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The second child in the Wiggin family, the International Fleet requested that Valentine be conceived because they decided that the eldest child, Peter , was too brutal and aggressive to be taken to the Battle School . In order to be sent to the school, Theresa and John Paul Wiggin bore her with the idea of making her less aggressive than Peter turned out to be. However, the girl was too Empathic , and too conciliatory for the Battle School program. Because of this, the I.F. requested that Ender , a child with these traits balanced, be conceived as well. During his early years, Valentine served as a protector for Ender, whom Peter, angry and sullen over his failure to get into the Battle School program, often tormented. Afraid for both Ender's and her life, Valentine revealed to Peter that she had hidden a public record in a library warning the general public that if it turned out that she were killed, that it was most likely Peter who murdered her and that if he hadn't already, that he would soon move against Ender. She used the gambit in the hopes that Peter would realize that if the record came out it would not necessarily convict him of anything, but it would be a damaging enough record to keep him out of politics, a realm he wished desperately to enter. While Ender was away in Battle School, Peter convinced Valentine to work with him. As young children, they wrote manipulating political commentary under pseudonyms, Valentine as " Demosthenes " and Peter as Locke . Demosthenes became a paranoid writer about Russia n expansion. Through great pathos and demagoguery, as well as playing off Locke (who wrote in the style of a mild intellectual), Demosthenes was able to acquire a vast popularity. The roles that the two took is in itself an irony, because Peter's personality was more like Demosthenes and Valentine's Locke. After Ender's victory over the Buggers , Valentine forced Peter to let her go off to space because Peter prevented Ender from coming back to Earth so Ender could be safe. Valentine still wrote with her Demosthenes identity, but instead of being paranoid, she wrote about histories of different cultures on different planets, and in addition, she also applied some concepts to all humankind. Under the Demosthenes pseudonym, Valentine developed the 4-tiered Hierarchy Of Alienness . Valentine Wiggin married Jakt on the planet Trondheim, and 22 years later, she went to Lusitania to help her brother help the Pequeninos . Physically, Valentine has been described as having blonde hair. She is two years younger than Peter and three years older than Ender. However, because of the Relativity that occurs while undergoing interstellar travel, how old she is in comparison to Ender or Peter is rendered exempt. |
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