History VideoGame / Violet

* ZombieApocalypse: Not literally, but someone organized a zombie march at the park outside your flat. If you let it distract you for a while or spend too much time trying to solve the puzzles before the one requiring you to shut the march out by closing the blinds, it eventually drags in pirates, aliens, mole people, and someone even brings a zeppelin.

* CensorBox: Curse words are replaced by [bother].

* YourCheatingHeart:
** If you use a command to have sex with, kiss, or simply hug Julia.
--->'''*** I hope you get a disease ***'''
** One of the tidbits Imaginary!Violet offers up from the SECRETS command:
--->Back when you were dating Julia, I made out with her once at a party. She never mentioned having a boyfriend/girlfriend.

* BiTheWay:
** The game plays out ''mostly'' the same whether you're male or female - Violet states that she adores you either way (though if you turn HETERONORMATIVITY OFF, she does wonder what that'll mean for your marriage plans. [[spoiler: In the AMUSING epilogue, Violet refers to you as 'husband' if male, but 'beloved' if female.]])
** Most characters' genders depend on what yours is. Julia, an exception to this, will flirt with either a male or female Pfister.
** If heteronormativity is on, Primrose Meanwell sings about "a special purple pen that she uses when she writes about boys." If it's off, it's "when she writes about her most special crushes", and the boy from work she sings about is instead a girl.

* PainfulRhyme: In-universe, with MC Dingo's rhymes of "casino"/"albino" and "zebra"/"Deborah".

--->Back when you were dating Julia, I made out with her once at a party. She never mentioned having a boyfriend.

* YourCheatingHeart: If you use a command to have sex with, kiss, or simply hug Julia.
-->'''*** I hope you get a disease ***'''

* RidiculousProcrastinator: The PC, full stop. Even the MP3 player being ''slightly too loud'' is enough to stop you from concentrating on your thesis! [[TruthInTelevision You'll almost certainly be reminded of that night you kept on being distracted from working on something super-important by various diversions while playing this game.]] Maybe you're even procrastinating on something while ''playing the game itself''.

* ShrinkingViolet: Primrose Meanwell, one of Violet's friends. She has an album on your gimmicky MP3 player - it's mostly her shyly, quietly singing about mundane topics, but it works well enough to keep you on track.

* ViolationOfCommonSense[=/=]SolveTheSoupCans: The puzzles, which range from jamming gum in your ear to keep an MP3 player from being too loud, to stripping naked. It's lampshaded in the ending, where you wonder how the Hell you ended up naked, gum jammed in your ears, piss in a pot, and holding a flower vase.

* SwallowTheKey: You can try this, to stop yourself from [[spoiler:getting the ethernet cable back after you lock it in the cabinet.]] It doesn't work.

''[[http://jayisgames.com/games/ifiction/game/violet Violet]]'' is a work of interactive fiction by Jeremy Freese: a one-room puzzle game which took first place in the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition with an average score of 8.53.