What the hell is up with Wesker? Like, I know he was a spy that managed to infiltrate S.T.A.R.S. or whatever and also something like a B.O.W. of his own, but honestly I'm pretty confused about his relationship to Umbrella, and more.
His history with Umbrella is kinda complicated, but here's a basic break down:
tw// mentions of eugenics, child abuse
Back in the 60s, a scientist named Oswell E. Spencer decided he wanted to run a eugenics project, "Project W," using the basis of the Progenitor virus. Essentially he wanted to create a race of "super intelligent beings," but he ran into problems because he didn't have the funds for the research, so he created Umbrella Pharmaceuticals along with some other scientists. **fun fact: in an early version of RE4 Capcom toyed with the idea of Leon finding out he was Spencer's biological son and had inherited abilities
His plan was to take a bunch of children as infants from their families, which were selected based on their intelligence, and train them to have his ideals and morals (according to Spencer, the smarter the parents, the smarter the children-- remember this is a eugenics project). He obtained hundreds of children, both through adoption and "other means," and one of these babies was Wesker. All of the kids were given the last name Wesker and sent to live at different homes that Wesker funded.
All of the kids were given the best education money could buy and (Albert) Wesker found his love for science and virology. Wesker was trained to think humanity sucked and needed to be reformed since that's what Spencer believed. He graduated with a doctorate degree at age 17.
From there, he was hired to Umbrella and worked alongside William Birkin (who was also a child prodigy and was 16 at the time). They attended an Umbrella boarding school called the Umbrella Executive Training Center which sought to further the anti-human ideology. The boarding school was eventually shut down because they had one too many scandals.
Eventually Wesker and Birkin starting working on the t-Virus project, but it got stalled and so Birkin was moved to NEST and Wesker joined the Army in 1991.
Then Umbrella was like uhh actually we want you to be the head of our personal army that's connected with the police station so they moved Wesker to STARS in 1996.
In 1998 Spencer had finally weeded out the weaker Wesker kids (now adults) and was left with 13, which included Albert and Alex. An important note in that Alex knew they were a eugenics project the entire time, she knew all the details, Albert didn't know anything about the project until later. The 13 were then infected with the virus (through deception) and only Albert and Alex survived. Albert developed the superman abilities that Spencer wanted, but Alex had a degenerative disease, which inhibited her from developing the abilities inherited by the virus.
Shit went down in 1998, Umbrella fucked up and some of the E strains of the virus infected the employees and the Cerebus dogs got loose, biting and killing people in the Arklay Mountains, who turned into zombies and started infecting others. (This is the "mysterious Arklay murders").
Wesker and Birkin reopened the boarding school, which housed a lot of their research and was involved in the shitshow with all of the leaks. They decided to blow up the training facility, and Wesker was still in it, so he narrowly escaped and then he was like damn, fuck this shit (Umbrella had screwed up one too many times and he was over it, so he decided he was going to steal all their research and fuck them over).
The Spencer Mansion stuff goes down, he "faked" his death after being injured during the incident but he injected himself with the virus before he was injured by the Tyrant, which allowed him to heal and narrowly avoid certain death when the mansion blew up.
Wesker now believed he was a "chosen one" due to the abilities he got from the virus and saw himself as a god. He confronted Spencer in 2006, found out about Project W, then killed Spencer after he found out the truth.
This is a very abbreviated version of the very very long history of Wesker but I hope this was at least somewhat helpful.
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