Evelyn McDaniel is the player character of Far Cry 5 before being moved to Resident Evil. Any details of her backstory are altered to suit Resident Evil.
Evelyn was born in Columbia Falls, Montana, on February 21st, 1970, to Stephen and Mary McDaniel, and an older brother, Jamie McDaniel. She had a decent life, raised by a deputy and nurse. However, she was quite a troublemaker as well. Always ready to start a fight to defend her friends, often getting herself hurt while playing rough with her friends.
All in all, she got decent grades throughout school, even ending up on the soccer team of Columbia Falls High School. She wasn't particulary popular, but she was well liked and known to hang around with her friends, including Jesse Matthewsand Joey Hudson.
When she turned fourteen she and Jesse's sister, Nathalie, went hiking in the mountains, choosing one of the safer hikes, but got lost. That was when Evelyn kissed her, which Nathalie did not reciprocate. Upon her return home, Stephen noticed something was off about his daughter so she came out to him as a lesbian. It became their little secret for a long time. A year passed and, in the meantime, she fell in love with her friend, Joey Hudson. She also came out to her family, a week before her brother left for Oxford, England.
Her mother, a devout Christian, took some time to get used to the idea.
After two years, when Mary finally seemed to accept her daughter, she also seemingly disappeared, leaving no trace behind with no suspects.
For a long time, Evelyn blames herself, but so does her father, who turns to drinking. A year later, Evelyn graduates and thinks about her future when she realizes. She wants to be a pilot. While helping her father with his addiction, she studies for her flying license. By the time she turns twenty, she leaves Columbia Falls for Helena, where she gets a job as private pilot.
She regulary returns to Columbia Falls to visit her father, which grow more frequent when he's diagnosed with liver cancer.