Vali Lucifer

**Vali Lucifer** is the remaining descendant of the original Lucifer and the leader of the Vali Team that is affiliated with the Shinto Gods, now a part of Team DxD. He is the wielder of the Longinus; **Divine Dividing**, being the possessor of the Vanishing Dragon, **Albion**. As such, he is the direct rival of Issei Hyoudou and Ddraig.

## **Appearance**

Vali is a handsome young man with light silver hair (dark silver in seasons 2-3) and hazel eyes (light blue in seasons 2-3). He is often seen wearing a dark green V-neck shirt with a high-collared black leather jacket over it. He also wears burgundy jeans with a silver chain drooping down over them and black leather chaps with three bands encircling his right calf, and black shoes with black buckles. As with other Devils, Vali has black bat-like wings on his back. However, unlike other Devils, he possesses a total of eight. Vali also bears a great resemblance to his grandfather, Rizevim Livan Lucifer. Vali's height is 168 cm (5 feet 6 inches) and body weight is [60 kg].

## **Personality**

While initially appearing to be a cold, arrogant, overconfident and ruthless person, Vali has a calm, noble, and caring side in him as he cares deeply for his comrades. Wielding the Longinus "Divine Dividing" and his demonic powers, he refuses to use any other weapon besides the two, owing to a strong yet somewhat stubborn confidence in his capabilities.

He is known to be a prideful young man like his grandfather and a battle maniac, being obsessed in finding strong opponents, and having said that he would gladly welcome death if there was no one strong enough for him to fight. Additionally, Vali does take some pride in being the descendant of the original Lucifer, but not in the same arrogantly fanatic extent as the other Old Satan descendants. This is most likely due to his childhood where his father, whose fanatical pride as Lucifer's grandson, was one of the two factors that led him to abuse his own son due to having greater potential than himself. Unlike the other Old Satan descendants, Vali has absolutely no interest in supporting the world domination ideals of the Original Satans like Shalba, Creuserey, and Katerea.

Vali shows a proper attitude towards beings that deserve respect.

Vali does possess a more vulnerable side, a side that he almost never shows. This side of him comes from the extreme abuse and persecution that Vali suffered at his father's hand.

During the battle between Issei and Rizevim, he was captivated by his rival's fighting for his family the same time Vali felt lonely.

While Vali never says it, Azazel has noted that Vali actually wanted to be raised in a happy family like Issei's, as well as being a normal person with no special lineage.

This was shown in Volume 21 when Aži Dahāka pointed out that Vali's deepest desire is a family.

His painful childhood caused by his father and Rizevim also led him to learn and understand compassion, a trait that other descendants of the original Satans did not have.

Vali has repeatedly done selfless acts of kindness such as saving Asia from being disintegrated by exposure to the Dimensional Gap as well as helping Rias to stop Issei's life threatening rampage when he went berserk from activating Juggernaut Drive though he openly demonstrated a neutral demeanor when doing so.

The greatest sign of his compassion is that Vali cared immensely for his mother who was the only person in his tragic childhood to have shown him kindness, leading him to withstand his father's horrible abuse for the sake of protecting her.

Vali's strong resolve to protect his mother also extends to his younger half-siblings.

During his death match with Aži Dahāka, the safety and protection of his mother and half siblings became the driving force and determination that spurred Vali to attain victory against the Evil Dragon.

Due to the indirect fulfillment of his vengeance with his father and grandfather's respective deaths, Vali became more open in interacting with people, having accepted Goro's invitation to join them on a fishing trip at the beach simply for leisure and at Vidar's request, he moved into Kuoh Town to safeguard it from the Alliance of Hell, a significant change from his originally cold and battle obsessed nature which Issei noted in True Volume 2.

Aside from battles, Vali is also utterly obsessed with noodles, in particular, ramen.

He would go out of his way to visit famous ramen shops to eat ramen and even do culinary research on ramen.

His devotion to his ramen research is such that he would travel between the Human world, Underworld and other mythological locations to procure special ingredients for his own ramen recipe.

He is also extremely proud of his ramen research as he was completely shocked that his personally invented ramen recipe was criticized by Odin, Michael, Sirzechs and Azazel during the Pavilion Kingdom exhibition.

Unlike his rival Issei, Vali is said to have an extreme lack of interest in the opposite sex, having no interest in romance since he was a child.

## **History**

He was born as the son of Razevan, the son of Rizevim, and a human woman, making him a half-breed. Once it was revealed that Vali bore one of the Longinus, Divine Dividing, in addition to the power inherited from his great-grandfather, the original Lucifer, his father soon developed an inferiority complex toward his son who he viewed as a monster for holding those two powers. Because of the advice from Rizevim, Razevan started to bully and physically abuse Vali for his powers if he was so scared of him.

Although he received physical abuse from his father, he was loved by his human mother who would treat to his wounds, attempt to protect him, and fed him whatever she could even if it was pasta, which became his favorite despite the bland taste. Vali soon ran away from home before being found by Azazel, who brought him in and raised him in Grigori, teaching him about both his Longinus and demonic powers with the intention of killing both his father and grandfather for his abuse through childhood.

At 13-years-old, he started living with the members of the Slash/Dog Team, along with Satoru which included Tobio and Lavinia, the two members he viewed as older siblings, although he wouldn't admit it. At some point afterwards, the previous Ouryuu Nakiri caused trouble for him and Tobio resulting in him losing his position, which was passed down onto his cousin, Ryuuta Nakiri, who inherited the Sacred Beast and its name.

At some point, Vali ended up joining the Shinto Gods as a liaison for the Grigori and later meeting both the current Monkey King, Bikou, and Kuroka, a Nekoshou SS-Class Stray Devil, both of who became part of his secret team, where he sought to defeat Rizevim and to challenge stronger opponents.

## **Powers & Abilities**

**Immense Demonic Power:** As the original Lucifer's great-grandson, he has vast demonic power, and talent superior to other Satan descendants. Azazel stated that if his power was combined with Divine Dividing, Vali could become one of the strongest beings, and the strongest White Dragon Emperor of all time, past, present, and future. His demonic power lets him control Juggernaut Drive, using it as an alternative source before gaining its new form. In fact, Vali survived Samael's curse, although both Sun Wukong and Bikou's powers were needed to heal him. In D×D Lucifer, his demonic power alone could obliterate a 5,000 meter mountain using one blast and fight Aži Dahāka, who reached the Heavenly Dragons in power. Vali became a Super Devil candidate, and soon became one after fighting Jogo following the Beast War.

* **Defensive:** Vali is capable of using defensive demonic power to protect himself and others from powerful attacks. He used it to repel Issei Hyoudou during their fight.

* **Teleportation:** Vali is capable of using teleportation demonic power, as he is capable of teleporting to various locations and even being capable of sneaking into the Underworld without the permission of the Devil government.
* **Summoning:** Vali is capable of summoning Gogmagog from the alternative dimension where he is kept.

**Immense Durability:** He is extremely durable with high pain tolerance, enduring vicious wounds from Fenrir, the monstrous wolf able to kill gods and later endured Samael's poison. Even after being viciously bitten by Aži Dahaka in a heavily exhausted state, he mustered the strength to use the Satan Lucifer Smasher. He was able to endure punches from Vasco Strada in his prime, then vicious attacks from Crom Cruach. Vali endured an assortment of attacks from Nezha's Divine Weapons and during the Hell Disaster, he withstood divine blasts from Hades and continued fighting despite his injuries.

**Immense Speed:** Vali has incredible speed, which using his Scale Mail allowed him to tear off Kokabiel's wings before he could react, with Yuuto comparing Vali's movement speed to light speed. He could avoid Loki's attacks in a manner that resembles an acrobat with ease, which even the extremely prideful Evil God was willing to acknowledge. During his battles against prime Vasco Strada using his silver armor, he circled around him at god-like speed to where he vanished and avoided Crom Cruach's attacks. In D×D Lucifer he could move at god-speed beyond normal perception, however, the Strongest Evil Dragon managed to react using his vast combat experience and honed battle intuition.

**Immense Stamina:** He has tremendous stamina and endurance, being capable of maintaining his Scale Mail for one month, then endured being wounded by Fenrir, then activated his Juggernaut Drive. In Volume 24, Vali could continue fighting against Vasco even after the latter returned to his physical prime, then fought against Crom Cruach, the Strongest Evil Dragon, on even terms. He later competed in an intense match against Nezha, a Buddha rivaling Sun Wukong in power, as well as Hades, then later fought against Gvardora without rest before ultimately succumbing to his fatigue.

**Genius Intellect:** Vali is highly intelligent. While under Azazel, he has acquired incredible knowledge on various mythologies, supernatural beings, and Sacred Gears. Having an interest in exploration and archaeology, he also investigates the mysteries of the world while exploring with his team such as Great Red, extinct civilizations like Mu and Atlantis, and ancedotes of legendary people.

**Master Combatant:** Having received training from Azazel since childhood, Vali became an extremely proficient combatant capable of defeating the Cadre, Kokabiel without using his full strength. In Volume 4, he overwhelmed Issei, who was using an incomplete Scale Mail and even with the latter using Ascalon against him. After receiving training from Sun Wukong, his combat skills has improved to where he could defeat Aži Dahāka on his own, an enemy Vali previously fought against with his entire team and failed to defeat. When combined with his D×D Lucifer, Vali's skills allow him to fight on par with Crom Cruach.

**Magic Talent:** Vali has also shown to be extremely talented in using magic, capable of learning Norse Magic in a very short period of time and was able to immediately and effectively use it during his fight with Loki, a Norse God familiar with the magic style. In Volume 20, he was able to produce a sword made from magic in order to slice off weakened Rizevim's arm without using his Divine Dividing.

**Skilled Swordsman:** During his time in Takamagahara he was taught how to use a sword by Susanoo.

**Flight:** Being a half-Devil, Vali can fly using his 8 wings, in addition to the dragon wings provided to him by Divine Dividing.