Arc 4: What families entail
Road to a hero:
Three chances in another world
Chapter 45. The Valentines
The Valentine family is a family of luck, perseverance, and triumph. Lincoln was born to commoners and grew up wanting to join the Athens army and help the war effort. He joined the army when he was just ten years old, and that ten-year-old boy went through a brutal, sick, cruel training regimen. But he didn’t see it this way, for as long as he can remember he wanted to be the strongest. He didn’t want fame, fortune, women, land, or anything like that. He wanted to be the strongest, not to be the best but to make himself feel safe. He wanted to make his family proud, Lincoln wasn't the smartest, and he didn’t have any other skill, so he knew he had to be the strongest. And he lived a lot of his life thinking this. Everyone else believed that he could do it, somehow a commoner with no magical power, not even an affinity, just pure effort.
Once he became the leader of his group in the demi-human war, he met Lilith. When she first met him she yelled at him and told him he couldn’t do it. Lincoln had been told this before here or there but he knew he could still do it. But Lilith wasn’t just some girl, she was the daughter of the King and Queen of Athens. Lilith was a beautiful woman who grew up wealthy, very, very wealthy. To be born into a great family, to be smart, strong, and beautiful, and to know it would make most people arrogant. And Lilith did not escape this hole, she knew she was all those things and expected everyone else to know this. But Lincoln yelled back, and she was appalled. She went to her parents and they forced him out of his role as leader. He lost everything he had worked for because of a selfish, stuck-up, and prideful girl. When he was going to leave his camp they were attacked by a Dragon.
Dragons are mythical, intelligent, and insanely strong creatures. But for some reason, this dragon was not any of these things. It looked possessed and infected like it was about to fall over dead. But it still attacked the camp, and Lincoln stepped up. He found his inner strength and punched the dragon and hurt it. The dragon snapped out of its dead-like state and left the camp. Lilith watched in awe and was amazed by the feat. After that day she fell in love with him, the commoner, the man with all the strength in the world. On the other hand, Lincoln had no interest in her because he saw her as a spoiled brat. He thought this until the faithful day that all the gods of war met and fought. It made her realize his true strength, and she pleaded with her father to fully join Walgonia and want to help the demi-humans, not just kill them off. After a while her parents obliged and joined Walgonia, the incident making Lincoln think of her as more of a person and not just an obstacle. A few years passed and she finally confronted him about her feelings, and he proclaimed he felt the same thing. And fifteen years before the demi-human war ended, they had their first child, Beauregard Orm Valentine.
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Beauregard was a smart boy, always learning and wanting to learn more. His dream in life was to become king, and he knew it was possible. Lilith's brother Fring became the current king after their parents died of a blood disease. And for most of Beauregard's life, he led Athens as king. Then once Beauregard turned six, Lincoln and Lilith had their second child Leo. He was more flamboyant and happy than the stern and serious Beauregard. He had also been born with having more mana, a stronger body, his mother's yellow hair and eyes instead of his father's brown hair and stern eyes, and most important his mark of providence allowing him to create energy similar to lighting. Beauregard was jealous of his brother and spent his childhood trying to get close to him in strength, but alas he never caught up. At one point during the war, Beauregard found himself near a crazed demi-human man. A man who killed and ate multiple children in front of him. He was saved by his father, but the incident set a fear in him that would never leave his body.
Their mother died from the same diseases that their father had, so that meant if Fring died Bearugard would become king. While their grandmother had died from old age, the diseases had flown from their grandfather to their mother and uncle and now, most likely at least, to them. So a clock has been set.
Then years after his mother's death, Fring finally died for unknown reasons and Beauregard became king. His lifelong dream had become a possibility, one that he achieved. Beauregard was born the most unlucky of all the children of the gods of war. Leo had his strength, Kioshi was born with god-like power, Cornelius adopted three strong children, and Vergil never had any kids. Elizabeth's daughter, Rosine Voria is more of an unknown case so she can’t be officially ranked. That leaves Bearugard at the bottom, a man that spent his entire life trying to get power, and once he got it all his loved ones left him. No father, no mother, no brother. Even the people of Athens dislike him enough to start a revolt.
In the eyes of many he is seen as a failure, and he sees himself like this as well. Somebody who wasted their chances, their life. But in his mind as long as he continues to fight and strive towards something his life hasn’t been wasted yet. So that’s what he’ll do to the very end until it eventually kills him. On the other hand, his brother Leo is less prideful. Leo wants to save his country from falling, he wants to keep his men and his people safe from destruction. The spirits blessed him and he wants to use those blessings to help his home life. He doesn't want to end up like his brother, a man with no one by his side.
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