Vil says that Eric would read him a picture book about the tale of the Fairest Queen before he was old enough to read for himself and that Eric would come home with “a unique costume and makeup” every year on Halloween, and “being meticulous must run in the family.”
Vil says he has a memory of enjoying Beanfest together with Eric on a break between movie shoots that he will never forget, and that the yused to go to the tropics together for the holidays when he was younger.
Eric sends Vil postcards on his birthday, which Vil says he looks forward to receiving as Eric travels the world “quite extensively” and he likes seeing where he’s been.
It seems that Vil also used to travel “all over the world” with Eric before enrolling at NRC, saying, “The opportunity to interact with people from so many different places was a priceless gift from my father. It taught me to be a better judge of character, not to mention I got to analyze different kinds of behavior, which helped with my acting…And learning about various cultural practices and cuisines has sometimes given me inspiration for new potions.”
Vil also mentions accompanying Eric on a shoot in the savanna, where they barbecued “and had such fun…it was like a camping trip to me.”
Vil also mentions seeing a live-action movie adaptation of a video game with Eric.
The Tapis Rouge event (EN: Vil’s Red Carpet Cadets) revolves around Vil receiving an offer from Eric to promote a new movie, that Eric himself is both acting in and producing.
Vil says that he had no magical education prior to enrolling at NRC: “No one around me was able to offer instruction either. Even if my father was able to use magic, which he isn’t, he was far too busy.”
When asked to describe a time that he was grateful that he is able to use magic, Vil tells a story from his first year when both he and Eric had days off at the same time, so they decided to go into town but were spotted by paparazzi.
They were not able to lose the paparazzi in the crowds and Vil didn’t have the skills at the time to conceal them, so he used color changing magic to give their outfits a new look, which fooled the paparazzi long enough for them to get away.
Vil says, “The best part was, once they were gone, my father told me how impressed he was,” and Jade responds, “So that’s why you were glad you could use magic-because it helped your father see how much you’d grown.”
Vil says that he was too busy as a child between traveling the world and growing his acting career to focus on his magic after it manifested. As Eric is magicless Jade asks if that means Vil’s magical abilities came from his mother and Vil responds, ”Who can say? I have no idea who she was, let alone whether she was a mage. Nor have I ever cared to find out.”
Jade comments on how surprising it is that Vil did not receive magical instruction from an early age as “One does not become housewarden of Pomefiore without considerable talent” and Vil explains, “crafting makeup is something akin to potionology. So in that sense I suppose I HAD begun my studies before enrolling here. But apart from that, in principle everything ! know about magic l’ve learned since coming to Night Raven College.”
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