Victor
Names: VictorVictor RemillardVicbossGranduncle VictorUncle VicVic Remillard
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 2Victor led the Sons of Earth to infamy.
- Ch 18Victor, Don and Sunny's second son, was born in 1970 and is Don's favorite, resembling his father.
- Ch 20Victor is Denis's four-year-old brother, weak in farspeech but strong in coercion; he tormented the twin babies with mind-pinches.
- Ch 20Victor is Don's favourite and seems to know right from wrong but hurts the twins anyway.
- Ch 26Nine-year-old Victor appeared to Denis's seeking as a baleful ember, a powerful mind among Don's otherwise dim, latent children.
- Ch 26Victor, Denis's younger brother, was a hulking, malevolent youth with a strong coercive faculty and raging jealousy of Denis; he refused metapsychic work and joined Don logging.
- Ch 30Victor is nineteen and runs his own logging company, which recently won a big contract with Saint William; he has telepathic and coercive powers.
- Ch 30The voices suggest Victor plans to replace Don with Howie Durant and to rig a fatal accident for Don using programmed incitement.
- Ch 30Victor soothes and subtly coerces his mother Sunny, and has Denis stopped from leaving Hanover, while they hunt for Don.
- Ch 30Victor's farsight is poor and his coercion reaches only about a stone's throw.
- Ch 30Victor is Don's son. He communicates by mind-voice, coercively holds Don in place, and declares Don a dangerous mutation casualty who must die.
- Ch 30Victor owns the logging operation's new feller-buncher and drives a black van with roof-mounted KC spotlights.
- Ch 30Victor plans to kill Don and make it look like an accident, a drunken man playing suicidal games.
- Ch 31Victor suppressed the psychic abilities of his younger siblings as children through aversion-conditioning, and is a power-hungry sociopath according to Denis.
- Ch 31Victor uses coercion for gain, including logging contracts and a bank loan, and mind-screens so well Denis cannot read or influence him.
- Ch 31Victor planted a coercive suicide incitement in Don the night Don asked for help, and gloated about it to Denis.
- Ch 34Victor, twenty years old, is a powerful telepath and coercer, perhaps stronger than his brother Denis and even Kieran O'Connor.
- Ch 34Victor runs the Remco pulpwood business in Berlin, New Hampshire, as a front for crime; he has probably committed three murders in the past year.
- Ch 34Victor hates and envies his older brother Denis, restrained from violence only by some deep inhibition. He dreams of monsters with his own face.
- Ch 34Victor is recruiting a Canadian group of psychic henchmen and aims to become a big shot making billions.
- Ch 34Victor detected Finster's surveillance, seized control of his gun and boat, then spared him and sent a message to O'Connor.
- Ch 34Victor says he has already coerced and disposed of other snoopers, including a Russian who paid him $300,000 to reach Denis's laboratory.
- Ch 39Victor, apparently a relative, has been distantly cordial at family gatherings, so Denis's fear that he would harm Rogatien seems unfounded.
- Ch 52Secretly murdered his three sisters, Jeanette, Laurette and Jacqueline, because they rebelled through promiscuity and would not form the alliances he wanted.
- Ch 52Has dynastic ambitions: wants loyal associates through family alliances, plans to marry Yvonne to Robert Fortier, and is advancing in the business world via Remco Pulp and Chemicals.
- Ch 52Kidnaps Rogatien at Boskone with powerful coercion, wanting to take him to Berlin to keep Sunny compliant and free himself from Denis's meddling.
- Ch 52Implies he caused his father Don's death, which Rogatien accuses him of; Victor calls Don a self-destructive sot who killed himself.
- Ch 52Victor plans to coerce his Uncle Rogi into marrying his mother, relocating him to Berlin, and using him to keep Victor's siblings under Victor's control.
- Ch 52Victor attacks Rogi with powerful mental blasts, and could have lobotomized him psychically but held back because he needed him.
- Ch 58Victor brainwashed his nonoperant siblings, including the twins Louis and Leon, who joined him at Remco Industries.
- Ch 58Victor proposed a merger with Kieran O'Connor sealed by marriages: himself to Shannon O'Connor and Pauline to Kieran, who would pass her to Warren Griffith.
- Ch 58Victor was worth over sixty-two million dollars at age twenty-nine, having started with almost nothing.
- Ch 59Victor is a powerful operant coercer with a vermilion-and-blue aura; Shannon judges him less intelligent than her father, with narrow ambitions but brutal creativity.
- Ch 59Victor hates and distrusts parental love as a form of psychic vampirism; he intends to crush Kieran O'Connor and his own brother Denis someday.
- Ch 59Victor commandeered a Sno-Crawler to reach Tuckerman Ravine's Headwall for an illegal Millennium Eve ski run, and is considering marrying Shannon to hold off her father.
- Ch 59Victor lights his flare with a loud concussion using his own psychocreativity.
- Ch 59Victor agrees to help Shannon, answering 'All right'.
- Ch 64Victor runs Remco International and visits its Baie Comeau refinery; he is American but speaks Québécois French, and workers regard him as a determined boss.
- Ch 64Victor reads minds and, during sex with Shannon, drains energy from her nerves through her upper spine, despite her pleas for another way.
- Ch 70Victor is a powerful operant from northern New Hampshire who arrives by Remco jet; he can read minds and use coercion forcefully.
- Ch 70Victor violently breaks through Shannon's mind-screens and sees her true feelings, finding her hatred of Kieran O'Connor and her need of him.
- Ch 73Victor, forty-three, has closed off Indian Stream Valley as a private preserve, reintroducing caribou, and keeps a genetically engineered albino moose named Glaçon.
- Ch 73Victor is a stronger farsensor than Kieran, and is operant, using his powers to take what he wanted; his brother Denis could never prove it.
- Ch 75Victor is arranging a hit on the Congress tied to the Sons of Earth, run word-of-mouth without farspeech or electronics until the end.
- Ch 75Victor can fuzz his identity mentally, using a disguise as a balding academic, and wields strong coercion; his mind is impregnable.
- Ch 75Victor learns the Zap-Star access code from Kieran by coercion; it is the phrase 'For behold henceforth all generations shall call me blessed'.
- Ch 75Victor says he and Shannon never had physical intercourse, so Laura is not his child. Shannon concludes he is impotent.
- Ch 75Victor is self-sufficient and cold; he does not need or love anyone but himself, and he disappoints Shannon as her father did.
- Ch 75Victor takes Shannon into a storeroom off the computer room, compels her to kneel, and stops her heart, killing her slowly.
- Ch 76Victor is Denis's younger brother and Rogi's nephew, with a federal file of tax fiddling and quashed indictments; he is a strong screener and associate of Shannon.
- Ch 76Victor murdered Shannon by feeding on her psychic energy-fonts, burning her body, and now coerces Rogi; he calls his feeding a path he wants to understand.
- Ch 76Vic is believed to have taken the controls of the cog train and is directing the attack from it.
- Ch 77Victor is Denis's younger brother and leads the airborne Sons of Earth attackers on the chalet; he is a powerful natural operant.
- Ch 77Victor plans to collapse the chalet's western half into Ammonoosuc Ravine with explosives, leading a five-man demolition crew while others give covering fire and a squad secures the vehicles.
- Ch 77Victor tells his men to avoid mind-communication about the explosives and promises one million in cash to each man if they succeed.
- Ch 78Victor, with operant henchmen, attacked the chalet and planted three explosive charges on its support piers, detonation to follow a signal device.
- Ch 78Victor is Rogi's nephew; his aura glows blood-red, and he was about to mind-bond Rogi to draw on his psychic energy.
- Ch 79Victor, powerful but ignorant, hoped Rogi would be a mentor to him, which is why he did not kill Rogi at the hotel.
- Ch 79Victor lived another twenty-seven years, blind, deaf and without touch or any metafaculty except self-awareness; his final choice was the wrong one.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 4Victor died twelve years before Jack was born, having spent nearly twenty-seven years disembodied and deprived of all metafunction.
- Ch 4Victor, Don's second son, had immense but ruthlessly used metapsychic power, and was struck down before the Great Intervention by Rogi or the Family Ghost.
- Ch 5Victor is Denis's younger brother, once a criminal ruler of the Remco commercial empire, in a mysterious coma since the Great Intervention, about twenty-seven years.
- Ch 5Victor's body is failing: his hemoglobin synthesis is decreasing, and without therapy for the anemia he will eventually die.
- Ch 5Victor rendered his brothers Louis and Leon and sister Yvonne nonoperant in childhood and made them his creatures.
- Ch 5Victor has been in an irreversible coma for over twenty-six years since being struck down on Mount Washington at the start of the Great Intervention.
- Ch 5Victor's mind still produces orderly thought patterns despite being cut off from all sensation; Denis believes he lives only because he wants to.
- Ch 5Victor killed nearly a hundred people, including his father and siblings, stole billions, and plotted with Kieran O'Connor to seize Earth's laser-defense satellites and murder Metapsychic Congress delegates.
- Ch 5Victor's body is now failing from a severe decline in blood-cell production, a grave sign; he is dying.
- Ch 18Victor, Denis's younger brother, lay in a coma for almost twenty-seven years and died eleven years ago; the family never knew the full extent of his sins.
- Ch 19Died on Good Friday 2040; Marc, as a toddler, witnessed the deathbed scene via ultrasenses and still wonders whether a dying mind could take refuge in another.
- Ch 36Whether he is alive is an open question; no one tested claimed to know for a fact that he lives.
- Ch 37Victor, a Remillard black sheep, tried to kill the Metapsychic Congress delegates via the Sons of Earth, was rendered a latent vegetable, and died in 2040.
- Ch 44Victor drained Shannon O'Connor Tremblay's life energy, discarded her husk, and took control of Rogi until Rogi escaped by chance, then recaptured him.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 7Victor died on Good Friday 2040 after twenty-seven years in a coma that left him only self-aware; Rogatien calls him the most evil man he has known.
- Ch 7Victor killed victims by draining their lifeforce through the chakra points, leaving seven chakra burns on the body; he murdered Shannon and Kieran O'Connor this way in 2013.
- Ch 7After cremation, Victor's ashes were launched on an impact trajectory into the sun from a starship leaving the solar system.
- Ch 8Victor, Denis's dead brother, was a depraved mental bully who coerced his siblings in infancy; Denis suspects some early trauma made him a monster.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 2Victor is Denis's younger brother who plotted with Kieran O'Connor to murder the Congress delegates.
- Ch 5Victor, born 1970, was raised by Don, who kept Rogi away; he became a sociopath and Don's killer, and was later kept on life support for twenty-six years.
- Ch 8Victor was decommissioned before the family took over his lodge.
- Ch 16Victor is Denis's dead brother who lay in a coma for years; Paul's suspicion is that Denis's dissociative persona may be Victor.
- Ch 16Victor was reduced to a vegetable by Uncle Rogi on the mountain during the Great Intervention; his body died in 2040.
- Ch 27Victor once held Rogi prisoner in a cog railway car and prepared to blow up the Summit Chalet before the Intervention.
Connections
- leadsSons of Earth
- family ofDonson
- family ofDenisbrothers
- family ofMarie-Madeleine Fabreson
- enemy ofDenis
- leadsRemco
- enemy ofFabian Finsterspies on him and is captured
- family ofRogi Remillarduncle
- enemy ofJeanettekilled her
- enemy ofLaurettekilled her
- enemy ofJacquelinekilled her
- related toRachel Fortierhired her as housekeeper
- ally ofRobert Fortierassociate
- enemy ofRogi Remillardnephew who attacks his uncle
- leadsRemco Industries
- ally ofKieran O'Connorproposed merger
- ally ofShannonuneasy, manipulative alliance against Kieran
- leadsRemco International
- partner ofShannonsexual affair with a coercive, draining element
- related toPete Laplaceloyal caretaker and guard
- ally ofPete Laplaceold sidekick
- enemy ofShannonVictor kills her
- leadscog traindirects the attack from it
- enemy ofThe Family Ghost
- related toLouisformerly dominated by Victor, now caretaker
- related toShannonmurdered her
- related toDenisSeverin believes Fury is Victor's reborn spirit; Paul denies it
Key moments
- 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 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 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 31Breakfast with Denis
Denis tells Rogatien that Victor suppressed his siblings' powers and drove Don to suicide, and urges him to join the Hanover group. Rogatien deflects with a plan for a bookstore.
- Book 1 · Ch 34Finster's stakeout of Victor
Finster spies on Victor's cabin from a johnboat, translating French thoughts as Victor recruits Roe-bear and the Canadian psychics.
- Book 1 · Ch 34Victor captures Finster
Victor detects Finster, drifts his boat to the dock, makes him nearly shoot himself and drown, then spares him and orders him to tell O'Connor to stay away.
- Book 1 · Ch 52Deaths of the three nieces
Jeanette, Laurette and Jacqueline die in a fiery car crash returning from North Conway; it appears accidental but is later revealed to be Victor's doing.
- Book 1 · Ch 52Victor abducts Rogatien
Victor finds Rogatien drunk, overrides his mind, confesses to murdering his sisters, and forces him to leave for Berlin to be used against Sunny's resistance.
- Book 1 · Ch 52Fight in the parking garage
Victor tries to force Rogi to leave with him; Rogi resists, wounds Victor with a psychocreative blast, and is nearly overcome before an unseen operant knocks Victor out.
- Book 1 · Ch 52Rescue and warning
The rescuer puts Victor unconscious in the Porsche, leaves Rogi's bags, and telepathically tells him Victor will blame Rogi and warns of Victor's threat to Sunny.
- Book 1 · Ch 58Victor proposes dynastic merger with O'Connor
Victor phones Kieran O'Connor to seek capital for the lignin process, offering a merger sealed by marriages of himself to Shannon and Pauline to Kieran then Griffith.
- Book 1 · Ch 58George and Pauline die
Told of her fate by Pauline, George bought a shotgun and killed her and himself by the Androscoggin River. Victor destroyed their note; Sunny later declined and died in March.
- Book 1 · Ch 59Shannon meets Victor
Shannon flies to New Hampshire and meets Victor Remillard at the Carriage Road; they exchange rapid telepathic banter and set out in a Sno-Crawler for an illegal Millennium Eve ski run.
- Book 1 · Ch 59Shannon deceives Victor and reveals Kieran's methods
Shannon feeds Victor a decoy scheme while secretly scanning him, then reveals how her father bonds operants, showing him telepathically, and enlists his cooperation to bring Kieran down.
- Book 1 · Ch 59Arrival at the Headwall
They reach the rim of Tuckerman Ravine minutes before midnight, leave the crawler, and put on skis and gear for the descent.
- Book 1 · Ch 59Shannon recruits Victor against her father
At the new millennium, Shannon and Victor light flares. Shannon telepathically asks Victor to help bring down Daddy at the peak of his hopes, years ahead. Victor agrees.
- Book 1 · Ch 59Night ski descent
After agreeing, Shannon and Victor use their minds to push off down a deep powder slope, flares held high.
- Book 1 · Ch 64First gasohol shipment ceremony
Victor stages a ceremony at the Baie Comeau refinery, fueling his Mercedes with the first lignin-derived gasohol before Shannon's tanker loads the first batch for Europe.
- Book 1 · Ch 64Victor and Shannon's encounter
In a deserted log yard, Victor and Shannon discuss her father's designs and Gerry's scandal. Victor then drains her energy during sex over her protests, while she thinks of her hatred for him.
- Book 1 · Ch 70Victor visits O'Connor's fortress
Shannon brings Victor to her father's heavily secured Illinois estate; when she insults him he breaks her mind-screens and sees her hatred.
- Book 1 · Ch 70Zap-Star revealed
In O'Connor's command room, Shannon explains the Zap-Star satellite defense system, its secret override, and O'Connor's plan, then shows Victor its power.
- Book 1 · Ch 73Kieran and Victor test minds and strike a deal
After a silent mental contest ends in a stalemate, Kieran offers Victor his empire in return for help killing the metapsychic leaders; Victor accepts and sends for his men.
- Book 1 · Ch 75Kieran hands over his empire to Victor
At the waterfall, Kieran gives Victor the case with the asset transfer and the Zap-Star code, asks him to show Shannon the proof, and lapses into unconsciousness while Victor leaves him sleeping.
- Book 1 · Ch 75Victor confirms the deal with Shannon
Victor catches the disguised Shannon, and in the hotel computer room confirms the corporate transfer and Zap-Star access in front of her. She argues the Congress need not be destroyed, but Victor says there are other edges.
- Book 1 · Ch 75Victor kills Shannon
After revealing Laura is not his child and that Shannon's father always penetrated her screen, Victor leads her to a storeroom, makes her kneel, and stops her heart.
- Book 1 · Ch 76Victor takes over O'Connor's empire
An SEC official notices a huge asset transfer to a Canadian dummy company controlled by Victor Remillard; the President tells Denis, who agrees to hunt for Victor and Shannon.
- Book 1 · Ch 76Rogi discovers Shannon's murder
Searching the hotel's computer center, Rogi finds Victor emerging from a storeroom with Shannon's burned corpse; Victor coerces him.
- Book 1 · Ch 76Cog train toward the chalet
Victor takes Rogi and O'Connor by cog train toward the chalet. Near Jacob's Ladder, Victor's aircraft approach and Rogi escapes, warning Denis of the attack.
- Book 1 · Ch 76Cog train coach derailed
A third fireball wobbles and strikes the track ahead of the train, derailing the coach; the engine stops and a figure jumps from the cab as gunmen begin shooting at Rogi.
- Book 1 · Ch 77Kieran O'Connor dies
In the wrecked coach, Kieran admits he forced the metaconcert to teach the pacifists their power, taunts Victor, speaks of the Black Mother and dies screaming.
- Book 1 · Ch 77Victor plans demolition of the chalet
Victor rallies his men at the Gulf Tank and orders covering fire while his demolition crew plants charges to topple the chalet's western half into the ravine.
- Book 1 · Ch 78Rogi confronts Victor under the chalet
Rogi reaches the chalet's foundations as Victor plants explosives and signals his men to stop. Victor moves to mind-bond him; Rogi's out-spiral leaves Victor auraless and unconscious.
- Book 1 · Ch 78Prayer in metaconcert saves the chalet
Mountain vibrations and calming greenish light accompany a global prayer led by Denis. Pete destroys Victor's detonator pack, and the storm calms.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Family gathers at Victor's house
Denis and Paul arrive; Louis and Leon report Victor's worsening anemia. Paul refuses to let Marc join the metaconcert and Denis yields, then prepares in Victor's room.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Denis explains Victor's condition
Denis tells nurse Mrs. Gilbert that Victor's mind remains active and that his decline is his own wish, ordering no special measures to stop it.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Family metaconcert at Victor's bedside
The Remillards gather to pray; Denis links their minds in a metaconcert for Victor, but Rogi keeps his shields up and is confronted by the monstrous Fury, then rescued by a red sphere.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Denis reveals the ash-pattern link to Victor
Denis tells Philip, Maurice, Severin and Lucille that Brett's ash patterns match Shannon's, killed by Victor, and fears Victor's mind passed to a family member.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Victor's death and Fury's birth
On Good Friday 2040 Victor died during the family prayer vigil. Fury appeared and tried to take Rogatien, who escaped with the Family Ghost's help.
- Book 4 · Ch 22013 Congress and the Great Intervention
Rogatien recalls the attack plot on the delegates at Summit Chalet. Denis united minds in a worldwide metaconcert, and starships appeared, inducting humanity into the Milieu.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Severin confesses his fear of Victor
En route to Hanover, Severin refuses to join the metaconcert and shows Paul a memory, revealing Victor tried to control him as a child.