Heaven E. Valentine
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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The SOLDIER 1st Class
Name: Heaven E. Valentine
Designation: "Materia Monster"
Age: Appears 16, believes she's 21
Background:
Basically one of the experiment for Project S, but made through by adding the research by Dr. Grimoire Valentine, where she got her experiment name, Experiment Valentine. She was an early project originally by Dr. Valentine. Her memory and body was altered so she can be equipped with a vast number of materia at a time without dramatically changing her status. These alterations results to having a body that can no longer age (or at least age really slow) and cure minor wounds surprisingly fast. However, her mind was greatly affected to a point where she cant recognize right from wrong to the verge of unable of speech. Deemed dangerous, she was sealed at the Mako Reactor at Mt. Nibel in a tank filled with Mako. At this point, she was deemed as a failure in her files.
The story of Before Crisis past by.
When Jenova was brought in, Hojo found the girl and decided to make an experiment on his own. He ordered that Jenova's tank is connected to the girl's tank and for her to be relocated almost directly under Jenova's tank. After a while, other events has taken over Hojo's interest and he forgot about his tiny experiment...that made a big change to a composition to a certain girls body.
Some time in the middle of Crisis Core...
When the Mt. Nibel reactor was cleaned after Jenova was taken, Grey, at the time a lone Turk sent for investigation, found Heaven in a completely frozen state. When they tried to get her out off her tank, her tank unexpectedly shattered and spilled Mako everywhere. Grey stepped forward to prevent Heaven from shattering (she looked like a vulnerable ice sculpture), but when she got in touch with Grey the eyes protecting her shattered. When her feet caught the Mako-spilled ground she started to absorb all the Mako like a sponge. Hojo remembers his little experiments and when he found out about the incident, he ordered for her to be moved to the Shinra Mansion without much of a thought, to be brought up in a new tank, right next to his two new experiments, Zack and Cloud.
It is unknown as to what experiments Hojo has done to the little project but she stayed alongside Zack and Cloud in a Mako-filled tank for months. According to Hojo, she's hibernating to prepare and increasing her strength to emerge as a strong SOLDIER; another experiment well done, but rendered to be a failure as a Project S. Unknown to anyone, she is sometimes awake and is aware of Zack, as his is the tank right next to her. Heaven's mind is still childlike and when she was awake she would look at Zack. After a few of these secret incidents, she started to dream that Zack was talking to her (a lot.) and she was conversing with him like a normal people. Whenever she woke up, the dreams are quickly forgotten. She continued to sleep.
On the Turks side, Grey reported the incident directly to Tseng and was told to constantly observe her in Nibelheim if he's so disturbed by it. So he did.
One day while observing the experiments, Grey got a little bolder and decided to observe the experiments up close. It's a rare opportunity to be alone in the particular Shinra Mansion room. He stared closely at Cloud, wonder a while at Zack, and touched Heaven's tank. Her eyes flew open in that instant and her tank, once again, shattered, startling the Turk. She fell into his arms and stare at the first person she had contact with after years of hibernating. Again, she absorbs the spilled Mako like a sponge in lighting speed, probably saving Grey from Mako poisoning. Researchers are alerted by the sound of the break and she was immediately taken to Hojo at Shinra HQ. Grey was taken to the HQ infirmary.
At Shinra HQ, Hojo runs tests and experiments at Heaven; who, all the while does not have a consciousness of her own. One day something went wrong and Heaven went amuk, shattering half of a floor in the Research Department at the Shinra HQ building, killing a few researchers at the process. The whole floor temperature went drastically down and half the floor is covered in ice; while the room where she was experimented in is covered by white and red. All the while, a green materia glowed brightly on he right arm, later concluded as an Ice Materia.
Since then, Hojo decided to gave her to the SOLDIER Department simply to observe. She is indeed strong as she quickly gain ranks and got promoted to SOLDER 1st Class in just 3 weeks, with great help thrown by Hojo about how the SOLDIER Department is wasting her strength. The condition for her to rank 1st Class in SOLDIER is for her to have a special partner that can observe and control her, as she still have an empty mind, there she got herself a TURK partner by the name of Grey.
During this appointment, Grey run over Heaven's file with Tseng and notices that she doesnt have a name. Grey relayed this to his boss and Tseng, upon looking at the letter H on her Project title and staring long and hard on her empty expression, simply named her Heaven. It is unknown whether the name was given for a reason or on a wimp.
Contrary to Hojo's believe, Heaven mind started to recover and her consciousness and awareness grew. Her mind steadily grows and soon enough, she gain the ability of speech. She slowly grew into a normal human being under Grey's supervision. She befriended her fellow SOLDIERS and a few Turks, namely Tseng. She also has developed a habit of running off alone, causing Grey to do a lot of seeking through Midgar.
It was during one of these 'habits' that Heaven met Aerith. Heaven met Tseng and unknown as to what he was up to, Heaven was quickly discovered because it wasnt in her mind to hide and quickly became friendly with Aerith, namely because Aerith thought she was a lost child. After noticing the glow in her eyes she started asking about Zack, to which Heaven would answer she had no idea.
However, whenever she gets the chance, usually during a certain time in between missions, she would secretly enter the Shinra Mansion and seek the two experiments in the tubes beside hers. All out of her curiosity to find out more about herself, and to find out more about Zack and Cloud. Kunsel from 2nd Class told her that one of them used to be a SOLDIER 1st Class, and she can tell the blonde one isnt him, due to the conversations she had with the black haired one in her dreams. She had no idea what his name is however.
During one of her tours in the mansion (she was hiding from some researchers that came suddenly to observe), she had to hide in a room with some coffins in it. She actually found a person in one of the coffins, who seemed to be sleeping and decided to leave him alone. She does opted to open said coffin from time to time, just to see whether he would wake up; but it never happens.
Through all her business in Shinra Mansion, she met a girl named Tifa, who she connects to quickly due to their similar preference in fighting style, but they converse more or less only through emails.
The events of Crisis Core continues...and the events of FFVII starts.
Heaven was one of the SOLDIERS who were given the mission to tail Sephiroth. She and her unit managed to trace him but were unable to defeat him. All SOLDIER members and infantrymen in her unit were killed by Sephiroth, Heaven however survived, but suffered too big a damage that she fell into a coma. Throughout all the Sephiroth and Avalanche fiasco, Prof Hojo has long forgotten about the 'Materia Monster'.
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