Week 75! (Patreon)

This is the last picture in this series, and it went a little longer than I thought it would, but whatever. This is another situation where this hobby hasn't actually been shown at all really on-panel in the comic, where Eve is pretty big into literature and reading, only described in her RGC bio in her introduction like Connor.

Eve was always supposed to have been a "nerd", or at least had grown up as one since she's grown into a more attractive appearance, hence why she would find Kale's standing up to Lupin so admirable. And, well, a pretty easy way to have someone be "nerd-like" is to have them read a lot of books (especially in an age where they probably have advanced Kindle and audio book technologies). Again, this hasn't really come up at all, but that helps to build the world and character as bigger than what's shown in the comic itself. Eve would fancy all kinds of books, but, as is the case with the book in her hand in the picture, she prefers things like sci-fi and fantasy and fiction, a pretty typical escapist quality from girls calling her names and doing mean things to her as a kid.

Speaking of that book, just to tack on something extra, it's actually supposed to be a bit of an adaptation of the very original concept for Furthia High, which was a futuristic sci-fi thing just called Furthia. It would've basically been a rip-off of Starship Troopers and Blue Gender, where a much older prototypical Kale wakes up in a ruin, is attacked by giant insect monsters, and is rescued by a squad of soldiers that are revealed to be anthropomorphic animals, all humans having died out or been changed or something during Kale's coma. I'm kind of glad I didn't go that route, but it's still neat to reference and remember. (Also the author name is referencing internet aliases I used to go by a long time ago.)