Valencina is a tall, older woman with sea green eyes and long, dirty blonde hair that covers her right eye. She wears a Thumb uniform consisting of a rose-red jacket, trousers, wide brimmed hat and untied ribbon over an ivory shirt with the top buttons undone. The right lapel of her jacket has a golden pin with one arrow pointing rightwards. She is seen smoking a cigar, and has black gloves with light palms. While not visible in her sprites, she is said to have the Relic "the Eye of Odin" in place of her right eye, a mechanical eye with a sea green iris and a segmented sclera.[2] As Ryōshū damaged the Relic using Arayashiki, the wound reopens when Valencina is in its presence, at one point causing a cascade of blood to cover her face. Her death sprite suggests she wears a black eyepatch over it, which has a golden cross printed on the front. She carries two swords, one being a straight sword with a revolver barrel at its guard kept in a red sheath, and the other, a curved sword with yellow ribbons on its grip kept in an orange sheath. Both have golden, ribbed blades. Valencina is an arrogant, booze-loving woman with a violent, foul-mouthed personality. She has a short temper, immediately taking towards physically attacking Lucio following a perceived failure on his part, as well as frequently harming the young Yoshihide during their training sessions. While she aims to benefit greatly off the cultivation of Ryōshū's abilities, she generally regards the woman in contempt, even while she was still under the care of the House of Spiders. She remains extremely bitter about her expulsion from the Thumb and fall from grace, and is obsessed with making others give her the respect she's owed. In her moments of lucidity during her deployment in the Smoke War, when she was unable to indulge in alcohol, she became a more committed member of the faction and the House of Spiders, where her verbal and physical abuse of Ryōshū minimized temporarily. However, she was brought back to ruin after a visit from the Consigliere of the Thumb, some time after the end of the Smoke War. In her younger years, Valencina was a participant of the Smoke War under the Thumb's Famiglia Bognatelli, where she made a name for herself as a war hero and vicious killer able to bayonet any foe, killing them before they were given a chance to fight back. She battled against the old L Corp., making express note of her time having tortured the old G Corp.'s soldiers and personally witnessing their decisive weapons. In addition to acquiring the Eye of Odin at some point, the Famiglia Bognatelli gifted her with their personal heirloom sword due to her prowess. Due in part to her devoutness to her Famiglia, Valencina was promoted to the rank of Sottocapo, though this lasted a measly three days before she was demoted due to an unknown offense. She was then disowned by the faction, which withdrew its love for her but allowed her to keep her Relic and sword, believing them to be tainted by her ownership. Among the five Fingers, Valencina was the Thumb's representative in the process of raising Ryōshū into a "perfect blade". In her youth, Ryōshū was trained by Valencina in her own methods of swordplay, creating a shared protégé across the five factions. Despite her role as a mentor and parental figure, Valencina was frequently physically abusive towards Ryōshū, admonishing her for minor failures during her training. At one point during their time together, Valencina realized the value of Ryōshū, allowing her to imprint the intrinsic usefulness of the girl's role on the possibility of securing her return to the Thumb. In her youth, Ryōshū once messily devoured a cake, giving Valencina a spiteful moment that stuck with her. Seeing Ryōshū enjoying the sweet, Valencina reminded her that she would smash a cake if she were to see Ryōshū enjoy something so dearly again. When Valencina was called to continue fighting in the the Smoke War, Valencina's abuse of Ryōshū ceased temporarily, the woman having become exponentially more focused and dedicated to the warfare as a potential way to regain her glory. After a ferocious mission against a G Corp. soldier, she returned injured through a door which connected the warfront to the Thumb's Corridor, where Ryōshū happened to have been at the time. Seeing her mother figure injured, Ryōshū attempted to offer her bandages, which Valencina at first rejected as higher quality physical therapy would be offered in the field, though she quickly retracted her statement and accepted Ryōshū's care. She spent little time with the child as she was soon sent out for another mission, promising to teach her more swordplay when she got back. Soon after the War ended, the Consigliere of the Thumb ― one of Ryōshū's tutors ― had a meeting with Valencina. Following this, she returned to being a abusive drunkard. After Ryōshū's departure from the House of Spiders, Valencina began teaching an apprentice, Lucio, who would be able to act as a mentor to her "Ticket", once she found Ryōshū again. Upon finding Lucio within the Backstreets, taking him in as a method of "saving him", beginning his routine of a daily cycle of training and abuse. Though the task was, on a surface level, graciously accepted by Lucio, he came to despise the woman, considering the odds of one day killing his tutor when her guard was down.