Martin Fitch
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| “ | Don't you TOUCH me! I bleed out the sin, but it grows back. So I must let it out everyday!
| ” |
Doctor Martin Fitch is a character from Silent Hill: Homecoming and a descendant of one of the founders of Shepherd's Glen, and is tied to the pact required to keep the influence of the Order from pervading the town. As part of this pact, he was required to kill his daughter, Scarlet, by dismembering her (as stated when Alex Shepherd inspects the Fitch family alter).
This led to him losing his sanity, and resorting to self-mutilation. According to his degree he graduated from Southeastern University.
Character
Alex first encounters Dr. Fitch in the street after the Sewers level, limping, frightened, bleeding, and wielding a scapel. Alex is warned to stay away from him, and he runs into his office, where Alex follows. Inside the office Alex finds a makeshift 'bedroom' seemingly for his daughter, Scarlet. Inside the bedroom Dr. Fitch has arranged Scarlet's personal belongings and dolls, showing the depth of his love for his daughter. In Dr. Fitch's back office, Alex can find a letter from a Doctor Slater, the Chief Resident of the Psychiatric Department of Alchemilla Hospital, stating that Fitch has been missing his appointments, and that constant contact would ensure a 'speedy recovery'.
Alex next runs across Fitch after descending into the final level his personal 'Hell', made up of grates, boilers, fans, and hospital signs. He is mutilating himself with the scapel, proving that perhaps, Fitch is regretting the death and murder of Scarlet, and has been visiting Dr. Slater for psychological assistance.
After a conversation with Alex, where Alex gives Fitch Scarlet's doll, his wounds begin to bleed profusely and her doll drops into his blood, morphing into the second boss monster, Scarlet, a monstrous representation of his daughter in the form of the dolls that she loved so much. She lifts Fitch as she stands to her staggering height, where Fitch begs for her forgiveness. Scarlet seems to cradle Fitch momentarily, perhaps showing some compassion that she might have left for him, but then promptly bites his head off, tossing his limp body away to turn her wrath on Alex.
Trivia
- The Fitch family's method of sacrifice was The Blade, hence Fitch's use of a scapel to cut himself, and what looks like a bonesaw (in the first cutscene) to kill Scarlet.
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