Grace Ashcroft

Grace Ashcroft is a central protagonist introduced in Resident Evil: Requiem (Resident Evil 9), serving as an FBI intelligence analyst who is drawn into a massive bioweapon conspiracy tied directly to her complex family lineage. Grace was originally an orphaned infant born shortly after the 1998 Raccoon City Incident. She was adopted by Umbrella Corporation co-founder Oswell E. Spencer. Regretting his horrific human experiments, Spencer raised her as a normal child and viewed her as his personal atonement and "blind hope" for the future. Before his death in 2006, Spencer transferred legal custody of Grace to Alyssa Ashcroft, a tenacious investigative journalist and Raccoon City survivor from Resident Evil Outbreak. Grace subsequently took Alyssa's last name. Because of Alyssa's freelance reporting career, the two constantly relocated from city to city, preventing Grace from forming lasting friendships. In 2018, while staying at the Wrenwood Hotel during an investigation, a teenage Grace witnessed her mother being brutally murdered. The killer vanished, the case went cold due to government cover-ups, and the event left Grace with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Motivated by her mother's unsolved death, Grace joined the FBI in March 2025. She worked primarily as a desk-bound intelligence analyst specializing in data pattern recognition. Her superiors viewed her as a highly capable "nerd" rather than a frontline field agent, leaving her with minimal field and firearms experience when the events of Requiem began. During the events of the game, villains Victor Gideon and Zeno target Grace, mistakenly believing she is a genetically engineered clone created through the Raccoon City Orphanage experiments and the biological key to a mind-control bioweapon called Elpis. In reality, files recovered from Umbrella's ARK Laboratory reveal that Grace is a normal human.