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Maurice teaches high school English and gushes about Shakespeare like it's Man Crush Monday every day. He has more books in any one room of his house than most people have in their entire house. Whenever the weekend rolls around he drives out to visit his parents on their farm and is greeted by Winter, a goat he bottlefed as a teenager when Winter's mom died who is his best friend forever now. In addition to being an animal lover and a mama's boy with a love of reading, Maurice can be found all too often listening to and obsessing over swing and electroswing music, often blaring it in his car (to the amusement of his students). A speculative fiction fan with something akin to an obsession mixed with a need for escapism, everyone you ask will tell you Mr. Vaillancourt is a harmless introvert.

He's not. Maurice was born with inexplicable aerokinetic powers that keep getting stronger as he gets older. He has hurt people with his powers involuntarily, and in self-defense has accidentally killed a man, something that scarred him for life and has turned him into a self-hating recluse. He would write poetry about it if it weren't too depressing to speak about.

Thankfully no one will ever find out because he's too slammed with grading papers to go do the superhero thing. Look, he's busy trying hopelessly to ask out the Music teacher whose smile makes him forget how to speak, he's got a Debate Team to help moderate, and life in general throws enough at him that the whole let's-go-fight-crime thing just never made sense to him. If he didn't get such good grades out of his students, he'd probably go try to fight the good fight, but he's genuinely scared of his own raw power and kind of a dork, the sort of guy who'd be more likely to be found finishing a third pot of coffee or curled up in a library than actually doing something badass. His coworkers know this, he knows it, and his pet goat knows it. His genetics just missed the memo.