my little baby...vowel...
in their first iteration, they were like. childhood friends-to-lovers with amarie and they tragically died after being forced to become part of legion zero. i did really like their storyline at the time but i'm very glad i changed it since.
i changed their pronouns from she/they to they/them bc i wanted to make it easier to juggle between referring to them and amarie (who only uses she/her). but now i also ship them with tanlorin who also uses they/them, so i guess that doesn't matter anymore 🤡
their old color scheme used to be yellow, black, and gold before i just changed it to neutral colors. i do still use it for their noble/battlespire looks though (not counting their uniform).
their uncle martus was the closest thing they had to a parental figure who actually cared about them, but their relationship was still incredibly strained at the battlespire. to illustrate, tan's complicated relationship with their mother is more or less how val feels about martus. (with val's own mother, victoria, they absolutely hate her and want nothing to do with her. it's much less nuanced.)
they were born and raised in cheydinhal, but moved to the imperial city for a couple of years before they got into the battlespire. i like to think that maybe they and amarie (before she transitioned) met once in that time period, but nothing beyond that.
their worst fear is becoming like their mother. it's why they took so long to tell amarie that they want to have children with her.
this is more about tanlorin, but i like to think that when they see val and amarie together for the first time, they can really feel how much those two care about each other. idk. like getting hit with a truck but it's made of love and affection.
some of their character inspos are: corky from bound (though that goes for almost all my butch ocs 😭), heather chandler, regina george, and ginger fitzgerald. the latter three are more for battlespire!val though.
i don't want to outright say they are, but i guess you could call them bipolar? i honestly wasn't intending that at first, but i mean. their battlespire playlist does have a lot of them oscillating between being full of themself and of them being depressed/angry about their life. i guess it comes from their lore being heavily inspired by halsey's music :')
i like to think that in a modern au, they'd be a closet emo kid in their teen years/early 20s. like in public they'd still be dressing like the rich ""girl"" they are, but whenever they're alone they'd try teasing their hair or putting on black eyeliner and eyeshadow. they'd be too terrified to dye their hair black, though (even temporarily).
