Valeria (Soul Calibur)
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| Game series | Soul series |
| First game | Soul Calibur III |
| Voice actor(s) | Yuki Makishima |
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| Age | 20 |
| Birthplace | Venice, Italy (Venetian Republic at the time) |
| Birthdate | September 19, 1571 |
| Blood type | B |
| Weapon | Grieve Edges |
| Weapon name | Cepheus Seal |
| Fighting style | Kick Edge Arts |
| Family | Father, missing during one of his travels Mother, taken by sickness Cepheus and all that works at the store |
Valeria (ヴァレリア Vareria) is a fictional character in Namco's Soul Series of fighting games. She is the shopkeeper created for the Item Shop within Soul Calibur III, and an unlockable Bonus Character in the main game as well. She represents the "Grieve Edge" Create-a-Fighter discipline.
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[edit] Biography
Valeria is the daughter of an antiques' appraiser. Since her mother died of illness, her father was always outside traveling around the world, leaving her at the care of an old friend of his named Cepheus. Valeria grew up resenting him, and eventually nurtured a genuine interest in the same job as him. Cepheus gave her the job trying to make Valeria understand her father, but he believed her choice was her desire to beat him in his own game.
Cepheus urged Valeria's father to stay in town and spent time with her, but he answered that was the only life he knew and could provide for her. After hearing Valeria's choice of work, he thought maybe she would go with him someday. After that, he went to the west to assist to an auction selling a pair of mysterious swords known as "Soul Edge", and never returned.
Cepheus knew he was not the type of man to disappear for nothing, and when he heard Nightmare's rampage and his relation with Soul Edge, he understood the man's disappearance and told Valeria all he knew. Now a grown woman, she understood her father's true desires and wept for him.
She still wants to become the best item appraiser in the world, and continues taking care of Cepheus' shop as one of his three shopkeepers.
[edit] Weapon
-- Cepheus Seal
A pair of grieve edges used by Valeria for battle. The Grieve Edge are a pair of shoes with blades attached to their front and back. The ones used by Valeria are most probably lent by Cepheus himself. However, they don't have special effects.
[edit] Stages
Valeria has no stages of her own, but she appears on Tales of Souls mode as a "Prepare to Defend Yourself" challenge in the Lakeside Colliseum (caged version) among the other shopkeepers as the first opponent of a 3-characters Team Battle.
[edit] Character Analysis
Valeria uses a Create-a-Fighter Custom discipline, which lacks many of the options present in more developed Standard Character's movelists. Due to the unusual form of the weapon, the entire style of Valeria revolves around kicks, with an important quantity of Just Input attacks. Many of said moves and attacks are imported from various characters from Namco's other fighting franchise, Tekken.
[edit] Trivia
- Valeria appears first on the game's Shop, in charge of the Item section of it. In her shop the player can buy character artworks, exhibition videos, extra slots and jobs for Character Creation and various videos.
- Valeria's entire costume is made from Create-a-Fighter parts. However, her body build is unique and her frill skirt features a unique design not present in the normal CAS version.
- Valeria's animation to defend herself is done assuming she has a Chinese sword in her hands.
- Created character who use the Grieve Edge discipline have a glitch in their right arm. In one of their poses their right arm seems to bend inside and out continuosly.
- Valeria's Destined Battle (during Quick Play) is Ivy.
- Valeria is considered the most popular of the saleswomen in Soul Calibur III, most likely due to her enormous breast size (she is the only character with a bigger bust than Taki or Ivy).
- Valeria's style (Grieve Edge) borrows moves from the more prominent "kicking" characters from the Tekken series. She uses moves from Asuka Kazama, Lee Chaolan, Baek Doo San, and Hwoarang.
- Valeria appears to have a cool, mature chic persona.
