Ethan

**Ethan** is a character on Prime Video series *Tales from the Loop*. He is portrayed by Danny Kang. He is a teenage boy who lives in Mercer, Ohio. He was born with a defect in his right foot and thus walks with a limp and is unable to run.

## History

He struck up a romance with May, who had briefly had fling with a boy who she believed to be Jakob, but was actually Danny Jannson in Jakob's body. The two of them met at a wedding and quickly hit it off. She revealed to him that she was a tinkerer and often spent time fixing broken objects. She showed him a device which she had found in the shallows of a local lake. He provided a distraction for her as she stole a part she needed to repair it from the truck of a local mechanic named Lucas.

She took him to her room and showed him around and then the two made out. They were caught by May's mother, Xiu, who clearly did not approve of the relationship. May continued to tinker with the device and eventually got it working, discovering that it had the power to stop time around her. She took it to school, telling Ethan that she had found a way for them to be together. She had him slip on a metal bracelet that came with the device, while she herself slipped one on. The two had fun together exploring the town of Mercer, having the run of the place with everyone frozen around them and even playing some pranks such as placing a girlish hat on the head of a man on a bicycle.

The two kept time frozen for many months and formed a passionate relationship with each other. However, while things were great for a time, they did not last. One day, May returned to her own home, where she discovered that while she had been at school, her mother was frozen in the act of having passionate sex with the mechanic, Lucas. Extremely angry, she began pulling away clothes and tossing them outside, saying that she would make it so that they had nothing to cover themselves up with. Ethan asked what the point of doing this and she asked if he was calling her stupid. The argument grew out of control, with him calling her a "bitch" and her responding in kind by calling him a "cripple." At this, Ethan stalked away. May searched everywhere for him and discovered him at a pier on the lake. She pleaded with him that she was scared he was going to leave her. She then spotted his wrist device suspended in mid-air, him having removed it.

She turned off the device, but at this point, the two were beyond words. Tears in his eyes, he left. Sometime after this incident, May was out walking when she spotted him across the street. They just stared at each other until finally he began to cross the street. She walked quickly to try to get away from him, but he caught up to her. He asked how she was, but she just sort of made a face and asked the question of him. He asked her what happened and she told him that he had broke his promise, to never leave her. He nodded, but responded that she had said what she said. She just shook her head and started to leave, leaving him looking pained. He turned around called her name, then told her that he loved her in Chinese. She turned around and considered him, but then left, and the two went their separate directions.

## References

1. ↑ IMDb - *Tales from the Loop* cast
2. ↑ "Stasis"