Last Hope and is now working with Double and Marie, the current Skullgirl. Valentine is one of the playable characters in Skullgirls, replacing Squigly and Umbrella in the initial line-up so there would be a playable villain during the game’s release. Valentine’s day gifts for her under $50 her bio suggests, little is truly known about Valentine apart from her service as a Last Hope operative and servant of the Skullgirl. Her motive to join the Skullgirl was chiefly out of self-preservation, but also in the hopes of researching the powers that control the Skull Heart behind enemy lines.

Despite taking orders from higher powers, Valentine’s actions are largely influenced by her own personal agenda. What precious little that is known about Valentine is evidenced in her story mode and combat dialogue. She often comes across as impersonal and condescending, with little emotional fluctuation. She does not hesitate to resort to murder and, aside from feeling slight guilt toward Painwheel, has no real morality. An interview with Alex Ahad states that despite her demeanor Valentine “acts like a jerk” to conceal her good intent and emotions.

As mentioned prior Valentine had a tendency to go against orders from her superiors to pursue what she feels is right. Patty refers to Valentine as an overachiever with a big ego. Easter, though jokingly, backs this claim up. Valentine has shown a fondness for medical science and learning, and often refers to her own actions as parts of “experiments” or “research”. This is especially apparent when she encounters Ms. Fortune, and becomes intrigued to Ms. Fortune’s paradoxical existence to the point of attacking her with the intent of cutting her open.

She hates Brain Drain so much that she became an assassin to kill him. She also seems to despise the Medici Mafia and anything related to them mainly because of their criminal activities and because of the fact they are the main reason of the corruption in the city. Outside of her “job”, she’s a very straightforward person and her sexual act is just a part of her kunoichi technique. Valentine had a rough childhood and entered to the labs early on, for training purposes. Valentine lost her eye in the incident that destroyed Lab 7. The cross in her remaining eye is result from the lab’s experimental drug test, as the team were not only in charge of the tests but test subjects themselves.

The scar on the lips of Valentine are from a different time, not the attack on Lab 7. Her counter animation is most likely an illusion or a body double. Valentine got along with the Last Hope members, getting along with Hallow the best but also having a small rivalry with Christmas. Her true name is Valerie and denotes “strength, health or boldness”. Her design is essentially a combination of two fanservice tropes: “naughty nurse” and “sexy ninja”. Valentine has blood red eyes with cross-shaped pupils, blue hair with several large bangs covering her forehead and tied up in a spiky pony tail, along with grayish skin. She wears a bandaged eye-patch over her right eye, which is heavily scarred over.

She also has a thin, vertical scar running through the left side of her lips, which is typically covered by a white medical mask. Valentine has a slim yet curvaceous body, although her low fighting stance deliberately obscures her true stature. She wears a black fudoshi and concept art shows she has adhesive bandages over her nipples in lieu of brassiere. Her outfit is a cross between a nurse and a kunoichi: she dons a white, skin tight medical scrub top with pink cross buttons, a matching nursing cap and medical gloves. Her numerous weapons include mementos taken from her fallen comrades: Christmas’s scalpels, Patty’s IV Polearm, Easter’s bodybags, and Hallow’s syringes.

The “Graveyard Shift” palette is a hint to her appearance as a Skullgirl. Alex Ahad has acknowledged that she was “probably inspired a lot” by Elle Driver. Valentine’s design was officially changed on May 13th, 2014 via a patch update. It changed all parts of her design that involve a red cross against a white background to be altered so the cross is a fuchsia color instead. Valentine is the only survivor of the Last Hope, a group of special Anti-Skullgirl Labs operatives. Before meeting their end at the hands of the Skullgirl, the Last Hope worked for the mysterious Lab Zero and performed duties ranging from reconnaissance and sabotage to advanced research.