Firstborn "legal maneuver"; named for JOI's grandfather

texture · UNDATED (Orin's birth, B.S. era)

• When: UNDATED (Orin's birth; B.S. era, before the Weston years); he is the eldest Incandenza son, ~seven years older than Hal
• What: Orin Incandenza is the first child of JOI and Avril Mondragon; per the E.T.A. history-sketch his birth "had been at least partly a legal maneuver" — a bulwark in Avril's Exit-/Entrance-Visa and Green-Card struggle (her name was on the R.C.M.P.'s surveillance list for youthful Québecois-Separatist ties). His middle name is Orin as JOI's own middle name was Orin, after JOI's grandfather. This is the ground-datum for the Avril–Orin parentage lattice.