{"id":1086,"date":"2017-06-13T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T23:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2017-06-21T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T02:21:42","slug":"character-portrait-val","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/character-portrait-val\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Portrait: Val"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Val-cartoonized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Val-cartoonized-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Val-cartoonized-203x300.jpg 203w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Val-cartoonized.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Full Name:<\/strong> <\/em>Valentine Shepherd<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Occupation:<\/strong><\/em> Private Investigator<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gender:<\/strong><\/em> Female<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sexual Orientation:<\/strong><\/em> Bi, mostly hetero<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hair:<\/strong> <\/em>Red<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Eyes:<\/strong> <\/em>Gray<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Height:<\/strong> <\/em>5&#8242; 7&#8243;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Weight:<\/strong><\/em> 125 lbs<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> <\/em>Running, marksmanship, doggedly pursuing twisted mysteries<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Background:<\/em><\/strong> Val has lived in Seattle her entire life, raised primarily by her dad\u00a0after her mother took off for Canada, then parts unknown,\u00a0to protest the Gulf War. She enlisted in the Army after high school, where she served as one of the first female squad leaders. Her sister&#8217;s tragic suicide when they were both in high school\u00a0motivated\u00a0Val to start Valentine Investigations after she separated from the military.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Beneath the Surface:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Val is tough but also vulnerable, someone who&#8217;s come to uneasy terms with her strange ability through a mixture of steeliness and sass.\u00a0She has an almost pathological need to bring bad guys to justice, no matter how much she may suffer in the process. She&#8217;s crushed when she\u00a0fails,\u00a0can be prone to self-destructive behavior as a result.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Appears in: <\/strong><\/em><em>Vengeance, Retribution, Reckoning<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full Name: Valentine Shepherd Occupation: Private Investigator Gender: Female Sexual Orientation: Bi, mostly hetero Hair: Red Eyes: Gray Height: 5&#8242; 7&#8243; Weight: 125 lbs Hobbies: Running, marksmanship, doggedly pursuing twisted mysteries Background: Val has lived in Seattle her entire life, raised primarily by her dad\u00a0after her mother took off for Canada, then parts unknown,\u00a0to protest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/character-portrait-val\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Character Portrait: Val&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[239,220,219,240,218],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-character-portrait","tag-reckoning","tag-retribution","tag-valentine-shepherd-series","tag-vengeance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Vyi8-hw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}