Valentine, Faye
Faye Valentine is a female anime and manga character who features in Cowboy Bebop.
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Biography
Faye Valentine (Japanese: フェイ・ヴァレンタイン, Hepburn: Fei Varentain) was the name given to a female human who was born in 1994 where she was frozen in cryo for at least 50 years. She was eventually woke up by a group of scammers posing as doctors and one as a lawyer who gave her the name "Faye Valentine." In the end, she ended up with a 300 million Woolong debt. Faye quickly adapted to her new time, and became a thief, compulsive gambler and bounty hunter- anything to raise the money she needed, and she made many enemies while doing it.
In 2071, Faye became caught up in a plot by a gangster named Gordon to act as a blackjack dealer in his casino. She was supposed to deliver a control chip to him, containing a security code to a stolen computer program capable of hacking any lock. Mistaking Spike Spiegel for the courier, she later ended up teaming up (more like inviting herself) along with him and Jet Black as a bounty hunter on board the Bebop.
Over time, like the others, Faye formed an unspoken bond. While a great asset, she was also a great source of annoyance to the whole crew, since she looked out for herself and her own interests over theirs and was always willing to screw them over.
She briefly left the Bebop and befriended a man named Gren on the moon of Callisto, but he was later murdered by Spike's nemesis, Vicious.
One day, Faye received a package on the Bebop and, fearing it was from a collector or worse, fled without opening it. Jet was forced to pay the delivery fee and eventually found out it was a Betamax tape. The ship also eventually gets another passage of a cassette player. Faye returned to the ship and, rather than pay Jet the delivery fee, she walked away but still sneaked a look from around the corner. It was a tape she herself recorded in her youth.[2] None of the images on the video are familiar to her, hence she spent several nights viewing the contents of the tape. Eventually, a half asleep Ed, reveals that she might know where the area the video was recorded. She rigs the ship to go to Earth, straps Ed to her ship, and takes off. They finally find it and, once there, Faye is approached by an elderly woman who turns out to be an ex-classmate, Sally Yung. She starts to explain some details about Faye but she runs away instead, back to the Bebop. Later, during a shower, her memory resurfaces and she decides she has to leave for good, to where she belongs. However, when she finally finds the area of her home, she only finds a pile of rubble where her home used to be. Resigned, Faye tracks the perimeter of what once was her bed on the ground and lies down in the light of the sunset. Faye was particularly influenced by her younger self on the videotape. She became more empathetic, caring, and vulnerable. She encouraged Ed to find where she belonged. Frustrated and upset by the absence of her roots, Faye went back to her ship when she notices a car driving by in pursuit of another. The driver is Julia, and Faye immediately shoots out the tires of her attacker, saving her. She gets in the car and they escape for a while. Faye offers to team up, but Julia says she's looking for someone. They return to the spaceport and Julia reveals she knows Faye knows Spike by asking her to tell him she'll be waiting "there." Surprised, she goes back to the Bebop and, albeit hesitantly, delivers the message to Spike. After he leaves, Faye wondered aloud to Jet why Spike wants to risk his life with Julia, and both are anxious not to see him again. When contrary to expectations, Spike returns, only to head for the home of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate, and to his possible death; Faye puts her gun to his head in an attempt to stop him and reminds him about the time he told her to forget the past and live the present. Spike then tells her that his cybernetic right eye can only see the present while his real left eye can only see the past, making the past indelible in his mind. She then tells him that she recovered her memory and that she understands that he and Jet are her only family, urging him not to die, to which he replies that he's just going to see if he's alive or not. As Spike walks away, Faye, grief-stricken, fires her gun repeatedly toward the ceiling, then surrenders to a desperate cry.
Faye returned to Mars and met Julia while she was being hunted by operatives of the Red Dragons. She returned to the Bebop to give Spike a message from Julia, and later realized too late that the Bebop was the home she'd been searching for all along. After Julia's death, she realized that Spike was going to go on a suicide mission to avenge her death by killing Vicious. She begged Spike to reconsider, but for him there was no going back. Tragically, after finally realizing the rest of the Bebop were her true family, it was torn apart.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Faye Valentine was a female human who had short violet hair, green eyes, and a voluptuous body.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Faye Valentine was created by Hajime Yatate and Toshihiro Kawamoto where she featured in the setting of the Cowboy Bebop universe.
- In an interview with Director Watanabe, he commented on Faye and Spike's relationship, "Of course. Sometimes I'm asked the question, 'What does Spike think of Faye?' I think that actually he likes her quite a bit. But he's not a very straightforward person so he makes sure he doesn't show it."
In other media
Television
- In Cowboy Bebop, Faye Valentine appeared in the setting of the 2021 live-action television series adaptation where she was portrayed by actress Daniella Pineda.
Appearances
- Cowboy Bebop:
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