Vincent Maillardet

Professor Vincent Maillardet was the co-founder of the Maillardet's Foundation for the Future of Humanity.
Vincent's father, Raleigh Maillardet, was one of the wealthiest men in the world in his day. A "hard-drinking bare-knuckled bruiser", he built his empire up from nothing through "the audacious exploitation of every loophole he could find". He was a household name with more than a few grey hairs before he decided to settle down and start a family with his much younger bride. Tragically, the couple's first son, Vincent Maillardet I, died in infancy, devastating the marriage.quipquipquip: Did Vincent's dad really think he was possessed?quipquipquip: Questions
Lady Maillardet soon gave birth to a second child, whom she named Beatrice, but it soon became clear that the child had no intention of being the "comely and demure daughter" Lady Maillardet had hoped for. More interested in collecting dead animal specimens than flowers, and stubbornly refusing to be anything resembling ladylike, the child rapidly went through a succession of governesses and nursemaids, while Lady Maillardet retreated to the family's country estate in search of a "rest cure".
At a loss for what to do with his wayward embarrassment of a child, Raleigh took "Beatrice" on safari with him. He gave up on forcing his child to be ladylike, discovered that they shared passions for hunting and natural science and found he genuinely enjoyed the time they spent together. As the child flourished, Raleigh saw everything he'd hoped to see in his prematurely lost son, planting a seed that would later take root when a popular medium proposed that the young "Beatrice" was in fact possessed by the spirit of the dead Vincent.
While this was a problematic notion without a hint of truth, it allowed Raleigh to maintain a close and supportive relationship with his child throughout their lives. The child made the name Vincent his own and continued to thrive. He had little trouble passing for cisgender in public, and Raleigh had no compunctions about bullying those select few who knew otherwise into silence.
As an eighteen-year-old university student, Vincent became involved with one of his teachers, the young Professor Rajmund Jelen. Although Rajmund tried his best to be professional, Vincent pursued him aggressively and eventually the pair fell in love.quipquipquip: "was this a teacher-student relationship vincent u sly old dog" The two had a daughter together, Beatrice; Vincent, in typical fashion, delivered her himself aided only by a hunting knife and a bottle of whiskey. Like her Tata Ray, Beatrice was posthuman, possessing an immensely powerful ability to channel the souls of future posthumans. Although their beloved daughter died young, the recordings and prophecies she left behind allowed Vincent and Ray to find and offer homes to many young posthumans. Ultimately their isolated Oregon home became a school and a safe haven for posthumans.Foundation
==Appearances==
*Traveller
*Foundation (POV character)
*Corona (mentioned)
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