Mithan

Mithan is the het ship between Ethan Winters and Mia Winters from the Resident Evil fandom.

Canon
RESIDENT EVIL 7: BIOHAZARD

How exactly Ethan and Mia met is unknown, however it is known that they married in 2011 and reside in Texas. In 2014, Mia has taken a “babysitting” job that requires her to be away from home for a long while. She records a video message for Ethan, saying, “I love you,” “I miss you,” and “sending tons of kisses” and how she’ll be home soon. Sometime after sending that message, Mia sends another: this one telling Ethan how she had lied to him and for him to stay away.

In 2017, three years after Mia goes missing, Ethan calls a friend of his, saying how Mia’s not dead, that she’s alive and that she’s been found. He’s skeptical that this might be prank, but he tells his friend that “she wants me to come and get her.” His friend is unsure, but Ethan’s made up his mind as he’s already diving to Dulvey, Louisiana in search of Mia, as he “has to find out what happened.” Upon hanging up on his friend and parking his car, Ethan begins his search for Mia at the “Dulvey Haunted House”.

Ethan makes for the back of the Baker’s guest house following finding out the front gate is locked. In the back he finds a charred pile of belongings, with assumed to be Mia’s orange purse, he finds her driver’s licenses inside. Ethan makes for backdoor where he can find photos (unknown to him) of Mia and where she’s located in the home. As Ethan descends further into the home, he finds bolt cutters and a cell containing Mia. Once clipping the chains, he moves for Mia’s side, carefully turning her on her back. Upon seeing her alive and her eyes open, Ethan tells her, ''“Mia! Thank God I found you. It’s me. It’s Ethan!”'' Mia is stunned to see him, telling him “he shouldn’t be here.” As Ethan tries to tell her that she’s the one who contacted him in the first place, she tells him that no, she wouldn’t, but quickly becomes uncertain that maybe she did. Mia starts to panic and asks Ethan if “anyone saw him.” She grabs his hand and pulls him out of the cell room, leading him out to another room where she’s sure there is door leading out. She can’t find the door and sits to lie down on the couch. Ethan goes into a side room to find the other door when he hears Mia scream. Ethan rushes out and sees a door leading to stairs up back to the main level of the house, Mia nowhere in sight.

Out in the hallway, Ethan hears loud banging on the door he emerged from not long ago. As he reaches the door, the banging comes to halt. Ethan opens it back up to find a pitch black stairwell. He walks down to find Mia crawling up the stairs, as the two meet Mia lunges for him, throwing him back up the stairs. Mia attacks him with a large kitchen knife, stabbing him through his left hand and left shoulder. Mia stops, only to comment that she can “hear her,” and “feel her clawing her way back inside of me.” Mia hits her entire body against a wall, in order to knock herself out—she succeeds and falls to the floor.

As Ethan attempts to move around her, Mia lifts back up, gripping Ethan by his wrist, before shoving him back through a wall. As she does, she’s screaming for him leave her and for him to go, still fighting for control over her body. Mia takes the knife and begins another attack. Ethan finds an ax on the floor and uses it in self-defense; he manages a heavy swing and embeds the ax into Mia’s left shoulder. Mia falls back, a hand reaching out to hold onto Ethan; Ethan reaches for her too, though she falls back before they can grab onto each other.

Ethan hears a phone ringing down the hall and goes to answer it, once his short conversation with Zoe Baker is over, he walks back to Mia, only to be met with her no longer being there. He follows the trail of blood Mia left on the wall. Mia surprises Ethan by rounding a corner. She tells him with a gentle voice, “I know you didn’t mean to hurt me.” Only for her voice to deepen, then shirk, ''“You shouldn’t have done that! It fucking hurt!”'' Mia takes a screw driver, stabbing Ethan through his left hand again, locking him against a staircase. As Ethan struggles to dislodge the screwdriver from his hand, Mia emerges back with a chainsaw, cutting off his left hand. Mia leaves and Ethan wonders upstairs and locates handgun, commenting to himself, ''“Okay. Fine.”'' As Ethan is ascending to the attic, where Zoe told him to go, Mia emerges again with the chainsaw. A fight ensues, with Ethan shooting Mia, seemly killing her again. Ethan is grabbed by Jack Baker, and thrown to the ground, landing next to Mia. Jack apprehends them both and takes the couple into the main Baker estate.

At some point between their capture and Ethan’s escape, Mia recorded a videotape for him to watch. In it, she tries to explain that the monster is not her true self while she runs away from Marguerite, Jack’s wife. She enters the old house while coming across several key items and a puzzles that Ethan would later need to solve. However, she is soon cornered in a small crawlspace by Marguerite and recaptured.

Quotes
"Mia! Thank God I found you. It’s me. It’s Ethan!"

- Ethan, finding Mia after three years apart.

Fanon
Despite it’s canon status, Mithan is not a popular ship within the fandom. Ethan is mostly shipped with Lucas Baker or Chris Redfield, while Mia isn’t usually shipped with anyone besides Ethan.

Fandom
FAN FICTION