Funny Valentine

Funny Valentine's Official Portrait in the White House

**Funny Valentine** (Also known as Funny, Omni, Fun Valen or Valentine) was the 1st and 3rd President of the Union of Fredonia and 6th and 9th Head of State of Fredonia (numeration since Ferdinand Marcus). He was President of 3 Vice Presidents, 2 House Speakers and 2 Chief Justices. He was popularly known as the first Imperialistic President, shown in the Fredonian-UCCS War that was waged over the ownership of predominantly Fredonian Louisiana. He was also known to becoming the first president to be re-elected for a second term consecutively, first President to be deposed (reinstated after Union forces recaptured the capital) and the shortest Vice Presidency when Cinz Teddy died 2 minutes after his inauguration. He is the first President to refuse re-election. His death was a shocking one since he died of the ZION-19 Virus.

OCC: (Funny Valentine was based on the JOJO's Bizarre Adventures Character Funny Valentine)

## Early life

### Youth

When the President was a child, his father went to war during the August Fredonian-UCCS War. He never heard of his father since until a Captain that served along his father's side informed his family about his unfortunate death at the Rio Grande River. This inspired him of patriotism but also his father's left ideology of freedom for all.

### Education

After the fall the Republic, he was educated in Washington University that was under the jurisdiction before by the Azure Alliance during its Occupation for 6 months. He believed the fall of the Republic was the ''largest catastrophe in Fredonian History'' and ''must be solved immediately''. His ideologies of left patriotism did not go unnoticed and many of his classmates and teachers were sympathetic to his cause. He graduated in Military Science and Political Science, eventually finding himself in the regiment of Azure Alliance Commander Arthur McArthur in hunting down separatists.

### Early Military career

He rose to the ranks in McArthur's Regiment and had more opportunity when McArthur was promoted to General and further expanding McArthur's army. He became McArthur's right hand man and was very ambitious. But his ambitious mindset ended at an ambush at Camp Vera in Michigan where several bandits raided and massacred the camp that he was put in charge of, this woke him up to experience reality essentially ending his inexperienced patriotism turning him to a full grown soldier. He came back, a man that has experienced the losing side of a war.

## Establishing the Union of Fredonia

After 6 months of Azure Occupation. Funny Valentine, now a general, went on the move to popularize the movement for the re-establishment of Fredonia. It was very popular that it forced the Azure Alliance to eventually withdraw from Fredonia. Azure was one thing, separatists were another one. For 2 weeks, Funny Valentine along with his generals Kono Brando, Relics Von Le Sois and Laurens Xander (later became influential politicians) hunted down separatists in Michigan and Carolina. And thus, on March 11, 2022, Fredonia was re-established under the Union of Fredonia. He was chosen by the McArthur Junta he named after his mentor, Arthur McArthur, as the first Union President.

## Presidency

### Early days

Funny Valentine spent his early presidency establishing the government, modeling it after the Fredonian Republic Constitution he re-enforced. Most of the politicians were appointed by their Home state governors, some were appointed by Funny Valentine himself. His government was rising and later was put to the test during the first ever war the Union fought in.

### Louisiana Revolt

In order to pursue his Imperialistic Ideologies, he had to reincorporate former territories of Fredonia lost to the UCCS, a former enemy of Fredonia. He did this by backing a revolt in predominantly Fredonian Louisiana, then sending soldiers as ''protectors'' of the Fredonian ethnicity, eventually annexing the territory in March 17, provoking the UCCS to declare war.

### Fredonian-UCCS War

The war begun technically since the start of the Louisiana Revolt but is widely considered that the Annexation of Louisiana and border skirmishes started it. The war was a short lived one, lasting only 3 days. The end of the war was signaled when both sides agreed on a ceasefire but was broken briefly then reinstated, however the UCCS NCEO Wendigo Rockefeller did not believe anything Valentine does by now and thus does not agree to the ceasefire, bringing in foreign aid that eventually forced the war to end because foreign aid was severely unpopular to a dispute between 2 nations according to the culture of the 2 nations. Rockefeller and Valentine eventually agreed to a peace treaty on March 18, 2022 in New Orleans, it was labelled the ''Old Times Peace Treaty'' as the terms ended a war that was part of a long rivalry, but the rivalry did not end. The war was announced to be over by 2 PM on March 19, 2022.

### Post-Fredonian UCCS War Management

After the war, there was growing resentment by imperialists that Fredonia did not gain anything from the war when in fact Fredonia did. The treaty stated to go back to the original borders before the August war that caused the UCCS to extract land from Fredonia which was the whole point of the war, those original borders were populated by Fredonians. He dealt with these resentments by arguing that:

*''Time is needed to grow and once the size of the nation (OCC: Members of the Server) is sufficient, then the patriotism of Fredonia will be manifested once again''*

His management so far calmed the population, however anti UCCS resentment still existed. However, at the day of the Election, March 19 2022. An UCCS diplomat attacked Fredonia, not knowing a truce was signed. President Valentine agreed to put him on trial with also UCCS observers.

### March 19, 2022 Election

He ran for re-election on the first every Union Presidential Elections on March 19, 2022 and won. Marking his presidency to become the first to be elected for a second term consecutively.

### 2nd Term

He spent the first days of his 2nd term fixing relations with UCCS with the new NCEO Elijah Hand of the UCCS being a more leaning towards peace kind of leader. Much progress was made, with the creation of the International Trade Center in New Orleans being one of the most important steps towards peace. In his 2nd term also sought colonial expansion of Fredonia into Africa, establishing the first Fredonian African Colony of Liberia through Operation Overseas where 110,000 Volunteered African-Fredonians signed up to living in the colony settling the cities of Monrovia and Greenville.

However, his term also sought a crisis of pro war protests and the resignation of Elijah Hand which possibly hands the position of UCCS NCEO to a pro war politician that would possibly lead to war. Although no actions of war has been made, the resignation is a warning for an impending war as, according to Elijah Hand:

*''The Majority of the government is pro war and is not leaning towards peace. The UCCS is beyond help.''*

*- Elijah Hand*

His 2nd term though, oversaw the 2nd Fredonian-Corporatist War which led to him for the first time firing a Fredonian general and the war caused the world to observe the dissolution of the UCCS. Large westward gains were gained however the more they expanded westward the higher the chances of revolt was.

### 3rd Term

He won against Samuel Platypus on the April 1 2022 Presidential Elections which was one of the closest elections at that time (overshadowed by the much more intense April 23, 2022 Presidential Elections). His 3rd term he oversaw the development of activity However, his 2nd term also led to the Fredonian Civil War which was caused by Cinz Teddy's April 9, 2022 Coup. He was deposed on April 10, 2022 but was reinstated on April 12, 2022 after Union forces recaptured the capital. He also made a controversial decision to give the regions of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to the Discordian Empire to end the Northern front making the Discordian Empire withdraw from the war, but he also oversaw the end of the Civil war with the Treaty of Houston, one of the most controversial treaties in history, that gave Cinz Teddy 1 week of Presidency and 1 week Vice Presidency for Valentine, the public was outraged until Cinz was killed 2 minutes after his inauguration and Valentine was reinstated since he was Vice President.

After the Civil war, he dealt with the Post Civil War Economy, cutting incomes and increasing taxes. These actions eventually led to Company Inactivity. His foreign policy was also challenged due to the civil unrest in Asula in which both sides called for Fredonian support in which he relatively refused to get involved.

He refused a 4th term, commending his Vice President Edward Nashton to the Presidency.

He was succeeded by **Barack Obama** as President, he became Secretary of State under President Obama until his death, he was succeeded by **Donald Trump** as Secretary of State (Now Secretary of Foreign Affairs).

## Death

He became the first ZION-19 case in Fredonia but was feeling better. He was released from his ward but on the way home his car went off the road and fell on the Tidal Basin where doctors that rushed to the scene picked up his body and identified his cause death by ZION-19. This sent shockwaves throughout the world, the man who reinstated Fredonia has died of ZION-19.