They were friends at camp and cappie chose his university because Evan was going there. They roomed together freshman year but then they both met the same girl (Casey) at a party. The three of them hung out together and cappie started dating Casey. Evan was still in love with her but respected their relationship (at first). Then cappie forgot to pick her up for a dance bc he was too busy hanging out at his frat. Evan came and got her and took her to the dance. Then cappie showed up and they got in a fistfight. This all happened before the show starts and is shown later in flashbacks. At the beginning of the show, casey is dating Evan. cappie and Evan are bitter rivals and leaders in their respective fraternities, which are also rivals. Casey and Evan eventually break up. Casey becomes just friends with both of them and doesn’t understand why they still hate each other when she isn’t dating either of them. Eventually, they both get inducted into a secret society and bond at the meetings, becoming friends again but pretending to still hate each other in public. Then cappie and Casey get back together. When Evan finds out, his fraternity plans a prank that gets 3 of Cappie’s fraternity brothers expelled and they hate each other again. Very dramatic, many ups and downs. (Yet another love triangle that could be easily solved by polyamory btw)
Okay so I find this very funny in a sad way. So generally throughout the original anime these two were the ones with the least conflict between them and the most married couple in the series. Then the movie came around. Basically the background here is that the movie surrounds everybody's "deaths" as stage girls (losing their brilliance/what made them stage girls in the first place) and then "rebirths" as them, and during this Nana was convinced that Junna wouldn't really have that second part, that she'd keep grasping at brilliance fruitlessly while making excuses. So she decided to be an asshole about that, naturally. This was briefly hinted at in the opening revue, where Nana was fighting against everybody, and Junna wasn't putting up much of a fight, to the point where, while everybody else was defeated with one effort, Nana didn't even look at her when she was cutting off her cloak, and when Nana was prompting everybody to act at one point (at least that's what a lot of people and myself have assumed the "It feels like I just drank a strong sake" line to mean), Junna was just confused, which kind of confirmed that she too had died out as a stage girl. Then Revue of Hunting happened, aka the Junnana divorce revue. First of all, there's the lovely "Ugly fruit that's ashamed to live after surviving" line Nana directs at Junna right at the start. Maybe don't call your bestie/gf an ugly fruit ashamed to live Nana. Then, Nana, feeling as though the options were Junna's brilliance dying out slowly and pathetically or her as a stage girl dying out beautifully in one instant (I think it's very funny how much this franchise loves treating symbolic death as something beautiful a lot of the time but mainly when the characters involved are dead wrong, but not the point), offered Junna an opportunity to kill herself as a stage girl instead of reaching for a star she couldn't claim. Junna, while kind of terrified out of her mind, was like "no???? I won't do that actually???" and went to grab her bow, and Nana kind of doubled down on her being unable to reclaim her brilliance. After the first half of the revue commenced with Junna seemingly being at an advantage but also really not being at one at the same time, Nana remarked that she couldn't feel any brilliance from Junna. Then, she immediately reclaimed her advantage point, and ended up pinning Junna down. She started talking about how Junna was beautiful (something which was translated as heartbreakingly beautiful in the dub. It's not the best dub but I need to mention this because it has haunted me for half a year now), blazing and, in an admirable way, foolish. But she put this all in past tense, emphasizing that these were all qualities that Junna had lost. She destroyed the gem on Junna's bow which symbolized her brilliance and gave her one of her swords and an option to choose her end there. Then Junna chose to use her sword against her. Nana began realizing that this Junna was different than the role she had for her and Junna told her that she couldn't define her stage, and only Junna could do that for herself while accusing Nana of being blidned by the stars Nana said Junna was blinded by. Then Junna won and they promised to reunite and everything but seriously Nana why did you tell her to kill herself symbolically. Anyways there is an upload of Revue of Hunting on Youtube so if you want to see this messy divorce it's there if you want it
