Grimoire Valentine

'''This is not FF7 canon. Well, some of it is. Most of it is not. This is mostly me trying to keep my notes straight. Spoilers abound.'''

Born 1920something. I forget.

A pioneer in mako research, Dr. Valentine is perhaps best remembered for his unfortunate accident in the Crystal Cavern where he and his assistant Dr. Lucrecia Crescent were conducting research on dark mako and the guardian spirit Chaos.

Born in Gongaga, Dr. Valentine crossed the sea to study in Midgar. Shinra was a major power even then, and all the best and brightest were going there to seek their fortune. Seen as something of an eccentric by his contemporaries, Dr. Valentine was a deeply religious man, and felt that faith and science need not be mutually exclusive. He mentored another young scientist with similar views: a man named Faremis Gast. One of his last students was a young woman named Lucrecia Crescent. Although the two of them made great strides in their fields, the research ended in tragedy and their findings never published. Before he became a doctor, Grimoire Valentine married and fathered two sons: Vincent and Geoffrey. Geoffry became an MD, Vincent joined the Turks. Their mother, sadly, died while Vincent was in high school. Dr. Valentine himself died when Vincent was in his mid 20s. Vincent was declared MIA, presumed dead in 1967. He would have been 27 years old. Geoffrey would die in his mid-30s of an unknown illness, later assumed to be lung cancer due to Midgar's notorious pollution.