Maria

Maria is a sexualized manifestation of Mary created through James' mind based on an exotic dancer and through the stress in his mind after killing his wife. She first appears in a scenario prior to the events in the main game with James, entitled "Born from a wish" in the expanded versions of Silent Hill 2. It shows that Maria wakes up in Heaven's Night club deciding if she should continue to live and fight, or to let herself die at the hands of monsters. Eventually she decides to venture out to search for someone alive. Her search takes her to an old mansion, where she meets a schizoid man by the name of Ernest. Upon their second meeting Maria inquires about a letter she has discovered which was written by a little girl named Amy. Ernest reveals that he is her father and that Amy died a while ago. He then comments that perhaps there is hope because Maria can see him and instructs her to obtain a white liquid in an apartment next door as he is unable to retrieve it himself. When Maria brings the white liquid back, it is revealed that Ernest is not able to leave his house because he is a spirit of a dead person and that he is attempting to resurrect his dead daughter, Amy. Before he departs he warns Maria of James, saying that he is "a bad man" and that he is looking for the her that isn't her. The end of the scenario depicts Maria in Rosewater park comtempleting suicide by putting the gun to her head before she meets James, but she is unable to deny her strange attraction to James and throws the weapon over the wall. James first meets her in the Rosewater Park, his first suspect for the "Special place" Mary claims to be in. Maria accompanies James after this point, seeking protection from the monsters in Silent Hill, and after reaching the bowling alley she leads James on an attempt to find Laura ending in Brookhaven Hospital. Maria is killed by Pyramid Head before she can escape the hospital. She reappears again, inexplicably alive and with no memories of her apparent death, in the Labyrinth in a jail cell, seductively beckoning James to rescue her. Before he can reach her, however, she is killed again. She appears a third time in the Lakeview Hotel, where she is killed by two Pyramid Heads promptly after James finds her. In the "Leave", "In Water" and "Rebirth" endings James confronts Maria a final time, dressed as Mary and trying to get James to take her. James conclusively rejects her, and she transforms into the final boss with intent on killing him. In the "Maria" ending, Maria returns alive again after James has killed the final boss and James decides to leave Silent Hill with her. As they leave she begins visibly coughing, a hint that she has the same disease Mary had and the events of the game may repeat themselves. Maria is portrayed by Monica Horgan - answers.com