Week 49! (Patreon)

So what I bet you didn't remember is that Eve was actually a Randomly-Generated Character in her first appearance in comic 025!

...Well, except, she kinda wasn't. To come clean after 8 years, Eve WAS generated randomly using the RGC spreadsheet... but it was pretty much a stunt for my own sake since I just kept clicking the button until a female ring-tailed lemur showed up. It's a little embarrassing to talk about, but back in 2008 I had become somewhat obsessed with ring-tailed lemurs, due to Concession frankly. So I got this accusation at least once in the past that Eve was supposedly a rip-off of Kate from Concession, which is untrue in that sense since Eve being blonde was more just to have a blonde character and to sort of homage Bianka from DATAROM!, but it's more true to say that the lemurs of Concession did inspire my want to have a lemur in Furthia High. (Probably a good thing she's not just a younger Kate considering... y'know, the pedophile thing.)

So, combining with that was also my random thought at one point to have Kale romantically-involved with someone, perhaps to bring in more of the young relationships aspect of high school back when FH was far more often a normal high school drama sort of thing. This all resulted in me "randomly generating" Eve as a girl with low self-esteem who, after hearing of Kale stand up to a bully, would come to admire him and eventually develop feelings for him.

I don't think that aspect's really been handled well, like a lot of things early on, mostly because the fact Eve was supposed to have been bullied by girls has never really come up. You might be able to handwave it as Kale having taught Eve either directly or indirectly how to stand up for herself and the problem went away, but really it just never came up again, and the story sort of skips to Kale and Eve being in a relationship once the Autumn dance thing comes up.

The only real thing that the RGC did give Eve was the fact that she's bisexual. This hasn't really come up much, partly because I think sexuality shouldn't really come up that often in stories since people don't go around announcing their sexuality in real life as often as a lot of stories make their non-straight characters do. I have tried to lay hints to acknowledge that it's still a thing, though, in that I've had Eve blushing when looking or thinking about Ashley sometimes. Not in a "I'm going to betray Kale and get with Ashley" sort of way, just in that normal kind of "I find my friend attractive" feeling that doesn't lead to anything substantial or life-changing.

Uh... oh, and Eve's name is an obvious intentional reference to Biblical Eve, since she's dating the sorta "Adam" last/first human or whatever, if that wasn't ever obvious. Also, Eve has actually become one of my more favorite characters in design and sort of in concept, I guess just in the sense that creators get drawn to certain characters for certain reasons known and/or unknown. I like her look, I like her personality and character, I like her appearance, and I just like to do stuff with her in general.