Aletris Valentine

* The Detective
* Valentine

**Aletris Valentine**, mostly known as **The Detective** or **Detective Valentine**, is, as her name suggests, a detective in the law enforcement, and part of the infamous Valentine Family.

## Appearance

The Detective is a young woman with mildly wavy, long, dark brown hair and narrow dark brown eyes. Her bangs frame her face, while some are gathered at the center of her forehead. She wears a black trench coat that reaches under her knees. Under it is a black vest over a striped dress shirt that is light blue in hue. She also wears bandages over her right eye, and has them wrapped around her entire body; only her hands and feet are left uncovered.

## Backstory

Aletris is the daughter of Maria Valentina, an anonymous woman somehow connected to the Mafia. She is the older sister of Bonnie Valentine, who she mostly took care as their mother was a busy woman. She also had a father, but noted that he left when she was a little girl and Maria was pregnant with Bonnie at the time. Still, she shows massive respect for her father, even refusing to believe he left and that something happened to him.

When Aletris was sixteen, she was moved out of her home into a mansion owned by her mother and stayed there, rarely leaving the house, working on drawings; she was an online artist and often did commissions for people all within the comfort of her own home. She was characterized as a hikikomori; having total withdrawal from society and seeking extreme degrees of social isolation and confinement, i.e, she didn't even leave her house, since she had everything she needed in it, so there was no need to even go to the supermarket. This may be due to the fear of her mother, as well. Even as a child, she knew what her mother was doing, and she was scared that she would stumble upon one such act, either by her mother or someone trying to harm Aletris, if she ever left the house. And she lived in that house for years, until the horrific discovery in the attic.

Aletris always smelled an odd smell coming from the attic. It smelled like a rotten animal, but for the longest time, she just ignored it, thinking it was just a dead animal up there; it WAS a giant, dirty, old attic with a lot of strange things, so an animal's dead, rotting carcass wasn't anything strange. But one day, she had this strange urge to visit the attic and look through it. She never did that before because of the rotting smell. And when she did, she saw this bag that the rotting smell was coming from, and had the urge to open it, mainly because it looked too big to be an animal. And in that body bag she saw the dead, rotting corpse of her own father, and then everything clicked. The reason her mother forced her to move out at sixteen in the specific house she owned, the reason for the rotting smell in the attic, the reason her father just left for seemingly no reason and she never saw him again... Maria was trying to frame her own daughter for the murder of her father. After the shock settled down, she called the police to report the dead body.

The police came to her house and questioned her about the body, and she talked about her mother, raising the police's suspicions on Maria, but there wasn't any hard evidence to prove it was her. It was simply all circumstantial evidence. Aletris was asked to go to the police station for further questioning on the matter while the body was taken care of. After she was interrogated, she was free to go since there wasn't any evidence that she was involved with the murder, other than a possibility that she was used as some sort of alibi to prove that the real killer couldn't have hidden it in the attic because then Aletris would've noticed if anyone came over.

After she left the police station, she was walking home as she didn't have a car and her house wasn't that far away anyways. She was waiting at a red light, and then, before the light turned green, she walked into oncoming traffic, and subsequently, got hit by a car. Thankfully, she didn't die, but she got severe brain damage (and various other injuries) from the incident and had to be hospitalized for a long time.

While in the hospital, she was made to go through multiple "examinations". In reality, these were inhumane experiments in which her doctor tortured her to observe her body's response and rate of healing. Such experiments included forcefully breaking her bones with a clamp and being administered nerve gas.