his grandmother is one of those hoity toity professional lush types that has money to burn and basically just spends her days being wooed by people after her money and then his mom is a renowned psychiatrist who lives for the world of snobbery, elbows have definitely been rubbed. his dad is a fairly known professor at nyu who dips in and out of the high life too. jav was never good about playing up the culture or social expectancies, but his twin brother was a favorite and he lived on his brother's coattails so people at least know of him.