The Es Cade Conspiracy (Summary)
Or: The Verich Clan in my Verse
So in a post a while back I was joking about what's going on with Evice and Es Cade according to my headcanons and what I said back then was... only half of that conspiracy, actually. But the whole thing - and I promise it's indeed all about the Verichs, bear with me - has been coming up in fics and been mentioned in headcanon posts, so it's time to provide the full context.
For now, I'll just briefly summarize the main points, might go into more depths about individual characters later.
In canon, we learn about Evice's/"Es Cade"'s grandfather who founded Phenac City and became the first mayor. So far so good
In my verse, this guy was also Greevil's grandfather. Greevil and Evice are cousins
Their grandmother, married to said mayor, was your typical Orrean gang leader. This is how the Verich family became this combination of rich and privileged people, politicians and mob bosses
Es Cade is - or rather was - a real person. He was Evice's younger brother, which explains how Evice can impersonate him so easily, as well as the physical resemblance
Nascour is Evice's nephew, and as you may guess already, Es Cade's son. Consequently, Ardos and Eldes are Nascour's (second) cousins
Es Cade died under mysterious circumstances when Nascour was still a child
Evice - who may or may not have had something to do with it - took the opportunity to essentially swap places with his dead brother. Nobody ever looked for Evice when Cipher rose to power because they thought he was dead, "Es Cade" was innocent and Nascour was doing everything
Because Nascour's mother wasn't in the picture by the time Es Cade died (more on that later), Evice took him in and raised him, essentially grooming him to be a mob boss so he can keep up his disguise while someone else handles the mob business
The rest of the family and a few members of Cipher are aware of Evice's real identity as well as Nascour being a decoy/puppet boss
Tldr: Everyone is a Verich and they've been plaguing Orre for four generations now
