The Addiction

## Evil-Doer

**The Addiction** is the main antagonist and final boss of the psychological survival horror game; *Afraid Of Monsters: Director's Cut*.

He's a twisted, rotten, bloodied version of the game's main protagonist David Leatherhoff, The Addiction attempts to kill and surpass David in the final events of the fourth ending. The Addiction is faced in the final map area, known in the files as 4mother, and acts as the final boss David must kill to survive against his Drug Addiction.

## Appearance:

The Addiction appears as a rotten version of David Leatherhoff, with hollow eyes, a bloodied face, pale skin and is posed in a corpse-like position with his arms crossed to his shoulders. He has hollow eye sockets, despite being able to see normally, he also has a huge gaping hole in his chest, as he will rip out an axe and attempt to kill David with it.

## Biography:

After unlocking the door with the completed code (which spells out FORGIVE ME) David discovers a twisted version of the Markland Hospital, consisting of hallways set up in various angles. Climbing his way through, he goes through another nightmare zone, where he finds a house with a painting showing him how to escape. On the table, there is a note saying: "My mother used to point at things she wanted me to destroy", and a painting, which shows a shadow-like creature pointing at the ceiling. David breaks a hole in the ceiling and climbs into an old attic. There's a note on the floor, saying: "Now she is pointing at your enemy". Upon David Entering the hallway, he comes across a mirror, with another note saying: "No, not the innocent. The enemy!"

Reading this, David sees a twisted version of himself forming in the mirror. The Addiction comes out of the mirror, and greets David hoping to kill him as he raises his weapon. In any attempts David tries to injure/hurt The Addiction, is only ending up with David inflicting damage himself upon shooting his own disfigured reflection. David, realizing that he can't fight what is basically himself, runs for his life, as the doppelganger stalks slowly after him. After a short chase through a bleeding wooden hallway, David falls into a well, and upon getting out of the water, he finds the Addiction waiting for him in another mirror. David finds a spear on a table next to him, grabs it, and quickly finds it to be the only weapon capable of harming the monster. After a long, tense fight, David finally kills the Addiction, causing it to collapse dead and allowing him to escape his nightmare at last. With David later waking up from his drug comatose in a hospital bed, with doctors relieved to have him saved.

If failed, the game will play will play out normally as Ending 3, with David dying on a hospital bed with doctors attempting to save him.

## Trivia:

* The Addiction is the embodiment of David's own addiction caused by the pills. His nightmarish and corpse-like form is possibly a metaphor for death, either from an overdose or a life of drug use, where his existence represents the need for David to take the pills.
* The Addiction is featured on the poster of a fictional movie called "Intimidated by Abnormalities" found in the subways, featuring Enrique Iglesias and Daniel Leatherhoff. "Intimidated by Abnormalities" is obviously a play on words, meaning "Afraid of Monsters".
* The Addiction makes a comeback as the final boss in Cry of Fear's custom campaign "Halloween Collab," as his sound files were present since the earliest release.

## Gallery:

The Final Boss fight, as where David fights The Addiction.The "Intimidated by Abnormalities" Poster, found in Cry Of Fear.
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