✩ Events of backstory
✩ Val
approaches Jack, wanting to hurt him. Ends up agreeing to a date.
✩ Val
has a first date with Jack. It's rather eventful.
✩ Val
meets Gen, who's giving her odd magical vibes.
✩ Jack
sends Val a package, which is a trend, but less stable than usual this time. Val, on strange impulse,
returns the favor. Val
sees Jack again after avoiding him, and is so ill that he passes out in class. Jack brings him to his apartment, taking care of him. They talk things out, and their relationship dynamic changes dramatically.
✩ Val
meets Vincenzo on halloween night, at the masquerade ball. They're gay at each other.
✩ Val accidentally introduces Jack to his mother, Alva. It's embarrassing, she shows off baby photos. Val reconsiders his previously bitter opinion of her.
✩ Val spends more time with Vince, his first friend. Vince gives Val a
cute daughter. Val is
overjoyed.
✩ Val and Vince
go graverobbing, planning an interesting experiment that mixes their areas of dark magic expertise. It's a good besties bonding activity.
✩ Val and Jack have a warm Crowther family christmas at the mansion. Val feels closer to Clarence.
✩ Val has an awful birthday, as always, and shares secrets with Jack. The morning after, on new years, they have breakfast with the other Crowthers (and Clarence's new girlfriend, Lei).
✩ After years of screwing around, Val settles on politics for his college major, with big plans for the future.
✩ Val
has a pleasant valentines day, giving all of his lovers something nice and receiving the same treatment in return.
✩ Val meets Vince's boyfriend, Milo. They don't get along past stiff surface politeness (for Vince's sake), but Val is amused by Milo all the same.
✩ Val helps his mother put more heavy warding on the mansion, and holes up inside with his family, Jack, and other additions, for the tsunami.
✩ Val
invites Gabriel Baltimore to a party in order to scope him out, a dangerous and intriguing move.
✩ Val has his
metaphorical pigtails pulled by Dorian.
✩ Val
graduates summa cum laude with a degree in Political Science. He cries. Then, he goes out for fondue with Jack.