Scarlet Valentine

"Call me 'Scarlet'..."

- Scarlet Valentine, SBR Chapter 49

Scarlet Valentine (スカーレット・ヴァレンタイン) is a minor antagonist featured in Steel Ball Run.

Scarlet is the wife of Funny Valentine and the first lady of the United States. She encounters Lucy during the President's questioning of every woman and child to find the traitor.

Appearance
Scarlet Valentine is a slim woman with long dark hair she keeps tied into a ponytail with several rings. She wears a dark bodysuit partially quilted on the legs and bearing several crown symbols on the arms. Over that bodysuit, Scarlet wears a short sleeveless dress with a multi-layered heart motif on the chest.

Personality
Scarlet is a strong and ambitious woman. She is not shy at all and often takes the initiative. She has no trouble talking about her husband even when she is seducing a woman. Scarlet follows her impulses when in a relationship. She is bisexual, as she shows affection towards her husband, but also desires intimate contact with females. Along with a face sitting fetish.

She is shown to be sadistic as upon discovering Lucy's infiltration of her Husbands bedroom, she began to shoot at her and declared she would torture her slowly and make her suffer a long and painful death, even digging a Tubular Bells nail into her leg.

Background
Fifteen years prior to the events of Steel Ball Run, Scarlet met Funny Valentine at a house party in her hometown. The two danced together, which is when she discovered he could walk without making footsteps and play Mozart on mandolin with his feet. Coupled with this, she fell in love with his sharp, but warm-hearted personality.

Steel Ball Run
In Chicago, while walking in a park, she encounters Lucy Steel reading "The Sign of Four". As the two converse Lucy "accidentally" falls and touches Scarlet suggestively, by realizing that Scarlet is attracted to women she uses this to infiltrate into Valentines residence. She invites Lucy into the house and attempts to have Lucy sit on her face, but eventually falls asleep after being drugged by Lucy due to Hot Pants ability. When she awoke, she discovered Lucy's true intentions and attempts to kill her, Declaring she will have Lucy killed and tortured slowly, during the fight she was eventually killed on accident by Tubular Bells. Once disposed of, Lucy escaped successfully with the help of Hot Pants, who uses her ability to disguise Lucy as Scarlet, she also faked Lucy's death using Scarlet's corpse.