill enough. After months, I beat the second game, given to me by my Thea Tetta as a present, and I still didn't completely understand.
Then I saw Resident Evil with my friend Amanda. Amanda and I waited for months, yearning for the sequel we knew had to come. And finally it did. I saw it on DVD for the first time and immediately bought it. It took a few weeks for me to realize that Silent Hill and Resident Evil combined would be awesome.
I realized later that they are two totally different concepts. It really hit me what Silent Hill is about after I saw the movie Jacob's Ladder (excellent movie, I really recommend it). But I had already started my fanfiction and nothing was detouring me. I finished it soon after and began my sequel, Wandering Star, which is also a song on Dummy. But I reread Sour Times and was shocked at how bluntly and unsatisfyingly I'd laid out the story. I wanted more. So I decided to rewrite the whole thing. I had the entire eighteen chapters, including prologue and epilogue, saved on my computer so I deleted it off of as well as the sequel, which was also saved on the computer, and started over.
I promised to do this the summer of 2005. Now it is March 2006 and I finally finished the prologue and chapter one so I feel ready to post the first two parts of my new Resident Evil/Silent Hill series, Dummy, with my better understanding of the movie Resident Evil and the games, Silent Hill (I hope the upcoming film will be as satisfying as the games are!).
So here it is, hopefully new and possibly old readers, Dummy: Sour Times.
Much love,
Scrunchii
Sour Times
From the 1994 album, "Dummy," by Portishead
To pretend no one can find,
The fallacies of morning rose,
Forbidden fruit, hidden eyes,
Courtesies that I despise in me
Take a ride, take a shot now.
'Cause nobody loves me,
It's true,
Not like you do.
Covered by the blind belief,
That fantasies of sinful screens,
Bear the facts, assume the dye,
End the vows no need to lie, enjoy,
Take a ride, take a shot now.
'Cause nobody loves me,
It's true,
Not like you do.
Who oo am I, what and why?
'Cause all I have left is my memories of yesterday,
Ohh these sour times.
'Cause nobody loves me,
It's true,
Not like you do.
After time the bitter taste,
Of innocence decent or race,
Scattered seed, buried lives,
Mysteries of our disguise revolve,
Circumstance will decide.
'Cause nobody loves me,
It's true,
Not like you do
'Cause nobody loves me,
It's true,
Not like you
'Cause nobody loves me,
It's true,
Not like you do