Valejandro

Valejandro is the het ship between Valeria Garza and Alejandro Vargas from the Call of Duty fandom.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
Years prior to the events of Modern Warfare II, Valeria and Alejandro were allies within the Mexican Special Forces. As stated by Valeria, she and Alejandro were a part of “different squads, same unit”. Valeria and her squad betrayed their unit by instead of escorting the previous leader of the Las Almas Cartel to prison; she conducted a coup and assassinated them. Since then, she has ruled the cartel in mystery under the name El Sin Nombre (The Nameless, in English).

Valeria and Alejandro don’t cross paths again until November 1st, 2022. Colonel Alejandro and his team, Mexican based Los Vaqueros (The Cowboys, in English), the internationally based Task Force 141 and the American based Shadow Company ally themselves in search for Major Hassan Zyani, a known terrorist, who is smuggling American missiles. The three teams need to gather intel on the whereabouts of those missiles. They know Hassan is using the Las Almas Cartel to move them, so they devise a way of meeting with the still mysterious El Sin Nombre at their mansion. Task Force 141 operative Sergeant John “Soap” MacTavish volunteers himself to be the one to infiltrate the mansion. Knowing he’ll need eyes and hears inside, Alejandro finds his own way in. Upon Soap surviving the interrogation done by Valeria, under the disguise of being El Sin Nombre’s personal sicaria. Together Alejandro and Soap make their way up to the penthouse where El Sin Nombre is located. Using a snake camera, Soap discovers Valeria and El Sin Nombre is the same person. He relays this information to Alejandro who is momentarily stunned, taking in Soap’s words. Alejandro regains his composure and asks if he’s sure. When Soap confirms, Alejandro questions if the outside team, Task Force 141 operative Lieutenant Simon “Ghost” Riley and Commander Phillip Graves, leader and CEO of the Shadow Company. When they confirm, Alejandro makes it clear to Soap to take Valeria alive. They storm the room, forcing Valeria to run out the back and onto the roof. She’s spotted and stopped by Graves, to which Soap comes up and apprehends her. It’s there she and Alejandro get a good look at each other, sharing prolonged eye contact, both too stunned to speak. Once Valeria is secure, Alejandro is still staring at her. Soap takes notice and asks what’s up, leading to Alejandro telling him that he “knows” Valeria.

The team and Valeria are taken to a fixed location where Graves immediately begins to question how Valeria and Alejandro know each other. By this point, anger has boiled over Alejandro and he quips that “know” is a “strong word”. Provoking him, Valeria remakes how “strong words are important” and how “your word is your worth”. Alejandro urges forward, threatening to kill her, only held back by Soap and Alejandro’s right-hand man, Sergeant Major Rodolfo Parra. With tension lingering, the two explain their history. From there, Valeria’s interrogation truly begins, Graves asking he wants the location of the missiles, the targets and where Hassan is. In exchange for her freedom, Valeria will reveal those. Alejandro knows what kind of woman she is, leading to him telling Graves not to make a deal with her, before he storms out of the cargo container being used as the Valeria’s holding room.

A couple days later on November 3rd, 2022, the deal is eventually broken when General Shepherd orders Graves and his Shadow Company to eliminate all traces linking them back to the missiles, including Task Force 141 and Los Vaqueros. Valeria is eventually rescued by Alejendro and Task Force 141 from the custody of Shadow Company. Upon seeing Alejendro, Valeria provokes him again, asking if he started a war and how she likes the way violence follows him everywhere. Alejendro reminds her he wasn’t the one she made the deal with. With no leverage left and cornered, she reveals that Hassan and the final missile are in Chicago. Alejendro soon leads her out to an awaiting jeep to be imprisoned by Mexican authorities. She taunts him and the rest of Task Force 141 that she cannot be imprisoned and that she will be free in 24 hours.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)

 * Graves – “Alright, how do you two know each other?”
 * Alejandro – “Know is a strong word.”
 * Valeria – “Strong words are important. Our word is our worth, right?”
 * Alejandro – “Go to hell, you f-cking sonuvab-tch – I’m going to kill you.”
 * — Valeria provoking Alejandro during her interrogation.

"You f-cking scorpion. I warned you she would do this, eh?"

- Alejandro, about Valeria, to Task Force 141.

Fanon
is a small, though notable hero/villain paring within the Call of Duty fandom. Fans were quick to pick up on the apparent tension and history between Valeria and Alejandro. There is a great amount of intensity in their interactions that made fans view them as more than two people who were once just “fellow soldiers”. This lead to the popular headcanon that they’re ex-lovers and still have unresolved sexual tension.

On AO3, has 55+ works in its romantic/het tag, and 5+ in its platonic/general tag.

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 * Valejandrodolfo  refers to the ship between Rodolfo Parra, Valeria and Alejandro