Nexus Character Directory

[Demon Prince]

VALENTINA ARCHER

Aliases: N/A
Gender: Woman
Ancestry/Kin: Catgirl
Age: 30
Profession: Apothecary/Assassin
Physical Description: Valentina is a very small woman--about 4 and a half feet in height--with a thin frame. She has blue eyes and pink hair, including the fur on her ears and tail, and hands that resemble a mix between human hands and cat’s paws. She typically wears a blue cloak, with the hood down so she doesn’t look shady, and beneath that a fairly nondescript white shirt and pair of dark pants (with a hole cut in just wide enough for the tail).
Personality: Valentina is a sweet, kind person with a desire to keep those around her happy --but also possessed of a strong sense of justice. She sometimes holds back her real thoughts and opinions, both out of a desire to keep the peace and a tendency to think faster than she speaks.
Power Level: Moderately experienced adventurer
Skills and Gear:
Assassin Training--moving stealthily, use of daggers and some ranged weapons, deceit--all of this falls under the purview of assassin training.
Apothecary Training--Valentina knows how to make a wide variety of potions and salves, mostly for healing purposes. She also knows enough about the various herbs involved to make them “wrong” and create poisons.
Fixer--While she was still working for her adoptive father, Valentina learned a thing or two about how to fix the heat, repair parts of the car they used for business, etc. While she’s no iron man, she can build and repair basic things in a pinch.
Athletics--due to a combination of her training as an assassin and natural talents as a catgirl, Valentina is quite good at climbing, jumping, balancing, and so on. She can also “right” herself midair so she always lands on her feet.
Claws--self-explanatory.
Backstory: Valentina never knew her real parents, save some fuzzy memories of them at a very young age, but was taken in as a child by one of the various apothecaries in the large city she lived in. He had quite a bit of experience as a healer, and tried to teach Valentina everything he knew that she might have a trade to support herself. She would come to meet a variety of people in the city through their work, from normal citizens needing a fix, to her adoptive father’s old adventuring buddies, to some very, very scummy people. Her father taught her to heal them all, because he believed it was wrong for a healer to refuse services to anyone.

One day, Valentina broke those rules--she was supposed to make a minor potion meant to cure migraines, but she knew the wife of the customer, and how she was being abused horribly by him. Deciding she wouldn’t sit idly by and accept it, Valentina brewed the potion wrong, making it lethal to anyone who drank it.
She wasn’t completely comfortable with her decision at first, having violated the rules she had grown up with for most of her life, so she went to one of her father’s friends--an adventuring partner with a war wound that needed regular treatment--and spilled her guts to him, asking if what she did was right. After hearing her story, he agreed with her decision, despite the sadness he felt at Valentina’s loss of innocence, and decided to help her learn the assassin skills he was taught when he was younger. Valentina, for her part, knew she couldn’t go back to her father’s shop like nothing had happened, and took to her training with determination
Miscellaneous: She’s from a setting my friend made that’s sort of post-apoc mixed with fantasy.