Valon

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Valon

Valon (ヴァロン Varon) is a fictional character in the Waking the Dragons (or Doma) story arc of the Yu-Gi-Oh! second anime series, known as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters in Japan. Many fans of the series render his name as Varon.

Valon is one of Dartz's three swordsmen. He does not seem to get along with Alister, as evidenced by the one scene where they actually converse, and end up arguing. He and Rafael seem to get along fine, however. He is responsible for leading Mai Valentine (Mai Kujaku in the English manga and Japanese versions) to Dartz. Valon has a deck of armour monsters that the duelist can wear. When Valon discovered that Mai wanted to get rid of Joey Wheeler (Katsuya Jonouchi in the English manga and the Japanese version), he designated Joey as his target.

In the Japanese version, he is voiced by Tsuyoshi Maeda. In the English dub, Valon has a cockney accent and is voiced by Marc Thompson.

1 History
2 Profile
3 Duels
4 Notable Dueling Cards

[edit] History

Valon is shown as a child that loves getting into fights. He appears to be an orphan, but apparently looked after by a kind nun. One day she is in the church with Valon, cleaning wounds from a previous fight, when a group of thugs enter, telling the nun that their boss has bought the church and that they must leave. Valon is ready to fight, but the nun tells him not to. That night a fire is started at the church, Valon is there and spots the thugs from earlier, who are sniggering about it (the nun is also suspected to have been in the church at the time of the fire). Valon thinks they are responsible and later he is seen in an alley holding a length of pipe, the bodies of the thugs on the ground around him. It is uncertain whether he killed them or not, as they have been briefly seen in later scenes. (This entire sequence is from the Japanese version of the anime and is cut from the US version.)

Valon is taken to prison (or a Juvenile Detention center), where he gets into more fights. Eventually he is taken to the headmaster, who tells Valon that he will let him leave if he defeats all the other prisoners on an island, using the Seal of Orichalcos (the headmaster is obviously working for Dartz). Valon defeats all of his opponents. He is then encountered by Dartz and offered to work for him, and Valon accepts. Valon doesn't know that Dartz had the church burnt down. In the US version, Dartz had instead framed Valon for his first crime.

[edit] Profile

Age: Unknown, but probably 20-up
Gender: Male
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue.
Clothes: Wears mostly gray with what seems to be armor. Has fingerless gloves on his hands as well as hand guards.
Stone: A ring on his finger
Target: Joey
Soul Taken: After losing to Joey
Deck: Armor
Duels: 2
Current Place of Residence: He was seen in Barcelona, Spain, but later on reappeared in what could have been California
Relationships: Has romantic feelings towards Mai, and an enemity between Joey. After his duel with Joey, both gain immense respect for one another, and it is revealed that Mai did love Valon. In the Japanese version, Mai promises to come back to Joey and Valon after she recuperates, while in the US her path with Valon seems to permanently end.

[edit] Duels

Valon was involved in two Orichalcos Duels. The first, Duel 10, occurred when Valon was talking to Mai Valentine, Duke Devlin (Ryuji Otogi in the English manga and Japanese versions) and Rebecca Hawkins (Rebecca Hopkins in the Japanese versions), after they arrived in a caravan. Rebecca saw Valon and challenged him to a duel. Duke also steps in and said that Valon will have to duel the two of them. Valon accepts, and easily defeats them in three turns. The second duel, Duel 12, started when Joey Wheeler saw Valon and chased him on a motorcycle all the way to a dead alley. This is one of the longest Orichalcos Duels. Halfway during the duel, Mai Valentine arrives and tries to stop the duel but she cannot penetrate the Seal of Orichalcos. When the duel ends, Valon loses. Before he loses his soul, Valon tells Joey to save Mai.

[edit] Notable Dueling Cards

Valon utilizes an Armor Deck, a unique deck in which the monsters he summons are equipped to his own body and he uses himself as a weapon. The majority of his strategy revolves around Psychic Armor Head, which has the ability to search out any Armor Monster he wishes from his deck and it also regenerates itself from the Graveyard when it is destroyed. In addition, nearly all of his Monster Cards have a powerful effect of some sort, ranging from Magic and Trap negation to powerful forms of Monster destruction.

The Seal of Orichalcos is critical to Valon's deck, as all of his Armor monsters have zero attack points and only certain cards can gain respectable attack points through their abilities. Furthermore, Valon uses cards that can summon his Armor Monsters en mass and the Seal allows a player to use their Magic and Trap zones for their Monster Cards, effectively doubling the number of Monster Cards that can be played. Valon has little subtlety in his moves, as is seen with his apparent lack of Trap Cards. He prefers a straightforward offense to crush his opponent and the duels he has been involved in are extremely fierce.