Stefano Valentini

"Picasso had his Blue Period... I have entered my Crimson Period"

- Stefano beginning his killing spree "This is the photo that took one of my eyes, but gifted me with vision. The moment of death, captured like a fly in amber. A life ends and a flower of flesh and blood is born. I realised the beauty in destruction, I was eager to share my new work with the world. Neophytes. Philistines. Fools. They feared what they could not comprehend, were determined to stop me. Some consider this new world horrific, for me it is a world of beauty, full of pure creations that is limited to my imagination. A world whose very fabric I can shape but where can I go from here? She is the key, the path to ultimate power. She is the brush, blood is my paint and this world is the canvas. My name is Stefano Valentini and art is in the eye of the beholder"

- Stefano Valentini

Stefano Valentini is one of the three main antagonists of the survival-horror game The Evil Within 2 (along with Father Theodore and The Administrator). He acts as the main enemy to Sebastian Castellanos through Chapters 1-8.

Background
Born in Florence, Italy, Stefano became a war photographer whilst taking a photo of a soldier' death caused a piece of shrapnel to become lodged in his eye.

As revealed through Sebastian's Room after his death, Stefano moved to Krimson City after the war and became an artist and photographer, though in secret a serial killer who murdered fashion models by becoming their confidantes and usually decapitated them. Due to the critical panning of his exhibits which also depicted the gore and violence of death, Stefano became more unhinged.

He enrolled himself to become a part of Union through encounters with Mobius and their psychologist, Yukiko Hoffman though because he was a high-functioning psychopath he was able to hide his mental illness and deeply distorted the reality of Union - granting him incredible and disturbed powers within the world.