Vil and Film Club (pt1)

Vil is the founder of the school’s Film Club, which he started in order to “stay in practice as an actor” as he is “currently turning down acting work with long filming periods and focusing on modeling gigs” that are easier to juggle with schoolwork, as “schoolwork comes first” while he is at NRC. 

Vil says that the club has around 10 members and, while they don’t bar anyone from joining, students who want to act—which is most of them—are expected to audition.

Vil says they are perpetually shorthanded of everything but actors, so he enlists help from Epel, Rook, others in Pomefiore, Kalim for his flying carpet and will sometimes pay “physically adept” school athletes for help with building sets.

Vil says that thanks to their constant lack of backstage help he has gotten a much better understanding of what goes on behind the scenes in a movie production, which will be of great use when he returns to acting.

In a vignette we see Vil threaten to kick both Epel and Rook out of Pomefiore if Epel gets into fights with people from other dorms, and, soon after, it is revealed that an unknown assailant has torn apart one of Vil’s costumes.

The film club members assume it is someone from Savanaclaw due to tears that look like they could be claw marks but Rook deduces they are not claw marks at all, but damage done by sewing scissors by someone who was trying to frame Savanaclaw students for the crime. 

Rook reveals that Vil’s costume was actually attacked by the film club’s own costume designer, who confesses that he was so jealous of how Vil interacts so naturally with Epel and Rook that he wanted to create a reason to cause a fight between Epel and other students that would get Rook and Epel expelled from the dorm and away from Vil. (He ultimately suffers no consequences, with Rook deciding he is to atone for the incident by continuing to contribute to the film club’s activities.)

Silver also gets drawn into a film club adventure when Vil decides to cast him as an extra in an ongoing film for his impressive physical appearance, name-dropping Malleus to force Silver’s participation when he refuses.