#about valkyrie

You'll never take me in the fire You'll never take my own desire You'll never take me in the fire You'll never take my own desire I know where I stand and what'll happen if you try it

-Fireproof by Pillar

About the Draconian Duo:

Jade is not someone that’s easily embarassed! Not when it comes to her hobbies or anything like that, at least. She fully embraces all her hobbies — she doesn’t want to be ashamed or hide parts of herself, she had to do that for years and she’s over it. She knows Vel and her friends won’t judge her maliciously, even if they occasionally tease her about it.

[Ra’s blog can be found at @ra-tykan]

I’m not actually sure if Ra’s ever felt proper embarassment in her life, to be honest, and she’s definitely not embarassed about who she is, or what traits or hobbies she has. She doesn’t feel like she has any reason to be!

I've never heard of a mistletoe ban before.

In an AU where both raise Valkyrie:

Mistletoe is allowed, and it must be followed.

But if it was banned, Valtor would totally sneak it in because he loves having excuses to kiss his girls. (Valkyrie always crinkles her nose and teases her parents for being 'yucky' as a kid. And as a teen-adult she teases them for their softness.)

Crash course? Okay, but you asked for it!

Curiosities: 

Val’s birthday is October 13, and on a Friday the 13th at that. (So original, I know.)

She has a dragon birthmark on her back. She also has scars on her arms. One from Stormy and one from a Shaa creature. 

There’s a scar on her shoulder from sparring with Kota as a child. One of his illusions got out of hand and it triggered an emotional response from her dragon, so they sort of ended up scarring each other up.

Valkyrie has a familiar in the form of a tuxedo cat named Cheshire. (And Griffin absolutely, totally, does not like the cat. And it’s completely beside the point that she can be found petting him as often as her daughter. A coincidence really.)

Her favorite classes are Monster Taming and the combat classes. She absolutely hates potions, even if her grades are well above passing.

She has a cousin named Morgan who is a fairy and half-elf. Because of their parents being gone often to teach in Magix, they grew up forming a sister-esque relationship.

Valkyrie is a lesbian. The first person she came out to was actually Helia when they were about 11 and he was down visiting his mother and uncle. He helped her gain courage to open up to their other friends and eventually to her mother. (Griffin had no cares for who Valkyrie would end up dating, so long as they treated her daughter with respect and love and weren’t affiliated with the Coven.)

She’s a big reader and loves documentary movies. (Her and her aunt Ediltrude especially love true crime stories and have little murder boards. Griffin would cut their time short while she could, just as a precaution.)

Like Griffin she loves astronomy and history. Like Valtor, she has a love for combat.

By Earth’s zodiac thing, Valkyrie is a libra. It’s a bit ironic since she’s vital in the whole “Balance of the Magical Dimension” thing.

By the Magical Dimension’s zodiac thing, she’s an elemental. Considering her magic comes from the Element of Fire, its fitting. 

Val doesn’t do horror movies. “I see enough horror in my day to day life. I don’t need the extra stimulus.”

She also has a fear of snakes that stems from an accident when she and her friends (elementary friends and Morgan) stumbled into a baslisks’ nest and almost ended up lunch. (Thankfully Griffin and Saladin had noticed the kids were gone fairly quickly and came to their rescue.)

Traits:

Like her mother, she’s sarcastic and has a “Type-A” personality. She can’t stand the thought of getting behind on anything. She also has a tendency to antagonize her opponents and then getting into more trouble.

She also has a tendency to sneak out of places and loves to do word play. (Ex: You snuck out of Cloud Tower. ‘Actually, I walked out of Cloud Tower. Through the tunnels. So… No real sneaking.’)

She has an affinity for swords like her father. Griffin enrolled her at a young age in a junior sword fighting league after she begged to be signed up with Helia. 

Valkyrie is impulsive and doesn’t tend to think things through, but when she does actually sit down to plot out something, she’s a great tactician.

She has a tendency to see things in black and white, often forgetting that shades of gray exist in life. 

Smart-ass. Need I say more?

She loves to write and often writes journals about her adventures. (It also assists in separating her own thoughts from the thoughts her dragon has. After all, she’s a two-spirit and her dragon still has a mind of his own… As does Bloom’s.)

Physical:

Valkyrie takes after her Great-Aunt Hetty in the height department… 5′0″ and affectionately known as an “imp”. 

She also has short purple hair in a bob-like cut. Her eyes are blue-gray and she wears black framed glasses.

Her outfits typically include short-sleeves and shorts. She can’t help it, she burns hot and can barely stand to wear long-sleeves.

Val has issues walking in heels. She’s a bit clumsy in them.

Griffin:

Valkyrie is close to her mother and they have a fairly open and honest relationship. (Of course, there are some things Griffin doesn’t talk about. Like parts of her time with the Coven and anything that has to do with Valkyrie’s father.)

They have a Yule tradition where they wear pjs, create a blanket fort, have hot chocolate and popcorn, and watch horribly cheesy holiday movies for the hell of it.

They have also been known to have flour and dough fights in the kitchen. 

Griffin adores Valkyrie with Flora, thinking the fairy is a calming influence on her daughter. (And the look Flora gives Valkyrie makes her think of the looks she’d given Valtor…)

Griffin never tried to turn Valkyrie against her father. She only told her daughter that they shared a power, eye colors, and that he never left the Coven. Valkyrie’s dragon filled in the rest of the blanks.

Growing up, Griffin made sure Valkyrie had a warm and loving environment to be raised in. She wanted to make damn sure that Valkyrie never had to question her love or that she was worth something. (She’d seen enough self-doubt and self-hate in Valtor, she didn’t want her daughter growing up the same way.)

If Valkyrie had nightmares while growing up, she never hesitated to crawl into bed with her mom. And Griffin never hesitated to keep vigil to protect her child from ‘the glowing golden eyes’ and ‘the chill of frost’. 

Valkyrie really looks up to her mother, and will be the first to tell you that she wants to be as strong and will-full as her mother when she’s grown. (And boy is she ever her mother’s daughter.)

Snowball wars are a thing with this family. Bring it on. (Usually adults vs. the kids.)

Valtor:

This relationship is beyond complicated.

It went from non-existent to antagonistic to mourning.

She never really knew him growing up, what with him being in Omega and all… But once he was out, her dragon had already explained to her just how horrible he was and she was angry with him.

That anger didn’t waiver when he tried to mess with her relationship to Flora or when he took over Cloud Tower and tormented her mother.

But once the dust settled and his corruption started to dissipate in his final moments of clarity, Valkyrie could see bits of who he used to be. And she mourns for that version of him. The one who admits he should have left with Griffin and should have been there for her.

As a kid, she used to fantasize that he would come back and be apologetic for siding with the Ancestral Witches, that he’d get back with her mother and they’d have a ‘normal family’. She resented the teasing she got as a kid because she was from a single mother household. 

She grew out of those fantasies though, especially once she started being able to communicate with her dragon and learned about the horrible things he did as one of their soldiers. 

(She still hates that he had to die, that she couldn’t save him from the corruption of the blood bond he shared with the Ancestral Witches.)

Bonus:

Val is very much a family-oriented witch. If her cousin needs her help, she’s there. Her uncles need her? Boom, there she is. Her grandmother? There she is.

Yule is her favorite holiday because of the traditions she shares with her family. Including: the dinner with family and extended friends and family, the movie marathon with her mom, the major snowball war that always takes place, and the catching up.

She considers her grandmother a second mom because Theodora often watched Morgan and Valkyrie while their parents worked in Magix. (Theodora is thrilled to have had the chance to be there for them like she was for her own children.)

Val tends to get in on the prank war between her mother and Uncle Sal. (Palladium refuses to partake on the grounds that he doesn’t want to end up dragon food.)

Flora:

Ah love… Isn’t it a grand emotion?

They met when Valkyrie intervened in an attack by the Trix, and Valkyrie was enthralled immediately.

Flora felt a connection with her too. She loves her witch and loves knowing that she has Valkyrie wrapped around her finger. (All she has to do is mention what she wants and Valkyrie will do her best.)

Valkyrie has a protective streak and has a tendency to get fired up if anything threatens or harms Flora. She’s even summoned the Army of Darkness over her fairy. 

She also has a jealous streak whenever she notices someone lingering too long around Flora. (She’s burned people for such offenses.)

Valkyrie finds herself becoming more and more a romantic while hanging around Flora. Flora adores it.

They see things in each other that others don’t. Flora sees the vulnerability and emotion in Valkyrie. She sees the good and the light that resides within.

And Valkyrie sees in Flora someone who is strong and compassionate. She sees a woman who loves her and who has a bit of darkness herself. (Flora isn’t quite as sweet and ‘innocent’ as they all make her out to be.)

They complement each other in ways no one else could. Flora is calm and collected with her planning, and Valkyrie tends to be impulsive. (Sort of a parallel for a different couple…)

Flora knows how hot Val can run and how volatile she can get, but she knows without a shadow of doubt that Valkyrie will never burn her. And Valkyrie knows she never could burn Flora.

The Other Winx:

Valkyrie is close to Bloom, the two of them having similar situations. They both have a bit of a twisted sense of humor, but Bloom tends to be more lighthearted than Val is.

Bloom and Valkyrie often spar together too. Bloom wants to connect more to her dragon like Valkyrie has done with her own, and the fastest way is to spar.

(It also helps them get out a bit of resentment that they have for each other. Bloom hates that Val’s dad is responsible for what happened to her planet and that Val got to grow up knowing about her magic. And Val resents that Bloom got to grow up completely worry-free of falling into her parents’ shadows.)

Stella and Val are more antagonistic to one another. I mean, they’re friends and everything, but Val can only handle Stella’s “princess ‘tude” for so long. And Stella can only handle Val’s darker sense of humor for a little while.

Val and Tecna tend to play games together. Board and video. (They tend to stalemate at Chess. And they get competitive enough that boards have been known to be flipped.)

(There are even a few card games that are now forbidden to be played again.)

Layla and Val have a kinship in sneaking out and having overprotective parents. They also tend to share their love and respect for the ocean and all it’s creatures.

Musa and Val once bonded on their love for alternative bands and rock music. Don’t know how it came about, but it did,

Bloom and Val have done projects together that combined Val’s persuasive writing skills and Bloom’s artistic sensibilities. 

Val has also been talked into modeling/explaining goth and punk fashion to Stella to assist in expanding her fashion lines. (Both ended up leaving with strips of fabric and paint attached to each other. No one has bothered to ask what exactly happened there.)

Layla and Val sword fight together and consider each other rivals in that area. Of course, Layla likes to claim there’s no real competition, she’s obviously the best. And Val makes counterclaims that she is the best. (Riven likes to disagree with both of them, only to end up defending himself from both women.)

Val and Tecna work together on showing more emotion. For Val, trying to keep her emotions in check is a witch thing/power thing and for Tecna it’s because that’s just how Zenithians are. But both are willing to try and be more open with their feeling to connect to their friends and loved ones better. So they try to practice with each other.

Bonus:

Out of the canon boys, Val feels closest to Helia and Riven for different reasons. 

She’s known Helia since they were able to walk and have been each other’s rocks. (even if she had assure her cousin that she wasn’t interested in Helia ‘like that’)

(She was there for Helia when his parents divorced and when he decided he didn’t want to continue fighting and sparring, but wanted to paint. He was there for her when she came to realize her sexuality and when she found herself overwhelmed about her... Legacy...)

With Riven, it’s sort of a solidarity thing. He has issues with his mom leaving him and basically considering him only after he’s made something of himself at Red Fountain, sort of like Valtor left Val and really only considered her for her powers. 

(They also have similar tastes in music and are both not that great at dancing… So they took lessons together to surprise Musa and Flora.)

Helia likes to tease Val about her romantic side and often helps her with gift ideas for Flora. (His favorite is the painting he did of the two of them, both looking to the other as if they’re the only ones in the realms.)

Honestly, I think it would have been so much better if he'd left with Griffin and had been there to raise her.

I can picture him being there for rough nights when she starts teething and getting sick.

And I can see how excited he'd get when she starts talking and walking, how he'd be one of those dad's that gets wrapped around his daughter's fingers.

He'd get thrilled when her powers come in and he'd jump at the chance to train her and he'd teach her how to sword fight.

When Valkyrie comes out, he's one of her biggest champions whenever bullies try to throw their two cents in.

I think Valtor would be one of the first to welcome Flora into the family and the one to attempt to give them relationship advice. (Dad... Please... There are some things I do NOT need you to coach me on.)

He'd be tough as a teacher/sparring partner for Valkyrie, but as a father? As a confidant for his child? He's soft and warm because he wants so badly to break the cycle of abuse he's used to. He wants to be a better father than his mothers were mothers.

Hmm...

Valkyrie has a thing for sweets and enjoys chocolate milkshakes.

Her favorite restaurant is on her realm of Rancor and it's called Jinxes.

She's a cat person, as evidenced by Cheshire.

Her favorite story growing up was from Earth, "Alice in Wonderland".

She's not a fashion person, but she can admire a well-tailored suit. (She may be her father's daughter in that regard.)

Out of the pixies, Valkyrie has to say that soft-spoken Amore is her favorite. (No offense to Jolly or Chatta or Discorda.)

Out of the Cloud Tower teachers, aside from her mother, her favorite is Professor Tanea.

She loves true crime documentaries.

Alternative music is her preferred to listen to, but she does have a few 'sapphic' based playlists. (All the lesbian songs.)

Her favorite book right now? "High Stakes and Low Towers". (Not a book from our dimension, but think of it as something similar to the book, Red Dragon.)