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"We have many fine items!"
— Valeria

Valeria (ヴァレリア Vareria?) is a fictional character in Namco's Soul series of fighting games. She is a shopkeeper along with Hualin and Lynette created for the Shop within Soulcalibur III, and an unlockable Bonus Character in the main game as well. She represents the "Grieve Edge" Create-a-Fighter discipline.

What lies in her soul is Dedication.

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 spend time with her, but he claimed that 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 in 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.

Profile[]

Her dream was to prove her worth to her father.
Her father entrusted her to an acquaintance, and went off to travel the world. If there was news that a rare find was up for auction in the east, he would travel night and day to bid on it. If there was an artifact found in the west, he would head straight west. That was his life. After illness took his wife and left him with an infant daughter, this was the only way he knew to provide for her. Of course, Valeria never could understand that and grew up resenting him, believing that she was abandoned by her father.
She was entrusted to an old man named Cepheus, who had a shop in a town where the cultures of east and west converge. Valeria, in time, also worked at the shop. It was Cepheus' way of giving Valeria a chance to understand her father's way of life. As time passed, she nurtured a genuine curiosity towards antiques, becoming a very good appraiser. Cepheus suspected that her career choice reflected her desire to beat her father at his own game.
Cepheus urged Valeria's father to stay in town and spend more time with his growing daughter. The man responded that he is delighted his daughter found a passion in life. And should that path be the same one he chose for himself, the only thing he knows, then perhaps they can eventually travel together.
But that day never came. Before Valeria could be considered an expert, her father went missing. He disappeared en route to an auction that supposedly included a sword called Soul Edge. Cepheus suspected something had happened to the man. It simply was not like him to just disappear and leave his daughter. A few years later, Cepheus was certain of his suspicion. He began hearing rumors that Soul Edge was somehow involved with Nightmare and the phenomena that rocked Europe.
Valeria did not know where her father was headed when he disappeared. Cepheus told her everything he knew. Valeria was no longer the little girl that had nothing but resentment for her father. She finally learned of his true intentions, how he longed to travel the world with his daughter, and she wept for her foolishness in ever resenting him.
Her goal was to become the most skilled appraiser of ancient artifacts. Though her motive had changed, that ultimate dream remained the same. [4]

Gameplay[]

Valeria uses one of the most unique discipline styles out of the bonus characters which involves bladed greaves she uses to battle. Her style is a kick based one that uses alot of borrowed kick attacks from Tekken from characters like Baek, Hwoarang, Lee, and even Anna Williams. She has good speed, as well as damage output and is also decent in reach, being able to easily create a lot of damage to unwary opponents. She also does have a unique stance where she briefly "sways" you approach opponent, being able to use additional attacks such as an unblockable high to catch her opponent off guard.

While an effective character, she is the most difficult of the bonus characters to use as a good portion of her move set has attacks that require just frame inputs to use, meaning that high execution is required to fully utilize it as various strings and combos cannot be executed without consistent frame perfect inputs. While she can still be used to a degree even without being able to perform these inputs, this does hurt her damage and pressure potential if not fully mastered. Overall, while she is a surprisingly difficult character to properly use, her style is definitely amongst one of the better ones when used to her full capacity by skilled users.

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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 Coliseum (caged version) among the other shopkeepers as the first opponent of a 3-character Team Battle.

Quotes[]

  • Welcome.
  • Are you looking for anything in particular?
  • You don't seem to have enough money.
  • You're not planning on buying anything, are you?
  • Good speed to you. Please come again.
  • Please come again.
  • Thank you.
  • We have many fine items.
  • Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
  • You're irritating!
  • Disappear!
  • You imbecile!
  • Slowpoke!
  • What do you want?
  • Suffer.
  • Go ahead and die.
  • You can't get away!
  • Let's go!
  • Gotcha!
  • Did I do it?
  • How about...this?!
  • Take...this!
  • No!
  • I don't believe this.

Trivia[]

  • Out of the three female shopkeepers in Soulcalibur III, Valeria is considered to be the most popular and memorable of them, she was mainly praised because of her appearance, her fighting style is considered very unique because she only use kicks and blades on her shoes.
  • Valeria appears first on the game's Shop. She is 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.
  • Created characters who use the Greave Edge discipline have a glitch in their right arm. In one of their poses, their right arm seems to bend inside and out continuously.
  • Valeria's Destined Battle during Quick Play is Ivy.
  • Valeria's style, Greave Edge, borrows moves from the more prominent "kicking" characters from the Tekken series, being Baek Doo-San and Hwoarang, while her back throw is a modified version of Maxi's.
  • One of Valeria's taunts in the Hardworkers Mission is borrowed from Anna Williams of the Tekken series.
  • Valeria is the most calm and laid-back of the Shopkeepers.
  • If the player makes her angry by clicking on an item they already bought or repeatedly selecting an item and not buying it, she will put her foot on the counter and say "You're not planning on buying anything, are you?" like how the other shopkeepers act.
  • All of Valeria's parts can be found on Create-A-Soul mode. The only un-creatable part of her are her breasts and the texture of her clothes.
  • Valeria, alongside Hualin and Lynette, makes a cameo in the Gauntlet Mode of Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny. In Chapter 22, if you keep losing on the first mission, a dialogue about delivering the food can be heard.
  • Oddly, despite her weapons being about her feet, she uses Hwang's/Yun-Seong's guard pose.
  • Valeria and Lynette both have the logo of Nakamura Seisakusho, Namco's predecessor, hidden on their clothes. In Valeria's case, it's on the piece of magenta clothing that's on her left leg.

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Soulcalibur Playable Characters
Introduced in Soul Edge CervantesHwangInfernoLi LongMitsurugiRockSeong Han-myeongSeong Mi-naSiegfriedSophitiaTakiVoldo
Introduced in Soulcalibur ArthurAstarothEdge MasterIvyKilikLizardman (Aeon)MaxiNightmareXianghuaYoshimitsu
Introduced in Soulcalibur II AssassinBerserkerCassandraCharadeHeihachiLinkLizardman (Generic)NecridRaphaelSpawnTalimYun-seong
Introduced in Soulcalibur III AbeliaAbyssAmyAureliaChesterDemuthGirardotGreedHualinLynetteLunaMiserOlcadanRevenantSetsukaStrife AstlarTiraValeriaZasalamel
Introduced in Soulcalibur Legends Lloyd Irving
Introduced in Soulcalibur IV AlgolAngol FearThe ApprenticeAshlotteDarth VaderHildeKamikirimusiScheherazadeShuraYoda
Story only: AzolaGerhildeHelmwigeShadow
Introduced in Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny DampierreKratos
Introduced in Soulcalibur V Devil JinEzio AuditoreElysiumLeixiaNatsuPatroklos (α Patroklos)Pyrrha (Pyrrha Ω)ViolaXibaZ.W.E.I.
Introduced in Soulcalibur VI 2BAzwelGeralt of RiviaGrøhHaohmaru
Bonus characters
Soul Edge Siegfried!Seong Han-myeongSophitia!Sophitia!!
Soulcalibur II LizardmanAssassinBerserker
Soulcalibur III AbeliaAmyArthurAureliaChesterDemuthGirardotGreedHualinHwangLi LongLunaLynetteMiserRevenantStrifeValeria
Soulcalibur IV Angol FearScheherazadeShuraAshlotteKamikirimusi
Soulcalibur V Devil Jin (Katsuhiro Harada)
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