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.
Rook is not a Film Club student, and we learn that he enrolled in the Science club in order to learn how to create smoke and dyes to support Vil’s film aesthetics (“It means that I can support something beautiful with my love”).
Malleus mentions having heard that Vil is making a movie about tsums (“The one I’m tsumsitting has yet to receive any requests to appear in it…”).
We see Vil interacting with Film Research Club members largely during Vargas Camp, where he is named a VIP by Vargas for helping them set up their tents.
He also lectures his club members on wearing sunblock, and picks plants that help keep bugs away when they forget bug spray.
Vil says that the Film Research Club respects self-reliance and discipline.
Club members express amazement at the sight of Vil casting a line and fishing (“What a beautiful sight!”).
When asked what he would like to do in the next year Vil says he wants to do something with the Film Research Club to make his mark before he leaves campus, and would love for the club to win a contest.
Vil explains that, thanks to the club, his sights are now set on directing and producing as well as acting.
Vil says, “Make no mistake, I have no intention of ever quitting acting. It’s only that my interests have expanded to include every process involved in the creation of a film.”
He has a voice line about tasking his club members with observing stones and trees, as “it’s important to view the genuine article when crafting finely details sets.”
Vil had originally intended to take members of the Film Research Club with him to the film festival in the Fairest City, but a change in weather forecast forced them to move an on-location shoot to the same weekend as the festival.
Vil acquires a “magical projector” at a reduced price from an acquaintance that he gives to the prefect, saying that they were indispensable in show business back when CG effects and projection mapping were less advanced, though now it is “more a toy than anything.”
Vil has been critical of Idia-adjacent videos twice in the main story: describing the STYX promotional video as “cheaply made” and calling the video that Idia makes to explain the Book 7 situation “just horrible,” asking Ortho if he couldn’t have done something to salvage the “mess.” (Ortho: “I’m afraid this is just Idia’s creative style…”)
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