Valentine

Valentine

Gender: Male

Species: Deity

Age: None

Relationship status: taken! 

Personality: Pessimistic, Sarcastic, Determined

Little backstory: 

-His story begins in his adulthood. He never remembered being a child; in fact, maybe it never existed. He has always been suspicious that he was created artificially to fill some sort of specific purpose. He didn’t know what, of course. But in the end, it didn’t matter to him; he liked existing for a reason. He would go as far as to consider himself lucky since so many live their lives without any meaning. Here he was though, and he was taught to believe he would bring so much good to his realm. What a naïve boy he used to be.

-To elaborate, he does not live on Earth. All realms are connected, but his was one of the more unreachable kinds as everyone who lived in his realm were immortals. They were very vain, thinking much of themselves and very little of others with such short, insignificant life spans.

-Valentine was a highly respected individual, namely due to his specific ability. There were very few who (if any) who could do what he did; which was manipulate emotions. He didn’t know the extent of his abilities when he was first “born” into the world though. He was told only that he could bestow love to any and all that he chose! He was given the rank of a Love Deity, as such.

-At first, he could only alter the emotional state of someone by touching them (like his hands on their shoulders, holding their hands, etc.) But he eventually learned how to do it from a distance, challenging himself to do it from a farther distance each time he mastered one.

-Fellow immortals often came to him for love advice (for a price, of course) or to bestow love onto another being of their choice. Some of these Valentine would turn down if he foresaw it ending in failure. He never wanted to bring anything negative into the world such as envy, hate, or strife among one another. He did his best to keep only love alive. That was his job after all, no? (He could make a friendship-like love possible as well as intimate!)

-Unfortunately, all good eventually seems to die. There was a plan for his existence all right, but in the end, it was not a good purpose.

-Valentine’s realm was far more corrupt than he knew; behind the mask of goodness and love was a nasty evil that he was blind to.

-(STILL WORKING ON THE EVENT THAT TRANSPIRES—The summary though, Valentine is tricked into using his abilities for something very damaging. He overhears after he was awarded his double-halos that he was played. Though the event had malicious intentions, it was initially played off like it was something really good and life-changing for the people of his world. Valentine got all the credit for bringing about such a thing which is why he was awarded his new status.) Double-halos were unheard of in his world. It was an incredibly rare status for one to have and the respect people already had for him doubled. Finding out it was all a lie tore him apart, and these halos (they are like a brand, he cannot ever be free of them) are a constant remainder of his failure.

-Valentine, for the first time in his life, was beyond pissed off. He had never experienced such rage; it was like a red-hot virus that exploded through every nerve in his body. In this anger, he unleashed a new side of himself: Hatred. This hatred altered his abilities at the flip of a coin, he no longer felt like he could spread love, nor did he want to. With this newfound hate, he released it onto those who had wronged him, contaminating their very personalities with despair and agony that they would likely never escape.

-His realm fell into chaos after that, and Valentine did something else none had never attempted, and that was to leave the very realm he used to call home to find a better place to live; if such a thing even existed. He settled on Earth. He can’t say it ever really felt like a ‘home’, but it was the best he could come by.

-Anymore, he thinks he can see through everyone now. Behind every smile, every good intention, there is a darkness--a greediness! Ultimately, an evil. No one was truly good, but people here, just like on his home realm, liked to live in ignorance. They liked to live the lie that they were in fact ‘good’ and actually, TRULY believed good existed. He was disgusted by such people. He instead, chose to hang out with the ‘scum’ of this world. The ones who lied, cheated, stole—they at least embraced that awful side. They acknowledged that they were evil.

-This Evil became the only truths he knew. He himself became scum thanks to this so-called “love”. Now having a warped view of love, he only saw bad things born from it.

-Filled with a sense of bitterness and self-loathing for what he was forced to become, he took a turn for a different path; one filled with darkness. He hated it had to be this way; even though he tried to accept the fact that even he was evil, he felt this darkness was eroding away his very ‘self’. The farther in he got, the darker it became and the more lost he felt. It was a numbing agony he felt he deserved. Though he existed, it felt like he wasn’t really there anymore. His naïve hopes and dreams for a better world have been shattered, and the remaining pieces were slipping through his fingers, leaving behind more wounds that would likely never heal.

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-Not all was lost though. Years pass like this, and when he finally thinks he is to far gone, he meets someone by the name of Violencia. She challenged what he believes, eventually changing the way he has come to know things. They are both very hurt, but together they find a balance and a way to heal. For once in a very long time, he thinks maybe-- just MAYBE existing isn’t so bad. In fact, it was beginning to feel ‘good’ again.

Special skills: 

-He can manipulate the emotional state of any being he desires. Typically, he can only make creatures feel how he is feeling at the present time. But anything is possible if he wants to will it to happen, it just requires much more work on his end.

-He can also travel between different realms or worlds easily. (this is thanks to his little, float-y wings)

 Fun facts: He has a morbid sense of humor...Only Violencia laughs at his jokes.