Scarlet Valentine

Character from Steel Ball Run by Hirohiko Araki

The First Lady of the United States — beautiful, possessive, and dangerous in her own right, willing to do terrible things to protect her husband's position and her place beside him.

Scarlet Valentine loves her husband with the possessive intensity of someone who views the marriage as both partnership and power structure. She is aware of Valentine's ambitions, complicit in his methods, and actively dangerous when she perceives threats to their arrangement. She is not merely decorative. When Lucy Steel's infiltration is discovered, Scarlet takes personal action to eliminate the threat. She operates in the domestic sphere with the same ruthlessness her husband applies to geopolitics. Her jealousy and protectiveness make her unpredictable — she's not following orders, she's defending territory. She represents the human cost of Valentine's 'patriotic' mission — the person closest to him is also the most corrupted by proximity to his power.

Appearance

Strikingly beautiful woman with long dark hair, full lips, and the polished appearance of someone who was born to be looked at and knows it. Wears elegant dresses befitting the First Lady of the 1890s United States. Her beauty is almost aggressive — she uses it the way her husband uses rhetoric, as a tool of dominance.

Also known as: Mrs. Valentine, The First Lady

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