V A L E N T I N E “ V “ D U P O N T
Name: Valentine “V” Dupont
|Age / D.O.B.: 33, May 17, 1990
Gender, Pronouns & Sexuality: Genderfluid, He/They, Pansexual
Hometown: Kilkenny, Ireland
Occupation: Author, Visitor.
As a kid, V was precocious and wild. A middle child in a family of five, the young curly-haired child would get his older and younger sisters, Benna and Ruth, to tag along on all his hair-brained schemes. But V took longer to ‘grow up’ than their sisters. Ruth was off to law school and Benna went into fashion and moved to the States. V had just barely graduated high school and was convinced college wasn’t for him. Even so, living with his mother showed Val a strong woman working in journalism, and he started to wonder if that was his path as well.
Finally seeking out college programs, V decided to apply for residencies. Despite not having much experience, a professor at BU decided to take him in, finding their application intriguing. It was Val’s first time away from home for more than a few days and he made the most of it. The first few weeks were all partying and sleeping around, but V started noticing an issue with their vision- it was getting harder to read the whiteboard, and he found himself trying on reading glasses, having issues with the reading homework. Even their own notes were suffering- and after a trip to an eye doctor, V got some bad news. Their vision was failing and in the next year or so, they’d most likely be legally blind. With this knowledge, it re-started something inside them. He wanted to do well in school, wanted to get the things done he’d always wanted. With a few helpful professors encouraging them, Val was writing creative stories he’d thought about way back when he was growing up in Kilkenny. Suddenly there was a manuscript, and just as suddenly, Valentine Dupont was a published author with a series of middlegrade fantasy novels.
While V made trips back home many times and even lived with their mother for a time, ultimately he moved to New York City, closer to the publishing company he worked closely with, his agent, and a new assistant. But after a trip out to the countryside to take a nice vacation, V ended up somewhere... odd. Their driver had car trouble and V had taken a very short walk on their own- to their knowledge, just down a few steps. But suddenly they couldn’t find him, the car... anything. V was left without any of their things and ended up in Huntsville. He’s still trying to figure out his footing in Huntsville and doesn’t have another job yet. Without his assistant or driver, V’s been a little out of sorts but has relied on kindness of strangers and the money they already had on hand- thankfully, quite a bit.
