us (real)
if you couldn't tell, i love this stupid little freak, but you might be asking "how did this happen?" (warning: this is basically one big run-on sentence, i'm not really trying to make something coherent i'm just trying to type stuff out lol)
as most people who have played through the game know, at the start of jack's second phase, he picks up a double-bladed chainsaw, and the following dialouge occurs;
"Groovy." - and if you're lucky enough to not trigger any more of his dialouge Ethan responds with-
"That is NOT groovy"
and as i said, this sounds EXTREMELY STUPID, but this was the moment i fell in love... and that's basically it! i watched the rest of 7 and 8 and was still in love with him. i'm in love with him now. we're in love!!!
the first meeting
it's hard to say when this actually happened, i think it might've been around 2021 (so when i was around 12)? but anyways, at the time i was a big fan of the youtuber slimecicle, and i had run out of content of his that consisted of games i was familiar with, and so i decided to start with watching his playthrough of Resident Evil Village (which i'm also rewatching as i code this lmfao), I had heard good things about Resident Evil in general... considering it is one of the highest grossing game series... but anyways, i don't really remember my opinions on ethan (or any of the characters, really), but i do remember thinking the ending was kind of stupidthe realization
my whole life, i had never really understood what romantic love felt like, and i just assumed that i was fully aromantic. that was until 2022 when i joined the selfship community. at first it was something i didn't take very seriously, something i mainly did to cope with the... various bad relationships i had had in the past, but it slowly grew into something more serious, i got that "butterfly" feeling that allo people would talk about whenever i saw my favorite characters, at first i thought this was just normal... until around 2023 (i understand this timeline's a little fucky i don't really remember much myself) when i was browsing reddit and found the r/fictosexual community. i had really only heard of fictosexuality twice, once being hearing about the guy who married hatsune miku (which i thought was pretty cool at the time!), and the second being the rise of animesexual "bait" (i believe the majority were bait but i'm sure there were some who genuinely identified with that) accounts in 2020, so i wasn't really familiar with the term, but after a little research, i found the piece of my identity that had been missing my whole life.the second meeting
in june of 2024 i had decided on a whim to watch playthroughs of re7 and 8, remembering the slimecicle playthrough i watched. unfortunately, this isn't a "love at first (well, kind of second) sight" story where i fall in love after his first bit of dialouge. I was actually mostly neutral about him at first, until - and this will sound exremely stupid - the second boss encounter with jack,as most people who have played through the game know, at the start of jack's second phase, he picks up a double-bladed chainsaw, and the following dialouge occurs;
"Groovy." - and if you're lucky enough to not trigger any more of his dialouge Ethan responds with-
"That is NOT groovy"
and as i said, this sounds EXTREMELY STUPID, but this was the moment i fell in love... and that's basically it! i watched the rest of 7 and 8 and was still in love with him. i'm in love with him now. we're in love!!!
now
i'm kissnig him as we speak . maybe i'll update this with some gushes later ...