Ethan Winters

Ethan Winters is the main protagonist of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, its sequel Resident Evil Village and the overarching protagonist of the DLC Shadows of Rose. He was a system engineer in Los Angeles who was caught up in the incident at the Dulvey Haunted House and the European Village.
He was voiced by Todd Soley, and (who also voiced Peter Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Ant-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) in Japanese, and was modeled after Yaya Chamki.
== Appearance ==
Ethan Winters is a tall and handsome man with short slicked-back light brown hair, dark grey eyes, a slightly muscular build. He is 6’3" (190.5 cm) tall and is 170 lbs (75 kg).
In 2017 he wears a simple white shirt, grey pants and brown shoes, after getting his hand cut off by Mia he has staples connecting the flesh of his wrist and hand together as well as a genome codex watch.
In 2021 he wears a hooded yellow cotton jacket, a grey hoodie underneath, blue jeans and brown shoes, after getting his fingers bitten off by a Lycan he wears a bandage over the wound
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Very little is known about Ethan's past before the events of the game, other than that he was born in 1983, and later met and married Mia Winters before 2014. Mia had sent him a video of her telling him about her babysitting job, which was the last video message he received from her.
===Biohazard===
In July 2017, Ethan received an e-mail from a woman claiming to be his wife who was reported deceased in 2014. Ethan journeyed out to Dulvey, Louisiana in search of her, taking him to the "Dulvey Haunted House" formerly owned by the Baker family until their disappearance that same year. He enters the house and watches the "Derelict House Footage" (as seen in the Beginning Hour demo), where he witnesses the Sewer Gators team - cameraman Clancy Javis, producer Andre Stickland, and anchorman Pete Walken - infiltrate the house, ending with Clancy discovering Andre's dead body.
He travels through an underground shaft, and after discovering Andre's decaying corpse floating in the water, he finally finds Mia. After freeing her, she claims to not know about any message given to him and guides him to escape from the house's occupants. He receives phone calls from a woman named Zoe, who tells him to go to the attic. However, Mia, clearly possessed by infection, attacks him with a knife and later a chainsaw, which hacking off Ethan's left hand and forcing him to shoot her dead. As Ethan attempts to escape, Jack Baker appears and knocks him out.
With his left hand stapled (presumably by Zoe) and a codex showing him his health, Ethan awakens in a dining room where he meets the Baker family - Jack, his wife Marguerite, son Lucas, and an unnamed, silent elderly woman - who are eating human parts. He is force-fed their food until the arrival of a police officer, David Anderson, forces them to hide. 
He manages to escape his bonds but Jack is still around and starts looking for him. As Ethan tries to find a place to hide, Jack catches him and dismembers the lower half of his right leg. He then provides Ethan a strong first aid med that allows him to reattach his leg. Once Ethan gets away form Jack through a passageway under the floor, he later meets David Anderson at a window, who gives him his knife. The two meet in the garage, where Anderson is killed by Jack, who fights Ethan until the latter wears him down and kills him.
Zoe reveals over the phone that the Bakers and Mia have been contaminated by a mysterious pathogen, requesting that Ethan set out to retrieve the necessary items to develop a serum that can cure her and Mia so that they can escape the Baker residence. Ethan sets out to find the necessary items to leave the main house, only to face off against the resurrected Jack, who reveals himself to be seemingly immortal. The two engage in combat in the basement of the house before Ethan seemingly manages to finish Jack off once and for all in a chainsaw duel.
Traveling to the guest house, Ethan struggles to escape Marguerite and the bug swarms she controls, eventually being trapped and forced to defeat her head-on. The confrontation leads to his discovery of the mummified corpse of a "D-Series" child, the basis of the serum needed by Zoe.
With Jack (seemingly) disposed of, and Marguerite never to be seen again, Ethan set his sights on Lucas, as he managed to get his hands on the other ingredient needed to make the serum when he kidnapped Zoe. Ethan was able to find two key cards needed to get into the barn. Using his keen instincts and his arsenal to get through the traps that Lucas set out for him, Ethan was able to get to the same room where Clancy was immolated. However, thanks to the "Happy Birthday" tape he found in the attic of Lucas's old bedroom, he was able to solve the puzzle without unscrewing the corkscrew, keeping the flammable liquid inside the barrel. 
Enraged, Lucas drops a bundle of dynamite hoping to blow him up, but Ethan cleverly used the dynamite, along with a small hole he ripped in the wall, to blow a hole in the structure, not only revealing the path to Lucas's control room, but also revealing the place where Mia and Zoe were being held. With the D-series head and arm in tow, Ethan races to the pier to free the two of them, and Zoe was able to make two doses of the serum with the ingredients given to her. Unfortunately, before the three of them were able to escape to the boat, an angry and grotesquely mutated Jack ambushes them, whisking Ethan back into the burning boathouse. 
Growing tiresome of his encounters with Jack, Ethan takes on Jack one last time, causing enough damage to prompt Zoe into giving him one of the doses, having remembered a portion of a prior conversation that Zoe had with him regarding the ill effects of the serum if one was to administer it while being deemed too far gone. Ethan reluctantly does so, calcifying Jack in the process. With only one dose remaining, Ethan had to decide between inoculating his wife or Zoe. Having chosen to dose his wife, Zoe angrily tells the two to go, with a hint of betrayal. As a contritional token for getting Ethan as far as he did, he offered to send help to Zoe, but was coldly rebuked. 
Once Ethan and Mia got on the boat, he tried pressing Mia once again for the truth regarding her involvement with Eveline. Mia then coldly responded that she didn't remember what happened, but Ethan doesn't believe her. They eventually get to the Annabelle, the abandoned tanker ship that temporarily housed Mia and Eveline. Shortly after arriving at the Annabelle, Eveline ambushed the two, and then abducted Ethan and placed him at the fungal root she left behind. Mia would then have to navigate the ship with nothing more than her memory and whatever she could find on board. She eventually makes her way to the ship's deck, where she found the fungal root that encased Ethan. Angered by Mia's betrayal, Eveline grippped her arm and promptly called her a liar. When Mia was able to find Ethan, he experienced a memory that was shared with an unpossessed Jack and Zoe, who explained to Ethan what happened when they brought Eveline from the busted tanker ship that evening. He then pleaded with Ethan to free his family. Finally able to break Ethan loose from the fungal root, Mia hands Ethan a syringe containing a necrotoxin that would ultimately allow Ethan to break free of Eveline's mind control. Mia then pushed Ethan out of the ship and sealed the door so that she couldn't attack him once she lost control of herself. 
Ethan then set his sights to the Abercrombie Salt Mine, a mine that was located south of the Baker property. Ethan then discovered equipment that suggests somebody set up shop. After navigating the mine, Ethan was able to find his way back to the guest house, where his adventure started. Ethan then started experiencing painful and violent hallucinations of his first encounter with the possessed Mia, remembering everything in vivid detail. Ethan was then able to find Eveline in the guest house's attic, where she threw her worst at him. Ethan was able to reach Eveline and inject the serum into Eveline, allowing him to see Eveline as she really was: the old woman who he first encountered in the dining room of the main house. Eveline then manifested all the mold in the house, becoming a monstrosity hell bent at killing Ethan. After taking her on, the BSAA squad, which was alerted after Eveline's transformation, dropped a gun loaded with special rounds that calcified the transformed Eveline. 
Shortly after vanquishing Eveline, Ethan encounters a BSAA agent, who revealed himself to be Chris Redfield. Ethan is then loaded onto their helicopter, with Mia already receiving attention for her wounds. Ethan then looks to the future, with Mia in tow and ready to start the next chapter.
===Village===
Since 2017, Ethan was put in protective custody with Mia by the BSAA and moved between safe houses; primarily due to their exposure to the Molded virus created from Eveline leaving a potential risk. Despite this setback, Ethan made the most of their revitalized marriage and the two had a daughter named Rosemary by 2021. However Chris Redfield broke into their home and supposedly killed Mia, before taking Rose and Ethan away to a buzzard village in Europe from the Cult led by Mother Miranda (who attempt to use Rose as a sacrifice to revive her daughter Eva.)
Ethan found an old woman, who cryptically warned him Rose was in the castle of the town and that something terrible was coming for the townsfolk. He meets the surviving townfolk before they're all killed in a attack. Upon his way to the castle, Ethan meets a heavily overweight merchant calling himself the Duke, who trade weapons and supplies with Ethan.
Ethan fights his way past all four lords under Miranda's command, coming face to face with Chris again. Chris reveals Miranda was posing as Mia and survived the execution attempt Chris tried; she's a lunatic bioweapon. Ethan confronts Miranda, whom tears out his heart before heading to conduct the ceremony. Ethan goes into a near-death hallucination and meets a fragment of Eveline in his mind, forcing him to relive Jack's first assault on him. Eveline reveals that Ethan had truly been dead since that attack; she revived him with Mold, which explains his odd healing and inability to truly feel pain.
Ethan heads to the ceremony where Miranda has failed; he tries taking Rose back when Miranda received a headshot. However, Miranda couldn't accept her failure and swallowed Rose into the Mold and transformed to kill Ethan. Listening to her lunatic ramblings, Ethan screamed at her that Rose was his daughter over and over; finally killing the monster and freeing Rose. Seeing his hand crumbling into Mold dust, Ethan realizes he is too far gone to be saved. 
Chris arrived and Ethan takes his detonator, telling him to make sure Rose grows up strong. After Chris leaves with Rose and Mia (whom was being held captive for Miranda's experiments), Ethan blows up the Mold source in a final act of love for his family.
====Legacy====
Ethan was mourned by both Mia and Chris. Though a silver lining came from Chris keeping his promise to help Rosemary grow up strong. After the village's destruction, what's left of Ethan's body was discovered and buried. When Miranda manipulated Rose (now as an young adult) into entering the realm of consciousness, Ethan appeared as a entity under the name "Michael" to guide his daughter in her journey. With his assistance, Rose was able to defeat Miranda for good, and have a tearful farewell before leaving the Black God fragment. Later on, Rosemary visits his grave on Ethan's birthday before being dragged into yet another BSAA mission to use her Molded powers to help fight bioterrorism.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*A recurring theme with Ethan Winters (as well as Clancy Jarvis) is that you never see his face at all in the games.
*Ethan lacks some common sense in some respects;
**He didn't attempt calling the authorities in after finding evidence of Mia being at the Baker home; not to mention the disturbing fence made of animal remains.
**He didn't ask the officer to call for backup when being interrogated at the window.
*Although he's a presumed civilian, there are things that aren't coherent with this statement which ultimately foreshadowed his connection with Eveline's Megamycete via. infection with her Mold that endowed him enhanced physiology and necessary knowledge to overcome events of his debut game and later conflict against Mother Miranda:
**Heavy knowledge of chemistry (can craft medicine and better bullets for his guns). It's never stated what his job is, but considering it was 2017, Ethan could have studied YouTube videos on how to do this prior to the game, at least the basics.
**Quick self-heal (get his hand and leg chopped off, stitch them back with staples and be fine). In an uncensored version, Mold is coming from his wounds; implying that this was only thanks to Eveline infecting him.
**Skilled gunmanship (use pistols, shotguns, machine guns, etc. with ease) which he subconsciously learned from memories of The Connections soldiers Eveline killed via. Mold infection. He's notably more sloppy with it in RE7, though by RE8, he is much more fluid (likely having received proper training from BSAA agents for self-defense).
*In Spencer's notebook, it mentions a certain Ethan W., a skilled chemist, who was supposedly murdered by Albert Wesker, and it could be argued that there 2 separated Ethans, but considering the universe where the RE saga develops, there's a high chance that Ethan either faking his death or fighting of Wesker and Spencer writing that Ethan was dead because he seriously thought no one could fight Wesker and win.
**Considering Ethan would have been 13-14 years old when Raccoon City was destroyed, this isn't likely, unless he's some kind of genius prodigy like Dr. K or L Lawliet.
**As of RE8, those theories had since debunked with Ethan's improved chemistry and firearms prowess being attributed to his connection with Eveline's Megamycete through which he picked up knowledge of The Connections' scientists and soldiers Eveline killec via. Mold infection during her rampage at the LNG carrier Annabelle.
*During a near-death hallucination in Resident Evil 8, Ethan meets a fragment of Eveline's mind within his own. She reveals that Ethan was actually murdered by Jack Baker when he stomped on Ethan's face; he was revived as a Molded with his original personality intact. This explains why he could reattach his limbs and heal so quickly; plus, since his mind was connected to the Molded hive mind, his subconscious could pick up on the combat skills and other knowledge of previous victims.
*When sacrificing himself, Ethan is one of the two protagonists who dies, alongside Piers Nivans. 
*Ethan and Doug Houser (Dark Deception) do share a first person game adventure but both main protagonists are totally opposite of each other, especially when it comes to being a family man.
*Ethan seems to have Entomophobia, as he has the strongest reactions to bugs, directly stating that he hates them.
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