Valentine Åkesson

"'Let those f*ckers burn.'"Valentine Björn Åkesson is the oldest son of Magnus, and he is the second in command for The Oracle Company. He is a first generation Heron under Svala.

He is one of the eight protagonists for Nexus.

About
Valentine is a scholar whom finds power in knowing things as opposed to brute force. He's naturally intellectual and firmly believes that knowledge is power. Despite being a Heron, which as a species are already gifted intellectually, he's worked on himself to push him past even those limitations. Many even suggest he's one of the smartest beings on the planet.

Due to the tragic and sudden loss of his mother when he was a teenager, Valentine is a misanthropist.

Early Life
Valentine Åkesson was born on the 6th of September 1930 in Östersund, Sweden. His mother is heron, Ebba Åkesson and his father is the infamous warlock, Magnus Langermann. He grew up as an only child in a single parent family with his mother since his father was not aware that he was even conceived.

When he was a young child, Ebba moved herself and her son away from Östersund and into a smaller, more confined mountainous town of Åre, Sweden. Since Ebba herself was a heron, who growing up, found it hard adapting into human society she thought it best that she put herself and Valentine into a place where there would be minimal chances of him suffering the same way.

It wasn't until Valentine was around fifteen years of age where Ebba's fool proof plan began to show it's cracks. In the winter of 1945, Valentine had accidentally used his heron ability in a malicious way after he was caught in the cross hairs of a moose attack while in the woods with his friends. In a blind panic, Valentine had unleashed his uncontrolled death sense that ended up causing a large catastrophic event that rocked his little town in Sweden.

Valentine had awoke hours later, at the epicenter of the event, to find that everything around him in a five mile radius had the life ripped from them - including all seven of his friends. Unintentionally, for the first time in his life, he had the undivided attention of his mother Goddess, Svala, who for her own reasons was interested in this boy who harnessed such a significant amount of power for a heron.

It was not long after the tragedy occurred that vicious and untrue rumours of Valentine began to circulate, so much that the townsfolk had devised a manhunt for his mother whom they believed brought into the world the child of Hel, they were all convinced that one day, Valentine would bring Ragnarök.

Valentine and his mother were getting ready to flee when she then realised that her son doesn't deserve to spend a lifetime on the run - that he would never truly be free so she let herself be caught so that he could get a head start out of Sweden. The townsfolk dragged her through the city and tied her up to a stake in the town center and instead of fleeing Valentine watched from the shadows as his mother was being burnt at the stake.

Before her end she prayed to Svala to take her son away and to look after him but most importantly to stop him from causing another mass extinction event, because she could feel him watching. Unfortunately Svala did not arrive in time to stop Valentine from releasing death this time killing thousands of people in an instant.

That event had changed something in Valentine and he was no longer the person he used to be. Svala had picked him up and had taken him to his father Magnus who was surprised to learn of his existence, Svala continued to stick around in Valentine's life, appearing periodically and fulfilling his mother's last prayer and mentoring him to the extent that she could. By the age of 20 Svala became less active in his life as he became his own person. Now he is working side by side with his father and four younger brothers in The Oracle Company making sure that humans pay for everything they have ruined.

Appearance
Valentine is known to those around him as the broody supermodel, he's gifted with his mother's blonde hair, icy blue eyes, and lively grin. He shares his fathers nose, unnerving glare and height. He is what others would pin as quintessentially Swedish.

Characteristics
Contrary to his looks, Valentine is quite cold and normally suspicious of those around him. His past can be attributed to his personality and how he treats others. He is often manipulative, condescending and very controlling but with that being said is also a natural born leader, ambitious and knowledgeable.