Nice to meet you 3D! and yes, that is easier to say! :3
And yes, that was who I was talking about, I just didn't want to get all up in your face about it^^' (Baww, ty! <3) But yes, aside from the obviousness with their names and culturally inspired backgrounds I read that you said her village and destroyed. Obviously that was done by bandits, but it just kind of hit me as neat too because I was originally planned it out (in a nutshell with all details not mentioned with every bit of craziness involved) that she inevitably burned down and destroyed her entire village before going off and starting her crazy wandering life, leaving little left alive cuz she's a freaking nutcase.
Though age difference and whatever you had planned might be an issue, but they could still know each other possibly. I haven't written down anything in her history yet, but I have jotted down a general guideline that I was going to work off of. Pepper came from an outside village as well, and I haven't given it a name or anything^^'