Valerie Hawthorne

Valerie Hawthorne

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Occupation	Los Angeles Police Detective (2008) Police sergeant ( - Feb. 14, 2013)
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	1990
Documented age range (as recorded in court record profiles & case files)	23* (Turnabout Beginnings)
Last known status	Deceased (Feb. 14, 2013)
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Black
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	5'3"; 160 cm
Associates
Family	An unnamed mother An unnamed stepfather Dahlia Hawthorne (stepsister, accomplice, and killer; deceased) Iris (stepsister and intended accomplice; arrested)
Friends	None mentioned
Affiliates	Dick Gumshoe (colleague) Terry Fawles (accomplice; deceased)
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	美柳勇希 (Yūki Miyanagi)
French	Valérie Plantule
German	Valerie Hawthorne
Spanish	Valerie Hawthorne
Italian	Valerie Hawthorne
Actors
Anime (romanization written with the given name first)	Fumie Mizusawa (Japanese) Brianna Roberts (English)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	Turnabout Beginnings

Valerie Hawthorne was a veteran police officer who was murdered after Terry Fawles broke out of prison.

Kidnapping plot

When Valerie Hawthorne was 18, she was involved in a staged kidnapping plot hatched by her younger sister Dahlia Hawthorne and Terry Fawles to steal a $2 million diamond from the Hawthornes' father. The staged chase reached its climax on Dusky Bridge; following a secret plan she had hatched with Dahlia, she betrayed Fawles, shooting him in the shoulder. Dahlia then jumped into Eagle River; Valerie later testified to the court that she saw Fawles push Dahlia off of Dusky Bridge. This resulted in a death sentence for Fawles.

Valerie later found Dahlia and secretly looked after her. As a policewoman, Valerie was able to forge the documents necessary to create a new identity for her stepsister: that of "Melissa Foster".

Death

Main article: Turnabout Beginnings

Valerie's body stuffed into the trunk of Fawles' car.

Five years later, Fawles was being transferred to another prison when his transport broke down. He broke out, stole a car, and phoned Valerie to come to Dusky Bridge to explain her actions. Valerie then told Dahlia that she would finally tell the truth about the plot. In response, Dahlia met Valerie on the bridge and stabbed her in the back, killing her. When Fawles arrived, Dahlia covertly hid the body in the stolen car and then met Fawles on the bridge, pretending to be Valerie; Fawles was arrested and charged with Valerie's death.

During Fawles's trial, defense attorney Mia Fey proved her case against Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. Although Fey managed to implicate Dahlia as the killer, Fawles did not cooperate with her in proving that Dahlia had done the deed, and committed suicide instead. Thus, Valerie's killer escaped conviction for several months.

Name

• Her Japanese surname, "Miyanagi" (美柳), is a name that is meant to evoke a feeling of tranquility.
• "Yūki" (勇希) means "courage" in Japanese.
• Her English name "Valerie" comes from "valiant", meaning someone who shows courage or determination.
• The surname "Hawthorne" is a reference to famous author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote Rappaccini's Daughter, a short story in which a man falls in love with a woman who has a strong poison coursing through her veins and can kill anything with a simple touch.
• Her French surname "Plantule" means "seedling".