Valentina

Emily Rivera (adoptive)

Yun Rivera (adoptive)

Ava Jones-Rivera (adoptive)

Jordan Night (fling)

Valentina Rasputin is the adoptive daughter of Carmen Rivera and Grace Luna. She was trained in both light and dark magic.

## Biography

### Past

Val was adoptive by Carmen Rivera when she was a baby. Her mother was the powerful witch, Katerina Rasputin, who also went by the name Katherine. Katerina's sister, Isabella Night, found out about Katerina's romance with Prince Alejandro IV. Isabella wished to use Katerina's unborn child in a plot to destroy the celestials from inside. Horrified by her sister's potential genocide, Katerina hid from both the witches and the celestials, using her magic to conceal herself. Alejandro never knew about their child and believed that Katerina had abandoned him. While on the run, Katerina sought out the help of Carmen Rivera, an ex-member of the Night Coven, and a powerful witch with dark magic. She entrusted her two year old daughter with Carmen, choosing to give Valentina a chance at a normal life. Katerina went away, in search of sister Natalya Rasputin, hoping that together, they could match Isabella's growing power and restore the Order.

### Early Life

As a two year old, Valentina hardly remembers her mother and is able to adjust to Carmen's lifestyle. When Val was five, Carmen rescued eleven year old, Amor, a runaway witch with a gift for light magic. A year later, Carmen met Grace, a light witch. Together, Carmen and Grace foster teenage Sahara (dark witch) three years into their relationship. Next to join the family was Emily, a seven year old southern belle who was nearly institutionalized after being seen playing with packs of mice. Luckily, since Grace was a nurse, she took Emily (light witch) into their family. Five years late, in 2015, Grace and Carmen legally are married. A few months into their marriage, Carmen is tasked with the legal protection of Yun (dark witch) whose coven was murdered by a group of celestials "avenging" the deaths of the Reynoso Royal family.

Since both Carmen and Grace practice different forms of magic, the Rivera girls are practiced in both. Although, they all have a natural affinity for one specific type. Unlike other witches, Valentina is skilled at both light and dark magic.

At the duck pond, Valentina bonded with the swans at the park when she was seven. She took in her first familiar, with her swan following her round like a baby duck.

## Relationships

### Romances

#### James Healy

Jamie and Val take an instant liking to each other. They begin as friends with benefits, but their relationship slowly transforms into a more emotional one after Val suffers from the death of her parents and Jamie finding his birth mother after she had abandoned him.

James is very playful and flirtations, but extremely loyal and caring. He is the perfect confidante. Val realizes she has fallen in love with him after she explains to Shauna Healy what love is. When she goes to tell him, she is cursed by Isabella Night. James eventually breaks the curse by sacrificing himself for Valentina and the two go on to formally date.

#### Andrei Mikhelson

Val purposely flirts with Andrei to get under Luz's skin. Andrei is kind and courteous to Val, which makes Val question if she has real feelings for him. She shares her suspicions with Emily, who then tells Tatiana, who in turn informs her brother. Andrei asks Val out on a date, but the two realize that they are better off as friends. Andrei is still hung up on Luz and Val had only been interested in using him to annoy her cousin.

#### Jordan Night

At the start of Val's story, she is having a fling with Jordan. She doesn't tell her family, because she knows how much Grace and Carmen fear the Night Coven. Jordan and Val agree to keep their relationship purely physical and keep their coven affiliations separate. Val breaks up with Jordan after finding out he has been abusing of his magic and picking fights with celestials in order to attack them.

### Family

* Amor Rivera (adoptive sister)
* Sahara Rivera (adoptive sister)
* Emily Rivera (adoptive sister)
* Yun Rivera (adoptive sister)
* Carmen Rivera-Luna (adoptive mother)
* Grace Rivera-Luna (adoptive step-mother)
* Luz Reynoso (cousin)
* Katerina Rasputin (biological mother)
* Alejandro Reynoso IV (father)
* Isabella Night (aunt)
* Charles Night (cousin)
* Natalya Rasputin (aunt)

### Friendships

#### Leilana Kapule (best friend)

Lana is a college friend of Val who was on the dance team alongside her. Lana is a light witch who works at a veterinary assistant in an animal clinic.

## Trivia

* Valentina's favorite holiday is the 4th of July, because she likes seeing things blow up.
* Besides English and Spanish, Val is also fluent in Tagalog and Korean.
* Valentina graduated early from UCLA with a degree in Chemistry.
* During college, Val participated in theatre, but was a terrible actress, so decided to just stick to dance.
* She is a spitting image of her mother, but her dark blue eyes were inherited from her paternal grandfather.
* Her favorite bands are Panic! at the Disco, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and Paramore