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Valefor is a member of the Fallen.

Appearance

Valefor wears a delicate-looking mask without eye-holes; a woman's upper face with closed eyes. His costume is effeminate, with white and silver feathers on flowing white clothing that clings to his body, and a corset. He has tattoos that color his lips black and extend from the corners, depicting fangs poking from thin lips that nearly reach his jaw, with the points alternating up and down. <ref name=":1">"Worm" Web Serial, 20.y (Interlude)</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Valefor has the ability to render anyone he makes eye contact with eminently suggestible to his commands. He can use this ability to inflict suggestions that trigger under special circumstances such as ‘attack so-and-so next week’ or 'set fire to your workplace the next time your boss pisses you off’.

History

Valefor travelled to Brockton Bay alongside Eligos before setting up residence somewhere within Imp's territory. He was invited to a meeting with the Undersiders to talk business.

Skitter greeted him after he and Eligos arrived before asking them to take a seat. Valefor, however, questioned why they should listen to her. Skitter told him that there would be violent retribution if anyone caused trouble before he said that he didn't intend to cause trouble. He told her that he was curious as to why they should follow a schoolgirl, telling her that he had seen the news, before asking Butcher if she had seen it.

Valefor then went on to say that it was embarrassing and that he didn't see why someone like Skitter was sitting at the head of the table. Skitter told him that she'd gladly deal with him if everyone agreed to suspend the usual rules before informing him that she would take him one-on-one. He considered it before Accord spoke up, telling him that he had already lost. When Accord told him that he had gained respect for Skitter after seeing what she had done, Valefor told him he was a fool before Accord told him that he wouldn't condone fighting. After Butcher said that she agreed with Accord, Valefor frowned.

When Accord asked Skitter how far she would go, Valefor asked him if he was playing some kind of head-game. Accord told him that it wasn't and said that it would shed some light on what they were to discuss before Skitter said that killing would be her last resort. When Skitter told him to take a seat or leave, he looked around before shrugging and taking a seat. He contested the Skitter's claim that the Undersiders had prior claim on the city by telling her that they had only had it for a week and a half only for her to ignore him.

After hearing Skitter's rules, Valefor told her that her demands were bordering on ridiculous before asking her if she expected the Fallen to fight Endbringers. He then said that she was picking a fight before leaving after Skitter said that the Fallen weren't long for Brockton Bay.<ref name=":1">"Worm" Web Serial, 20.y (Interlude)</ref>

Later, when the Undersiders came after him and Eligos, Valefor disguised himself as a teenage girl before using his power on Imp. He compelled a woman to pretend to be his mother and hid in her embrace. He then stepped out and told everyone listening to him to kill themselves or to kill Skitter and Regent if they moved. He finished by telling them to forget he had given them orders and directed Imp to go out and kill her teammates before killing herself.

Imp charged at Skitter and Regent before abruptly turning around. Valefor tried to get everyone to kill themselves, but Imp kicked him between the legs. She pinned him against the ground, knife to his throat, and demanded he cancel his orders. He tried to ask how she had managed to free herself of his influence only to be slapped across the face. After the crowd dispersed, she struck him again only to stop when Skitter told her to.

Valefor tried to struggle but stopped when Imp pressed the knife against his throat. Skitter blinded him with insects before Imp managed to get the knife in his mouth. Sometime later, he heard someone approaching him and managed to shake off enough bugs to open his eyes. He fixed his gaze on Skitter before the insects she had dropped onto him. He tried to use his power to make her stop only for Imp to move the knife and then bring her knee into his chin. Skitter then stepped on his hand and his struggles intensified until he turned his head to throw up.

Eventually, Skitter told Imp to let Valefor get up before ordering him to walk. Valefor, blinded and exhausted from the ordeal, was then marched to where Rosary was. Skitter shoved him towards Rosary and he tripped. After Rosary released what Skitter had done, Skitter told her that he would need antibiotics for his eyes and that the choice of saving his vision was up to her. <ref>"Worm" Web Serial, Imago 21.3</ref>

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 ==Abilities and Powers==
 Valefor has the ability to render anyone he makes eye contact with eminently suggestible to his commands. He can use this ability to inflict suggestions that trigger under special circumstances such as ‘attack so-and-so next week’ or 'set fire to your workplace the next time your boss pisses you off’.
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+Worm Cast (In-Depth) said:
+Valefor – Styled his costume after the Simurgh, to provoke the residents of Brockton Bay who recently suffered a great deal in the aftermath of an Endbringer attack, with mask of a woman’s face, black tattoos around his lips and a white costume with a corset and feathers. Is described as having a dangerous gaze relating to his stranger power.
+Interlude 20.y said:
+Valefor wore a delicate-looking mask without eye-holes: a woman’s upper face with closed eyes. Beneath the mask, he had a sly, perpetual smirk with tattoos that colored his lips black and extended from the corners. The ink depicted fangs poking from thin lips that nearly reached his jaw, the points alternating up and down. His costume was almost effeminate, with white and silver feathers featuring heavily on flowing white clothes that clung to his narrow body, including a corset that drew his waist in.
+The costume was meant to invoke images of the Simurgh, no doubt. Crass.
+...
+“Why should we listen to you?” Valefor asked, his voice was incongruous with his outfit, bearing a slight southern twang. He leaned over one chair, his arms folded over the backrest, taunting.
+Skitter thinking about Valefor:
+Imago 21.3 said:
+Stranger-type capes were classified that way due to their capabilities in stealth and subterfuge. Valefor was more the latter. He wasn’t stealthy, exactly, but his ability to perpetrate subterfuge was devastating.
+One look, and his target was stunned, rendered eminently suggestible. A hypnotic gaze, so to speak.
+He’d played up the telepathy angle before people caught on, and the costume that echoed the Simurgh was a token to that. The fact that he could leave suggestions that only triggered under certain conditions was another part of it. ‘Attack so-and-so next week’. ‘Set fire to your workplace the next time your boss pisses you off’.
+Capes with powers that allowed them to compel others walked a fine line. Even without murder, Valefor was pushing that line.
+Imago 21.3 said:
+She looked down at Valefor. Her tone was more serious as she said, “I didn’t think this man-slut would be able to see me.”
+“You know his powers,” I said, glad for the change of topic. “Hypnotic stare, Tattletale said he might have other senses or augmented awareness to track his victims.”
+Imp, Regent and Skitter fighting Valefor:
+Imago 21.3 said:
+“To everyone listening, if that swarm or any of the people inside move away from that spot, or if something happens to me,” a young girl spoke in a man’s voice, stepping out of the sheltering embrace of a middle-aged woman. “Kill yourselves or do your best to kill them, I don’t care which.”
+I’d taken her for a scared kid in the company of her mother. No. She’d… he’d compelled a woman to pretend to be his mother, and my roving insects hadn’t thought twice about it.
+It was Valefor, in a teenage girl’s top and skinny jeans, with long, straight blond hair, and makeup caked onto his face to hide the tattoo.
+“…and forget I gave these orders,” he finished.
+That would be one reason for the stranger classification, right there.
+The orders to kill or commit suicide were a surprise to me, but he was more than capable of covering his tracks.
+“Imp,” Valefor said. “Find and kill your teammates. I want you to kill yourself when you’re done trying. Go, and forget I gave this order.”
+Imp drew her knife with one hand and her taser with the other. She paused a second, and then charged for Regent and I.
+I tensed. I had options, but if any of his hostages read it as a cue to kill themselves- no.
+I could shoot from the midst of the cloud, but then we’d be paralyzed. There was no guarantee that Valefor’s influence would end with his death.
+I’d told myself I’d be heartless, but this wasn’t what I’d meant.
+Imp turned a right angle, moments before plunging into the swarm. She charged for Valefor.
+He reacted, giving an order, “Everyone listening, kill yo-”
+He didn’t get any further. She kicked, directing the attack between Valefor’s legs.
+Valefor hit the ground, and Imp kicked him between the legs once more for good measure.
+“Cancel the orders, fuckwit!” she growled, dropping on top of him. Her knife pressed against Valefor’s throat.
+“How-”
+She backhanded him across the face, striking him in one cheekbone with the knife handle. “Cancel!”
+I could sense the crowd relaxing. People hurried away from the scene. It took more than a minute before they were all gone.
+Imp struck Valefor again.
+“Stop,” I said.
+“Regent got one in, I wanted one too,” she said. She spat at Valefor.
+I tentatively moved bugs, then settled them around his eyes. Valefor struggled, but froze when Imp pressed the knife against his throat.
+Regent got one in?
+Oh.
+“You… voluntarily gave him control over you?” I asked.
+“Little while back,” Imp said. “I wanted to see what it was like. Could come in handy. Did come in handy.”
+Skitter dealing with Valefor:
+Imago 21.3 said:
+I approached Valefor and Imp.
+Valefor heard the footsteps, must have felt the impact as I stepped forward, standing over him. He shook his head violently, oblivious to the knife Imp had placed in his mouth. That, or he’d overheard something I’d said and didn’t care anymore.
+He managed to shake enough bugs off that he could open his eyes. He fixed his gaze on me, and I froze. My thoughts dissolved to warm, wet, white noise.
+The maggots, millipedes and centipedes dropped from my hand. A part of me that was aware without being quite conscious controlled them, carried out my intent. They spilled onto his face, and moved toward his eyes. The stronger bugs helped pave the way for the others, leveraging the eyelids away from the eyes so the maggots could pass beneath.
+“No!” he shouted, around the knife. “Sto-”
+Imp shifted position. She was kneeling on his chest, and she moved the knife, bringing one knee into Valefor’s chin. I could feel the force of the impact through the bugs on his face.
+“Oh god,” Imp said, “Gross. Gross, gross, gross. Did I get any of them on me?”
+My thoughts were clearing. I blinked, and the movement felt painfully slow, as though I were almost asleep.
+“You didn’t get any bugs on you,” I said, stepping on Valefor’s right hand. Imp held his left with one hand, and held the knife’s blade against Valefor’s makeup-caked lips. He groaned and writhed beneath her grip.
+“They stink,” Imp complained.
+“You’re imagining it.”
+“I’m really not.”
+Valefor’s struggles continued. His writhing intensified, and it got to the point where he had to turn his head to throw up.
+When he turned his head my way, his eyes moved over me, unseeing. His chest was heaving as though he’d just run a long distance.
+...
+“He’s blind,” she voiced the realization out loud. “You blinded him.”
+I nodded, still silent.
+“Permanently?”
+I had to give a response, now. “He’ll need antibiotics. Both Valefor and Eligos will need medical care. It’s up to you whether you save his vision.”
+“Just like that.”
+I nodded once.
+...
+“-Centipedes and bigger bugs opened a path through the external layers. Maggots crawled inside. Nothing critical damaged. Probably repairable, though I’m not an expert in anatomy.”
+-->
 ==History==
 Valefor travelled to Brockton Bay alongside [[Eligos]] before setting up residence somewhere within [[Imp|Imp's]] territory. He was invited to a meeting with the Undersiders to talk business.