Short Fiction · Character
Denise d'Agrion
A radiant figure from van Manderpootz's experiments who becomes entangled in Dixon Wells's affections, blurring the line between ideal and reality.
supporting
Also known as Denise, So Denise
First appearance: The Ideal
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Van Manderpootz's niece, who closely resembles Dixon's ideal image and becomes his romantic interest.
Denise d'Agrion belongs to the strange aftermath of van Manderpootz's subjunctivisor and idealizator experiments, a woman whose existence Dixon Wells can neither fully confirm nor dismiss. She is bound up with Dixon's susceptibility to feminine charms and his recurring humiliation at the hands of the professor's inventions, one of the two women he names when tallying the year's disasters. Her presence haunts Dixon's romantic misadventures, standing as the emotional cost of dabbling in realities that may never have existed.
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See Denise d'Agrion in The Ideal