Though Lady Dimitrescu and her darling daughters have been the primary attention of Capcom’s advertising and marketing rollout for Resident Evil Village, enthusiasts quickly grew to like a number of the alternative campy characters when they were given their fingers at the recreation. The Four Lords of the Village and their minions are manifestly the standouts right here. One of them, however, prefers a existence of isolation, shadows, or even residing in an otherworldly dreamscape as opposed to going through the actual global because it is. So it is to Donna Beneviento we flip our interest now.
After defeating the aforementioned Lady D and her daughters, Ethan unearths that the hidden global beyong the village rectangular holds many greater secrets. The branching course main north farfar from the village, via a progression-locked gate of course, takes Ethan via a Potter’s Field, throughout a rickety suspension bridge above a mountain stream, and via what became as soon as probable a lovable garden… minus, you know, all of the tombstones and dolls striking from nooses withinside the tree branches. (You can hint all paths and pinpoint loot in this exceptional interactive map.) Despite this region being in large part freed from encounters for your first trek via, you may discover a right quantity of creepy lore right here concerning the property and its owners’ tragic history. Enter the following Lord of the Village: Donna Beneviento.
Upon getting into the existence-sized dollhouse, Ethan unearths the following lacking piece of his daughter Rosemary, however then the electricity is going out and with it is going the flask and all of Ethan’s guns and gear. That approach no shooting, no healing, and no turning back. How should this in all likelihood be? And what is with the giant, gurgling, insatiable fetus chasing you via the depths of the Beneviento manor? It’s all on your head, see. While the alternative 3 Lords are very prematurely and apparent with their changes and electricity sets, Donna Beneviento prefers to paste to the shadows and play head video games as each a technique of protection and of trapping her victims, forever. That’s a nod to each Donna’s private trauma because of the tragedies that took place her own circle of relatives and to the particular powers (and defects) granted to her with the aid of using Mother Miranda’s Cadou experiment.
The noble Beneviento own circle of relatives have been descended from village co-founder Berengario. Before Mother Miranda even entered the picture, Donna skilled extreme social tension as a child, who prefer to talk and engage with humans via her doll, Angie, which her father had made for her. But whilst Mother Miranda selected the Beneviento member of the family Bernadette for her Cadou tests, matters took a flip for the worse. Bernadette died due to the experiment, using Donna’s dad and mom to suicide. Donna coped with the aid of using staying remoted and secluded withinside the own circle of relatives property with simplest the gardener for conversation, making dolls as a alternative for her lifeless own circle of relatives members, such as Claudia, whose particular own circle of relatives courting is not showed withinside the recreation. At a few factor for the duration of her early adulthood, Donna, too, became corrupted and converted with the aid of using Mother Miranda’s mould parasite.
Though Donna became implanted with the Cadou, she survived, displaying simplest a extreme facial deformity over her eye as a result. No different bodily transformation manifested, however the mould allowed her to secrete a psychoactive substance that brought on the ones bothered with the aid of using it to look visions. (Mold-inflamed flower pollen additionally brought about hallucinations in everybody who breathed them in, consisting of Ethan upon getting into the garden.) Donna became then “adopted” with the aid of using Mother Miranda as one of the village Lords, notwithstanding the reality that her intellectual fitness troubles and facial deformity brought on Miranda to look her as “defective.” In-recreation lore well-knownshows that Donna used her hallucination cappotential to permit her gardener to “see his (lifeless) own circle of relatives again” however additionally to torture Ethan, trying to get him to live withinside the depths of her mansion forever. One wonders whether or not the Mia doll that serves as this region’s primary puzzle became a part of Donna’s macabre craftsmanship or if it became all in Ethan’s thoughts all along…
Oddly sufficient, Donna Beneviento became firstly prepurported to be greater of a ghostly horror with a piece of creepy doll ownership thrown in for right measure. There’s additionally a distinction withinside the English localization and the authentic Japanese version, with the previous blaming a facial scar (which isn’t always shown, or now no longer painted, in Donna’s portrait with Angie) for Donna’s aloof nature and the latter blaming her isolation on her dad and mom’ suicide. There appears to were a few hand waving whilst it got here to Donna Beneviento’s idea stages, however in the long run the very last execution offers Resident Evil Village and its enthusiasts one of the creepiest, maximum unforgettable encounters withinside the franchise.
When the hallucinations were not sufficient to defeat Ethan (even though that they’d gamers setting the controller down and taking walks away), Donna became capable of break up her Cadou into her many dolls (now no longer simply Angie) and manipulate them like a psychic puppetmaster. Ethan subsequently defeats Donna with the aid of using defeating the Cadou break up amongst her dolls, and it is the Angie doll that’s amassed as a vaulable object as opposed to a crystallized shape of Donna herself. Upon defeat, Donna disappates just like the ghostly figures from Japanese folklore that stimulated her authentic design. So ends the shortest, maximum tragic, and downright creepiest series of Resident Evil Village and its boss battles. Now we simply need to look ahead to the inevitable launch of Donna & Angie Funko Pop dolls to feature to our very own collection.
