not much is known about blanc personal history he hails from the southern region of the united states most likely in new orleans louisiana by his name and accent where his father was employed as a police detective but has since retired from the force his mother was heavily religious and blanc was raised as such but he had negative experiences in the church blanc allow jud duplenticy to infer that the specific church in which he was raised was roman catholicism but never explicitly states this blanc subsequent conversion to atheism lead to a strained relationship with his mother