Valentine Wiggin

Valentine Wiggin is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series of novels. She is the older sister of Ender Wiggin.

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Fictional character - Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game series - Ender Wiggin

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Valentine was born because the International Fleet decided that the eldest child, Peter, was too brutal for the possiblity of Battle School. The International Fleet then decided to let the Wiggin family bear a girl with the same brilliance as Peter, only milder. However, the girl was too empathic, and too conciliatory for the battleschool program. It was then that they requisitioned Ender.

Related Topics:
Peter - Battle School - Empathic

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While Ender was away in Battle School, Valentine worked with Peter, writing political commentary on the 'nets. As young children, they took pseudonyms, to gain more influence. Valentine's pseudonym was Demosthenes, while Peter's was Locke. Demosthenes became a paranoid writer about Russian expansion. Through great pathos and demagoguery, Demosthenes was able to acquire a vast popularity.

Related Topics:
Demosthenes - Locke - Russia

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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.

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Valentine Wiggin married Jakt on the planet Trondheim, and 22 years later, she went to Lusitania to help her brother help the Pequeninos.

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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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