Valentine

* Valentine
* Valentine Poster
* Devil's Luck Card Game
* Rustage Art

## Stats

**Valentine** is the 7th and strongest Flame who actively takes contracts. He appears to be the oldest Flame in the organization, after the 8th. He met Louis, Florence, and Gravy in Episode 19. In Episode 22 he appears after the crew dispatches Cleo, then seemingly gets the best of them for the majority of the fight. In Episode 23 Duros finally stabs him through the heart and kills him. When Valentine dies he turns into ash just as a vampire would.

## **Appearance**

Valentine is a pale man with long flowing black hair and a goatee, He wears eccentric attire. Including glasses with circular red lenses, a black cloak, a white ruffle shirt under a red suit with silver trimmings, and a black suit with gold trimmings. He also has vials of blood as earrings and a container of blood resembling a top hat on his head. He looks like a vampire and appears to be the tallest of the Flames.

His appearance is most likely inspired by Gary Oldman's portrayal of Count Dracula from the film Bram Stoker's Dracula.

## **Personality**

Valentine talks in an Eastern European accent, which makes him sound like Count Dracula and other classic depictions of vampires. He is a faithful member of the Flames and also expresses great pleasure after draining people's blood.

## **Abilities / Powers / Equipment**

### Overview

As a senior member of the Eight Flames Valentine is a highly skilled professional assassin, holding the rank of the Seventh Flame inside the organization. His strength and natural charisma are enough to make Hemlock, a very strong assassin in her own right, cower in fear. He also possesses the abilities provided by an extremely versatile Devil Fruit. He was able to effortlessly defeat Louis Le'cloque and Florence at the same time, killing the latter.

### Physical Abilities

Valentine is a capable hand-to-hand combatant, but tends to rely on his Devil Fruit in combat.

### Devil Fruit

Valentine has eaten a Logia-type Devil fruit that grants him several blood-related abilities. The primary function of his Fruit is transforming his body into blood. He can turn his body into blood to gain resistance to damage from most physical attacks. He can separate his blood from himself to create beings of blood at the cost of his health. As compensation, he can heal himself by ingesting the blood of others. He can also use drops of his blood as projectiles.

#### Blood Bending

Valentine is skilled at self hemokinesis. Curiously enough, despite having eaten a "Logia-like" Devil Fruit, Valentine isn't invulnerable in his blood form. Instead, he takes half-damage from all attacks except those that involve Haki. It appears that when Valentine turns into blood, he coagulates and becomes a solid structure. This is unlike the invulnerable fluid state that one would expect from a typical Logia or Special Paramecia.

#### Blood Boy

One of Valentine's abilities is to make a person-sized blob of blood at the cost of his HP. In gameplay terms, 40 HP from Valentine translates to 80 HP for the summoned blood elemental.

#### Blood Bullets

Valentine bites his finger tips and shoots out drops of blood. Which makes a useful projectile. If someone is hit by Valentine's blood bullets, he can mix his blood into their body to control them like a puppet (+9 to hit). On hit they must succed a constitution saving throw or be forced to do what Valentine wants, however he cannot force them to use thier devil fruit powers.

#### Vampire Bite

Valentine has a powerful bite, and maybe some vampire-like fangs. He sinks his teeth into his victim to suck their blood (1d4 piercing damage) and (+9 to hit), if Valentine hits, the target must make a constitution saving throw, on a failed the save the target takes 4d10 damage and Valentine heals himself for the same amount of damage done, and since no charecter succeded the save, we don't know what happens if they do.

### Blood Vials

Valentine keeps various vials of blood on his person. It is unclear who's blood is in there or why he carries them.

### Animal Companion

Valentine's animal companion is a bat who can turn invisible, thanks to the inventions of V.

### Haki

Valentine is aware of the existence of Haki and is knowledgeable enough to recognize the use of Armament Haki. Whether he is capable of using the ability himself is unknown.

## **Devil's Luck The Card Game**

Valentine is a FIGHTER Mind card with 3 power and the following quote:

"*Blood is thicker than water*"

Valentine is part of the FLAME faction.

Artist: EroBommy

## **Relationships**

### **Devil's Luck Pirates**

#### William

William hates Valentine for taking Gravy and killing Florence, like the rest of the Crew.

#### Verona

Verona hates Valentine for taking Gravy and killing Florence, like the rest of the Crew.

#### Duros

Duros hates Valentine for taking Gravy and killing Florence, like the rest of the Crew.

#### Ragnar

Ragnar hates Valentine for taking Gravy and killing Florence, like the rest of the Crew.

#### Pearl

Pearl hates Valentine for taking Gravy and killing Florence, like the rest of the Crew.

### **Eight Flames**

#### V

Valentine is subservient to the V and therefore the most loyal member of the Flames. He acts as the V's right hand man and uses his power to scare all the other flames into submission. Thus discouraging any acts of betrayal.

#### Hemlock

Hemlock seemed to fear Valentine greatly. But after the Devil's Luck Pirates gained the upper-hand, she showed courage and made good attempts to impale Valentine with her dagger. Valentine mocked Hemlock for surrendering herself to the Devil's Luck Pirates

#### Blake

Valentine kept tabs on Blake and made sure he never went out of line, constantly threatening to kill Blake whenever he acted rebellious.

## **History**

At some point Valentine met V and helped V established the Eight Flames.

## **Trivia**

* It appears that Valentine is the first and only established member of the Eight Flames to have a Devil Fruit.
* Valentine has been mistaken for a vampire, by William, Louis, Cyril, and Bullet.
* In a comical turn of a events, Valentine smiled and turned to ash at the moment of his death. The cause of this anomaly is unknown. Perhaps he used one of Spinkle's Special substances? Or maybe he *really* was a vampire?
* Given that he speaks like a stereotypical Transylvanian vampire count, and he is the second in command for the numerically ranked organization, his character concept might be a pun. That he is the Count Down (from the 8th flame).
* Even though Valentine has the ability to control blood, he is unable to control blue blood as both bloods are made of different things and compounds.
* He is the only member of Eight flames in the Devil's luck card game, not having their animal companion appearance in their artwork
* Rustage agreed with this post saying Valentine would be Romanian if he was in real life.

## **Quotes**

* "So weak-willed, Hemlock, so weak-willed." - Valentine making fun of Hemlock's inability to use Haki to actually hurt him
* "I want to suck your blood Duros! AND I DID!' - Valentine upon sucking Duros dry
* "You...have *Haki*?!!" - Valentine's reaction to Ragnar using his Armament Haki to hurt him