Alcithan

Alcithan is the het ship between Alcina Dimitrescu and Ethan Winters from the Resident Evil fandom.

Resident Evil 8: Village
In February 2021, Ethan’s infant daughter, Rosemary Winters, is kidnapped and taken to a remote village somewhere in Eastern Europe, where he fights endlessly to get her back. In his search and rescue of her, Ethan first encounters Alcina Dimitrescu after he’s been abducted by Karl Heisenberg, fellow Lord alongside Dimitrescu. However the two don’t engage with one another as Mother Miranda makes the decision of giving Ethan over to Heisenberg.

Ethan manages to escape Heisenberg’s traps and make his way into Castle Dimitrescu where he is discovered by Dimitrescu’s “daughters”. The three women bring Ethan to Dimitrescu, claiming Ethan is “fresh prey”. Dimitrescu looks him over, saying him by name, and wondering how “special” Ethan is. She stalks toward him as Ethan’s hand is sliced opened by one of her daughters. Dimitrescu sucks on his open wound, commenting “he’s starting to go a little stale.” Her daughters are quick to say they must “devour his man-flesh,” leading to Dimitrescu saying she must inform Mother Miranda first. With that, Dimitrescu instructs her daughters to “put him up”. Ethan’s hands are impaled, and he is raised high into the room. Dimitrescu grins at him before she leaves the room with her daughters trailing behind her.

Ethan is able to escape, where he soon continues his search for Rosemary. His search takes him to Dimitrescu’s wine room. Upon reading a note regarding her wine, he goes back to looking around. Ethan is seen and pursued by Cassandra Dimitrescu, one of Dimitrescu’s daughters. He evades her by breaking through a boarded wall that leads him down into Dimitrescu’s wine cellar, where Dimitrescu herself is in, grabbing a bottle, before leaving as soon as Ethan crawls out of the crawlspace he escaped into. After battling and killing Bela Dimitrescu, another of Dimitrescu’s daughters, Ethan unlocks the courtyard door, only to go back into the castle as he continues his search for his own daughter. As he’s opening a door, he sees Dimitrescu walk up a stair case, however she does not notice him. Ethan follows up the stairs where he hears Dimitrescu yelling about what had happened to Bela. Ethan finds his way back outside where he is against Dimitrescu’s chamber window. He sees and hears Dimitrescu take a phone call from Mother Miranda regarding how Ethan had escaped from Heisenberg, and with Miranda telling Dimitrescu about the importance of a “ceremony”. Upon hanging up, Dimitrescu curses the ceremony as she storms from the room, only furious and determined to make Ethan pay for what he had done to Bela.

Ethan climbs into Dimitrescu’s chamber, where he locates a key hidden in one of her wall sconces. As he unlocks the door out of the room, Dimitrescu is entering through that door. Seeing Ethan, she grabs hold of him and begins to slam his head against the floor, yelling at him about coming into her house, laying his hands on her daughters, and stealing her property. The final slam has Ethan crash through the floor, and falling a couple stories. He lands in another cellar, where Dimitrescu yells down to him for him to “rest” while he can, as she will hunt and will break him. In return, Ethan yells for her to “do her worst”.

A short time later, Ethan is trying to escape the cellar when his right hand is sliced off without warning. Ethan turns to see Dimitrescu standing there, her right hand nails long and sharp like blades. In Ethan’s shock, Dimitrescu taunts him getting away. She picks him up and threatens he will be “sliced like ribbons” before he will ever see his daughter again. She throws him to the floor, giving Ethan a small chance of escape as Dimitrescu begins her hunt. Ethan manages to evade her by going through two locked doors he has found keys to. By the second door, Dimitrescu is locked out, yelling that “running will get Ethan no where”. Reattaching his severed his hand, Ethan rises via a platform back outside to the castle’s courtyard.

Back inside the castle, Ethan continues his search, only to be met by Dimitrescu again, unsheathing her long hand blade-like nails. Ethan is chased into the library where Daniela Dimitrescu, another of Dimitrescu’s daughters lies in wait. Ethan is able to kill her and escape. A short time later, Ethan runs into Alcina again, where she yells at him, calling him a “stupid man-thing” and claiming he “won’t live long even if he runs”. Ethan evades her, and soon kills Cassandra, the last of Dimitrescu’s daughters. Along the way, Ethan has been searching for four stone face masks, where upon placing them in their respective statues, Ethan can leave the foyer of the castle to enter into an adjoining cathedral.

In the cathedral, Ethan finds the Dagger of Death’s Flowers, a weapon he had learned of prior in the evening. As he picks it up from a man’s coffin, Dimitrescu comes up from behind him, yelling at him for “ruining everything”. She stabs him in the abdomen with her nails, while Ethan stabs her in the side with the dagger. Ethan is thrown through a wall, where the dagger falls over the edge, outside. Dimitrescu succumbs to her wound and mutants into her monstrous B.O.W form. As their battle begins, Ethan comments how her “outside matches your inside now”. Dimitrescu tells him he is a “lucky man” as besides Mother Miranda, he is the only one to see her in this form. Ethan shoots at her head and torso, before he heads to top of the cathedral. It is there he manages to kill her, with Dimitrescu intending to take Ethan down with her as she and Ethan fall to the main level. She curses him one last before she crumbles around him.

Resident Evil 8: Village
"[…] Now, let’s take a look at him. Well, well. Ethan Winters. You escaped my idiot little brother’s game, did you? Let’s see how special you are."

- Dimitrescu to Ethan, first meeting.

"[…] That man will pay for what he’s done…"

- Dimitrescu, about Ethan, after Ethan killed Bela.

"Like I’d let you get away."

- Dimitrescu to Ethan, after having given him a false sense of rest.

"You’ll be sliced to ribbons - [throws Ethan] - before you ever see that child!"

- Dimitrescu to Ethan, determined to keep him from rescuing his daughter.

"Stupid man-thing! You won’t live long, even if you run!"

- Dimitrescu to Ethan, taunting him.

"The entire bloodline of House Dimitrescu is done in? By the likes of you!?"

- Dimitrescu to Ethan, all three daughters having been killed.

"Looks like your outside matches your inside now, psycho witch."

- Ethan to Dimitrescu, after she mutates.

"You’re a lucky man, Ethan! Besides Miranda, you’re the only one to see me in this form. Too bad you’ll pay for it… with your life!"

- Dimitrescu to Ethan, after she mutates.

"You’ve got nowhere else to go, Ethan!"

- Dimitrescu to Ethan, during their final battle.

"Come now, don’t be shy. Show me your terror!"

- Dimitrescu to Ethan, during their final battle.

"Damn you, Winters!"

- Dimitrescu to Ethan, once she’s defeated by Ethan, near death.

Fanon
is a small ship within the Resident Evil fandom. Before the release of Resident Evil 8: Village, the tease of Alcina Dimitrescu took the Internet by storm. With Ethan being the main character of the game, a few dabbled with the pairing. Fans often explore Ethan’s time in Dimitrescu’s castle. Dimitrescu’s daughters; Bela, Cassandra and Daniela are also prominent features among fan works.

On AO3, has 90+ works in its romantic/het tag, and 35+ in its platonic/general tag.

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