Vil and Jade

Jade and Vil overlap in a Playfulland vignette where Jade seems to be showing an interest in character merchandise.

Jade wonders if there is anyone who could wear such pop-culture-centric items and make them genuinely look good (“If there was, l’d sorely love to get some tips. Alas, nothing’s ever so convenient”), and Vil accuses him of faking his interest in character merchandise in a bid to goad him into struggling to create an outfit out of “less than fashionable” items.

Vil follows with, “your plan was doomed from the start, and I’ll tell you why. You see, you and I differ in every possible way—knowledge, experience, you name it,” dressing himself “from head to toe” in character merchandise in order to prove his point.

Jade attempts to commemorate the moment with a photo, which Vil refuses.

Jade then follows Vil out of the bazaar, saying that spending time in Vil’s company would be more fun than touring alone: “I assure you, my motives are entirely pure.”

Vil responds, “…somehow I have a hard time believing you’ve ever had a pure motive in your life,” but he allows it, saying that Jade’s excessively considerate nature” makes him a fine companion.

Vil then chooses to ride the biggest rollercoaster in the park. Jade is reluctant and Vil reminds him that Jade was the one who chose to follow him, and he simply allowed it, wondering if Jade wishes to avoid the rollercoaster.

Jade insists that he does not have a deep-seated aversion to roller coasters and is, in fact, just worried about Vil, as there is a splash of water at the end of the ride: “I was beside myself with concern that you might ruin your beautiful makeup.”

Vil assures him that his makeup is simple enough to fix, and they ride the roller coaster. Vil asks if Jade is mentally prepared and Jade reiterates that he is worried about Vil’s makeup. After the ride Vil is granted the rare sight of Jade at a loss for words, saying, “I’m sure your real motive was to amuse yourself at my expense again. What a shame things didn’t go the way you expected.”

Jade assures him that he is perfectly fine, impressing Vil with how quickly he recovers, and Vil decides to select their next ride as he has “hardly had (his) fill of fun.”

Despite how Vil enjoyed riding the Playfulland roller coaster with Jade he does not enjoy the process of moving between dreams via Silver’s unique magic, clinging to Silver and saying he now knows how it feels to be a frozen blueberry in a blender.

Vil is so shaken by the process of dream-hopping that he requires a moment to recover, which seems to confuse him: “I’m fine with flight magic, and last I checked, I’m not terribly prone to motion sickness…”

(There is a fan theory that Vil’s sensitivity to the sensation of falling is a reference to how the Fairest Queen died in the original animated Snow White movie: falling from a great height.)

Vil dislikes the experience of dream-hopping so much that he excuses himself from the group rather than continue on to another dream after awaking Jamil, saying that larger groups are more prone to bugs when traveling, but “more to the point, I don’t think I can take any more of these dream crossings!”

Jade is Vil’s third-birthday interviewer and Vil compliments him, saying that Jade can handle anything you task him with and that his style of interviewing was better than most reporters.

When students start disappearing during Vargas Camp Jade comments that “They must have been QUITE afraid of Vil’s ire…” (Vil: “Even in a time of crisis you just have to get a dig in, don’t you?”)

When Vil considers having the Film Research Club spend a few nights camping and filming as a training exercise Jade volunteers to help.

In Jade’s dorm vignette he approaches Vil about transferring to Pomefiore, saying that Vil has “the makings of a true leader.”

Vil does not believe him (“He obviously has some ulterior motive”), but decides to humor Jade as he has heard rumors that he is like a gifted secretary who fulfills Azul’s every wish.

Vil says Jade was “the perfect assistant from his very first day on the job,” and Jade is even able to procure a pair of fabled Ténèbres mirror heels that Vil was not able to acquire for himself, despite his industry connections.

Vil makes a strong of requests of Jade to test how far he will go to meet his every need and Jade has already foreseen and fulfilled every task before it is assigned to him.

Jade abruptly announces that he is returning to Octavinelle without Vil ever learning what it was that he was after, but Vil decides that he is willing to look the other way for the sake of the shoes he has acquired.

Vil is proven to have been correct from the beginning: Jade’s ulterior motive was getting Vil to promote a drink being sold at Mostro Lounge on Magicam, which he succeeded in doing, without Vil’s notice.