Which license survivor do you think suffered the most?

i believe the universe should give heather a break tbh

Suffers a Broke Marriage because of his obsession with Jigsaw,his partners dies,gets fired from the pd,got shot & then died

Detective Tapp had it pretty bad actually. He go his throat slashed, he saw his partner get blown apart by shotguns. He got an obssesive thing going on after Pig/Jigsaw and it ruined his life. He was physically and mentally devastated. His fallout from his events was harsh, which is why I voted for him.

Jill/Leon have it really bad, they've had to survive through multiple events, but they seem pretty built for it. Cheryl has it pretty rough, but I haven't actually finished her games yet.

Honestly I don't think we can honestly say there's a lot of blanks and unknowns about most of them and I don't know all of them so I'm not going to vote on what I don't know. Based on what little I know of the series (it's on my to do list), Ash does seem the most likely but Bill I think keeps his cards VERY close to his chest and it's obvious he has some form of PTSD.

My reasoning was between four candidates: Ash, Quentin Smith, Cheryl Mason, and Yoichi Asakawa. I see a good argument for all four of them.

Ash is perhaps the most straightforward one of the four, seeing how he lost everyone and is constantly in a war for the state of the world. Everyone he loves becomes a Deadite in some form, and he closed himself off from others to prevent a target from being placed on them, all because of their relationship with him. He's gone through A LOT, and I nearly instantly chose him. However, he continued to conquer the horrors that threw themselves at him, growing stronger, cockier, and more resolved. Though he might have suffered the most, he is not the one currently suffering the most, and due to the nature of The Fog, I have to believe someone else is going through it worse.

Cheryl Mason is more or less a humanization of guilt, grieving over the death of her father as well as the knowledge of what had happened to her past reincarnations. To be frank, she was more-or-less a "next in line" of unfortunate circumstance and grisly fates considering the record she was all too aware of. However, she was eventually able to push back. Though her psychological state is irreparably fractured, she is still able to utilize poor situations to push through.

Yoichi, on the other hand, hasn't experienced the horrors of Cheryl or the nightmares of Ash. He was the survivor of the curse. He grew successful, only to crash when his students disappeared in a location connected to the curse. The guilt lingering for decades bubbled back to the surface. Diving into a frenzy, Yoichi was ostracized and all the work he had done could not save him from ridicule. The Entity then likely took the form of his father, the same spirit that freed him from Sadako, to pressure him into continuing the moment he found a steady job. In following his father, Yoichi was flung to his death from the ship, watching the spirit that granted him salvation lead him to the very curse he had been running from the whole time, and something worse. Yoichi's guilt and fear led him to drown by the curse, decades after it vanished.

That said, Yoichi had something that Quentin Smith did not: release. To be vulnerable, The Entity had to play onto his fears, much as it did with Cheryl and Yoichi. Those fears had vanished and were dug back up. But for Quentin? Those fears never left in the first place. Freddy's terror had not ceased with Nancy's plan, it had only taken a reprieve. Quentin faced an organic nightmare, not only built on superstition and rumor. Sadako was never there; Freddy was. His survival was only due to The Entity's grasp, forever tasked to help others, no matter the fear he held. Even in the perks, there is a sense of urgency and fear matched by no other Survivor.

TL;DR - Ash and Cheryl could get through their horrors (albeit less so with Cheryl) and Yoichi fell completely helpless to a perceived resurgence of what he ran from his entire life, despite that not being the case. Quentin, however, experienced a real nightmare he thought he had conquered, and his panic and fear matched the state of Yoichi. Yoichi, Ash, and Cheryl can be driven by a relentless desire to see things through in The Fog, but Quentin is driven solely by fear and hatred.

Story wise it's absoloutly Cheryl

attention in DBD wise it's undoubtly Quentin

In terms of suffering endured AFTER being abducted Quentin is at the top of the list. Based on his campfire animation he isn't entirely sure of what's going on in his sleep deprived state. He nods off and then quickly wakes up before checking his surroundings. He obviously can't tell if he's still vulnerable to Freddy in his sleep.

Based on the journal entry written about him Quentin is more focused and driven than the survivors added before him. He's running on pure adrenaline at this point.

(This is easy mode for the Silent Hill and Resident Evil protags).