Considering you're a big Eulalie fan, i'd love to hear your take on what specific timeframe she's from. I know most agree she's either from the 40s-50s.
If it's Early 40s, pre America joining WW2, she wouldn't have been in an interment camp.
If It's early to mid 40s, (such as 1942-1946) she would've been forced there or killed before she could be taken because of anti Japanese sentiment.
If it's the 50s, she still would've spent 3 years in those camps during her childhood
IDK if RnF said whether they'll mention the internment camps in Eulalie's story, but considering the time period, it would've affected her in some capacity
(Feel free to delete this ask if it's too uncomfortable or oversteps any boundaries)
Oh my. I kept coming back to this one, then I forgot about it while digging through all sorts of history forums. It turned out to be more difficult than I thought.
We know that the lower mark for the year of Eulalie`s death is 1935, the year of the opening of Itsuki Lullaby, the one she sings in her first flashback. Given her background and time frame I, like many, assumed that she died in an internment camp.
After her second flashback it became obvious Eula had died in the very house she wanted to use for a paranormal agency. She told her father that she would be tutoring there. Most likely Eulalie couldn't handle the business alone and in order to cover the costs she really had to take on students – the very children from the first flashback. However we also know that the fire was most likely arson and that leaves room for a hate crime. Maybe she taught Japanese, and the neighbors... might not appreciate it.
Among other things, keep in mind that her father has enough money to buy his daughter a whole damn house. So either he is white, or the actions take place before 1942 (after Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans went bankrupt, their bank accounts were frozen and they were denied any lease).
Now let's return directly to the time frame. In general the design of Eulalie`s friends screams about the 1940s, especially hairstyles. I don't know much about fashion but the dresses also look closer to the 40s than the 50s.
But this is a whole decade in which the lives of Japanese Americans have changed dramatically. Now my main theory is that Eulalie died after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but before the adoption of the internment order in February '42. Two months passed between these events during which Japanese Americans still lived in their own homes but were subjected to racist attacks and vandalism. I assume Eula had never been to an internment camp – her school/house was set on fire before 1942 as a sign of hatred for Japan (on the other hand she could have died before Pearl Harbor: strong anti-Japanese sentiments have been hovering in USA since the beginning of WWII).
Anyway my bet is on the very beginning of the 1940s.