Valentina Farley

Valentina is a member of Sailor Doom. She's a pirate and passionate bomb maker.

Appearance
Valentina has long, red hair which is usually in a simple braid and decorated with a ribbon. Her eye color is green. Due to a childhood accident, her right eye has been lost and is covered by a simple eye patch. She has a lot of freckles.

Valentina usually wears a red coat, slightly too large for her frame since it used to be her brother's. Her typical attire consists of a white, frilly blouse, striped pants and brown leather boots.

She enjoys wearing jewellery, especially golden accessories, most likely stolen from treasure chests and bedside tables.

Personality
Valentina has a devil-may-care attitude. She's usually carefree, bold and often reckless, a hedonist at heart. She doesn't fear much - except for sailors' superstitions and the loss of her freedom.

She is quite charismatic and usually good at reading people. As the daughter of famous captains, she longs to show the same type of strong, yet fair leadership that her parents embodied.

Although she likes to put on a tough face, she has deep sense of community and cares about her friends and family a lot. Valentina is bad at dealing with her actual emotions, preferring to drown them in rum or in the blood of an enemy. She doesn't shy away from violence when it's necessary. However, her strength doesn't lie in pure brutality but in finesse, sweet talk and a bit of luck.

Valentina's three loves are girls, gold and grog. Although she might seem greedy and opportunistic at times, she doesn't mind giving away some of her riches to souls in need. She cares little for laws, preferring to create her own set of morals.

Childhood
On the 30th March of the year 1468, Valentina Katherine Farley is the second child of Thérèse and Francis Farley. She has an older brother, Sébastien. Valentina was born on her parents’ flagship, the Annabel Lee, where she also spent the most of her childhood. Despite her family’s wealth, she soon learned the importance of gold: Apparently, it was worth more than other people’s lives. Capturing ships, stealing a stranger’s gold and murdering foes was part of her family’s business.

It was clear that Valentina was supposed to follow into her parents’ footsteps, and she didn’t mind the pirate life. In fact, she enjoyed living on ships – she had always loved the sea. When she was 5, her father got her a small, wooden sword for her birthday, which she traded for a rapier when she reached the age of 10. While playing around with it one day, Valentina accidentally stabbed out her right eye, losing it permanently. This led her mother to hiring a fencing teacher for her, an old Orc named Grunt. Grunt and Valentina formed a close friendship during training.

However, Valentina also learned that life wasn’t always without sorrow: While travelling the seas with her parents’ crew, she also saw death and suffering. If the wind got faint, the crew found themselves trapped in the middle of oceans, hungry and miserable. When battles took place, Valentina watched them from afar, hidden in the crow’s nest. She saw blood drenching the deck, heard the faint moans of dying men. In her mind, these things were necessary evils but that didn’t stop her from holding her family a bit closer at night. She first took someone’s life when she was 16. After that, she wasn’t able to sleep peacefully for a while.

Before Ranarp
Two years later, her parents decided to retire to a small, sunny island near Franka. They traded rum for piña coladas and their ships for an old shack on the beach. Each child received a ship to carry on the family’s legacy. Now, Valentina called The Mariner’s Revenge her home, her favourite ship. She sailed out with a small crew, consisting of old friends, chasing her own fortune. Even though she wasn’t that successful at being a pirate, her team members loved her due to her charismatic nature. On her travels, the crew picked up Jacques. She had a good time, but it was cut short when she crashed her ship near Ranarp.

Family and Crew
Sébastien is Valentina's older brother. Their relationship is a strained but loving. She rarely talks to her parents nowadays, mainly because they're hard to reach and too busy playing golf.

Her crew consists of a diverse group of people, including GranGran and Chad.

Trivia

 * Valentina is unable to open bottles due to Agatha's curse
 * She invented marshmallows and is actually really good at cooking
 * Her favourite animal is the blue whale and her favourite colour is red
 * She can speak pigeon for some reason
 * Her parents own Ember Island, where they started living after their retirement