Hi guys! Hope you've enjoyed the story so far and I hope you love my female gorilla as much as I do. I'd like to talk about Valeria without giving away spoilers! YAAAAAYYY! I'm guessing one of the earlier chapters with the confusing names may have thrown off a lot of people. I'm just here to explain some stuff to you because the character development and plot line is going to start going on a roller coaster ride. I think. So I just wanted to summarize and clarify some things before you guys all get a huge migraine and give up on me.
Valeria grew up in a superhuman strength clan called the "Lavine"s. It's actually a...wait what is the common language that Hunter x Hunter has…? Oh well let's just call it Japanese. Lavine is actually just the Japanese version of the Lavine's language, Che'ang, of the meaning Tiger Dragon.
For the entire culture of Valeria's clan, I based it off completely of China. So if you're mandarin, hurray you MAY understand the meaning of their names.
Here are the names of Valeria, her little brother, and this mysterious unknown person soon to be revealed in both "Japanese" and Che'ang:
Valeria: Hu Li Feng (Tiger Strong/Power Wind)
Will: Hu Wen Dao (Tiger Gentle Blade)
Shion (Shi for short):Long Hong Shi (Dragon Red Tiger)
The first character for each of the members is their last name.
Okay time to add some facts you may not have known, but aren't technically spoilers. They're just going to help you understand a bit of the future chapters.
So Valeria grew up in a violent clan which it's Che'ang name is: Longhu (Dragon Tiger). As the name suggests, the clan is actually made from two separate branches. In common knowledge, all of the clan members are just identified as Lavine but within the clan, they make sure to identify each member by their branch last names.
Valeria's family is from the Tiger side while the mystery Shion is from the Dragon side.
Clan members who live up to the title of Lavine's being extraordinary strong are well appreciated while the rare, occasional members who have collapsing bodies, incapable of carrying the burden of their powers are considered as failures.
In terms of beauty standards, women just have to be flexible, healthy and strong. Flexibility brings grace to the women's fighting style whereas being healthy and firm would ensure a higher chance of good childbirth. Men just need to be extraordinarily strong. Body weights and builds don't quite matter though many find extremely buff people attractive because...it's just seems that they have more power. Though it wasn't always necessarily true.
Fun fact: Valeria is considered extremely unappealing. She is VERY inflexible and because of that, her movements (and personality!) is very brutish. She's also relatively petite.
There's also a superstition going on around the clan that decides how strong someone is. For a woman, the lighter brown her hair is, and the more green her eyes are, the stronger she is. For a man, the redder the hair and the bluer the eyes, the stronger he is. Valeria has one of the lightest brown hair in her clan but her eyes are well balanced between blue and green.
Of course, there's common society issues in the clan, such as sexism, political issues, environmental problems, etc. But I can't say anything right now :)
Oh and fun fact: You can get executed, punished or banished if you don't meet your quota of killing.
ABOUT VALERIA!
Valeria, is a female gorilla who isn't exactly intelligent and tactics, education, life, etc. The only thing she is good at is annoying people, bullying people, making people cry, and fighting.
She's actually considered a pretty good fighter in her clan. If only her personality didn't suck. This shall be explained later on in the story.
Oh and fun fact: You can get executed, punished or banished if you don't meet your quota of killing.
"Little mouse can't run away, because I'm a big, bad tiger! Rawr!" A boy with curly mop of dark brown hair and green eyes sat beside a manga-reading Valeria as he was playing with some figurines. Valeria was propping her head up with, while she flipped the page.
Suddenly a serious series of coughing escaped from the small boy and Valeria leapt up and patted his back. "Are you okay?" The boy continued coughing and when he finally stopped, he gave his elder sister a big thumbs up and grinned: "I choked on my own saliva."
Smacking the back of his head with her manga before sighing, Valeria flopped down and run a finger through her loose hair. "Gosh, Wen Dao..you scared the shit out of me." She picked up her manga and flipped through the pages. Will, Wen Dao's international name, giggled sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head. Out of curiousity, Will approached his sister and peered down at the manga she was reading before frowning and looking up at her. "Whatcha reading?"
"Shoujo manga. I'm jealous...these girls find themselves a super hottie who falls for them almost instantly and they get another hunk to fall in love with the girl but he's only there to be a huge love obstacle. How nice." Valeria yawned and her younger brother chuckled as he arched an eyebrow. "You don't seem very envious."
Valeria patted his head, a small grin crawling onto her face as her eyes didn't stray away from her manga. "But I am. Cute clothes, hot guys, uneventful life, weak-ass little heroines always under the protection of a super hottie...but Wen Dao. Do you know who I have the most feels for, in every single shoutouts manga?" Valeria snapped her manga close and looked down the boy who was leaning against her, clearly enjoying his elder sister's companionship. "...The heroine?"
"Nope! The rival of the heroine's love interest. I mean...they never get the girl it's so sad that it's hilarious." Valeria snickered as she tossed her manga into the middle of the room. She looked at the silver birdcage that was three meters away from them. Mama always fed the nightingales and treated them with much love. If only Papa had the same amount of love from Mama...maybe he wouldn't have been such a prick. Lol.
"Ahh...maybe it's because you'll never get a boyfriend and you sympathize with him. I see, I see…" A pillow was thrown at Will's face. Valeria looked at him with an unamused expression. "Bitch please...I'm just too fabulous."
"Haha. I mean it's okay, even if no men will like you, there will always be H-" Will was cut off as Valeria tickled her younger brother, forbidding him to mention his name. "That's a taboo word."
"Okay okay! But…" Will's face began to change to guilt. "Jie jie*...if I wasn't born, would you have gotten a life like the heroine's? Or at least do what you like?" Valeria stopped tickling him and squinted at the ashamed boy's face.
"What a cutie, I can still do what I want even with a crybaby brother." Valeria scoffed as she crossed her legs in a sassy manner. Will brightened up and asked: "Then...what's your biggest dream?"
Valeria stared at him, processing his question before smirking and leaping up. "Perfecting this…" Valeria started doing some weird movements with her hands as she took in a deep breath.
*Jie jie - Older sister
-Current timeline-
"K*MEHAMEHA GORILLA VERSION!" Valeria shouted as she did a flashy move and waved the golden plants that she had plucked earlier. The spiders began to fall off as Valeria continued to perform an insane, stupid, and cult-like looking ritual. The girl waved the golden plants around like crazy until every single spider escaped for their lives. The plant's juice was dripping a colour of bloody red.
The shaman was extremely ticked off, and not because Valeria freed herself. "You idiot! That's a goddamn ripoff of K*mehameha from Dr*gon B*llz! I'll show you my original, ultimate technique:" The shaman immediately slouched over and started waving his right hand like crazy, forming a wind current (and gathering of spirits) in his left hand. Valeria narrowed her eyes and gasped. "Th-that can't be! The R*sengan!"
"What? NO! This is Spirits jutsu: RaSpiritgan!" The shaman sassily flipped his hair and Valeria clicked her tongue in disinterest. "That's obviously a ripoff. What the hell, I thought it would be something good." The girl tossed her bag and the plant she was holding, onto the grass. Portia's Caskets were plants that has a golden appearance but their are two types: Portia's Gold and Portia's Lead. Portia's Gold had toxic red juice in them and often works as bug repellents. Though some people may have allergic reactions to it, Portia's Gold only paralyzed a human and nothing serious. Portia's Lead on the other hand, provides healthy nutrients and has a rather unique flavour that Valeria likes to eat.
"Let's get this over with." Valeria stretched side to side and then finally cracked her knuckles. "Valeria Lavine. What's your name, shady Shaman?"
"Alexander Prince Williston." The shaman grinned crazily as he bent each and every one of his fingers. It would have been a scene that should've been intimidating, if the name wasn't...how do you say it…
"Alex what? Are you some sort of runaway noble's child who got involved with some shady cult activities and got infatuated and threw away your identity?" Valeria dropped her fists as she deadpanned. It's hard to match the physical and personality characteristics of a crazy cult manic with a dignified name that sounds like it belonged to an actual member of a royal family. "Your name is too long. I'll just call you Willy."
"You insolent-!" The shaman gasped in horror as Valeria DARED to mispronounce his name and even went to insult it. Next. Valeria decided to kill one of his precious scented candles by stomping on it repeatedly with no remorse.
"OI! What are you- Stop that! STOP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! IT COSTS 3000 JENNIES! STOP!" Alexander sighed in relief as Valeria stopped but immediately got irritated again as she spat on the candle and posed, placing her right feet on the candle. "What a ripoff. Looks like Mister Willy is very prone to scams."
"You….You've angered me greatly! Along with the spirits! I will no longer hold back!" THe shaman bit his lip really hard until it began to bleed. He pried his left hand's fourth finger all the way back until it cracked. The small fires lit on the scented candles wavered and one by one, they all vanished. Valeria looked around as she squinted, waiting for her eyes to readjust to the darkness. However as soon as her eyes were adjusted, all of the candles lit up again, into a bigger fire and they formed a ring around them before diving and shrouding itself around the man's broken fourth finger.
Valeria blinked as she rubbed her eyes, which were in pain from the sudden changes of environment. When she opened her eyes again, the fire changed it's warm and fiery colour into something like black flames. Whispers could be heard throughout the forest and Valeria inhaled sharply as she felt something slither up her back. She turned around but the feeling was gone. However, the female Lavine could start to feel numerous presences around her.
"What the fuck? An ambush?" Valeria swivelled her head left and right as the voices slowly grew louder and louder, until she could finally hear a relatively loud chant: "Sinner, beast, sinner, beast, sinner…."
The scenery around her started to waver and Valeria began to distinguish little shadowy like figure rising up all around her. "Holy…" Valeria's face paled as she saw mouths in each figure that were creepily upturned. She glanced at the shaman who did a thumbs down with his right hand as he sneered down at her. "Who were you saying was a con artist?"
"I never explicitly said you were a con-artist." Valeria corrected him as she threw a punch at one of the figures, only to have them dissipate before reforming again. It wrapped itself around Valeria's arms before staying very close to Valeria's face. The shadowy ghost slowly opened its' mouth and screeched extraordinarily loud, causing Valeria to cover her left ear with her free arm.
Valeria grabbed the spirit by it's neck and slammed it down into the ground. The spirit vanished and reappeared next to her. Valeria jumped back, next to her belongings as she stretched her hand in disgust. "Ew...it's touchable. It's like a disturbing screaming pile of shit." She grimaced and grabbed her bag, having it slung over her shoulder. Valeria stared at the chest pocket of the shaman who seemed to notice and shrieked like a childish girl.
"Pervert!" He hid his chest and hugged his crystal tightly. Valeria winced in absolute disgust as she paced herself in circles. "Think whatever you'd like, Willy." Valeria lunged for the shaman who ducked out of panic. It was the right response however as the girl aimed for his face.
"How dare you?!" Alexander shouted as he leapt back up while Valeria rotated her wrists. She reached for the crystal ball that the shaman seemed to held precious and grabbed ahold of it while the other man used all of his strength to hug the ball tightly.
"W-what do you think you're doing? This costs 600,000 Jennies!" He cried as he literally hugged the ball while Valeria single handedly lifted both the crystal and him off the ground. The spirits around them were perplexed on what to do as there is a possibility for them to injure their summoner. So what do they do? Drink tea and watch.
"I don't care. Either you hand over your number or your precious decoration gets shattered." Valeria tilted her head and made a thumbs down sign with her other hand.
"No no no! Not the crystal! Do you know how long I have saved up for this crystal? YOU CAN'T BE THIS CRUEL! We're supposed to have touching and epic battles like N*ruto and S*suke! Have three episode long of friendship talk such as N*tsu from F*iry Tail who just beats the crap of everyone from friendship! Not this low-life type of blackmailing! I especially won't lose to an undignified, brutal gorilla like you!" Alexander squirmed as he hugged his crystal tighter.
Valeria scoffed and tightened her grip, causing a small crack on the surface of the crystal. The shaman let out a high pitched girlish scream. "This is a goddamn fanfiction, not to mention in the comedy genre. Descriptions of long ass battles is definitely way too boring for the audience and besides…you don't have any friends." Valeria tightened her grip even more and Alexander screamed once more.
"I give! I give! Please let my baby go! Here's my badge!" He passed his badge to Valeria he tossed it in her hand and then stared down at him, before utterly crushing his crystal ball and dusting off her hand. "See you later." Valeria walked by the onlooking spirits who all watched her disappear into the night of the woods before they looked back at their crying master. Alexander looked up, hoping to seek sympathy from them but they just shook their heads at him, as if telling him he acted so lamely.
"You bullies! Every single one of you! I give up on being a shaman!" Alexander cried.
Meanwhile, Valeria washed her hands in the river and splashed her face with the bone chilling water. She sighed and stood up, looking at her badge. This technically means she received all of the points she needed. Valeria sneezed as she stared at her reflection in the water narrowing her eyes. Fiddling with the strands of her hair before looking side to side. She then punched the water before standing up and grabbing her bag, turning away.
"Seriously?" Will deadpanned at his sister. She looked absolutely retarded and the nightingales behind her were chirping, as if they agreed with him. Valeria tossed her hair and placed her hands on her hips. "Wouldn't that be awesome?"
"I seriously doubt you'd be able to do it. Besides...are you even reading shoujo mangas? What type of shoujo manga are you reading that has an iconic shounen manga's ultimate move in it?!" Will watched his sister stretch from side to side.
"Don't be such a smartass, Wen Dao." Valeria tossed a pillow at her younger brother as she walked out to the outdoors hallway and perched on it. All of the buildings here in the Lavine clan were crowded, but well ornamented and beautiful. All of the rooms are connected by an outdoor wooden hallway and instead of a yard and garden surrounding a single building, the architecture is built around a square area of greenery.
Valeria was enjoying her scenery and Will watched his sister suddenly change her expression into displeasure. He hopped off of the couch and ran over to wear his elder sister was perched as he peered over the railing.
"Is something wrong? Ah. It's Hong Shi Ge Ge*! Oiiiii! Ge Ge!" Will shouted as he waved his arms at a cloaked figure. Valeria immediately covered his mouth, sending him a death glare. "That. Word. Is. Taboo."
Unfortunately for Valeria, the figure turned around, taking notice of them. His face was covered with bandages and the cloaked figure pried down his bandages, revealing a childish smile and a rather appealing youthful face. The hood fell down and it revealed flaming red hair tied in a braid.
"Does he think bandages are a trend or what?" Valeria stuck up her middle finger at the figure in the courtyard who responded with a thumbs down.
"I honestly like ge ge a lot." Will tilted his head while looking at Valeria.
"If you're suggesting your sexual attractions towards him I won't allow my precious younger brother be in the hands of a bloody beast." Valeria got up and kicked Shion who leapt up and attempted to join them. Shion was sent back down the courtyard with a large boom, before he could even say hello.
"...That's not what I meant." Will deadpanned at his childish elder sister who cackled evilly at the injured man. Their father came running into the courtyard, along with their mother. They helped up the youth while Valeria's father threatened to murder her. Valeria rolled her eyes as Shion got up and her father motioned the two to come down.
Valeria princess carried her younger brother who shut his eyes in embarrassment as they leapt down. The moment they did, Shion landed a kick to the side of Will's ribs, sending him flying through the brick walls of their home.
"Wen Dao!"
*Ge ge = Elder Brother