After some pondering, I cast my vote for 'middle-class' though in some ways Eva kind of spans all three categories.
When her father passed (about six months before Dalamud kaboom'd) he left her with an exorbitant amount of gil as her inheritance. She never realized the extent of his wealth when he was alive, and he never really spoke of it in any great detail. But it was important to him that she be brought up modestly, and her childhood home was a glorified hovel and they lived like paupers, but always had what they needed. There are some other reasons for this but I don't want to give away too much.
Long story short though, she never really knew what to do with all of the money and essentially just sat on it and never really spoke much about it, even with those closest to her. She made a few small donations to her old boss/friend to keep his book shop afloat, and an occasional donation to the poor - but never anything really life-altering. She'd read her father's journals and knew how he felt about the wealthy, so it always perplexed her why he didn't do something else with the fortune he had amassed.
After disappearing into the rift for five years time, we think it makes sense that her home would be looted, her gil found and plundered, and her left borderline destitute. We haven't really pored over the specifics just yet, but she had grown to be an accomplished seamstress over those last few years, so she will possess the means to get back on her feet again. So we felt middle class was probably the most appropriate answer, if we're looking at a character's financial status at the time right when ARR kicks off again.
When her father passed (about six months before Dalamud kaboom'd) he left her with an exorbitant amount of gil as her inheritance. She never realized the extent of his wealth when he was alive, and he never really spoke of it in any great detail. But it was important to him that she be brought up modestly, and her childhood home was a glorified hovel and they lived like paupers, but always had what they needed. There are some other reasons for this but I don't want to give away too much.
Long story short though, she never really knew what to do with all of the money and essentially just sat on it and never really spoke much about it, even with those closest to her. She made a few small donations to her old boss/friend to keep his book shop afloat, and an occasional donation to the poor - but never anything really life-altering. She'd read her father's journals and knew how he felt about the wealthy, so it always perplexed her why he didn't do something else with the fortune he had amassed.
After disappearing into the rift for five years time, we think it makes sense that her home would be looted, her gil found and plundered, and her left borderline destitute. We haven't really pored over the specifics just yet, but she had grown to be an accomplished seamstress over those last few years, so she will possess the means to get back on her feet again. So we felt middle class was probably the most appropriate answer, if we're looking at a character's financial status at the time right when ARR kicks off again.
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