Ethan Winters

*For the original character of the **Resident Evil Village** video game, see* Ethan Winters

***Ethan Winters***  イーサン・ウィンターズ (Īsan Wintāzu) is a playable character in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and the protagonist in the 2021 game Resident Evil Village. In the game, he is forced to find his missing daughter in a mysterious eastern european village. unlike other fighters in the Ultimate Universe, Ethan as well as others of the Resident Evil franchise don't posses Magical powers or abilities.

## Biography

Ethan was a mutant American with a background in System engineering. Winters was infected with a weaponized species of "Mold" during the 2017 Dulvey incident, becoming one of many mutant victims of biological warfare. He and his wife Mia were taken into witness protection in Eastern Europe after being saved by the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance. When Mother Miranda kidnapped their daughter Rosemary in February 2021, this defense eventually broke down. Rosemary was successfully saved by Winters, but he lost his life defending a BSAA tiltrotor.

Little is known about Winters' early life, but it is known that by 2017, he was residing and employed as a systems engineer in Los Angeles, California. In May 2011, he married his Texan girlfriend, Mia, who he thought was a high-ranking worker in a trading firm but was actually a research assistant for The Connections, a company that produced illegal bioweapons. During a hurricane in October 2014, Mia vanished while traveling across the Gulf of Mexico, and her death was subsequently suspected.

Approximately three years after his wife Mia vanished, Ethan discovers her through a mysterious video message that directs him to a deserted property in the small Louisiana town of Dulvey. Mia is found and saved, but as she tries to run, she turns hostile and attacks Ethan, dismembering his hand with a chainsaw. Ethan strikes her in self-defense, dealing her a seemingly deadly blow, before running into Jack Baker, who renders him unconscious and kidnaps him. Ethan awakens to a dinner gathering where several Baker family members are present, but manages to escape his captors with the help of Zoe Baker, a stray Baker family member who had repaired Ethan's hand while he was still asleep. She discloses that Eveline, a potent genetically developed bio-weapon, is in charge of her family. Zoe discloses that Eveline can infect other people, giving them superhuman strength and tremendous regenerating abilities. Ethan is advised by Zoe to create a serum from materials found across the estate that will heal both Mia and herself.

### Resident Evil Village

As the protagonist of Resident Evil Village he becomes a playable character in the game. Ethan, Mia, and their newborn daughter, Rosemary live in Europe three years after the events of the previous game. Mia is killed when Chris Redfield breaks into the home and arrests Rosemary and him. Ethan is being transported in a truck when it is assaulted, leaving him left in a nearby village where lycans have killed the residents. Karl Heisenberg, one of the village's four lords, captures him and brings him before Mother Miranda, who learns that they are in possession of Rosemary. Ethan escapes as Miranda permits Heisenberg to dispose of him.

Ethan discovers that Rosemary was dismembered and that her remnants were kept in four flasks, one for each of the four lords, after fighting one of them, Alcina Dimitrescu. He learns from the local trader The Duke that if he can find all four flasks, Rosemary can be restored. Ethan meets up with Chris after collecting them and eliminating all the lords except for Heisenberg. Chris explains that the "Mia" he killed was actually a shape-shifting Miranda who was using her to abduct Rosemary, and that he was attempting to protect the family. Chris builds a crude tank for Ethan to use in killing Heisenberg, but Miranda rips out his heart and Ethan is gravely injured. However, Ethan is still alive thanks to the regenerative skills he acquired as a result of the Louisiana mold strain's effects.

## Strategies

Despite the fact that the game is designed to be played at a slower pace, the speedrunning community has created a number of time-saving techniques. While playing the game, this can also be useful as general knowledge.

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan\_Winters

his gameplay in Resident Evil Village