Valerie Harper/Tropes

Tropes that apply to Valerie Harper, written as if it were a TV Tropes page.

## Characterization and background

* **Mellow Fellow**: Compared to Cherry, Valerie is noticeably calmer than her.
* **Beautiful Singing Voice**: She loves to sing and play music.
* **Nice Girl**: She is quite generous and enjoys cheering others up, especially by playing music for them.
* **Start of Darkness**: Her having to complete tasks to earn each upgrade greatly frustrates her, and she doesn't understand why she should have to prove it if she's already a great Magi who has accomplished a lot. Before asking the MoA for dark powers, she says this line: "***If I have to prove that I'm worthy of the power I need to be a great Hero when I ALREADY AM A GREAT HERO AND SHOULDN'T HAVE TO TAKE TESTS... then I will seize that power for myself. I will seize all the power in the Multiverse and rule it with the Angels of the Apocalypse by my side in order to prove that I can handle it responsibly!***"
* **Face-Heel Turn**: She becomes bitter and power-hungry and turns against her friends at the end of *Cherry Magica*, becoming the villain Queen Vera who is a very major antagonist of the present-day arcs. However, she eventually redeems herself in Part 2 of "The Ending of the End."
* **Shrinking Violet**: Downplayed, but she is a bit shyer than Cherry and sometimes is insecure about herself.
* **Disappears Into Light**: After getting hit by the huge rainbow beam of friendship and realizing the error of her ways, she starts to fade away, but not before thanking the Magis for pulling her head out of the dark fog and asking them to take care of Nicole and Katrina for her.
* **Died Happily Ever After**: After "The Ending of the End," she is deceased, but also is finally at peace and finally ascends to her Preserver form, while her two remaiining servants Demencia and Black Hat are purified into thin air during the massive combined attack (since they are made of magic unlike the other villains who have organic, corporeal bodies, and it is implied that if they were to see the error of their ways, which they don't, the beam would have instead turned them into normal humans) and Katrina and Nicole are free from being evil.
* **Would Hurt A Child**: Queen Vera has no qualms about defeating and attacking the Guardians directly if she has to. She also has no qualms about forcibly brainwashing a girl who is only 15, recruiting her as an evil minion, and dressing her in a skimpy outfit.
* **Fatal Flaw**: Her belief that she doesn't need to earn things and should have things handed to her on a silver platter. While this starts out as just a normal flaw, this belief ultimately leads to her becoming power-hungry and turning evil.
* **Stopped Caring**: She doesn't care at all that Cherry gets her arm bitten off by a Vertex, since at that point, she refuses to be friends with her anymore since they don't agree with her unreasonable demands.
* **The Bad Guy Wins**: By the adaptation of episode 197 of *Sailor Moon*, "Ruler of the Multiverse: The Menace of Queen Vera," she has already conquered a large portion of the Multiverse and stolen the souls of not only all but two Magis, but also numerous civilians and Pokémon. By the end of the chapter, the Taisha priests give up and surrender to her, and are brainwashed. As a result, Nova and Elizabeth are forced to *fight* the Taisha in the next chapter, and the latter end up being killed anyways since their bracelets are destroyed and they keep them alive in the absence of a soul.
* **Ghost Reunion Ending**: The end of "The Ending of The End" while the Magis eat donuts shows the spirits of the Harmonic 9, Valerie included, floating and watching them from afar while they don't notice. While they don't speak, she and Cherry smile at each other before all of them fade away back to the afterlife.
* **Redemption Equals Death**: She is in shock and her eyes glow green when she hears Melody's speech about the Magic of Friendship, and willingly jumps into the MoF blast and is purified back to her civilian form. The blast, however, despite purifying her back to normal, also severely injures her, and she starts to fade away, but she also thanks the Magis for helping her see the light and clearing her head of her despair and power-hungriness, even asking them to take care of Nicole and Katrina for her and calling them by their human names.
* **Power High**: Near the end of "Destruction Around the Corner," after Nova explains who she really is and how she doesn't have a soul, Queen Vera becomes *absolutely thrilled* and grabs Nova so she can control her and have the Light of Hope's power all to herself and the AoTA. As a result, Nova is forced to bite her in order to break out of her grip.
* **Final Speech**: This is the Japanese and English versions of the conversation she has with the Magis after redeeming herself:
	+ *Kotone: **Everycreature, thank you for clearing the despair that has plagued my heart for so long./Thank you... everycreature, for lifting my head out of the dark fog.***
	+ *Nijiko: **C-clearing the despair?!/L-lifting your head?!***
	+ *Kotone: **For the past 3000 years, I've been obsessed with power and jealousy and completely forgot why it happened in the first place**.**/I was so lost in the midst of my despair and lust for power that I forgot who I was.***
	+ *Nijiko: **KOTONE-CHAN! You'll be okay! We're here for you!/Please, Valerie-chan, hang on! We've got you!***
	+ *Kotone: **I'm sorry, but I'm running out of time./Unfortunately, I'm not going to survive.***
	+ *Nijiko: **No, don't die! Please!/No! Please don't leave!***
	+ *Kotone: **Akami-chan. listen to me. You are a very unique magical girl. Please don't give up. Even if you witness the deaths of those you care about, you have to keep going, because your friends, the other past magical warriors, and I are rooting for you. Please do your best, and I trust that you will take good care of Niku-chan and Kiseki-chan. /You know... you're a very special Puella Magi. Melody, please keep fighting. Even if your friends die, you have to stay strong. For your friends. For me, and the other past magical warriors. Never give up, okay, and take care of Nicole and Katrina for me, will you?***
	+ *Akami: **...I will, Kotone-senpai./Valerie-senpai, I will. ...Promise.***

## Appearance

* **Odango Hair**: She wears her hair in two buns combined with pigtails, like Sailor Moon.
* **Gold and White are Divine**: Her main color as a Magi is white, though she has gold accents.
* **Older Than She Looks**: Despite looking 25, Queen Vera is over 3,000 years old and predates even Victoria, Arcturus, Brandon, Aurora, and Melody by a full millennium.

## Abilities

* **Make Me Wanna Shout**: Valerie has sound and music-based powers. One of her weapons is also a harp.
* **Casting a Shadow**: After becoming Queen Vera, she has darkness-based powers which include summoning monsters, brainwashing unwilling individuals, and causing creatures to have nightmares.
* **Ontological Inertia**: Any individual brainwashed by her stays brainwashed even if magic were to disappear.
* **Immortality Begins At Twenty**: Queen Vera has semi-immortality as part of her dark powers, and remains physically 25 for over 3,000 years. When she redeems herself before her death, she remains this age (despite losing her dark powers and thus her artificial semi-immortality, she still remains her physical age) and physically looks like a slightly older, young adult version of her 14 year-old self. In the series finale where she was instead revived after redeeming herself, she is also physically 25.
* **Shockwave Clap**: In "Destruction Around the Corner," Vera uses a magic shockwave attack to effortlessly knock Elizabeth and Nova back after the former desperately tries to fly over and grab her friends' souls back. In the previous chapter, she also does the same thing to Cherry Miles when she desperately tries to get Melody and her Pokémons' souls back.

## Relationships

* **Heterosexual Life-Partners**: With Cherry.