#alan droney

[rallamajoop]

The Complete Guide to Eye Colour In Resident Evil 7

An addendum to my guide to eye colour in RE8: here's everyone from RE7 too! Getting close-ups of these was way harder than for RE8, because RE7 does not come with a model viewer, so I'm stuck using in-game screenshots and promotional images.

Once again, we'll start with the cheat-sheet version:

The whole Baker family: Blue (except when...) Mia: Brown (FOR NOW) Eveline: Green Alan: Hazel/green Deputy OneSceneWonder: Brown Chris: Hazel/brown (FOR NOW) Clancy, Andre and Peter: Brown Ethan: Still hazel

But it can never just be that simple, can it? So, further notes below.

The Baker Family

The Baker family all have blue-grey eyes. In fact, post-infection, they all have the exact same blue eyes (see top line in comparisons below). You could maybe put this down to genetics for Zoe and Lucas, but when Jack and Marguerite have the same eyes as each other too, that's when you start wondering just how many backwater-hillbilly-stereotypes are in play here.

Mind you, they do have slightly different eyes in the pre-mould flashback that is the Daughters DLC, which you can see in the second row above. All are brighter blues, pre-infection, and Jack gets smaller pupils while Lucas gets a slightly larger iris (Zoe gets nothing, as she's the viewpoint PC and we're not redoing her face if you're not going to see it). So maybe we can hope there's some genetic diversity in the Baker-clan (renders of their eyes in their actual faces also look a little more distinct, but maybe that's a lighting thing). Either way, the Bakers = blue eyes! Got it!

And then we meet Uncle Joe in the other DLC who... has hazel eyes?

IDEK, maybe Uncle Joe's real dad was a different mailman.

Once we get deeper into mould-monster territory though, things do get a little more interesting.

Both Marguerite and Lucas appear with much creepier whitened eyes later in the game ‒ Marguerite's during her boss-fight transformation. Lucas, however, remains steadfastly human-shaped throughout the main campaign, but his eyes are whitened in his video message to Ethan, and in his (pre-monstrous transformation) DLC appearances too. Jack, by contrast, doesn't seem to get new eye textures even after blowing off the top of his own head, or in the boss fight that follows (monster!Jack from the fight in the boat house has completely different eyes, of course, and more of them). Mia, too, has her own set of creepy-alternate-mould-monster-eyes, but they're completely different again.

So what's the internal logic here? I could speculate that Lucas' eyes-only transformation is a sign he's in control of himself in a way Jack and Marguerite aren't, but it doesn't quite add up. If anything, those eyes make more sense as something Lucas was given because we never see him transform like Marguerite, or blow pieces of himself away like Jack: Lucas may look human, but the eyes are there to remind us he's not. There'll always be some details that end up being more about effective storytelling than cohesive lore.

Interestingly, though they don't appear in the game, there are also promotional pics of all four members of the Baker family with glowing white/silver eyes, which are definitely a supernatural feature. It's tempting to try and associate the effect with Rose's glowing eyes from the Shadows of Rose DLC, or perhaps even the general pale-grey-eyes of Miranda and the Lords (more on both in my post on eyes in RE8). But that's territory that really needs its own post or we'll be here all day.

Clancy, Andre and Peter

These are the three ill-fated crew of the Sewer Gators tape you'll encounter early in the game. You may notice Peter (rightmost in the pic above) seems to have even more dilated pupils than the majority of the cast. Amusing as it might be to theorise that he's just on drugs or something, I think there is an explanation: the closest shot we see of his face (and the first shot of the tape) is a close-up into a camera while the team is outside in the dark. His pupils would naturally be dilated in this sort of environment.

So why aren't Andre's dilated too? Well, the closest look we get at his eyes (also pictured) are the final shot of the tape, where he's already dead, and his eyes are covered by a red film. Medical plausibility aside, dilated pupils presumably didn't add to the effect here, so Andre gets regular pupils.

Speaking of assets, there is actually one photo of the three of them in the game, from the pamphlet you can find in their van at the start. You can even almost make out Clancy's face!

Clancy's own eyes are their whole own kettle of worms, but we'll get to that below.

Chris Redfield

Is an odd one: I can't share an eye-texture asset for Chris, because he doesn't actually have a character model at all in the main RE7 title. And explaining that one is gonna take some context.

While RE8 renders nearly all cutscenes using in-game models, RE7 stores far more of its major cutscenes pre-rendered in .wmv format. The opening is pre-rendered, video messages from Mia and Lucas are pre-rendered ‒ even the big moment when Eveline blows out the windows of the tanker and throws Mia into the river is pre-rendered. Not all cutscenes work this way, but basically anything that would require loading a lot of assets that aren't needed in gameplay (eg. the view of the river and tanker for outside) seems to have been pre-rendered as a video instead.

And since Chris' only scene in all of RE7 is in the pre-rendered ending sequence, he doesn't have a model at all (or at least, I couldn't find it). We do see Chris in openings and endings of the Not a Hero DLC as well, and the End of Zoe ‒ but these too are just .wmv files, presumably for all the same reasons.

Now, obviously, Chris is also playable in the DLC, so he does have a character model there. But we still don't get eye textures for him for a couple of reasons: firstly, he wears a face-concealing mask that only comes off for opening/ending cutscenes. But even without it, we might just hit other weirdness surrounding player character models...

As I've already noted, both Chris and Mia get completely different new blue eyes in RE8, but back in RE7, Capcom seemed a little more aware that brown or hazel eyes were a real thing regular white people do have sometimes.

A note on player-character models

Although we mostly just see the hands of whoever we're playing as (usually Ethan), gameplay still uses a full-body model, presumably to aid in rendering dynamic shadows, and give enemies something to cover in blood. Things get weird around the character's head, which isn't actually visible so it can't get in the way of the camera floating inside it, but will still cast shadows and still has textures associated with it (though usually in much lower resolution than other models we'll actually get to see). There are three playable characters in RE7 proper: Ethan, Mia, and Clancy (from the video tapes) ‒ each with their own model and textures.

Ethan and Mia also have more detailed 3rd person models, since we see plenty of Mia playing as Ethan, and a little of Ethan playing as Mia (if only from behind).

Why does this matter? Well, distinct as the three PCs are otherwise, their player models all have the same eyes ‒ top row above shows Ethan, Mia and Clancy, in that order. And they look nothing like Ethan's and Mia's eyes have ever looked elsewhere, which you can see in the comparison below.

I mention this mostly because it's pretty easy to find Ethan's player-model in the game files, note those generic-hazel eye textures with it, and go, "hey, you got his eyes wrong!" But these aren't the same eyes that come with his higher-res texture, or the ones that were copied over into RE8. In fact, the existence of the player-character-default-eye-texture back in RE7 is one of the reasons why I do tend to take full-res Ethan's eyes as 'canon', even though we never see them in either game: someone took the time to repaint Ethan's eyes for his full-res model, and make them distinct from the low-res default used for everyone in 1st person mode. That at least suggests there was some real, intentional effort put into deciding what colour eyes Ethan was supposed to have.

This does leave poor Clancy in more ambiguous territory, however: as he's never seen by any other character, he has no high-res model, and thus no eyes but the default-hazel that Mia and Ethan are rendered with in that mode too. So is this to be taken as Clancy's official eye colour? It may as well be, I suppose. We see so little of Clancy in any form that I was genuinely surprised to find out his he's actually got a player model which is completely distinct from anyone else in the game, with curly greying hair, a neckbeard, and a baseball cap worn backwards.

Render by nightsatkendalls over on deviantart.

I do not have the skills to produce a render of this quality myself, but I can tell you that the cap he's wearing has the logo for the RE Engine on the front (the in-house game engine behind all the modern RE titles, and many other Capcom games).

You'll never see it in game, of course ‒ you'd need both a freecam mod and a mod to make his head visible. But it's there as a weird little easter-egg nonetheless.

Eveline

Eveline is perhaps the only character whose model may not have been updated at all for RE8, but given she's only a hallucination or ghost, that stands to reason. In RE7 though, she also appears as her aged 'grandma' self, who pops up around the house in her wheelchair looking spacey. Grandma-Eveline has two different eye texture assets ‒ one far more washed out than the other. There's next to no good official pictures of her, but fortunately, since she doesn't move around or attack you, she was one of the very few characters I was able to get a decent close-up shot off with the free camera mod. And inasmuch as you're ever in a position to look her in the eye in game, only the faded version of her eyes ever seems to show up. Is the clearer version actually used somewhere I didn't catch? I have no idea.

What really stands out about granny-Eveline's eyes, though, is that they don't look anything like her child-self's eyes do. Child-Eveline is basically the only character in either game with distinctly green eyes. But Granny's are hazel, and not even a particularly similar shade of hazel.

In fact, they look far more like the generic-default hazel of the player character textures than they do like her younger self. Close-up comparisons below.

You could speculate that it was deliberate that Granny-Eveline's eyes don't look anything like kid-Eveline's eyes to avoid tipping off the player that they're one and the same ‒ but realistically, no-one without free camera mods is ever going to get a good enough look at either of them to notice. And it's kind of a shame they didn't just take young-Eveline's eyes and apply the same kind of distortions they seem to have applied to the generic-hazel template to age them up ‒ that would've been a lovely, creepy little detail to find in these textures. But no, generic old hazel it is.

Then again, whatever the real logic at play, the fact Granny-Eveline's eyes are effectively a faded, distorted version of the very same eyes the player themselves never does get to see in the mirror is a pretty creepy idea itself. And intentional or not, that's what I've got to leave you with.

[megamyceted]

ALAN DRONEY, EVELINE AND MIA WINTERS resident evil 7 : biohazard, 2017.

[highlifeboat]

"Lost Ship Leaves Several Missing, Presumed Dead"

Bonus: Colour vers:

[precambrian-sea-pancake]

*Looking at a bug zapper*

Eveline: “What’s that machine doing?”

Mia: “It’s getting rid of the moths.”

Eveline: “Where is it taking them?”

Alan: “Hell”

Mia: “Don’t say that, Alan”

Alan: “I’m sorry. not Hell. Mexico”

Mia: :/

[delicatebluebirdruins]

Things I wish people would remember

Ethan suspected Mia of something before the events of seven and called her on it "i did lie to you I shouldn't have" and "you were always watching me why? what are you hiding Ethan what don't you want me to know?"

Eveline's sales pitch (ignoring Miranda's roll in this for the minute) is to end all wars as stated in the R&D Report One found in the salt mine "develop a bioweapon for neutralizing combatants en masse with minimal direct contact..."

Alan's actions be it him getting in the way or whatever is why Evie got out in the first place and Mia was sent to chase her down after a unknown amount of time (suggestion if Mia was a scientist would her priority be to subdue Evie or make sure Alan is okay?)

Mia was in the cell we find her in from Nov 2015 for being violent (Evie getting out was October 2014)

Mia tried to warn the bakers indirectly because Evie had infected her and would have stopped her in some way- Mia is the reason Zoe knows about the basic serum

Mia gave up all information she had on the connections for a reduced sentence (i will die mad that the Baker Incident Report isn't part of the base game for village and you know how bare bones it is- side note in the side note: I love how even after talking to Mia they still don't know much about the connections it's almost as if Mia is low down on the food chain weird)

Mia called Evie a little bitch to distract her from Ethan as he gets away

Mia was surprised that Evie called her mommy

Mia suffered memory loss it is acknowledged by Evie "are you remembering" she is not lying about it

when did Miranda decide that Eveline wasn't Eva how much of Evie thinking her mold as a gift came from the actual cult leader and because Mia treated her with as much kindness as you can to what is essentially a live grenade and you know made the promise that set Evie off and killed everyone on the boat

i really hope that my screaming about that line in go tell aunt rhody "they locked me up and took my soul" is just a fun line and not in anyway Miranda fucking succeeding and rejecting her daughter for not being right (Miranda put a child on a pedestal no vessal will be good enough) as other wise it's two for one special of shittiness

[rachelfoleyisntdead]

didn't the connections just want Evie as a weapon/ tool to end all wars (I need to check that file in 7) and Miranda wanted a replacement for Eva hence why she decided to dig up her dead daughter and give them tissue samples (high key even if Miranda brought Eva back the poor kid would never ever be good enough Miranda has had 100 odd years of putting the child on a pedestal)

also Alan Droney (Director* douche who transported Evie with Mia... again the connections sent two 2 people to transport Evie without the treatments needed to keep her stable will that ever not be a problem for me and something i don't see other people mentioning at all?) was posing as a father figure to Evie who rejected her and Evie wanted Ethan to be daddy instead of Jack when he turned up which made Jack mad and Ethan has no idea what he's on about and of course rejects her as well

*in game they call him that and Mia is a caretaker

basically I hope Evie finds people in the conciousness of mold who know everything about her whilst not being directly affected by her violence and help her out (mold therapy group is a idea near and dear to my heart)

As far as the Connections go--tl;dr i went and did some research which is why this took a bit to answer, but yeah, it looks like the Connections DID always plan to use Evie... but Miranda didn't just provide mold, she also provided DNA of her daughter for use in Evie's creation. This, combined with the fact that rose is a 'perfect Eveline' and Eveline's name being so close to Miranda's daughter (Eva) are contet clues that Miranda wanted Eveline made so she could do what she tried with rose. Meaning Eveline's original 'true' purpose was to become Miranda's daughter, but she was 'imperfect'. Because of the emphasis on rose being 'perfect' and Eveline being 'imperfect', I think you make a great point about how ultimately, Eva probably wouldn't have been good enough. None of the 4 Lords were, despite all their power, Miranda still made them feel like they weren't enough to please her.

(side note: this whole 'Miranda was working with Connections!!!' feels very like it was decided after the fact/making it up as they go along. But this interpretation makes it make more sense, at least to me.)

iirc (and someone can feel free to correct me), Mia and her partner were posing as Mia's parents specifically to avoid arousing suspicion when they were transporting her. They weren't intended to be actual parental figures to her. But she was a heavily sheltered child, likely lonely, so she wasn't going to understand it was fake.

We know Evie latched onto Mia as a mother figure, I don't know if she latched onto the guy as a father figure, though. She killed that guy because he essentially rejected her, yeah. If she did see him as a father figure, it was not for very long and it was not to the extent she latched onto Mia (which is intentional--you're not really supposed to care about that guy, so Evie likely didn't either). She also let Ethan 'defy' her much longer than she did Alan.

Evie did use Mia to lure Ethan, though. re7 is explicit about that, bc when Mia is lucid, she tells Ethan she didn't send him the video--meaning Evie was controlling her. Evie wanted Ethan as a father figure because her 'mom' should be married to her 'dad'. I don't think she ever saw Jack as a father figure, because he had adult children her 'mother's age, and because those children (Lucas and Zoe) would likely have been rivals for his love. It's easier for her to play house with Mithan as her parents, and the Bakers as extended family.

Infected!Jack was jealous, yeah, because Ethan was essentially going to replace him as the male head of the family, but Infected!Jack is not the real Jack. Those feelings and actions came from the false family hierarchy that Eveline set up, in which she is both the head of the family and the treasured only grand-child (which is why her rapid aging works as such a good twist; a lot of southern families have an old matriarch like that, and many of them also have a darling granddaughter who is adored).

tbh I don't really care what happens to Evie in the mold matrix, it's just upsetting to me that people call a child irredeemable and deserving of death. Like... they can't see Eveline as the tragedy she is. But Lady D and Heisenberg get praised to high heaven.

[virologikal]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐄𝐓 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄 - 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝

CHAPTER EXCERPT: Awaiting the transmission in silence, Wesker then brought up an assortment of paperwork and a few pictures along with it, skimming through some of it before pausing. His attention had been caught by a man standing in the back of one of the pictures, a group of scientists, Mia Winters among them, as well as a child. But the man who seemed uncomfortable to be included in the photograph at all, slinking into the background as much as he possibly could, was what his eyes were drawn to immediately. “Well well… Alan Droney.” “Sir?” “I know the man in the background of this picture. Alan Droney. He was one of the contacts I had to The Connections, back in 2000.” Wesker’s voice was quiet, a musing undertone living in it which lacked the quick and no-nonsense sharpness of before. Suddenly, everything started falling into place right before his eyes.

FIC SUMMARY: Death is only the beginning. And as we know, anything in this world that dies has a habit of not staying dead for long. Albert Wesker returns, letting his presence be known to Chris Redfield in Dulvey, Louisiana. And as per usual, he seems to know more than he should be able to. A reluctant cooperation is formed as Chris tries to find out how it is possible that Wesker survived, how he did it and what other secrets the man is still hiding.

𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏: Wesker / Chris 𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐒: Canon-Typical Violence . Post-Canon . pre-game . Post-Game . and some in-between the games . Coming back from the dead . Co-workers to lovers . Enemies to Friends to Lovers . Slow Burn . Gay Sex . death as a disease . delusions of grandeur . ecstasy from knowledge . Emotional Disconnect . emotional underdevelopment . the end as the beginning . destruction as creation . noteworthy genre tags will be added in the process .

Read Chapter 2 now on AO3

⸻ 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐂 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓. ♬♪

[lesbianwyllravengard]

Another thing I've noticed about old school Resi fans is they're very territorial? gatekeepery? like when I was following one they had a post that all fans joining from Village should take a test before joining any conversation with them one of the things that made me unfollow them (with the fun side effect of now I can't discuss the games I've watched played) the other was criticising Mia to hell and back but not mentioning Lucas who joined the connections in 2015 and was made head researcher and no mention of motherfucking ALAN DRONEY who in game has the title of director but no Mia is a gaslight (go into the end of zoe tag and that's the first thing i saw someone saying Mia gaslit Ethan for three years and that she was solely to blame for causing the outbreak and that she did nothing to help the Bakers i don't need to say why its bogus right?)

Mia haters are inherently fucking stupid.

But anyways, yeah. Most people in fandoms that are older are like this, unfortunately. Star wars fans insisting you're not a real fan if you like the sequels/joined after the sequels, Marvel fans insisting you're not a real fan if you joined after phase 3, assassin's creed fans insisting you're not a real fan if you enjoy Valhalla or Odyssey, all these instances where some of the best content in a franchise is considered inferior or not real content by the fans who joined when the franchise was full of misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc. I do promise you though, they are the very obnoxious minority. Unfortunately, while most of the fans do enjoy the newer better content, a lot of them don't ever go online, or if they do they're not very active/vocal about their opinions, because of the dipshits who ruin everything by running their mouth. People who gatekeep in fandoms - in general, but especially if it's based on content you've consumed/enjoy - are very common, but very misguided.

[ereardon]

Music Recs for Meredith and Jake 💛

Stand and Deliver - Patrick Droney

Dandelion Wine - Gregory Alan Isakov

(I also get Sad Girl vibes from Meredith, and I absolutely adore this next song, so I think It's a really good fit for both of them)

I Found - Amber Run

I'm going to give these all a listen and I'm starting my playlist tonight!

Meredith DEF has sad girl vibes. I'm thinking lots of Lana tossed in there, too.

[ultimateanna]

Resident Evil Village - The Connections

[mrjarviss]

when you think you’ve seen all the ships but then you think about the two most underrated characters and how they should totally be shipped

tbh there should be more Alan fanart in general, he’s p cool

[ragingbookdragon]

Have A Crap-Ton Of Songs That Scream Hal Jordan At Some Point Or Another

· “Across the Multiverse” by Full Tilt

· “After the Rain” by Nickelback

· “All My Friends” by Dermot Kennedy

· “Alone In the Dark” by Will Cookson

· “Angels on My Side” by Rick Astley

· “Aurora” by Full Tilt

· “Aurora” by K-391 & Rory

· “Beer for My Horses” by Toby Keith

· “Best I Ever Had” by Gavin DeGraw

· “Boxes” by The Goo Goo Dolls

· “A Boy Becomes a Man” by Elitsa Alexandrova

· “Brother” by Kodaline

· “California Dreamin’” by The Mamas & The Papas

· “Call Me Tonight” by Ava Max

· “Colder Weather” by Zac Brown Band

· “concert for aliens” by Machine Gun Kelly

· “Cry” by Gryffin & John Martin

· “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins

· “Don’t Cry For Me” by Alok, Martin Jensen, & Jason Derulo

· “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” by Santa Esmeralda

· “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey

· “Drive By” by Train

· “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” by Train

· “Elevate” by DJ Khalil

· “An Evening I Will Not Forget” by Dermot Kennedy

· “Eyes on Me” by Desi Valentine

· “Eyes Shut” by Years & Years

· “Fearless” by The Goo Goo Dolls

· “Fire” by Gavin DeGraw

· “The Fleets Arrive” by Sam Hulick

· “Flight of the Silverbird” by Two Steps From Hell

· “Fly Away” by TheFatRat ft. Anjulie

· “Forgive Me Friend” by Smith & Thell

· “Fuqboi” by Hey Violet

· “Get Off My Back” by Bryan Adams

· “(Ghost) Riders In the Sky” by The Outlaws

· “Glitter” by Patrick Droney

· “Go For Broke” by Machine Gun Kelly ft. James Arthur

· “Got It in You” by BANNERS

· “Gotta Be Somebody” by Nickelback

· “Granted” by Josh Groban

· “Gravity” by John Mayer

· “GREAT NIGHT” by NEEDTOBREATHE ft. Shovels & Rope)

· “Hail Mary” by Haley & Michaels

· “Halfway Gone” by Lifehouse

· “Hall of Fame” by The Script

· “Hallelujah” by Brother Leo

· “Hallelujah” by Tori Kelly

· “The Hammer’s Coming Down” by Nickelback

· “HARD LOVE” by NEEDTOBREATHE

· “He Lives In You” by Lebo M

· “Head Above Water” by Avril Lavigne

· “Heading Home” by Alan Walker & Ruben

· “Heart of Courage” by Two Steps From Hell

· “Heart Of The Darkness” by Tommee Profitt ft. San Tinnesz)

· “Heartache Tonight” by Eagles

· “Highwayman” by The Highwaymen

· “Hold On Loosely” by 38 Special

· “Hot Blood” by KALEO

· “Hotel California” by Eagles

· “i still talk to jesus” by LANY

· “I Think I’m OKAY” by Machine Gun Kelly ft. YUNGBLUD & Travis Barker

· “If I Die Young” by Michael Henry & Justin Robinett

· “If I Had Eyes” by Jack Johnson

· “if this is the last time” by LANY

· “It’s In The Way That You Use It” by Eric Clapton

· “It’s My Life” by Bon Jovi

· “James Dean” by Eagles

· “Let Me Fly” by Mike + The Machines

· “Let Your Heart Hold Fast” by Fort Atlantic

· “Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot” by Sting

· “Life In the Fast Lane” by Eagles

· “Little Boy” by Barns Courtney

· “Lived a Lie” by You Me At Six

· “Livin’ on the Edge” by Aerosmith

· “Lonesome Loser” by Little River Band

· “Malibu Nights” by LANY

· “Man or a Monster” by Sam Tinnesz ft. Zayde Wolf

· “Marvin Gaye” by Charlie Puth ft. Meghan Trainor

· “Miracle” by Shinedown

· “Momentary” by Hands Like Houses

· “MONEY & FAME” by NEEDTOBREATHE

· “Myself” by Bazzi

· “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature” by The Guess Who

· “No Tears” by James Blunt

· “OK” by Robin Schulz ft. James Blunt

· “Ol’ 55” by Eagles

· “One Less Day (Dying Young)” by Rob Thomas

· “One Night in Bangkok” by Murray Head

· “One of These Nights” by Eagles

· “Outgrown” by Dermot Kennedy

· “Palm Reader” by DREAMERS ft. Big Boi & UPSAHL

· “The Parting Glass” by Face Vocal Band

· “Polarize” by twenty one pilots

· “Preach” by John Legend

· “queen of broken hearts” by blackbear

· “Radar Love” by Golden Earring

· “Running Low” by SYML

· “Running On Empty” by Jackson Browne

· “Sharp Edges” by LINKIN PARK

· “Shoot to Thrill” by AC/DC

· “Someday” by Hal Jordan

· “Something’s Gotta Give” by All Time Low

· “Song on Fire” by Nickelback

· “Sorry” by Sleeping With Sirens

· “Spectre Induction” by Jack Wall & EA Games Soundtrack

· “Standing Outside the Fire” by Garth Brooks

· “Twilight Zone” by Golden Earring

· “Two of Us” by Louis Tomlinson

· “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” by Meat Loaf

· “Walk Like a Man” by The Four Seasons

· “Whatever It Takes” by Imagine Dragons

· “Where I Find God” by Larry Fleet

· “Where It Stays” by Charlotte OC

· “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” by Hamilton Broadway Cast

· “The Wild Boys” by Duran Duran

· “1 Last Cigarette” by The Band CAMINO

· “500 Miles” by The Hooters

[invisiburu]

In defense of Mia Winters

She lied

Yes, she does lie to Ethan about her job. To keep both Ethan and herself safe from The Connection itself and its rivals as well as not involving Ethan in her line of work. Lying is terrible to any relationship but it seems her lie was only about her job for their sake of their safety. You may hate her here.

Facts: Mia’s lies was only before the game started. She did not spout a single lie at any point in time during the event of RE7.

Proof? She really does not remember anything except a little tid bit here and there due to Eveline messing with her mind. That is one of the big plot of Mia section on the boat. Even Eveline’s line explicitly says “You need to remember”

So if you keep saying she’s annoying and always lying and hiding throughout the game, well F**k You!

She was bio-terrorist

That is correct. She does worked for The Connection, a crime syndicate involving creation and trade for bio-weapon. However, her motives and reason she was working there remains unknown. Hopefully will be explained later in Village. Until then i’m giving her the benefit of a doubt and allow you to hate here

Responsible

1. Unlike any other RE antagonist, Mia actually tried her best to deal with problem at hand. After Eveline gotten loose, she immediately spring into action to find and stop Eveline on the ship.

2. The moment she was rescued by the Bakers, she wrote them a letter to warn them with what strength she had left.

https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Mia%27s_Letter_to_the_Bakers

3. Both she and Zoe worked together to help those who were kidnap by the Bakers in order for them to escape.

4. After she cuts off Ethan’s arm under Eveline’s control with the chainsaw, most people seems to not notice or pay attention to her line saying “ It's my job... must... contain... outbreak! I promise... must burn it all down!” and during the attic fight, “They’re relying on me. Everyone is relying on me. Everyone.”

She continued trying her best to fight off Eveline’s influence and saved the Bakers as well the other victims even this whole time despite not remembering who or what Eveline even was. She really just fight her way to save these innocent people without knowing why

Fact: Yes, I repeat, she don’t even remember who or what Eveline was.

Proof? The boat ship section again. She literally asked Eveline “what are you?”

Kindness

Mia is actually genuinely a kind person and very humane.

1. Even after her fellow colleague, Alan Droney who was the one who actually at fault for letting Eveline out in the first place. She still wanted to try to save him.

Actually, scratch that, its not exactly Alan fault but rather it was Eveline’s own plan to escape all along.

This twitter post has translated some Resident Evil 7 Kaitai Shinsho or the official book for Resident Evil 7

https://twitter.com/project_umb/status/1269136222363975682

and here is the link for the translation: http://projectumbrella.net/articles/BIOHAZARD-7-resident-evil-Kaitai-Shinsho

2. Also another point for Mia’s kindness as she seems to actually care about Eveline’s loneliness and not just outright called her a demon like everyone else pointed her out to be.

3. Despite Ethan gave serum to Mia, she still cares about Zoe and asked her to come along with them

Love and Devotion

She actually really does love Ethan and especially wants him to be safe and live a good life even without her.

1. Knowing her demise, she immediately send Ethan a stay away message as she knew he will come looking for her. In fact, she goes even further to say forget about her and moved on.

Just in case, you all forgot about the Baker scene in the hive mind thing? It was Eveline who’s the one controlling Mia to send out email message to Ethan to come get her.

2. Instead of finishing Ethan off after his hand was stabbed with the knife. she manage to gain control of herself and smack her head on the wall till it knocks her out to allow Ethan to escape. Ethan’s would be death count + 1

3. First fight: She tried her hardest on fighting off Eveline’s influence when she was forced to attack Ethan. Else Ethan would have died immediately after she attack him at the guest house. Her lines includes, “Leave me!” “Go home” “Leave” “I don’t want to hurt you!”

At the end of the fight, after being struck down by the axe, she returned to normal state and tried to reach out to him as she fall.

4. After she cuts off Ethan’s arm with the chainsaw, rather than just kill him off immediately, she throw him and walk away trying to regain control of herself and cue the “It's my job... must... contain... outbreak! I promise... must burn it all down!” line. Ethan’s would be death count + 2

5. Second fight: Again, she tried her hardest on fighting off Eveline’s influence when she was forced to attack Ethan once more in the attic. Again her lines includes the previous lines from the first fight with addition of “Forget about me!” “I can never leave!” “I don’t want your pity!” to encourage Ethan to leave her there. At the end of the fight, as she dropped she said “I love you”

Now here’s a part where everyone and i mean EVERYONE missed out on.

READ HERE FIRST! This part is a GOD DAMN FLASHBACK! Ethan is not getting any damage whatsoever by these flashback and it fleshes out Mia’s devotion even more

Please do yourself a favour and watch this video or replay this section again.

This video itself missing one more Mia flashback. However to see all the flashback you have to follow these steps

 go to attic -> trigger eveline scene downstairs -> fuse room -> back to attic.

6. The whole ship section. Mia’s ultimate goal here is to find Ethan and set him free. However, since the serum is of D-series is not exactly meant for the E-series. She only manage to hold off Eveline’s control a bit longer. So what she did? Immediately after freeing Ethan from the mold she gave him the E-series sample tissue and pushed him out of the door and locked herself in sacrificing herself to save her husband’s life.

If you keep saying you hate her because she cut off Ethan’s arm ON PURPOSE, well F**k You!

Regret and Starting Over

1. Most from what I see in internet is that everyone wants her to go to jail. Normally, I would agree but consider this. She was already punished hard as she was being trapped in hell of the Baker’s estate. If you have to choose between life time of prison or 3 years of hell, I bet your damn ass you would choose life time of prison. Besides, what is the purpose of prison in the first place.

The 4 reason for prison are:

Deter crime - so that one may not likely to do it again after release

Issuing punishment - to someone who commit serious crime

Personal reform - Change the person from bad to good

Protect the public

For someone like Mia, I’m very sure she learned her lesson the hardest way possible. If I were her, or anyone else in her shoes, I would damn well be a good citizen and start over, turning over a new leaf. And guess what she does?

2. She is one(perhaps the only one) of the key person to take down the The Connection. Chris, BSAA and Blue Umbrella Corp aren’t stupid and their clean up crew would look to all the nooks and cranny of the whole Baker estate, Mine field and the ship. Mia’s order from The Connection was left intact in the safe room inside the ship. So Mia cannot lie or pretend to not know. I’m positively sure that Mia would let Chris knows all of intel she know of The Connection she had in return for her freedom and witness protection. and that’s how and why they live peacefully in Romania in the first place.

CONCLUSION

Now I know, I can’t change your mind if you really just not fond of her. But what I’m trying to say here, if you want to hate or dislike her at least hate/dislike her properly and not just blind hate for the sake of hating. They just hate because they want to hate and it just pisses me off.

[highlifeboat]

Oh yeah if anyone's curious about the shite i'm working on

Latest art piece I've been meaning to do but haven't actually had time for.

Making progress.

[theundecider]

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. thread.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. answer.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. about.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. aesthetic.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. character study.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. desires.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. face.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. headcanon.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. lookalike.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. music.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. musings.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. plotting call.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. starter call.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. wardrobe.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. verse one: pre–disappearance. ——— From Mia’s childhood up until her disappearance.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. verse two: louisiana. ——— From her disappearance until her rescue.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. verse three: silence after.  ——— Between 7 + 8.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. verse four: in the village. ——— Canon-divergent, Mia is either the protag or co-protag instead of being locked away.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. verse five: legacy.  ——— Fan-idea-based RE9. Post-RE8 (obviously), involves trying to find Ethan again in the Mold colony, (usually) finding Jake (dependent on interaction), and The Connections.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. verse six: far cry 5. ——— Mia is the Junior Deputy, where Ethan has tried to find her in Montana some time before, and fell under Faith’s spell.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. verse seven: borderlands.  ——— Flits between companies and jobs, habitual backstabber (of companies only), Pandora-born.

and i always wanted to tell you. / mia w. verse eight: the magnus archives. ——— Flesh avatar (post-re8), touch of corruption. Kinda dealing with it (maybe).

mia winters & lilita jansson.

mia winters & eva muller.

mia winters & jake muller.

mia winters & eveline.

mia winters & alan droney.

mia winters & the connections.

mia winters & mother miranda.

mia winters & rosemary winters.

mia winters & carlos oliveira ft. scifibullshit.

[delicatebluebirdruins]

cutscene dire state of affairs:

Alan: "Here, take it. It has her tissue samples. You find her—you fix this." Mia: "OK, Evie. Where are you?"

the sad truth:

Jack: "Listen, the girl just wants a family of her own." "She's the key, alright? You find her and you stop her." "Ethan, free my family—please.

selfless act

Mia: "There's no time. You have to get out of here and find her