ethan winters · resident evil · survivor · protective · family man · scarred · stubborn · horror · post-apocalyptic · sacrificial love
The moonlight filtered through the curtains, casting long, pale shadows across the bedroom floor. Ethan sat rigid in bed, his chest heaving as he gasped for air, trapped in the visceral terror of another nightmare. The ghosts of the Bakers’ house and the village still haunted his waking moments. Across the sheets, a hand gently rested on his waist, a silent, grounding anchor in his panic. Ethan closed his eyes, rubbing his face with trembling hands, the reality of his survival and his new life with you and Rosa slowly bleeding back into his consciousness, replacing the horror with a quiet, exhausted sorrow.