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"Don't leave...I can't let you..."
— Donna Beneviento after Ethan escapes the Baby[4]

Donna Beneviento (ドナ・ベネヴィエント dona beneviento?) was a mutant human doll-maker who resided in an Eastern European mountain range. Dressed in a black garb, she was usually seen with her doll, Angie, through which she often communicated.

Biography[]

Donna Beneviento was born into the gentry of House Beneviento sometime during the 20th century, a family with ancestral links to Berengario, a man rumored in folklore to have been an ancient mutant who settled the region with three other houses from which the Dimitrescu, Moreau and Heisenberg families are descended. Whether this feudal rule over the region was continually maintained or disappeared during the Great War is uncertain.

Over the century, the Benevientos slowly fell apart; Donna's parents committed suicide when she was still a child,[5] and with her own mental health problems undiagnosed, she would develop deep-seated interpersonal anxieties which kept her largely isolated, preferring to talk to people through Angie, a doll made for her by her father. Donna's adulthood mostly focused on her hobby of doll-making, effectively replacing her deceased family. Whether Claudia was a sister or her only daughter is uncertain.

At some point in adulthood, Donna was implanted with the Cadou parasite by Mother Miranda, a prophet of the Black God. Donna survived the experiment with little change in physical appearance or cognitive development, gaining the ability to secrete a psychoactive chemical which could induce extreme, even violent hallucinations in people. She was, however, judged to be a failure by Miranda, who saw her as mentally ill and underdeveloped, and a scar over her left eye would develop into a fleshy abscess.[6] In spite of this, Donna was welcomed as an adopted daughter and given a council seat as one of the Four Lords of the village, ruling it alongside Alcina Dimitrescu, Karl Heisenberg and Salvatore Moreau under Miranda's oversight. This had a positive effect on her and she would talk about it to her gardener, though she was still not able to express it without Angie.[7]

Abduction of Rose (2021)[]

When Ethan Winters was captured by Heisenberg, the four house Lords held a meeting to discuss his fate. Donna stayed quiet throughout the meeting, interacting with the others through Angie.

Following Ethan's battle with Alcina Dimitrescu, he embarked on a mission to retrieve all of Rose Winters' body parts. The first area he was able to visit was House Beneviento. On the way to the estate, he unwittingly inhaled the pollen of Mold-infected flowers, allowing Donna to taunt him with hallucinations of his dead wife.

Upon reaching the house and travelling to the basement, Ethan came across the seemingly unattended leg flask on top of Angie. As he tried to grab it, however, Donna cut the power and the flask disappeared, along with all of Ethan's weapons. As Ethan searched for a way to escape, she taunted him with dolls resembling Mia, recordings of Mia's private thoughts, and mementos of their time raising Rose. As he searched further, he was pursued by a grotesque fetus-like monster which echoed a baby's wails throughout the halls. It is likely that many of the things he experienced after reaching the basement - including both the monster and the loss of his weapons - were hallucinations created by Donna.

When Ethan managed to return to the ground level of the house, Donna appeared with Angie, begging him not to leave. She sent her dolls to attack him, but he managed to fend them off. Angie hid throughout the house, instructing Ethan to find her before her "friends" killed him. He managed to find Angie three times, stabbing her with a pair of scissors each time. After stabbing Angie once more, the illusion broke and Ethan realized he had been stabbing Donna herself all along. He only caught a glimpse of her before she calcified and crumbled away, leaving behind a lifeless Angie and a piece of the Four-Winged Unborn Key; afterwards, a hidden pedestal with the Legs Flask was revealed near the front door of the mansion.

Sources[]

  1. Resident Evil Village (2021), file: "Diary".
  2. Resident Evil Village - Ending Credits
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    Daniela L on Free Wave Agency
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  3. Twitter post
  4. Resident Evil Village (2021), scene: "Promenons-nous dans les bois (part 1)".
  5. Resident Evil Village (2021), developer's note.
  6. Resident Evil Village (2021), file: "Donna's Medical Report".
  7. Resident Evil Village (2021), file: "Gardener's Diary".
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