Don
Names: DonDonnieDonatien RemillardDon RemillardPapamon frérotDonatien
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 4While Rogi was lost, Don communicated with him mind-to-mind, speaking in his thoughts, though neither understood what was happening.
- Ch 6Don is outgoing, aggressive and domineering, a coercer who tried to coerce others; he could not live with the chasm between himself and normal humanity.
- Ch 6Don, fearing being alone, tried to break through Rogi's mental walls and was hurt when blocked; Rogi promised to admit him if he truly needed him.
- Ch 6After the scolding, Don blasphemously blames God for making their abnormal minds, claiming it is not their fault.
- Ch 8Don is cynical about ESP fiction, saying 'We're not like that,' and tells Rogatien to make sure nobody finds out about their powers.
- Ch 8Handsome and athletic, Don uses PK and coercion instinctively to excel at sports and seduce girls, becoming Berlin High's heartless Casanova.
- Ch 10Don is Rogi's twin; he has PK and coercion, and is marrying Marie-Madeleine the next day.
- Ch 10Don nearly drowned in Umbagog Lake in a boating accident, and Rogi rescued him.
- Ch 10After the Ghost's intervention, Don forgets Rogi's attack and his injuries are healed.
- Ch 12He initially laughs, then is enraged, but agrees to mindspeak with Denis, grumbling that he won't become a kindergarten teacher.
- Ch 12Don says he would be bad at teaching the kid with flash cards in the evenings, and asks Rogi to help teach instead.
- Ch 15Don tired of teaching Denis, treating it as amusement; his crude telepathic pressure often left the child crying or withdrawn.
- Ch 15Don began spending evenings at the Blue Ox, drinking more heavily as Denis progressed.
- Ch 15Don knocked out Ted Kowalski for a crack about Rogi's visits, then told the tavern Rogi was writing a book using Denis for tests.
- Ch 15Don tried to dose Rogi's cocoa with LSD, out of resentment that Rogi had turned his son and wife against him.
- Ch 15Don banned Rogi from visiting in the evenings and said he would train the next child himself.
- Ch 18Don is an alcoholic in a precarious financial position who favors his son Victor and antagonizes Denis and Rogatien.
- Ch 18Don refused Denis's place at Northfield Hall, objecting to its liberal philosophy, and ruined a scholarship bid with a rude call to the headmaster.
- Ch 20Don, Denis's father and Rogi's brother, neglects Denis, dotes on Victor and laughed at Denis's concern for the twins.
- Ch 21Don, Roger's brother, is an alcoholic with strong coercive mental powers who used them to seduce Elaine at the Fourth of July barbecue.
- Ch 26Don, Denis's father, skipped both Denis's graduations, the second feigning flu, and shows total abdication of responsibility for his son.
- Ch 26Don, Denis's father, was fired from the mill for alcoholism and then tried to run a small logging business.
- Ch 30Don is a heavy-drinking logger who hears hostile mental voices he believes are telepaths conspiring to kill him. His own psychic powers have withered away.
- Ch 30Don claims he taught his son Victor to use his mind-powers and helped start the logging business, but now feels pushed out.
- Ch 30Don hints that Victor's logging company obtained expensive machinery by stolen equipment with fixed ID numbers and beeper-traces.
- Ch 30Don agrees to enter the Project Cork detox clinic, hoping Denis's mind will shield him from enemies, then flees in panic when Victor's van arrives.
- Ch 30Don wakes hungover after a blackout in Sunny's Escort, parked at the family logging site up the Dead Diamond River, hiding from Victor.
- Ch 30Don normally operates the whole-tree chipper; an Omark chipper nearly took his arm off the day before.
- Ch 30Don is tormented by voices in his head and fled in fear from the restaurant where Sunny works, intending to drive to Hanover and Dartmouth.
- Ch 30Don believes the others sent Victor, and says Victor and others like Rogi and Denis shut him out of their minds.
- Ch 31Don died by cutting himself in half with a feller-buncher he controlled by psychokinesis; it was suicide, though ruled death by misadventure.
- Ch 31Don, an alcoholic, deeply hated his twin Rogatien, blamed him for his troubles, and was sorry for his harm to his family.
- Ch 31Don's last words to Rogatien in the vision were 'You should have' hated him.
- Ch 39Don is Rogatien's dead brother, a suicide buried in consecrated ground, whose mind Rogatien still feels.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 4Don was killed at forty-four, destroyed by his metafunctions; he had ten children, all with high-metafunction and rejuvenation genes.
- Ch 5Rogi's twin Donnie first assaulted Rogi's mind and later tried to merge their selves; after Rogi refused, Don hated him until his death.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 2Don, Rogatien's twin brother, was murdered; Rogatien felt his telepathic death-scream and his hatred for both Rogatien and himself.
- Ch 5Don was Rogi's fraternal twin, an alcoholic, insecure, depressive and violent man who took Sunny from Rogi; Anne infers he sexually abused young Denis and Victor.
Connections
- family ofRogi Remillardfraternal twin
- family ofTante Lorrainefoster mother/aunt
- enemy ofO'Shaughnessy
- partner ofMarie-Madeleine Fabreengaged to be married
- family ofMarie-Madeleine Fabremarried; parents of Denis
- family ofDenisson
- family ofVictorson
- family ofAnnarita Latimerbiological daughter
- related toMarie-Madeleine FabreDon borrowed Sunny's car; she works at a restaurant
- family ofPaulinedaughter
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 4Birth of the twins
Rogatien and Donatien were born in Berlin, NH on 12 August 1945; their mother Adèle died in childbirth, and they were taken in by Uncle Louis.
- Book 1 · Ch 4Rogi meets the Family Ghost
Lost in the forest at age five, Rogi fled a bear, heard Don's mind-voice, and was snatched back from a ravine edge by the invisible Family Ghost, who led him out and told him to keep silent.
- Book 1 · Ch 6The gym fight with O'Shaughnessy
Older boy O'Shaughnessy catches the ten-year-old twins using PK on a basketball, hurts Don, and demands the 'gimmick'. Rogi smashes the ball into his face, and the twins in metaconcert stuff him headfirst into the basket.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Failing grades and Don's blasphemy
One' Louie scolds the twins over failing grades. On the porch Don blames God for their minds; Rogi shuts him out and goes inside.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Rogatien reads Odd John
Unable to find ESP books, Rogatien is given Stapledon's Odd John. Frightened, he pressures Don to read it; Don dismisses it and warns him to keep their powers secret.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Remillard Christmas reunion and mumps
In 1961 the extended family gathers for Christmas. Seventeen days later the five young cousins get mumps; Rogatien develops severe bilateral orchitis.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Attempted murder on the bridge
After the bachelor party, Rogi goads drunken Don into walking the bridge rail and uses PK and coercion to dislodge him. The Ghost blinds Rogi and halts the attempt.
- Book 1 · Ch 10The Ghost's revelation
The Ghost heals Don, erases his memory, tells Rogi of Don's destined child and Rogi's role as mentor, and reveals Rogi is sterile.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Don agrees to teach Denis
Rogi tells Don; after an argument, Sunny's passionate defense wins Don over and he agrees to mindspeak with Denis.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Rogi agrees to help teach the kid
Don suggests Rogi join him and Sunny in teaching the kid. After a mental plea from the bedroom, Rogi gives in and agrees, and Don turns to asking about supper.
- Book 1 · Ch 15The LSD cocoa incident
In February 1970 Don offered Rogi cocoa laced with LSD. Denis had read the plan from Don's mind and warned Sunny, who slapped the cup away. Her telepathy training by Denis was revealed.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Don bars Rogi from the house
After Denis coerced Don never to harm him, Don ended Rogi's evening visits and announced Sunny's pregnancy. Denis privately told Rogi they would find a way to continue.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Northfield Hall scholarship collapses
Don refuses Denis's place at Northfield Hall and angers the school, splitting the Remillard family; Rogatien is left frustrated.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Disastrous Fourth of July barbecue
Roger introduced Elaine to his Remillard relatives at Cousin Gerard's barbecue in Berlin; she clashed with them, and Don used coercion to seduce her once.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Elaine reveals her pregnancy; Roger leaves her
At a New Hampshire inn near Franconia in October, Elaine told Roger she was pregnant. He read her memories, discovered Don was the father, and ended their relationship.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Investigators rebuffed
Investigators tried to reach Denis through his father Don, but were driven off by curses and menaces from Victor.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Don's breakdown at the Blue Ox
Drunk and tormented by voices, Don blabs to Ducky about Victor's suspicious equipment and attacks him. Lute Soderstrom removes him and leaves him in a pickup.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Don pleads with Sunny and flees
Don persuades Sunny to arrange for Denis to meet them, but sees Victor's black van arrive and flees in her Escort toward the north woods.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Victor calms Sunny and enlists Denis
Victor comforts Sunny, has Denis phoned to track Don with seekersense, and takes his mother home. Don wakes at dawn somewhere in the woods.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Victor confronts Don at the logging site
Victor finds Don hungover in the forest, telepathically pins him, tells him the voices are his own broken mind and that he will die in an apparent accident.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Feller-buncher attacks Don
After Victor leaves, the empty-cabbed feller-buncher starts and lumbers toward Don with its shears open, apparently telekinetically controlled, as Don flees screaming.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Rogatien shares Don's death
During Mass, Rogatien loses his senses and experiences Don's life memories and his suicide by feller-buncher, learning Don hated him.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Don's funeral
Don is buried with a large attendance; Denis and Victor's coercion helps produce a verdict of death by misadventure.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Rogatien's breakdown and yoga
Troubled by dreams, Don's presence and drinking, Rogatien turns to yogic meditation as the Edinburgh conference nears.