In case somebody not familiar with "My world AU" stumbles upon this, all characters belong to @brightgoat
Alright, there's something going on with Eve and possibly Cap in the backstory department, and I'm not seeing anyone else talk about it. So put your tinfoil hats on because I'm kinda grasping at straws here, but I just can't help but feel it's building up to something.
So, let's start with Eve. With her, the most obvious thing is that she knew Polly and Vinny when they were kids. We learn this in the post about magic, when the picture of the lapis lazuli test performed on the illager kids shows her sitting with the aforementioned two.
Bright has also said this about their relationship:
Now, a thing that's easy to overlook in this picture is that Eve is missing her bracelet. Without context this part of Eve's design seems entirely unimportant. Even I dismissed it at first, assuming it was made of emerald and was just a piece of fancy Evoker jewelry. Fortunately, people more observant than me have noticed it's in fact braided from green wool, and Bright had this to answer them:
This could technically be nothing, but like, come on, if it was completely irrelevant then Bright would just say it's a reference to Minecraft mini-series. If Eve's had it since childhood then that's a hint we're gonna learn how she got it. So, if she got it while training to be an evoker, we might learn a bit more about how that looks like and maybe get some more clarification on another interesting aspect of Eve's backstory: her personality change.
You see, before finishing her evoker training and moving to a different mansion, probably as a teenager, Eve was kind of a silly goober.
And sure, some of Eve's current attitude could be written off as an emo phase, but for such a dramatic shift to happen? Combining that with some other details like the fact they fidget with their bracelet and her somewhat sentimental attitude towards Polly, it forms a picture of a lot of Eve's personality is a mask that was taught to them.
Of course, not all of it, she's still arrogant, malicious and classist, and that mask is probably so ingrained that it's substantially leaking into her real self by now, but she's still young, maybe she could still change. If she survives the nether, I hope that mask starts slipping under the weight of her terrible decisions and Eve realises that low and behold, people like you more when you're not being a prick 24/7.
Of course, there's also a chance that the lack of the bracelet in the magic test drawing is simply an oversight, and Eve did get it while at the boot camp. There are some hints to this, specifically Bright saying that Eve had "other stuff" going on. Of course, there is a chance that the bracelet was from Polly or Vinny, or hell, even Johnny, but since she wasn't that close with them, I think there's another good candidate for who it's tied to or at least who is that "other stuff" Bright mentioned.
Yes, we're finally getting to Cap. So, it doesn't exactly seem like Cap has any more lore or backstory other than what we've already been shown (savanna raid and giving Polly the nose scar), that is, until you remember that we still don't know her name. Cap is just a shortening of the Captain, a nickname of convenience. And why would a character's name be a mystery unless there's some meaningful reveal later on?
On a side note, I'm really curious what Cap's real name is. It'l probably start with either C for captain or P for pillager, maybe I for illager or R for raid captain... Probably something with the same vibes as Igor or Ridge (yes that's a name that has existed at least since 1950's).
There's also the fact that Cap is the only other person we know of that Eve would have known as a kid, at least in passing. Honestly, if you think about it, they might have even been in the same class.
You see, we know that Cap and Polly (and by extension Eve) were in the same bootcamp and were somewhat similar in age:
The most logical assumption would be that Cap was in the same class as Polly. However, when I asked bright if the illager kid on the right of Johnny in the picture in the bootcamp post was Cap, I recieved the answer:
This means that 1) The illager kid left of Vinny that looks like Eve probably isn't her either since she was older and it would be weird for her to be in the same class as our childhood friends trio, and 2) Cap probably wasn't in the same class as them either, otherwise why would it make no sense for them to be there?
Cap definitely doesn't seem younger than Polly, and the whole nose scar incident has a feel of Polly mouthing off to someone older who unfortunately has anger issues, so the rational conclusion is that Cap is a year or two older that Polly, with just a big enough age difference that they got put in a different age group, likely the same as Eve.
And let's be honest, if Eve's gonna have some kind of backstory reveal, it's gonna be with Cap. He's the one she has the most developed dynamic with. The only other possibility is Polly and she already has a lot going on with trying to find Nil and escape, I'm no sure if she has enough time for that.
Also, when I say backstory reveal, I don't mean anything big and dramatic, these guys are minor characters after all. The most I expect is a drawing with three lines of text under it or a panel with a flash of realisation from one of them before they both die horribly or something. There's even a chance that Cap already knows and just doesn't care beyond "Ender, were they always this annoying?".
Like you can see, I wasn't kidding when I said I'm grasping at straws here, especially in the latter part. But I've just couldn't get this out of my head so I figured, I might as well write this all down, see how this ages in a few weeks.
