✞ VALENTINE ✞

Valentine is a woman that often finds herself at the heart of "strength", yet she convinces herself that she absolutely does not possess it, often overworking herself and finding herself landing in situations that would label her as overambitious. Once a shut-in child, she found herself becoming somebody that believed in those that defended her, much unlike how she was before. She's stoic on the outside, and willing to give what people do for her back ten-fold, especially melting when it's her wife or her daughter. She finds comfort in her family, so while she was once a ruthless mercenary among these "reapers", willing to turn to stoicism for the sake of her job -- she returns to stoicism for the sake of protecting others. She's kind-hearted, yet she finds herself stuttering in her own job now.

Valentine is a victim of her own personal sense of war -- war with reality, her sense of self, and if she's truly meant to be passive, aggressive, or passive aggressive. She has always had a companion with her, and she prefers to keep it that way, per the loneliness, but she only wishes that the circumstances were different. She doesn't want to be rough around the edges like this anymore, but she also blesses herself that Kobayashi of all people took her in. She finds gratefulness that she was even able to experience crushes, despite having hidden in her "mother"s -- her model by whom she was created -- shadow. It was only after her mother's eventual martyrdom that she found piles upon piles of expectations put on her -- expectations that went against her very way of living. This lack of a childhood, lack of a personality, really sits with her, giving Hana all of her love and attention -- the attention she didn't get. She still craves that kindness, and wants to find that love in other people. While she detests her status as one of the most potent reapers, she will utilize the knowledge she's obtained for as long as she can defend those close to her.