History

As the youngest of Matthew and Vera Malveaux’s children, Virginia was spoiled by her father as the baby of the family. She never had much taste for it, though, and preferred to live practically: she all but begged him out of a sports car for her 18th birthday. Virginia is exceptionally shy and reserved for a Malveaux and found her family’s social expectations to be a source of endless struggle and frustration. She was never interested in publicity and preferred reading books in her room to attending social functions. She clashed frequently with her mother Vera, who had to drag her (figuratively) kicking and screaming to public events. The fact she often suffered from migraines didn’t help.

Where Virginia shone was with a head for numbers and an ear for music. Her teachers at school all considered her a math prodigy: the only reason they didn’t recommend she skip a grade (or several) is because they were concerned the already socially withdrawn girl might be bullied by older peers. Virginia has also played the violin beautifully since a young age and likes to say it “speaks to her.” She dislikes performing before audiences, though, and prefers to use music as a meditative/concentrative aid when alone. There’s widespread talk among the family about an autism diagnosis: it would explain her fixative interests, social shyness, and the fact she’s never gone on a date. Matthew and Vera haven’t said anything one way or another.

In 2014, Virginia was accepted into MIT on a full academic scholarship. Her family was very proud: female STEM majors are all the rage, after all. Virginia was only too grateful for the chance to get away from her immediate family in New Orleans, as her relationship with her mother failed to grow any less strained during her teenage years. Vera never seemed to understand her, and Virginia blamed the older woman’s needful personality for her migraines getting worse. She has expressed desire to become a theoretical physicist and might be happy just to stay at MIT forever as a research scientist. It remains to be seen whether her parents have other plans.

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Relationships

Virginia’s closest family contact is her cousin Gabriel Malveaux, with whom she shares a comparatively gentle nature. They’re both the youngest children in their respective families. Her father still tries to pamper his “little princess,” though he’s relented somewhat as she’s grown older: privately, the other Malveauxes think he isn’t completely sure what to make of how she’s turned out. With four other children (five if one still counts Susan), though, it’s not as if he “needs” her. Virginia gets along relatively well with her brother Adam and her sister Savannah, though the latter thinks she needs to come out of her shell more. She finds little in common with Charlotte and even less with Elaine. Her relationship with her mother remains poor.

Status

Virginia is a scion of one of the Malveaux family’s “three kings” with all the privileges that entails, even if she’s more adverse to making use of them. (Malveaux Family Status ••)

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