Faye Valentine

Faye Valentine (born August 14, 1994) is a wanted bounty head and a member of the bounty hunting crew aboard the Bebop.

Faye was born on Earth and spent 54 years in a coma under cryogenic sleep. Given the evidence from Session 18: Speak Like a Child, whereby video footage of Faye's past is viewed by the crew members, a specific shot of the Merlion (a statue and iconic image) seems to suggest that she lived in Singapore during her life on Earth. She awoke with an insurmountable debt that causes her to lie, cheat and steal her way in a world that was largely unfamiliar to her. When she's not chasing bounties with the crew, she often gambles away her share of the bounty.
Faye Valentine awoke from a 54-year coma after being injured in a Space Shuttle accident as a teenager. She had retrograde amnesia but was otherwise unharmed; her body was preserved in cryogenic sleep where she aged at a much slower rate. Upon waking she fell in love with a con artist who faked his own death and left her with another large debt.
She was tricked into assuming the massive debt of the man who woke her, and resorts to gambling for an easy way out of her debt.

Appearance

Her purple hair seems to be natural due to childhood tapes showing her same hairstyle.
Not much is known about the main outfit she wears on a daily basis, but it is not her only set of clothing. In Session 5: Ballad of Fallen Angels she dresses in a formal gown to attend the opera where she hoped to find Mao Yenrai. In Session 10: Ganymede Elegy she dons a bikini and spends most of the day tanning herself on the deck of the Bebop while they are docked on water.

Demeanor

As Spike said in Session 9, Faye is a woman with an attitude. She maintains a tough exterior because of the people she often associates with both in bounty hunting and her former life as a confidence woman and scam artist. When she is after a bounty head Faye often acts cocky and overconfident (Session 9, 14, and 22).
She puts herself into situations where men lust after her (Sessions 8, 12) however as evidenced by Session 12: Jupiter Jazz, Part 1 she may get a thrill out of being desired. There are only few instances (Session 15) when Faye has shown an interest of love in a man.
There are times when Faye can be soft-spoken, sentimental and vulnerable. When Faye originally came out of her cryogenic sleep, she had anxiety about her future but did not respond with anger or violence. She did, however, attempt to run away from her problems which has become a common solution for her when life seems difficult.