History Characters / VioletEvergarden

* NotSoDifferent: Insists that he and Violet are this, [[spoiler: as they are both former soldiers of Leidenschaftlich]].

* NotSoDifferent:
** His chapter in the novel opens with him ranting about how all woman are despicable to the irritation of his male co-worker. When he sees Violet, however, turns out he's not really that immune.
** He finds Violet's passion for depicting people's emotion through written letters similar to his own for deciphering old manuscripts about astronomical research.
** Violet even comments on how they both have "Unfriendly faces".

* ParentalSubstitute: After Gilbert's apparent death, he takes Violet in and becomes her second parental figure after the war.

* FieryRedhead: A little girl with wild, vibrant hair and a personality to match.

* CanonForeigner: Only appears in the OVA (titled "Violet Evergarden Special" on Netflix).

* NiceGuy: In spite of being a hardened soldier, he's kind and compassionate who thinks of Violet as a human instead of an army's tool and is willing to nurture for her wellbeing to a point it blossomed to love from his POV as he declares it to her before an enemy's bomb dropped down onto an enemy's headquarters they were in but not before he pushed her out of the blast radius and was presumed dead.

* InsecureLoveInterest: In ''Ever After'', [[spoiler: she confesses in a letter to Gilbert that she fears she will be a total embarrassment to his family when it comes time to formally introduce her to them, and more seriously, she also confesses that she still feels torn between being his lover like a normal girl vs. being the living weapon who wants orders. In the final chapter, she also admits to Leticia that she feels that she lacks confidence when it comes to her relationship with him.]]

* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Violet is adept in military duties, but knows next to nil about civilian life. When Gilbert first met her, she was practically feral. He had to teach her how to talk, and how to interoperate human contact as more than threats.

* UncertainDoom: The last time Violet saw him was during the same battle that cost Violet her own arms, and Gilbert was badly wounded at the time. Whether he survived or not is unknown. In the novels, [[spoiler: it's immediately revealed to the reader that he survived, but wanted Violet to think he was dead so she could live a normal life]]. In the anime, [[spoiler:while he's officially listed as M.I.A. and believed to be dead. Violet chooses to believe he may be alive somewhere, and her faith is rewarded in the 2020 movie when he does turn out to be alive]].

* NiceGuy: In spite of being a hardened soldier, he thought of Violet as a human instead of an army's weapon and is willing to care for her wellbeing to a point it blossomed to love as he declares it to her before an enemy's bomb dropped down onto a church they were in but not before he pushed her out of the blast radius and was presumed dead.

* TheAtoner: When she starts understanding and having emotions, she ''deeply'' regrets the fact she killed many men when she was a soldier, and vows not to kill anymore.

* MysteriousWaif: She is presented as this throughout the first light novel. Unlike the anime, the novel slowly drip-feeds information about Violet in a gradual manner. It isn't until the fifth chapter that it is finally revealed that Violet is a war veteran, and the end of the novel for the reader to finally understand why Gilbert means so much to her. This is due to the novels always being written from the viewpoints of the clients and other characters. In contrast, since the anime puts Violet as the main character front and center, all this information about her past gets revealed in the beginning of the first episode.

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane:
** [[spoiler: A cult in the Light Novel claims gods and demigods exist, the latter possessing certain traits that put them above regular humans. They claim that Violet looks exactly like the war goddess Garnet Spear, to the point where even Violet herself agrees. Other clues and features of Violet reinforce that [[SemiDivine this might be the case]], but we never get a definitive answer.]]
** On the other side, [[spoiler:it's suggested that Benedict is her older brother and her abilities are the result of experimental enhancement drugs from a "military camp". Not only are Violet and Benedict similarly blond-haired and blue-eyed, but Benedict's story about escaping the camp by boat with his sister, only to wind up separated might explain how Violet ended up on that island. Once again, there are no definitive answers.]]

The young princess of the Kingdom of Drossel, soon to enter marriage with Prince Damian from the neighbouring country of Flugel. CH Postal is appointed with writing their public love letters.

* AltarDiplomacy: One offered by Frugel, but [[spoiler:she does make a lot of arrangements on her part as well after she received it]].

* PoliticallyActivePrincess: She has been studying politics by herself and acting on her nation's behalf from a young age. Part of the reason for her marriage is to foster post-war peace and unity between neighboring Northern and Southern nations.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: She rarely demonstrates emotions and seems to barely comprehend them, at first. She does get emotive when it comes to Gilbert, who meant the world to her. And then, this happens with people she gets involved with, such as [[spoiler:Ann's ill mother, who is going to die, and Aiden, the soldier Violet takes care of until he succumbs in front of her]].

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Becoming more in touch with her emotions allows Violet to break out of her HumanWeapon conditioning and realize in retrospect just how much WarIsHell. The resulting HeroicBSOD from the innumerable lives she's taken, combined with seeing her Auto Memory Doll work as hypocrisy, terrifies her so much in the anime that [[spoiler:she contemplates suicide]].

* TookALevelInKindness: He is much, ''much'' nicer to Violet in the 2020 movie. Justified in that it has been over 4 years since the war ended and he's had time to come to grips with the loss of his brother and has seen Violet slowly develop as a person.
** Downplayed in the light novel continuity. He only meets Violet a handful of times after the war ends, once at the air show where he [[SayingTooMuch inadvertently reveals Gilbert is alive]] and again at the Artemisia Art Gallery where he has to work with her to stop an armed robbery. At the end of the day, much like in the anime, he does recognize that Violet has grown significantly as a person to the point that she and Gilbert can love each other as a romantic couple, but he still has enough lingering negative feelings towards her that he's still brusque and rude to her.

* LineOfSightName: When he first met Violet, she didn't have a name. As he thought of one to give her, a butterfly drew his attention to a pair of violets growing at the base of a tree which inspired her new name.

* BeardOfSorrow: Oscar is a despairing man with unkempt stubble. [[spoiler:He is clean shaven in episode nine's WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue to show he has come to terms with his grief.]]

* ParentalAbandonment: In the novel, her father left her family with financial problems due to his gambling habits and alcoholism. [[spoiler:Then her mother dies when she's very young.]]

* HerHeartWillGoOn: She's still waiting for her lover Hugo to return from the war, but so much time has passed that even Hugo's father has given up hope. She hopes that her newest work can help people like her find closure for their lost loved ones.

* MysteriousWaif: She is presented as this throughout the first light novel. Unlike the anime, the novel slowly drip-feeds information about Violet in a gradual manner. It isn't until the fifth chapter that it is finally revealed that Violet is a war veteran, and the end of the novel for the reader to finally understand why Gilbert means so much to her. This is due to the novels always being written from the viewpoints of the clients and other character. In contrast, since the anime puts Violet as the main character front and center, all this information about her past gets revealed in the beginning of the first episode.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's not really evil as much as he's just unpleasant. He may be a {{Jerkass}} to Violet, but he sincerely cared about his brother, and is respectful towards his mother. His mother even noted that despite their differences, both brothers are on good terms with each other.

* InterserviceRivalry: Him joining the Navy instead of the Army was a ''really'' big deal for the Bougainvillea family, as he bucked generations of tradition and made him out to be the black sheep of the family.

* VagueAge: Violet isn't certain how old she is, but when introducing herself to Princess Charlotte in the anime she estimates herself to be the same age as her, which is about 14 (in the light novel version of this scene, Violet can't answer the question despite taking a moment to think about it). Other characters throughout the series refer to her as a child or child-like, and the novels notes that her body is not quite that of a fully developed adult so she most likely is still in her mid-teens.

* UncertainDoom: The last time Violet saw him was during the same battle that cost Violet her own arms, and Gilbert was badly wounded at the time. Whether he survived or not is unknown, however. In the novels, [[spoiler:he survived, but wanted Violet to think he was dead so she could live a normal life]]. In the anime, [[spoiler:while he's officially M.I.A. and believed to be dead, Violet chooses to believe he may be alive somewhere, and he's implied, but not explicitly shown, to be the client she meets in the final scene]].