David Leatherhoff



David Leatherhoff is a main protagonist in horror game Afraid of Monsters and minor character in Cry of Fear.

History
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 help at the local hospital. After wandering into the bathroom, David finds yet another bottle of the drug before him. Unable to control himself, he takes the pills. Soon after, David passes out and delves into a nightmare, yet this time he notices that they are much, much worse. Some time later, David awakens to a now abandoned hospital, everyone has disappeared.

David soon discovers that his nightmares aren't in his head anymore, they are now real. David then fights to survive against the horrifying 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). After tracking down the hospital, the camera blacks out. It says: "The End, or is it?".
 * 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 police outside, he is soon arrested and put in the 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 he soon falls dead. A couple of seconds later, David's pulse returns. He had barely survived a drug overdose.