Ethan Winters

* Office
* Combat

Holly Winters (Aunt, deceased)
Finn Winters (Uncle, deceased)

Lynn Winters (Wife)
Chloe Winters (Daughter)
Nathan Winters (Son)

~~Hunlinian Royal Army~~

* ~~Infantry~~

~~Hunlinian Royal Air Force~~

* ~~Squadron leader~~

~~International Taskforce~~

* ~~Aerial-Wing Commander~~

> *"Hey, don't worry about me, I've still got an ear left after all."*
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**Ethan Winters** serves as the series' protagonist and is the founder and head of the police's Crisis Management Team. He participates in management tasks, as well as in field duties and operates under the callsign "Trapper".

## Biography

Ethan (or just called "Eth" by his friends) is the founder and leader of the CMT special police force. He gets along very well with his allies and is known to be a very friendly person who's extremely loyal towards his companions and even ready to perform daring actions in combat to protect others. He's especially good friends with Rook, Dimitri, Rose, Vlad and Emma, the Chief of Police. Amongst his friends he's known to be an overall caring individual with a soft spot for chocolate, who does his best to keep the morale of his team up.

He obtained the callsign "Trapper" because of his approach in combat during the continental war, using his environment against the enemy by utilizing traps, sabotaging hostile equipment to turn it against them or cornering them in a firefight. His mask worn in combat resembles the teeth of a bear trap.

### **Prior to "Crisis Management"**

Ethan hasn't always been living in Bluelu. When he was still a very young child, him and his twin sister Sarah used to live in "Past Hills", a region further in the south of Hunliny. However, when a fatal conflict broke out there which resulted in the death of both of their mother Mea Winters and Robison Winters, they've had to flee their home and had gone through extremely rough times. After teaming up up with another survivor, they've eventually managed to reach a refugee camp which transported survivors to Blulu, their goal since their trusted aunt Holly and her husband Finnley lived there. However, the transport train didn't have enough space for both of them since a ton of others were aboard too, so Ethan made a selfless decision: He ordered his twin-sister Sarah to get aboard, so she can get to safety, all while he himself would be looking for another way. Of course Sarah wasn't willing to leave her brother behind, who'd likely won't make it. But she eventually gave in after he promised to her that he'll meet her again, and safely traveled to Bluelue without him. After getting separated from Sarah, Ethan decided to travel by foot with a fellow survivor named Derek Frost. They knew that their chances of survival were little, but still kept going, and although Ethan eventually was completely on is own when things got out of hand, he actually made it to Bluelu and got reunited with Sarah again. The two then got adopted by their aunt Holly and her husband Finn and were therefore raised by them for the rest of their childhood days.

Ethan had met most of his friends such as Rook, Dimitri, Rose, Veronica, Molly, Flora and Mia during his schooldays in Bluelu. He's especially good friends with Rook and Dimitri, and even was and still is part of a band with them, alongside Mia, Flora and Molly, called "Voices In My Head", where he has the role of the lead singer. The three of them are all still well known to always stick together in the toughest of times, and they even often go fishing or shooting at the range together. Ethan had also met his wife Lynn at school. Both first had been just close friends and Ethan had always supported her when she was emotionally down due to her father Jakob Edwards being too drunk to care for her or when she got bullied again. After some really chaotic events, the two of them eventually got together and have even married after finishing their educational paths and getting proper work, eventually even becoming the parents of Nathan and Chloe Winters.

Ethan had first started to work as a police officer, along with his two best friends and his sister. He then later had been promoted to 'Detective' and joined the Homicide Commission where he cracked tons of cases and built up quite a reputation.

After a while, the "Great Continental War" broke out, and since the Hunlinan army was in need of more soldiers, Ethan and his friends decided to join. He and his squad have played an important role in tons of missions and were even directly involved in the operation to retake an entire allied capital city, occupied by hostile forces. During his time on the battlefield, Ethan had made it through some really tough situations. He once even got badly mauled by a hostile K9-Unit during an infiltration. Although he had long recovered from the severe injuries caused by this, there still is a very visible mark left: One of his ears was nearly completely ripped off by it. The event that had the heaviest impact on him however was a hostile ambush during an operation in the Texocanian jungles where hostile Yox troops had used napalm bombs on allied forces. Although he himself just barely made it out alive, he still had to watch tons of his fellow soldiers burn to death. Even to this day, Ethan can feel extremely uncomfortable and disorientated, when exposed to fire. With the war raging on, he eventually had transferred to the Royal Air Force along with Rook and Dimitri, thanks to their respected work and quick movement trough the ranks, and formed a squadron of fighter pilots known as the "Grizzly Squadron", with Ethan being the squadron's Captain, leading dozens of iconic airborne operations.

One day, him and his team were tasked to provided air support for allied troops, which were recapturing territory, occupied by Varstovkan forces. However, the battle went south, and the Hunlinians were forced to fall back. Due to the situation looking extremely dire on the ground, Ethan decided to stick around with his squadron, and escort the allied soldiers on the ground out of the area of operations. When Varstovkan Forces then turned up with mobile SAM-sites, he ordered his fellow pilots to retreat as well, in order to avoid aerial casualties. However, Ethan himself wouldn't leave until every single remaining soldier on the ground was safe, so he still stuck around, and kept defending the fleeing allies. When everyone on the ground made it out, Ethan proceeded to break away as well. But as bad luck wanted it, just at the very moment he attempted to leave, an anti-air missile critically struck his plane. Ethan lost control and crashed into the ground.
When he woke up, having miraculously survived despite severe injuries, the wreckage he was in has already been surrounded by Varstovkan infantry. Ethan was taken as a prisoner of war (P.O.W) by the Varstovkans.

During his time as a P.O.W, he met a Varstovkan soldier named Vlad Kuznetsov, and despite being from opposing forces, the two befriended each other, creating a strong bond as friends. Vlad would often get to the P.O.W camps in his free time, just to catch up with Ethan, who was temporarily unable to walk, due a serious leg injury, which resulted from the plane crash.

After 3 weeks, when Ethan was somewhat fit again, he developed a plan, in order to break free from Varstovkan captivity: By triggering the base's alarm via a malfunction and security flaw he had discovered earlier, and using the resulting chaos and panic, he snuck away, doing his very best not to harm anyone on his escape.

When he got away from the P.O.W camp, he traveled east to the shoreside, and discovered an abandoned radio tower. He used it to contact his homeland, and requested an extraction, which then was successfully pulled through at the same night, with his family and friends being extremely relieved that he's been alive and well the entire time. After all of that, Ethan picked up his duty as the captain and leader of the "Grizzly" Fighter Squadron.

Eight months later, him and his team were stationed at an airbase, close to the Jollyingtian-Varstovkan border, having had the task to maintain the base's equipment and planes, with Ethan being the head of the base. The team was just having lunch, when suddenly the word of an incoming Varstovkan assault spread. Ethan and Co. mobilized and moved to the border, in order to fight back on the ground. The firefight was tough, and fire was exchanged from all sides, but they've managed to overwhelm the attackers and had them surrounded. When closing in to take the Varstovkan soldiers as prisoners, Ethan noticed a familar face amongst them: Vlad. Seeing his old friend, a person who treated him like one of his own despite conflicting factions, having his hands up in fear, made Ethan to order his team to withdraw their firearms. This left Vlad and the other Varstovkans quite confused. They were even more baffled when Ethan invited the 7-8 Varstovkan soldiers, over to lunch at the nearby airbase. After a bowl of stew, Ethan and his allies escorted the Varstovkans and Vlad back to the border, and watched as they walked into the distance, visibly confused.

This event caused some rethinking on both sides, and efforts were made to stop the hostilities between Varstovka and the allies. Noteably, Ethan and Co. formed the "International Taskforce" (InT), a team made out of soldiers from all over Culuno, who all have had enough of the war. He even managed to reach out to old colleagues, even Vlad too, and convinced them to join as well. With Ethan leading his friends as the commander of InT's Aerial Wing, he trusted Vlad to take over commanding the ground soldiers in the InT's infantry wing. An old friend of Ethan named Chapper Hicks, who was a captain of Hunliny's Naval Force, became the commander of the InT's Naval-Wing.

The InT pulled through tons of operations which all had the goal of creating political stability between the conflicting nations, and although those operations were all risky and extremely dangerous for all involved, Ethan and the InT were successful in their mission. However, it is to mention that the team had suffered serious losses during their final operation, which was the invasion of main aggressor Yoxel. Sadly, Ethan's friend and InT's Naval-Wing Commander Chapper was reportedly killed in action as well, having his fleet getting caught in a tremendous explosion, similar sized to the one of a medium nuclear bomb despite having been nonradioactive, with its cause still being unknown to this day. Surviving soldiers who've had witnessed the explosion, recount to the moment as "The day, the sun fell".

When the war had come to an end, the crimes of a once so little criminal organization with the name "Pretty Blood" had started to get more and more brutal. The mass-murder of over 45 innocent people, including his aunt and uncle, through a bomb attack in Bluelu led to Ethan founding the CMT with his companions. Together, they seek to reach a difficult and dangerous goal:

**Taking down Pretty Blood for good.**

### **During the events of "Crisis Management"**

#### **Chapter 1**

15 days since the beginning of the Velocity Conspiracy case, Ethan arranges a meeting with his good friend and Bluelu's police chief Emma, in order to report his findings to her. For that, he brings a large folder containing crucial information with him. When Emma notices a photo of Gabriele in it, she asks who the latter is, upon which Ethan starts to recount the events prior to this point:

At the beginning of day one, at around 5:09 AM, Ethan wakes up from a well rested sleep, noticing that his wife Lynn had already gotten up before him. After getting himself ready for the day, he checks up on his family in the living room, where he finds his kids Chloe and Nathan already awake and Lynn preparing breakfast for them. Her and Ethan then heartingly greet each other, before the former then hands him his lunch for the day, lovingly advising him not to forget to eat when at work. When Ethan checks up on his children, a news report, reporting another viscious crime commited by Pretty Blood starts to broadcast on the living room's TV, to which a very worried Lynn then asks Ethan to be extremely careful, due to he nature of his workplace. Assuring her that he'd still have an ear left after all, they kiss eachother goodbye, before Ethan then leaves for work.

At apx. 6:36 AM, Ethan arrives at the Bluelu Police Department, however, reaches the CMT's offices at 6:43 AM. Upon entering, he firstly catches up with his sister Sarah, where he mentions that a malfucntioning traffic light prevented him from being punctual. He then also catches up with Dimitri, Rook and Rose, who have gathered around the office's coffee table, where he notices Rook looking rather tired. Before heading into his management office, Ethan runs into his friend and colleague Diana Wellfair, whom he notices to look rather troubled. Upon asking her what the matter is, she responds with having had a talk with the CMT's handler and 2nd in command Olivia Barker about an incident a week prior, involving Diana herself. She then walks off, apologizing that she'd need some time to think. In the management office, Ethan proceeds to apologize to his colleague Olivia for running late, and states the reason to be traffic, to which the latter cheerfuly replies with Ethan having lost a little bet he made with her, due to him being late, thus him now having to take out the entire CMT for lunch some day. The two then start to get to their paper work on their desks.

During a little break, Ethan then is paid a visit by Vlad Kuznetsov, a good friend of his he had met during the Great Continental War. The two exchange some stories of their time in the army, and Vlad also talks to him about his job at Velocity, stating that he'd be quite happy with the pay he is receiving as a PMC mercenary. At apx. 11:57 AM however, they get interrupted by Olivia, who had received an emergency call for backup, issued by one of Bluelu's "587" emergency operators, who reported a serious officer-involved shooting as well as a barricade-hostage situation, in a rural area. Learning that the police's TCU is not available, due to being on a mission themselves, as well as due to there being an extreme lack of police units caused by PB's activities, Ethan immediately gathers his team to the office's briefing room and quickly plans their intervention and the rescue of two hostages, alongside Olivia, with the two eventually briefing the rest, before everyone gears up and moves out.

At around 12:18 PM, the CMT arrives at its target destination, where they already find police officers Paula Birchwood, Brevis Lines, Truck Jorwin and Bianca Flinch, as well as police detectives Mica Treehouse and Ralf Flitzberg, covering the crime scene by having set the target building under siege. Ethan informs the first responders of him and his team now taking over the situation, and also checks up on the CMT's sniper support duo, the Recon-Squad consisting out of Dimitri and Diana, via radio, before him and his Riot-Squad stack up on the front door. In the meantime. the Covert Squad gathers around the building's back entrance, waiting for Ethan's order to move into and clear the basement area. When forcing entry, the Riot-Squad quickly sweep the ground floor without meeting any resistance. Before proceeding to clear the upper floors, Ethan gives green light to the Covert Squad, who start to sweep the basement while the Riots move up. Upstairs, they run into severe resistance by PB operatives Jock Pock, Bradley Ray and Grimp Wheel, after having had detonated a flash grenade, to which they in response return fire, starting a heavy firefight. In a brief moment of silence, Rook then tries to persuade the hostiles into surrendering, but to no avail. To avoid losses by quickly ending the threat, Ethan orders Rose to cover him, while he himself rushes to some cover which is located closer to the target, to which Rose warns him not to get himself killed by doing so. Upon reaching his desired spot, the Recon-Squad radios him, informing that they don't have a visual on the hostiles, due to their vision being obstracted by the perspective on the building. Ethan therefore commands him to watch the outside perimeters instead, as he doesn't want to be surprised by hostile backup, but right while doing so, Mick Milton, a sniper from PB, stationed outside the building, ambushes him from afar, nearly landing a hit on him. Ethan, shocked by the near miss, quickly assesses the situation and orders his squad to keep their sights on the front, while he issues the Recons to take care of the sniper that attacked him. Diana quickly spots the perpitrator thanks to her contact lenses, and notifies Dimitri, who then takes the shot with his sniper rifle, swiftly eliminating Mick by putting a hole in his head. Following to that, Rook pushes forward to assist at Ethan's position, and another shootout emerges. One of the suspects, Grimp Wheel, eventually gets cocky, and moves out his cover in order to attack. While he's out in the open, Rose uses this opportunity to gun him down with her shotgun, resulting in Grimp getting shot in the head by her, immeditely killing him. This causes the remaining two aggressors, Jock Pock and Bradley Ray, to panic, and the latter makes a break for it further upstairs in order to use their hostage as leverage, leaving Jock to fend for himself. However, Bradley finds the room he'd locked their hostage inside open. He panics, believing they'd escaped, and quickly climbs out of a window, in order to get a away from the losing battle. While all that happens, Jock trying to cover his position all alone. The CMT once again tries giving him another chance to surrender and even attempt to negotiate to make him put his weapons down, though Jock refuses to further elaborate and continues returning fire, before eventually making a run for it upstairs as well. When he there finds out that Bradley's nowhere to be seen, he starts to wildly shoot at the entrace to the room he entered, whilst loudly exclaiming to have a hostage, as well as threatening to murder them, if the police doesn't withdraw. The CMT isn't having any of that and Rook suggests to attempt tossing a flash grenade into the room, in order to stun Jock. Ethan however, doesn't want to take the risk of possibly endangering the presumed hostage, so he decides to make a flanking attempt, by pulling of a dangerous stunt which allowed him to access the target room from a different angle. He used the element of surprise to his advantage, firing three shots from his service pistol at Jock, effectively incapacitating him, thus ending the threat at last. When the rest of the Riots moved into the now cleared room, Ethan checks on a small connected storage chamber, in which he finally finds and secures the reported hostage, Gabriele Girasole Stellare, a boy who got kidnapped by the suspects and their associates. Gabriele is heavily shaken up at first, but Ethan and Co.'s efforts made him comfortable again, as he was escorted out of the building, and into one of the CMT transporters, set to head to the BPD. While that happens, Ethan and his squadmate James Millbourne still remained at the crime scene, due to the latter having had found a radio, which the suspects had used for communication to an unknown third party. They quickly ffind out that said third party was none other than Pretty Blood.

When back at the CMT's offices, at apx. 5:21 PM, Ethan debriefs the team, summarizing the entire operation. He also informs everyone of Pretty Blood's involvement and the shift of tasks for the CMT within the next days, with their next top-priority goal being the rescue of the second hostage who was taken away, Federica Stellar Lunare, Gabriele's best friend.

After the debriefing, Ethan meets up with Olivia and Gabriele in the managment office. There, he learns that due to PB's involvement, Gabriele can't return home for his safety. And since the shortcoming of staff's an issue, and private security also isn't an option, Olivia asks him to take care of Gabriele instead. Ethan accepts, but mentions he may need to talk it out with his wife Lynn first, before then trying to get to know Gabriele better, by introducing him to his friends Dimitri, Rook and Rose.

It is later shown, that Lynn too approved Gabry's temporary stay, welcoming him with warm motherly arms, when him and Ethan return home to the Winters residence, at apx. 9:18 PM. She also caught word of what has happened, and having been extremely worried about the wellbeing of her husband, she gives Ethan a big hug, once he has entered the house. Afterwards, Gabry gets to know Chloe and Nathan better, while Ethan and Lynn prepare dinner for everyone.

**Chapter 2:**

TBA

## Squad abilities

**Leader:** Leader of the CMT and its Riot Squad. Ethan will do his very best to ensure the well being of his fellow teammates.**Sixth Sense:** All the time on live battlefields behind enemy lines made Ethan develop an increased intuition for 'feeling' the presence of threats.

## Trivia

* In Chapter 1, Ethan used an M4 carbine with a hybrid-optic and holographic sight attached to it, as his primary weapon, alongside a Beretta M92 pistol as his sidearm. However, when working on Chapter 2, Echo Whiskey decided to scrap real-world firearms entirely, opting for fictional weaponry instead. Due to that, Ethan now uses a heavily modified Warden Type Z as his primary firearm, which he named "Lynncher", after his wife Lynn.
* Ethan is a fan of chocolate with crackers in them.
	+ In Chapter 1, during the scene with him, Vlad and Olivia inside the CMT's management office, several cracker-chocolate bars can be seen laying on his desk.
		- It is also implied in Chapter 1 that Ethan keeps a steady supply of chocolate at this desk, during the scene with him Gabriele and Olivia inside the CMT's management office.
* Ethan is named after the protagonist of the survival-horror shooter games Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village, both of which Echo Whiskey is a huge fan of.
	+ Back when he had created Ethan, Resident Evil Village was yet to be announced.
* Originally, Ethan was supposed to wear some different items:
	+ He once had a watch, which he would interact with during missions. However, the idea was later ditched and only used as a minor cosmetic item in Chapter 1, before being cut entirely for the future.
	+ Ethan was also supposed to be constantly wearing a belt of 5.56x45mm ammunition. This was discarded later, due to being too exaggerated.
* He was the first PBU character which Echo Whiskey created.