We get most of our information about Neige from Vil, who explains that he had assumed that Neige was “coasting” on his natural talent as he would never stay for rehearsals for a movie they were co-starring in together, but he later learned that Neige has lived with the students of his VDC performance group for years: “They’ve all been supporting each other without any help since long before he and I met.”
While it is never explicitly said that Neige is an orphan, Vil says, “He would do his chores, attend rehearsal, then go home and do more chores. He’d practice in what spare time he could find. And yet he’d always greet me with a cheerful, singsongy ‘good morning.’ I can’t imagine how hard he’s had it. After all, my life’s been quite different.”
(On EN Vil refers to the members of Neige’s group as “kids,” but in Book 5 it is specified that they aren’t children, but dwarves, which may be one of the various kinds of fae in the Twst universe.)
Vil says that Neige has never divulged his personal history to the press. He also donates most of his pay to charity, which he also does with the prize money that he wins from the VDC.
We first hear of Neige when Vil does a search for “Who, at this moment, is the most beautiful of all?”, which results in “Neige LeBlanche”.
During Book 5 Vil’s manager calls to offer him a role as the villain in the sequel to “mega-hit title with box office revenue topping 200 million thaumarks”, the musical “Legendary Sword”.
It is revealed that the hero of the story is to be played by Neige and Vil refuses outright, saying, “You cannot buy my feelings with money…all I want…is to stay on stage until the end of the show”.
We learn child-Neige was also the lead in the musical “King’s Road” in a role that Rook said was the first time he’d been moved to tears.
In a flashback it is revealed that 12-year-old-Vil was cast as a villain opposite Neige in a “movie adaptation of a children’s novel.”