some valentine headcanons
She had a speech impediment when she was young and was made to go to speech therapy to correct it. She made Ender do the exercises along with her because she didn’t want him to develop the same impediment and have one more thing to be bullied for. He credits this with his public speaking skills later in life.
Like her brothers, she has dark hair and eyes and light brown skin.
She likes small dangling earrings with cute shapes
She was raised with a lot of homophobia and xenophobia (and spread some online) but didn’t really internalize it unlike her siblings. It didn’t alarm her when she turned out to be interested in women as well as men. Her siblings' gender/sexuality didn’t bother her either, although they were both internally tortured for a while. She wasn't even surprised because she knew everything before they did.
She likes to braid her hair
Some part of her wishes she could have normal childhood and friendships with other girls her age. But then she remembers that a lot of people annoy her, especially after she spends time around her brothers
She secretly likes horror movies. Obviously she and her siblings were not allowed to watch them growing up. But when she was a child, while her father was watching, she would sneak in and watch them with him - that was her introduction to horror. The movies terrified her, but part of her liked being scared. Afterward she would relate a watered down version of the plots to Ender to give him a gentle scare.
She is a bad dancer.
She prefers paper books to e-books. As a little girl she reads books with a flashlight under the covers.
Her baking gets better over time. She loves to make pastries such as cream puffs. Ender doesn’t really like eating baked goods but he will always eat hers.
Her parents made her take violin lessons as a child because they liked the idea of having a cute little girl violin prodigy. She dropped it after a few years and admires Peter who is much more dedicated to the piano.
She was raised by Catholic parents and although she is not catholic she appreciates the aesthetics of catholicism.
Her tallest height is 160cm (5'3") and she is secretly sad that her brothers ended up taller than her.
She is not very romantic but she likes flirting.
Peter makes up nicknames for her based on her name. It really annoys her but she misses it when she leaves.















