RELA [Resident Evil Live Action] Ethan is a nightmare because most of the events to happen would not happen because Ethan would be ooc if he made the same decisions as the mc(alice) of the movies.
This au is basicly a reimagineing of the rela movies from 2002-2016[?] And he straight up replaces the mc. Like mold appears. Takes over her unconscious body in the first scene thats shown in the movie of her. And boom. Thats just Ethan now. Why? Bc I said so, and because its more interesting than back when I first came up w the idea of ethan and the live-action movies having a crossover, with him being her companion instead. Just wasent as interesting to me. [I do think for the companion ver/alt timeline they'd be like long lost siblings because their both blond AND are basically copys of the original person]
The oldest art i have of this goober is really bad. Never let 2021-2022 me design clothes ever again. [Companion timeline]
But then, when I revisted this au I locked in and made better art for the reimagineing :3
I did redesign the last outfit and the 3rd movies outfits a little bit, but the 3rd movies outfit got another small redesign (that isent in this drawing) because I was indecisive 😅
He looks great though. Thats what matters lol.
I would love to explain every single even that takes place, but im just going to explain the things that make different changes to the movies timeline & interesting details so I dont end up writing you a whole fanfic/book. & because I dont remember every single little details that happen in the movies lol.
RE1: the unbrella agents think ethans memory are just scrambled bc of the amnesia gas that was put into the building, and dont take him seriously sence he swears its not the year their saying it is and that unbrella was disbanded years ago. Spencer, suprize bad guy that released the virus in the first place, gpt confused and thought that they were married because they wore matching wedding rings before the unbrella agents went "no,no,no" and showed him a picture of alice and him on their wedding day. [He still lowkey buddy's up with Ethan till its revealed that ethans basicly possessing his wife, witch then he has mixed feelings till he remebers everything and just becomes an ass.] Matt, fake cop, thought Ethan was the informant, he technically is bc the mold took over Alices body but he and others dosent find that out till its outed by the red queen that ethan isent exactly human in order to try and distract them from working together to leave. Ethans able to save Kaplan, the hacker guy, but its worthless in the end because unbrella still breaks into the mansion and kidnaps the 3 of them.
RE2: Ethan hears the commotion going on in the church and drives a car though the doors bc the others locked them when they went in there. Ethan trusts what Dr. Ashford tells them over the phone because hes reminded of Zoe and knows that if he was in his position he'd be begging anyone he'd find to help save his daughter too. The multi showdowns between ethan and nemesis [matt] show little bits and pieces of Matt coming back/have his control back from whatever it is that unbrella did to him. At the end when they take ethans body, instead of being put into the test tube/cloned, Ethan wakes up/comes back to life in their morge before they can take DNA samples and he runs away.
Re3: ethan travels by night instead of day due to the mold part of himself growing stronger over time after itself and the t-virus mixed together and changed some things. [It will only get more prominent and change more of himself over the corse of the rest of the series/movies, I just haven't planned everything out for that though.] So he wears all black to be basicly invisible in the night time when hes rideing around. He reunites with Carlos, and the others when they're setting up in the night and is there to help with the bird attack in the morning. When they cross paths with the crates of zombies ethan doest have to deal with the weird mind control thing to pause him in his tracks and help to avoid unessasary deaths because they never got to chip him. When ethan breaks into the 2nd hive/resurch base, there's no mass of clones. And after he kills off dr Isaacs, ethan aura farms when he threatens to kill off wesker and his lil council. he also brings the white queen with him on a watch he steals so that she isent left to rot in the hive.
Re4: sence he doesn't have an army of clones like Alice did, ethan goes full stealth to take down the remaining hives. It is in fact effective. Wesker only half weakend ethan with the t-virus cure sence, again, the t-virus and his mold mixed togther to create somthing new. When meeting ReLa Chris he doesn't believe for shit that hes actually chris, [even calls him Etsy Chris bc of his smaller build and different face instead of just chris] until Claire eventually regains enough of her memory to convince them to let him out to help. Ethan doesn't immediately change the repeating message from the ship bc the white queen warns him that it would alert everyone that the ship is no longer withing unbrellas control.
Re5: the ship is eventually discovered to be taken over and is aggressively taken back by unbrella, capturing ethan. Also hes wearing the female gear because if the girls have to wear that stuff wo proper armor, so do the boys. There is no exception. When interacting with Ada for the first time, and finding out that she's working with wesker he lokey keeps trying to beat tf out of her till hes forced to accept the team up. He steals the large axe/hammer after he and ada work together to kill off the 2 big brutes (forgot what their called). When he finds becky, the deaf girl, he has to convince her that shed be safer with him rather than hiding within her false home before he can take her under his wing. And meeting up with the civilian&unbrella clones of Rain gives him a mini heart break/attack but he toughs it out and saves the civilian ver of her bc he feels guilt in not being able to save the original Rain. Kaplan comes back here to help with the explosive to take down the underwater hive. In the white house, when wesker tries to give ethan back the t-virus he lost when given the cure, all it does is max mutate the virus mold mix faster.
Re6: I dont remeber anything but small bits in this movie, but ill try my best to lay out everything. Ethan hunkerd down somewhere after the Whitehouse fell, with the white queen eventually getting in contact with the red queen and negotiating a way to have a better way to take care of the t-virus that had spread over the planet once and for all wo/just takeing the short route by killing off humanity[red queens idea]. With help, he gets back into contact with chris and other serviors to break back into the og hive in racoon city to get the solution they needed. And they kill off the oldest & evilest Dr isaacs, and ethan has a small sweet moment with the old og Alice. And then they save the world. :D
I honestly have to rewatch the re6 movie. I really do.
Anyways have this prize of the toxic one sided BOW relationship bc weskers a weirdo when it comes to non human people/things
The healthy queer platonic BOW friendships ended with Matt. Rip Matt, ethan would of loved if you were able to survive the end of re2, but you have to die for plot reasons 💔 [plus he too damn big for the god damn helicopter]
THIS IS SOOO COOOOOOL I admittedly haven’t seen the RE movies so the introduction to them through this au is soooo very good and fascinating to me omg,,,,deeply deeply intrigued by this lore I may just need to watch these when I get the chance HNSJ but OUUUGH I’m crazy insane about these designs holy shit. LONG HAIR ETHAN 🔛🔝 SOOO FUCKING PEAK TO MEEE the variety in all these looks is so so fun I’m OBSSESSEEEED incredibly good army of Ebans,,,,I love him and the concept of this au SOOO badly 💖💖💖
