V. Tracer is the creator of Maroon — a cyberpunk transmedia universe built across fiction, 3D fabrication, and platform infrastructure. Based in Asheville, North Carolina, she is a maker in the fullest sense: coder, sculptor, fabricator, and narrative architect. Maroon is a transmedia project in the truest sense of the term, a novel, a web ecosystem, physical objects, and a worldbuilding methodology that treats every medium as a distinct point of entry into the same dark signal.
V joined the Art of FACELESS collective as a collaborator in 2025. What follows is a direct exchange — submitted questions, unfiltered answers. No polish. No editorial retrofit. The rougher edges are, as I told her upfront, the interesting parts.
This interview was conducted as part of AoF's ongoing documentation of independent transmedia worldbuilding practice, work being made outside traditional publishing and distribution structures, by makers who own their infrastructure and their IP.
V's answer to the last question is the most honest thing anyone has said to me in an interview in a long time. The self-correction, catching herself mid-answer and giving the project its own voice, is exactly the kind of instinct that makes Maroon worth paying attention to.
What she has built is a cyberpunk transmedia universe rooted in independent infrastructure: a novel, a serialised narrative, physical objects fabricated and distributed through her own supply chain, and a web presence she controls entirely. No platform dependency. No permission required.
That's the same operating principle that runs through everything AoF builds. It's why V.Tracer is in the collective. The signal is the same. The frequency just differs.