The background of the character referred to as Faye enfant is defined by a life cleaved into two distinct parts, separated by a catastrophic event and decades of suspended animation. Originally born on August 14, 1994, in Singapore, she was raised in a wealthy family and led a seemingly ordinary and privileged life as a young girl. During her school years, she was a cheerleader, a detail that speaks to a level of social engagement and typical adolescent activity. Her personality before the age of twenty was notably different from the cynical woman she would become. She was described as being shy, a quality that manifested as an awkwardness in front of a camera, yet she was also capable of being outgoing and lively with her close friends. She possessed an innocent and hopeful energy, with her whole future appearing to be full of possibility.

The defining tragedy of her young life occurred when she was approximately twenty years old. She was traveling through space with her parents when their ship was involved in a severe accident that took the lives of both of them. Faye herself sustained critical injuries that were beyond the medical capabilities of the era. As a result, she was placed into cryogenic freezing, a state in which she would remain for over five decades, effectively halting her life at that moment. While she was frozen, a major catastrophe known as the Gate incident occurred, which caused widespread destruction on Earth and resulted in the loss of most of her personal data and records, including her family name. When she was finally revived in the year 2068, the only piece of her original identity that remained was her first name, Faye.

Her motivations, as they emerge in the narrative, are not driven by a conscious goal from her childhood but are instead a consequence of the trauma of her awakening. The young woman who awoke had no memory of her past, a condition known as amnesia, and was immediately burdened with a staggering debt for her medical treatment. This cruel welcome to the future forced her to adopt a hard, untrusting, and self-serving exterior simply to survive, a stark contrast to the shy but cheerful girl she had once been. The role this lost childhood plays in the story is most powerfully illustrated in the episode "Speak Like a Child." The crew of the Bebop receives a mysterious old Betamax tape addressed to her. After a difficult search for a working player, they discover that the tape is a message recorded by Faye herself when she was a young teenager. In the recording, she and her friends at a boarding school in Singapore speak directly to their future selves, offering words of encouragement and support.

This message serves as a poignant and heartbreaking revelation. The older Faye, who has built her identity around deception and independence, watches this recording of the person she used to be—a shy, awkward, but vibrantly hopeful girl who cheerfully chants, "Do your best! Don't lose me!". The key relationship here is not with another character, but with her own lost self. The younger Faye is a ghost whose innocent expectations directly confront the amnesiac woman she became. This discovery is a crucial point of development; faced with this irrefutable evidence of a past she cannot remember, the hardened bounty hunter is moved to tears, revealing the deep sense of loss and disconnection that has always been hidden beneath her flamboyant and callous facade. Her notable abilities at this age are not physical or combative, but rather her capacity for joy, friendship, and an unguarded belief in the future—all things the adult Faye has lost. The girl on the tape represents the core of who Faye was before her world was shattered, a person the amnesiac woman must now reckon with as she tries to understand herself and find a place to belong.