David Leatherhoff

David Leatherhoff is the main protagonist of 2005 survival horror game Afraid of Monsters. He also has a small cameo role in the survival horror game Cry of Fear which is developed by the same team (Team Psykskallar).
==Biography==
David Leatherhoff is the main character of Afraid of Monsters and the Director's Cut. After receiving bottle after bottle of an unknown drug from an anonymous source to help with his nightmares, he finally decided to seek professional help at the local hospital. After wandering into the bathroom, David finds yet another bottle of the drug before him. Unable to control his urges, he takes the pills. Soon after, David passes out and delves into a nightmare, yet this time he notices that they are infinitely worse. Some time later, David awakens to a now abandoned hospital where everybody has vanished. David soon discovers that his nightmares aren't just in his head anymore but have in fact become reality. He then fights to survive against the unspeakable horde of monsters.
==Fate==
Depending on paths and choices taken in the game, the player can have a total of four endings (Director's Cut only with the exception of the Original Ending).
*Ending 1 - David wakes up in a house, surrounded by dead bodies covered in blood. The monsters that he had been killing to survive were in fact innocent people. With the police outside surrounding him, he is soon arrested and put into prison.
*Ending 2 - David is shown being questioned by a police officer. He reveals he does not remember what happened during his drug-induced hallucination.
*Ending 3 - A person reads a newspaper that reads: "Killer Claims Over 20 Lives". David is shown in his cell, dead, having hanged himself.
*Ending 4 - After fighting his worst nightmare, The Addiction, David is shown lying on a hospital bed, dead. The doctors fight to keep him alive, but nothing works. A couple of seconds later, David's pulse returns. He had barely survived a drug overdose.
After tracking down the hospital, the camera blacks out. It says: "The End, or is it?".
==Gallery==
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Dead David as seen in Half-Life 2 mod named Grey..jpg
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==Trivia==
*David is similar to Simon Henriksson, the protagonist.
**Both wear a colorless hoodie and fingerless gloves.
**Both fight Twitchers and other hostile abominations in their minds.
**Both are troubled young men with psychosis; David's psychosis is mild, made severe through drugs whilst Simon's mild psychosis is made severe through depression.
*In the secret non-canon ending of Cry of Fear, Simon Henriksson is run over by a very stoned David, prior to being addicted. David drives his van into Simon, revealing how Simon was crippled. David runs away from Simon, presumably because he didn't want to get in trouble with the police.
**Fans believe that, from the crash, David saw what he had done and went to Markland Hospital to get help; this is the turning point where he decides to quit using his drugs and so got the prescription of the painkillers, which he would take in desperation to lose his drug addiction so he won't repeat another incident like he did to Simon. This would also explain why in the road scene when David is driving on the road the words "FORGIVE ME" quickly appear briefly twice. David is pleading for forgiveness that he is driving whilst on addicted to a drug.
**Fans believe that the Wheelchair Twitcher is actually a manifestation of Simon, due to the fact that Simon is sent to an insane asylum in the least bad Cry of Fear ending. At one point in Afraid of Monsters, David runs into an insane asylum and meets a man in a wheelchair.
*David's axe and hoodie are also usable items in Cry of Fear.
*David's corpse appears in Grey (a mod) as an Easter Egg.
*There is a folder in the game's files with David's multiplayer model, complete with a preview texture and high quality version.
*The "EA 45" on David's hoodie stands for "Emma + Andreas Forever", Andreas being the creator of the game and Emma being his girlfriend.
*Although likely non-canon, the Cry of Fear custom campaign "Halloween Collab" reveals that Doctor Purnell treated David as a patient, advising him to cut down on the pills.
*David appears in the Afraid of Monsters conversion in Sven co-op, another acclaimed mod. On the main server, the owner, Cocyx the Skeleton, gives himself a bastardised David model and harasses the players by playing sound-clips, turning off the power, jumpscaring and killing them, etc.
*Although it cannot be seen, in the third ending as David's lifeless corpse is hung in his padded cell, his face has been disfigured to have his eyes gouged out and mouth has been stitched to say the words "DEAD". Whether this was intentional or just used as a placeholder is unknown, although as the team needed to create the model to depict David's suicide, it is most likely that these were left in as an easter egg for the game's fans.
==Licensing==
This article contains content derived from the "David Leatherhoff" article on the Cry of Fear Wiki, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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