#smith had mentioned an older brother of pocahontas's in a letter he supposedly wrote to queen anne

[elvisqueso]

Well in history Captain John Smith described Pocahontas as "a child of twelve or thirteen" and Pocahontas later said to John Smith "I should call you 'father'? I tell you then I will, and you shall call me child" (I got this off wikipedia) so I have to tell you the truth that that was their real relationship.

Oh honey...

Honey, don't recite the deep magic to me, Ive read the damn thing myself.

Disney's fictional characters may be loosely based on the real people, but they're off-shoots of a romantic narrative that developed a good hundred years after the fact (I'd go so far as to say Disney actually subverted the trope in how they chose to approach their story, but that's another meta kind of post). I understand you seem to think that I think they're real or based entirely in fact or something, but I am very aware of the difference between fantasy and reality.

The real Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith were incredibly interesting people in their own right. Yes, in his writings (and those of others at Jamestown) Smith describes Pocahontas as being somewhere between the ages of 10 and 14 at various points in his telling ofthe two years or so Smith spent in America (the inconsistencies here are probably due to a number of factors, including memory just being vague as time went on). We know that Smith was about 28 when he landed in America and that his life before all this was absolutely wild if his writings are to be even half-believed (and there's some debate about how much salt to take with his telling of events. I don't think he was actually exaggerating all that much, personally).

There's also debate over whether the famous episode of Pocahontas "saving" the good Captain's life even happened at all (I'm in the camp that it probably didn't; at least, not in the way Smith tells or interprets it).

All things considered, there's a lot of room for interpretation when in comes to studying the surviving writings and evidence we have (which isn't actually all that much). I, personally, theorize that Pocahontas was something of a goddaughter to John Smith, because the English had provided one of their own boys (a lad named Thomas, in fact) to Chief Powhatan as a sort of bartering in exchange for peace thing, like they were exchanging children. Of course, I'm just a hobbyist and could be totally wrong, but we'll never actually know.

By the way, the quote you're using there is from their first encounter since Smith had been injured and returned to England. It had been 10 years since, and the news back home had been that Smith had died (although it seemed the Powhatan generally distrusted this information). Pocahontas was quite miffed that Smith had been avoiding her since her arrival to England (which it seemed he'd been doing, for whatever reason) and was making that quite clear to him in the middle of a ball they were both attending. I suggest actually reading the full section of text from Smith's writings because the whole encounter, to me, is hilarious.

Still gonna ship the Disney characters, tho.