Valencina

Personality Valencina is an arrogant, booze-loving woman with a violent, foul-mouthed personality. She has a short temper, immediately taking towards physically attacking Lucio following a perceived failure on his part, as well as frequently harming the young Yoshihide during their training sessions. While she aims to benefit greatly off the cultivation of Ryōshū's abilities, she generally regards the woman in contempt, even while she was still under the care of the House of Spiders. She remains extremely bitter about her expulsion from the Thumb and fall from grace, and is obsessed with making others give her the respect she's owed.

In her moments of lucidity during her deployment in the Smoke War, when she was unable to indulge in alcohol, she became a more committed member of the faction and the House of Spiders, where her verbal and physical abuse of Ryōshū minimized temporarily. However, she was brought back to ruin after a visit from the Consigliere of the Thumb, some time after the end of the Smoke War.

Canto IX: The Unsevering While Vergilius was out with Charon, Saude, and Pilot, Valencina and Lucio ambushed the group with the goal of keeping the Color Fixer occupied during the House of Spider's raid on the Limbus Company HQ. Knowing of Charon's importance to Vergilius, Valencina ordered her apprentice to kidnap and use her as a hostage. During this initial skirmish, Saude's arm was severed as she held on tightly to Charon, allowing Lucio to escape with the girl and then trail after Saude as she ran for backup.

After a short duel between the Sinners and her apprentice, Valencina arrived at the truck where Lucio had tracked Saude to. Immediately noticing the sloppiness of his training, Valencina slapped Lucio and scolded him over his failure to defeat the Sinners, mentioning that he'll be a failure of a "textbook" if Ryōshū is unable to learn anything from him. During her moment of scolding, however, she noticed that Vergilius had caught up to her, and the two began to clash again as he burst into the truck. When their battle came to a momentary standstill, Valencina's Relic eye began to leak blood, a result of being near Ryōshū's sword.

Eventually, the Sinners were able to travel to Limbus Company HQ using the truck's Backdoor portal, and Lucio and Valencina stayed behind to continue distracting Vergilius. While Valencina related her twisted views on Lucio to Vergilius' relationship with Charon, Vergilius saw through her attempts to goad him into unsteadiness and focused on dismantling Lucio during the battle rather than the Nursefather of the Thumb. Lucio suffered great injuries during this encounter, as while the threat to Charon's life was severely hampering Vergilius' opportunities and cool-headedness, the Red Gaze was still more than capable of ripping through them. When Valencina eventually received the news that the Dihui Star had retrieved the Golden Boughs from the HQ, she gave Charon back to Vergilius and departed with Lucio.

Later during Limbus Company's retaliative raid against the House of Spiders, Lucio was with his master in the Corridor of the Thumb. Vergilius, Rodion, Heathcliff, and Gregor eventually arrived, finding Lucio still injured and Valencina drunk. Telling the LCB to wait for her to finish drinking, Valencina recounted her time as a hero of her Famiglia, remembered for her skills during the Smoke War, as well as her time raising Ryōshū. After some provocations from both sides, Valencina ordered Lucio to prepare for battle in spite of his injuries. Lucio proceeded to fight against the three Sinners while Valencina fought one-on-one against Vergilius; as the battle escalated, Vergilius and Valencina joined the others, and the Limbus Company team's strength begun to overwhelm the two.

When Lucio was wounded to the point where he could no longer fight, Valencina lambasted him and ordered him to continue attacking. As such, Lucio continued onward against Gregor, who had been growing unstable at the use of familiar phrases he'd once heard from his mother. After Lucio managed to land a hit on Gregor, the Sinner again warned him to back down, but Lucio marched ahead, and was run through by the surprise mutation of Gregor's bio-prosthetic arm, which ripped Lucio's heart out of his chest and killed him instantly. Valencina, however, deluded as she was, initially could not stomach the idea that Lucio wasn't just being lazy and continued to yell at him.

After a few attempts to call Lucio back to battle, the reality of Lucio's death set in, leading Valencina to attack Gregor in a blind fury. The two flew off further into the Corridor, where Valencina began to torture Gregor while recounting similar excursions against other bug-augmented soldiers. Despite Gregor begging her to stay back, Valencina failed to listen and continued to provoke him. In a moment of unwilling metamorphosis, Valencina was skewered on a growth from Gregor's arm as he entered a form known as the Roach Emperor, a weapon intended for war. Skewered and unable to move, Valencina was repeatedly crushed between a set of teeth grown along the arm, finally killing her.

Trivia Valencina is known to drink Old Parr, a kind of whiskey. This is an actual whiskey, also known as Grand Old Parr, first made in Scotland in 1909.

References All of the Nursefathers regard Yoshihide as a daughter to them, and Ryōshū called Valencina her "Mom" when she was still with the House of Spiders (Canto 9-42). While not visible on her art, the Imperfect Eye of Precognition Gift.pngImperfect Eye of Precognition E.G.O Gift replicates the appearance of the Eye of Odin.