Understanding custom fonts

First of all, I would like to thank the Neve team for providing this free version. I’m excited about the neve theme. For my private site I will use Neve in the 2.11.6 free version on WordPress 5.7.2. I use WordPress in german, perhaps the english WP terms may not right, so please excuse me.

I’m currently looking for information about images and fonts in WordPress and questions arise while reading. One of these is how Neve treats fonts.

I already understand following: Neve uses the system font after installing. As soon as I switch to one of the existing Google fonts, the font is loaded from the external Google font server (fonts.Googleapis.com + fonts.gstatic.com). However, due to the GDPR issue, such an automatic connection to external font ressource in the background should not established.

“Add a font by creating a child theme” describes how to create a locally hosted font in a child theme.

Question 1: As far as I understand, however, this only applies to additional new fonts that are not yet in Neve, right? But what do I do if I want to host locally an existing Google font in Neve?

Question 2: Do I understand it right that the mother theme loaded first and then the child theme? Can it happen that if the mother theme is loaded, a connection to the Google font server is established and after the child theme is loaded, the connection is broken?