Ethan

Ethan is one of the vampires that inhabit the mansion. His temperament is the most aggressive and sullen of all.

Appearance
 Physical Appearance 

Ethan is a very tall young man (according to Eloise), with fair skin and a slim athletic body. His hair is white (not from birth), short and messy in appearance; he also has turquoise eyes. His look is usually scornful or annoyed, and his voice is usually flat and dry.

 Outfit 

He wears a white T-shirt with a turquoise round neck. He wears a two-tone blue trench coat with white lines on the sleeves, He has very dark royal blue jeans and gray boots with turquoise laces. He wears a silver chain around his hip and black gloves.

Personality:
Ethan is an extremely reserved and mysterious person about everything that has to do with his past. He usually shows a sarcastic, heavy and rude attitude towards the inhabitants of the mansion, even bordering on the cruel and uncomfortable because he tends to do and say things with very little tact to the feelings of others. With the women of the Moondance he is seen rather with a flirtatious, mischievous, fiery and joking personality; although he is also usually understanding and reassuring with them once Beliath breaks their hearts.

With the inhabitants of the mansion he is very impulsive, bitter, troublemaker and aggressive; He quickly becomes defensive when they respond with his truths and reacts with threats or even blows if something intimate is mentioned or that drives him out of his mind. When he is calm he shows a more fun, partying, joking and kind side, being a good support in difficult moments. He even manages to empathize with the problems of others and is capable of risking his life and fighting hard by superimposing the common good over his own. Although this can lead him to make very radical decisions that in his opinion are the right thing to do.

Ethan's unpleasant personality is nothing more than a cover for a much deeper pain involving hatred of his vampire status, disappointment of the human race, and his excessive concern for what is going on in the world.

Capacities and Powers:
Tracking: Ethan is an excellent hunter and clue tracker. He's usually tasked with patrolling the mansion in addition to Aaron.

Knowledge of Medicine: Ethan is extremely proficient in medicine due to his experience as a medic of war.

Intelligence: Ethan has an above average intelligence. He was able to pass the medical school exam despite his young age, conduct blood research for the Russian military, and was also able to improvise a serum to reverse his vampiric condition with just a few instruments inside the mansion.

Shooting Skill: Ethan is very good at shooting and fighting with guns, preferring to use them rather than knives.

Using the Knife: Although Ethan doesn't like to use knives, he is very adept at wielding the knife to attack or defend himself.

Chess: Ethan really enjoys playing chess and is very good at it, it is difficult for him to lose games and if anyone wins Ethan will praise his performance.

Excellent dancer: According to Eloïse, he is a good dancer, with a spontaneous and unbridled rhythm.

Story
 Origins 

Ethan was the son of a teacher and a loving mother who loved and supported him in every way they could. Both were Finnish and it is known that they practiced the Jewish religion.

 Childhood 

Ethan was born in Finland, near Helsinki in 1919 and had quite a happy childhood and adolescence with his parents.

They lived at the end of the street. Ethan remembers that his father used to stay for hours working at the school and as a child he had to pick him up so he could come home for dinner. On his side, his mother had a very busy life at home, as they always had important guests with whom Ethan had to, much to her regret, behave politely. Despite this, his parents let him do whatever he wanted, they answered all his doubts and they liked to tell him tales and stories about kindness, friendship, mutual help and the good will of men. The latter would greatly influence Ethan's life later on.

From a young age, Ethan proved to be extremely curious and intelligent, which is why he was able to pass the examination of the medical school of the University of Helsinki despite his young age at that time, which made his parents enormously proud. Years later, both would die of diseases. His father's was a degenerative disease that at a certain point would make him unable to eat on his own anymore and he begged Ethan for a list of all possible methods to commit suicide, which Ethan denied him. His mother's illness is unknown, but it is known that she was bedridden and was proud of her son and his path in medicine until the last minute, however she tried to stop Ethan from joining World War II. Well, she was very worried about him and his future.

 Second World War 

While Ethan was studying at the university, World War II broke out. Ethan was not drafted or forced to attend the war that had already been going on for 3 years; it was he who proposed himself as a volunteer wishing to help others and no one refused him, so in 1942 he joined the front [4]. By this point, Ethan was under 25 years old and still believed in the kindness stories his parents used to tell him.

Soon, Ethan would realize the horrors of the War and how little he could do to stop them. He saw the most violent, crude and degrading situations in which people could fall in order to get information or to consider the other his enemy. Ethan came to understand that his job was to save men from death only so that when they recovered they would kill more people. Despite all this, Ethan had some moments of relative calm in which he learned to play chess with Commander Järvinen.

Shortly after joining the front, Ethan came to the attention of the higher ups by alerting Leo Skurnik to a possible bombing that would destroy a field hospital. Skurnik despised Ethan, but despite that they evicted several people just before the bombing; so the balance was only 600 dead soldiers.

 Kidnapping and working for Nazi Germany 

Finland and Germany had allied themselves in World War II, but only because they shared the USSR as a common enemy. One night, an unknown person entered Ethan's store and kidnapped him to take him to the army of German scientists. Despite his abduction, no one in the Finnish army or camp cared to search for Ethan, as he was just one more doctor and there were many like him.

Ethan was taken to a secret laboratory hidden in the mountainous Black Forest range. In this laboratory they would lock Ethan in a cage to be able to poison him and thus threaten him: If he refused to work for them, they would kill him with said poison. Ethan ended up accepting because he had no other choice and was taken to a transparent chamber where he was forced to conduct a "medical investigation".

However, Ethan would realize that it was not just any investigation: it was an investigation into how to transform people into vampires. The German navy had heard rumors that a vampire army could be created that could help them win the war for good and had decided to get ahead of them by creating the vampire army first (although there were rumors that the Nazi army was full of Werewolves). Ethan's role would then be to create a special serum that could transform a person into a vampire, as well as test it to see if it worked properly.

Every time the serum was tested on a person they ended up dying, that is how it was for a long time until they brought a child to Ethan. Ethan understood that this child would be the new guinea pig for the serum and he flatly refused to transform it, so he made a radical decision to save his life. [5]

 Transformation 

Ethan prepared to sacrifice himself for the child and for this he was determined to destroy his research and the lab completely. However, he failed and the guards caught him in the middle of escaping him. To "punish" him for this, they ended up injecting both him and the child with the serum; causing the little boy to die but Ethan did transform and his hair turned permanently white. He was transformed at age 26, so his physical appearance was "frozen" at this age.

Ethan was devastated to have seen that child die in front of his eyes without being able to do anything to prevent it. He buried him in tears and developed a deep regret that would accompany him every day of his life thereafter. By this time, it was 1945 and World War II came to an end. The Russian army arrived at that secret laboratory and carried out a massacre that wiped out all the Germans; Ethan was the only one who survived because he couldn't move and was left for dead. The Russian army set fire to the laboratory and Ethan was able to crawl across the floor to get out, managed to climb the fence and fall into a pit full of white flowers stained with blood.

 Years before the Mansion 

After transforming him into a hostile territory, Ethan would have to learn to survive always accompanied by his Lathi L-35 [7]. Some time later, Beliath would find Ethan wounded inside a gutter and rescue him to take him to an apartment that she had in Prague, Czech Republic. Beliath was amused that Ethan spoke only to ask questions regarding the transformation into a vampire, so he did not inquire further into his history; but he did teach her to behave, feed, hypnotize and live as a vampire. However, due to Beliath's succubus nature and the fact that he was born a vampire, he was not very interested in what happened in the human world; contrary to Ethan, who would be on the verge of going insane hearing daily the human conflicts of the postwar period. A few months later, with that learned and fed up with hearing the horrors that were happening around him, Ethan would thank Beliath and leave the apartment.

Ethan had a good memory of Helsinki and decided to return to his hometown in the hope of living a good, happy and quiet life as his parents did. However, he would soon realize that there was nothing there for him anymore and he would decide to go roaming Europe. During his journey, he tried to socialize with people, but being impossible to keep the secret that he was a vampire he ended up telling it and making his recent friends take him for a madman or a monster; so from that moment on, he decided to just observe human life from afar and never make friends or have strong ties again.

Many years later, Beliath would write numerous letters to Ethan inviting him to come live at the Mansion and Ethan would end up agreeing shortly after.

 Before the game 

Back at the mansion, Ethan would get his room alongside Aaron and Beliath's. By exploring the terrain a little, he would end up finding the Moondance and quickly became a regular customer of the place, since there he can feed himself and pretend that he has a bit of fun with humans, leaving behind "the mummies of the past" as he usually says to The vampires.

He avoids as much as possible to cross a word about his past with any of the members of the mansion, however he can get along fairly well with them on some occasions, he helps in the cleaning of the Mansion and in the care and maintenance of the Garden. At one point Vladimir and Beliath would give him a comic series called "The Search for the Time Bird" as a gift, Rafael would agree to play chess with him and occasionally patrol the territory with Aaron. When Ivan arrived, he took it upon himself to heal him, and he quickly developed a strong hatred for him as he reminded him of his own person when he was newly transformed.

Trivia

 * Ethan is the only "unnatural" vampire in the game, as he was neither transformed by another vampire nor was he born one; rather, he adopted this nature by injecting an artificially created serum.
 * In the war, Ethan had as his superior Leo Skurnik, who was a Finnish military doctor notable for his human spirit. However, Ethan finds him an unpleasant guy.
 * Ethan currently owns Yeleen's mobile phone, who left it at the mansion during the 2019 MCL Halloween Event. Vladimir asked him to take it to town, but it is unknown if Ethan heeded this instruction.
 * In addition to his trusty Lahti L-35 pistol, Ethan has a German Walther PP pistol that he may (or may not) entrust to Eloise in his route to her.
 * Ethan's hair is extremely soft and has a citrus scent.
 * Ethan has episodes of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that are triggered due to storms. He is currently researching how to treat it.
 * On Beliath's route he is seen having cocktails at the Moondance, however on his own route he mentions that he cannot drink alcohol.
 * Ethan alternates various words or phrases in his native language as he speaks normally. It is unknown if he does it consciously or unconsciously.
 * The way Eloise died and Ethan's first moments of vampiric life are quite similar, as both fell from a considerable height on top of white flowers that were filled with blood.
 * He usually says goodbye by saying "Nähdään" ("See you" in Finnish).
 * Ethan and Rafael are the only vampires to appear crying narratively and visually.
 * According to Aaron, Ethan finds the idea of ​​having a chalice fascinating.
 * He likes to play chess and is very good at it.
 * He was the fourth vampire to arrive at the mansion.
 * According to Neil's observations, Ethan held the rank of Kersantti during the war. Kersantti is the rank of Sergeant in Finland.
 * In episode 4 of the Beliath Route, Ethan admits to lusting after Eloise if she asks him directly. It is unknown if his liking for the protagonist prevails on the other routes.
 * Ethan's mother tried to get him to learn to play the piano when he was little.
 * Ethan also likes to read, but he usually does it in his room and not in the Library.
 * He and Ivan would like to have a television or a computer in the mansion, but Vladimir does not allow it.
 * Despite not having a computer, television or cell phone, he somehow saw the series "Supernatural".
 * Beliath, Aaron and Ethan are rarely at the mansion, as they leave early and return late, since they do not like to be locked up.
 * For now he apparently is Chinomiko's favorite boy, since he according to him said he likes: "The bad boys".
 * Gunshots, bombardments, moving tanks along with sound distortions from static can be heard in the background in Ethan's theme song.
 * According to Eloise, he is a good dancer, with a spontaneous and unbridled rhythm.
 * In My Candy Love Episode 37, Candy meets the silhouettes of Ethan and Beliath at the Moondance. Ethan flirts with her, Beliath notices that she is accompanied by her friends and they both leave. According to Candy, Ethan has a strange appearance, an enigmatic and mesmerizing aura, as well as terrifying.
 * He is skilled at handling the knife as a weapon. However, he prefers to use his semiautomatic pistol.
 * He is a good hunter and an excellent tracker.
 * The fandom amusingly nicknamed him Jack Frost because of his physical resemblance.

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