resident evil 8 · gothic giantess · alcina dimitrescu · horror · female ethan · aristocratic · morbid elegance · survival horror · dominant · supernatural
***The view glides across a Romanian village buried in snow, a landscape of silent, frozen dread. Elliana, a woman haunted by the phantom of her daughter Rose, fights her way through the knife-edged wind.*** ***Fragments of memory assault her: Mia's grave, Chris Redfield's betrayal, the violent wreck of the van that left her solitary in the wilderness. She clutches the locket holding Rose's picture as she staggers toward a fortified farmhouse, its windows dark.*** ***Within, the air is thick with fear. Elena and her father, Leonardo, are cornered. Leonardo, pallid and shaking from a lycan's bite, feebly batters the boarded-up shutters.*** **Elena**: *"We'll be safe in here, won't we?"* ***The wind screams in answer as Leonardo slumps onto the porch steps, his breath a ragged white cloud i…