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CHARACTER INFORMATION Name: Valvatorez Species/Job/Class/Title: Demon / Prinny Instructor Age: 2,542 Series: Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten Canon Point: Post-Canon, Pre-Postlude History: Wiki Personality: Valvatorez is quite an anamoly in demon society: unlike most demons, who are frequently lazy, unmotivated, and generally selfish, he can be very duty-driven, hard-working, and sometimes even selfless. He is also, perhaps surprisingly, bombastic, dramatic, eccentric and gullible, and somewhat prone to not thinking through his actions, especially the potential long term consequences.
However, the most important, notable aspect of Valvatorez is that he has a very strong sense of pride and dignity. His pride is the very driving point of much of his escapades during the course of A Promise Unforgotten: the whole conspiracy in the story begins unravelling because of his pride as a demon being challenged by someone trying to stop him from fulfilling a promise me made to the Prinnies he was instructing. He holds himself to a very high standard in all of his pride as well, which is at the source of his hard-working and duty-driven nature. Any task Valvatorez undertakes therefore, he never does half way. Anything less would be unacceptable to him.
That said, the singular biggest point of pride Valvatorez holds above all others is that he will never break a promise given to anyone, regardless of reason, no matter how long it has been since he made it. He will do his best at all times to uphold his end of any promise, viewing this to be as close to a sacred duty that a demon possibly can. He holds his promises in such high regard he ends up rebelling against the established "Corrupterment," or the government of his Netherworld, because they simply tried to get him to break a promise to Prinnies, which are viewed as the lowest of the low on the Netherworld totem pole. One may ask why Valvatorez would go to such extremes, when so many other demons would look at promises as worthless or an afterthought, especially to what amounts to the doormats of the Netherworld.
400 years prior to the events of Disgaea 4, Valvatorez made a promise that would forever change his life. While he was at the height of his power as a Tyrant lord, he visited the Human World and encountered a human woman named Artina. A pure soul, kind and compassionate, Artina was a nurse who served during a time of war, but treated anyone injured, regardless of their affiliation in the war. The woman oddly showed no fear to Valvatorez when they met, and even offered her blood to him instead of drinking from others. He was immediately intrigued and interested in this woman, but refused to drink blood until he had shown her true fear, and dragged her into the depths of despair. Oddly, his promise wasn't threatening or mean-spirited in the slightest, which Artina found very strange, but endearing. The two spent an unknown amount of time together, but it is heavily implied they were very close. However, during a time the Tyrant was absent, Artina was executed for treason for treating an enemy officer. Valvatorez was driven to despair by this discovery, devestated that he failed in keeping his promise: to scare her, to show her true fear no matter how long it took. From that point on, he understood the weight of making a promise, and made it his duty never to allow something like that to happen again. His first step toward keeping that duty was to keep the promise he made to Artina: he stopped drinking human blood entirely.
Keeping this promise cost Valvatorez nearly everything, his status, his power, his wealth, and left him with no other choice but to accept the least-desired job in the Netherworld: that of a Prinny Instructor. The only things he had left were his wounded pride, his life, and his faithful steward, Fenrich. Unsurprisingly, though Valvatorez makes no secret about his refusal to drink human blood, Artina remained a very sore, sensitive subject even centuries later. Needless to say, this means Valvatorez will keep a promise no matter the cost to himself, no matter how unreasonable or unrealistic it may be.
This goes into his sense of duty: Almost everything has a role to play, a duty to perform, somehow, someway, and Valvatorez is a strong believer in doing just that. He takes his role as Prinny Instructor very, very seriously, and he enjoys his work, preparing the souls of the damned for a long, brutal time to work off their sins. In fact, his tendency to instruct, teach, and mentor extends well beyond Prinnies. He offers guidance, advice, and even prods others to better themselves frequently, especially his comrades, Emizel and Desco.
He is also a firm believer that demons, humans, and angels all have their places in the universe and that they should stick to them. What causes Valvatorez to continue his campaign beyond the Netherworld is the discovery that demons were not doing their jobs: instilling fear of the darkness in humans. In response, humans became unafraid of demons and the darkness, and feared themselves more. To Valvatorez, this imbalance in the universe's harmony was utterly unacceptable and he took it upon himself to re-educate the Netherworld and the Human World about their proper places. This is no small undertaking, to say the least, yet Valvatorez declared it his personal mission, which he takes very seriously. Any human who steps outside of their place in the universe is quick to earn his contempt, especially those who would try to twist demons, and perhaps even angels, to their control.
Beyond his devotion to duty and belief in hard work, he generally thinks of humans as slightly beneath him, though this is mostly due to traditional demon society taking this view by and large. Honestly, the view is possibly token to some degree, considering Valvatorez's job is to literally help sinful human souls find redemption through working off their sins so they can reincarnate at the Red Moon. Valvatorez effectively sees humanity at some of its worst: he deals with all the murderers, thieves, traitors, and everything in between. And despite that, he sees all souls as redeemable: there is no sin, no matter how great, that cannot be paid back. ...Even if it takes a very, very long time. Why he takes this viewpoint is anyone's guess, whether it is simply because it is the way of things, or if Artina and her pure heart somehow influenced him centuries ago.
Despite all of this duty, power, dignity, and pride Valvatorez has, he has proven himself to be remarkably gullible and eccentric. He seems to have a poor ability to doubt much of anything he hears, especially when it comes from his steward, Fenrich. A good example of this is when Fenrich lies about Warden Axel's position in the Hades Rebellion. Fenrich lied to Corrupterment Officials, stating Axel ordered he and Valvatorez to rebel and save the Prinnies, when Axel was the one who gave the go ahead order to exterminate them. Valvatorez himself actually believed his steward's lie, expressing great pleasure and surprise at Axel's apparent change of heart, no matter how ridiculous the idea was. Valvatorez proves a handful of other times that his ability to be skeptical of others is somewhat poor. He has his moments of clarity and will not necessarily fall for all ruses, especially not during the utmost of serious times, but otherwise, he is likely to be duped by even simple ruses.
Adding to that, he has a very eccentric manner of thinking, specifically his likelihood of getting obsessed over some things, many of them trivial or unimportant. His trademark obsession, and one he is likely never to be rid of, is his love of sardines. Yes, the little fish that swim in the ocean and are frequently found tinned. Valvatorez discovered through a human scientific study that sardines possess massive health benefit potential, and since then has taken to eating them religiously. He claims that sardines have allowed him to regain some of the power he lost from his Tyrant days, as they seem to be his replacement for human blood. He will gladly talk peoples' ears off about the benefits these fish will give them in their diet, as well as rattling off hundreds of bits of useless trivia about them. Other characters generally view this behavior as strange, but most of them simply put up with it or ignore it. Regardless, Valvatorez doesn't care if other people think he's crazy. He thinks they're crazy for missing out on what is obviously a very important super-food that could strengthen even the weakest person.
His tendency to obsess comes into play in other ways as well, such as becoming enraged at a typo in a newspaper and demanding to siege the complaint department of the newspaper to get it fixed. This was not a one off incident, either. The typo and getting it fixed came up later while they were on an important mission to the same location, with Valvatorez seemingly forgetting why they were actually there. Another is his utter insistance on being ridiculously early to any meetings he arranges; he attempts to be more than two hours early to a designated meeting with Fuka, because he always insists on being the first one present.
Rounding out these little oddities about him is that he tends to speak boldly, confidently, and with a sense of flair and drama. He frequently flourishes his cape around in a dramatic fashion to punctuate points or make declarations. Some of these declarations are serious, many of them tend to be very silly, but regardless of their content, Valvatorez will almost always make his declarations in an over-the-top sort of way. Nobody's really sure why, he just does.
Ultimately, Valvatorez is a rather unique, colorful specimen amongst demons. Despite being both a demon and a vampire, he is not especially evil, short of the "necessary" evil that demons' role in the universe is supposed to be. His silly, often over the top theatrics make it easy to underestimate or dismiss the former Tyrant as harmless or weak. However, when pushed to action or if his pride is on the line, Valvatorez becomes a true, nearly unstoppable force to be reckoned with.
Valvatorez was once a powerful Vampire demon of the Tyrant level, estimated to be at least Level 4000. "Tyrant" is a rare rank amongst the demon heirarchy and represents only the most powerful and fearsome of demons, and usually implies them to work alone. As a Vampire, Valvatorez drew much of his power from feeding on the blood of humans, which bolstered his already remarkable strength. But when he made his promise to a young girl Artina, to not drink blood until he showed her fear and despair, he unwittingly set himself up for his fall from power. When Artina died before he kept his promise to her, he continued refusing to drink the blood of humans, which weakened him considerably, to the point where he faded into something of a storybook tale.
Valvatorez, therefore, does not possess the full, raw power of domination he used to have. However, even without the blood of humans aiding him, he has regained (thanks to sardines, apparently) a considerable portion of his strength: he is strong enough to tear through the Netherworld with his companions to overthrow its government, crush Human weapons designed expressly to kill demons, thwart a group of aliens bent on destroying Earth, defeat a genetically engineered "Final Boss," and even destroy a machine devised by God to eliminate Humanity if their malice grew too strong. Fear the Great, as that system was known, had never been thwarted before in history, yet Valvatorez and his companions drew the strength to do what was considered impossible.
As such, it is safe to say, even without his full power, Valvatorez remains an extremely powerful force to be reckoned with. Despite his small, rail-thin frame, the former Tyrant still possesses a supernatural might that would allow him to compete with some of the most powerful fighters in the Netherverse. His durability is also remarkable, taking blows from powerful foes and keeping on trucking. He also possesses an innate ability to temporarily grow a bit stronger for every foe he defeats in a single battle. This boost is in offensive strength only, and will only last a short time.
Generally speaking, Valvatorez would be a fairly overwhelming opponent in a direct, head-on fight. Not impossible to defeat, but those who are relatively mundane or don't possess powerful magic or weapons may find it difficult even injuring him. He is also unaffected by traditional vampire weaknesses. He's not turned by crosses, garlic, or holy water (unless said holy water is genuinely magical and weaponized to hurt demons, like in Castlevania games), and sunlight has no affect whatsoever on him. Stakes have no special effect on him, but if someone manages to actually drive one into him, it would hurt him same as a stab wound. Holy weapons do not really exist in Disgaea, and they would only gain additional effect on a case by case basis.
For example, The Master Sword, the Blade of Evil's Bane from the Legend of Zelda, wouldn't necessarily gain additional damage against Valvatorez because he's not traditionally evil, but it would still hurt due to its raw might as a weapon. However, the Vampire Killer whip from Castlevania could severely hurt him due to it being made to slay vampires and demons specifically.
However, he does possess a weakness to fire, though he resists ice and water spells.
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Valvatorez
Species/Job/Class/Title: Demon / Prinny Instructor
Age: 2,542
Series: Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
Canon Point: Post-Canon, Pre-Postlude
History: Wiki
Personality: Valvatorez is quite an anamoly in demon society: unlike most demons, who are frequently lazy, unmotivated, and generally selfish, he can be very duty-driven, hard-working, and sometimes even selfless. He is also, perhaps surprisingly, bombastic, dramatic, eccentric and gullible, and somewhat prone to not thinking through his actions, especially the potential long term consequences.
However, the most important, notable aspect of Valvatorez is that he has a very strong sense of pride and dignity. His pride is the very driving point of much of his escapades during the course of A Promise Unforgotten: the whole conspiracy in the story begins unravelling because of his pride as a demon being challenged by someone trying to stop him from fulfilling a promise me made to the Prinnies he was instructing. He holds himself to a very high standard in all of his pride as well, which is at the source of his hard-working and duty-driven nature. Any task Valvatorez undertakes therefore, he never does half way. Anything less would be unacceptable to him.
That said, the singular biggest point of pride Valvatorez holds above all others is that he will never break a promise given to anyone, regardless of reason, no matter how long it has been since he made it. He will do his best at all times to uphold his end of any promise, viewing this to be as close to a sacred duty that a demon possibly can. He holds his promises in such high regard he ends up rebelling against the established "Corrupterment," or the government of his Netherworld, because they simply tried to get him to break a promise to Prinnies, which are viewed as the lowest of the low on the Netherworld totem pole. One may ask why Valvatorez would go to such extremes, when so many other demons would look at promises as worthless or an afterthought, especially to what amounts to the doormats of the Netherworld.
400 years prior to the events of Disgaea 4, Valvatorez made a promise that would forever change his life. While he was at the height of his power as a Tyrant lord, he visited the Human World and encountered a human woman named Artina. A pure soul, kind and compassionate, Artina was a nurse who served during a time of war, but treated anyone injured, regardless of their affiliation in the war. The woman oddly showed no fear to Valvatorez when they met, and even offered her blood to him instead of drinking from others. He was immediately intrigued and interested in this woman, but refused to drink blood until he had shown her true fear, and dragged her into the depths of despair. Oddly, his promise wasn't threatening or mean-spirited in the slightest, which Artina found very strange, but endearing. The two spent an unknown amount of time together, but it is heavily implied they were very close. However, during a time the Tyrant was absent, Artina was executed for treason for treating an enemy officer. Valvatorez was driven to despair by this discovery, devestated that he failed in keeping his promise: to scare her, to show her true fear no matter how long it took. From that point on, he understood the weight of making a promise, and made it his duty never to allow something like that to happen again. His first step toward keeping that duty was to keep the promise he made to Artina: he stopped drinking human blood entirely.
Keeping this promise cost Valvatorez nearly everything, his status, his power, his wealth, and left him with no other choice but to accept the least-desired job in the Netherworld: that of a Prinny Instructor. The only things he had left were his wounded pride, his life, and his faithful steward, Fenrich. Unsurprisingly, though Valvatorez makes no secret about his refusal to drink human blood, Artina remained a very sore, sensitive subject even centuries later. Needless to say, this means Valvatorez will keep a promise no matter the cost to himself, no matter how unreasonable or unrealistic it may be.
This goes into his sense of duty: Almost everything has a role to play, a duty to perform, somehow, someway, and Valvatorez is a strong believer in doing just that. He takes his role as Prinny Instructor very, very seriously, and he enjoys his work, preparing the souls of the damned for a long, brutal time to work off their sins. In fact, his tendency to instruct, teach, and mentor extends well beyond Prinnies. He offers guidance, advice, and even prods others to better themselves frequently, especially his comrades, Emizel and Desco.
He is also a firm believer that demons, humans, and angels all have their places in the universe and that they should stick to them. What causes Valvatorez to continue his campaign beyond the Netherworld is the discovery that demons were not doing their jobs: instilling fear of the darkness in humans. In response, humans became unafraid of demons and the darkness, and feared themselves more. To Valvatorez, this imbalance in the universe's harmony was utterly unacceptable and he took it upon himself to re-educate the Netherworld and the Human World about their proper places. This is no small undertaking, to say the least, yet Valvatorez declared it his personal mission, which he takes very seriously. Any human who steps outside of their place in the universe is quick to earn his contempt, especially those who would try to twist demons, and perhaps even angels, to their control.
Beyond his devotion to duty and belief in hard work, he generally thinks of humans as slightly beneath him, though this is mostly due to traditional demon society taking this view by and large. Honestly, the view is possibly token to some degree, considering Valvatorez's job is to literally help sinful human souls find redemption through working off their sins so they can reincarnate at the Red Moon. Valvatorez effectively sees humanity at some of its worst: he deals with all the murderers, thieves, traitors, and everything in between. And despite that, he sees all souls as redeemable: there is no sin, no matter how great, that cannot be paid back. ...Even if it takes a very, very long time. Why he takes this viewpoint is anyone's guess, whether it is simply because it is the way of things, or if Artina and her pure heart somehow influenced him centuries ago.
Despite all of this duty, power, dignity, and pride Valvatorez has, he has proven himself to be remarkably gullible and eccentric. He seems to have a poor ability to doubt much of anything he hears, especially when it comes from his steward, Fenrich. A good example of this is when Fenrich lies about Warden Axel's position in the Hades Rebellion. Fenrich lied to Corrupterment Officials, stating Axel ordered he and Valvatorez to rebel and save the Prinnies, when Axel was the one who gave the go ahead order to exterminate them. Valvatorez himself actually believed his steward's lie, expressing great pleasure and surprise at Axel's apparent change of heart, no matter how ridiculous the idea was. Valvatorez proves a handful of other times that his ability to be skeptical of others is somewhat poor. He has his moments of clarity and will not necessarily fall for all ruses, especially not during the utmost of serious times, but otherwise, he is likely to be duped by even simple ruses.
Adding to that, he has a very eccentric manner of thinking, specifically his likelihood of getting obsessed over some things, many of them trivial or unimportant. His trademark obsession, and one he is likely never to be rid of, is his love of sardines. Yes, the little fish that swim in the ocean and are frequently found tinned. Valvatorez discovered through a human scientific study that sardines possess massive health benefit potential, and since then has taken to eating them religiously. He claims that sardines have allowed him to regain some of the power he lost from his Tyrant days, as they seem to be his replacement for human blood. He will gladly talk peoples' ears off about the benefits these fish will give them in their diet, as well as rattling off hundreds of bits of useless trivia about them. Other characters generally view this behavior as strange, but most of them simply put up with it or ignore it. Regardless, Valvatorez doesn't care if other people think he's crazy. He thinks they're crazy for missing out on what is obviously a very important super-food that could strengthen even the weakest person.
His tendency to obsess comes into play in other ways as well, such as becoming enraged at a typo in a newspaper and demanding to siege the complaint department of the newspaper to get it fixed. This was not a one off incident, either. The typo and getting it fixed came up later while they were on an important mission to the same location, with Valvatorez seemingly forgetting why they were actually there. Another is his utter insistance on being ridiculously early to any meetings he arranges; he attempts to be more than two hours early to a designated meeting with Fuka, because he always insists on being the first one present.
Rounding out these little oddities about him is that he tends to speak boldly, confidently, and with a sense of flair and drama. He frequently flourishes his cape around in a dramatic fashion to punctuate points or make declarations. Some of these declarations are serious, many of them tend to be very silly, but regardless of their content, Valvatorez will almost always make his declarations in an over-the-top sort of way. Nobody's really sure why, he just does.
Ultimately, Valvatorez is a rather unique, colorful specimen amongst demons. Despite being both a demon and a vampire, he is not especially evil, short of the "necessary" evil that demons' role in the universe is supposed to be. His silly, often over the top theatrics make it easy to underestimate or dismiss the former Tyrant as harmless or weak. However, when pushed to action or if his pride is on the line, Valvatorez becomes a true, nearly unstoppable force to be reckoned with.
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Valvatorez was once a powerful Vampire demon of the Tyrant level, estimated to be at least Level 4000. "Tyrant" is a rare rank amongst the demon heirarchy and represents only the most powerful and fearsome of demons, and usually implies them to work alone. As a Vampire, Valvatorez drew much of his power from feeding on the blood of humans, which bolstered his already remarkable strength. But when he made his promise to a young girl Artina, to not drink blood until he showed her fear and despair, he unwittingly set himself up for his fall from power. When Artina died before he kept his promise to her, he continued refusing to drink the blood of humans, which weakened him considerably, to the point where he faded into something of a storybook tale.
Valvatorez, therefore, does not possess the full, raw power of domination he used to have. However, even without the blood of humans aiding him, he has regained (thanks to sardines, apparently) a considerable portion of his strength: he is strong enough to tear through the Netherworld with his companions to overthrow its government, crush Human weapons designed expressly to kill demons, thwart a group of aliens bent on destroying Earth, defeat a genetically engineered "Final Boss," and even destroy a machine devised by God to eliminate Humanity if their malice grew too strong. Fear the Great, as that system was known, had never been thwarted before in history, yet Valvatorez and his companions drew the strength to do what was considered impossible.
As such, it is safe to say, even without his full power, Valvatorez remains an extremely powerful force to be reckoned with. Despite his small, rail-thin frame, the former Tyrant still possesses a supernatural might that would allow him to compete with some of the most powerful fighters in the Netherverse. His durability is also remarkable, taking blows from powerful foes and keeping on trucking. He also possesses an innate ability to temporarily grow a bit stronger for every foe he defeats in a single battle. This boost is in offensive strength only, and will only last a short time.
Generally speaking, Valvatorez would be a fairly overwhelming opponent in a direct, head-on fight. Not impossible to defeat, but those who are relatively mundane or don't possess powerful magic or weapons may find it difficult even injuring him. He is also unaffected by traditional vampire weaknesses. He's not turned by crosses, garlic, or holy water (unless said holy water is genuinely magical and weaponized to hurt demons, like in Castlevania games), and sunlight has no affect whatsoever on him. Stakes have no special effect on him, but if someone manages to actually drive one into him, it would hurt him same as a stab wound. Holy weapons do not really exist in Disgaea, and they would only gain additional effect on a case by case basis.
For example, The Master Sword, the Blade of Evil's Bane from the Legend of Zelda, wouldn't necessarily gain additional damage against Valvatorez because he's not traditionally evil, but it would still hurt due to its raw might as a weapon. However, the Vampire Killer whip from Castlevania could severely hurt him due to it being made to slay vampires and demons specifically.
However, he does possess a weakness to fire, though he resists ice and water spells.
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