Another RE x Hitman idea from a sleep-deprived me because the Mold from RE7 and RE8 rly fascinated me, alongside the bio-soldiers in the RE8 ending. What if...:
Ether merged/entered a contract with The Connections to create a stronger, more weapon-like clones and they based off the human bodies/vessels from Ort-Meyer's successful cloning endeavor. They started adding the Mold and synthesized it with the Ort-Meyer-inspired clones to create stronger bioweapons that would surpass 47 in terms of recovery, strength, almost everything physically.
Diana catches wind of this from an Ether whistleblower and hesitates to break the news to 47. 47 tries not to let the memories of his past haunt him (occasionally gets the best of him, but that's par for the course). They need to remove the head of operations and destroy the samples before they complete the entire creation, but by the time they get there, the Ether lab (imagine it's Dartmoor's underground lab but muuuuuch bigger) triggered a lockdown since there's a major containment breach. It becomes less of an assassination and more of a shooting gallery. 47 can have his reinforcements or he can solo it idk
// an aside: i want to draw Diana being trained by 47 and co. in this au since i want her to be a little more hands-on,, i am always tempted to draw things while working 😭












