List of characters in Violet Evergarden.
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Claudia Hodgins
Claudia Hodgins
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Kyle McCarley (English) Foreign VAs
A former officer and a good friend to Gilbert. He founded CH Postal Company after seeing that Leiden's government postal offices weren't meeting the needs of its citizens. He takes Violet under his care on Gilbert's 'request'.
- The Alcoholic: Implied to be one under way to recovery, as seen in Episode 5 of the anime when he denies a drink from his army senior.
- The Atoner: Takes Violet in partly at Gilbert's wishes, but also partly for doing nothing to help Violet during his time in the military, despite being disgusted by her treatment at the hands of the other soldiers.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Seems to know what happened to Gilbert and constantly dodges questions about it.
- Consummate Liar: Has been one since his military days, and often used it to sleep around, get cigarettes, and lie to Violet about Gilbert's true situation in the novel.
- Gender-Blender Name: Claudia is usually a female name. He has such a name because his parents wanted a girl.
- Hunk: He's handsome, muscular and manly, in contrast to Benedict, who is more of a Pretty Boy instead.
- Nice Guy: Despite being a bit of a hustler in his professional and romantic life, Claudia is, essentially, a very kind man with strong paternal instincts.
- Parental Substitute: After Gilbert's apparent death, he takes Violet in and becomes her second parental figure after the war. Appropriately, he's furious with Gilbert in the 2020 movie for pushing Violet away.
- Really Gets Around: Sleeps with plenty of women around Leidenschaftlich. This was hinted at in the anime when Cattleya needles him about his name, and is confirmed in more detail in the light novel Gaiden volume: apparently he's out and about so often that Lux can tell when he's going to spend the night with a lady based on how early he clocks out, how carefully he cleans up his desk, and whether he waters his potted plants or not before leaving work.
- Secret-Keeper: In the light novels, he is one of the few people who knows Gilbert is still alive, and maintains an act to keep Violet in the dark about it per Gilbert's instructions. It doesn't stop him from chewing Gilbert out over it on the phone whenever he calls him.
- War Is Hell: The biggest lesson that Claudia took away from his experiences as a lieutenant colonel. He got out of the army the minute the war was over, and started the postal service so that he could help the people, especially veterans like him and Violet, recover from it.
Benedict Blue
Benedict Blue
Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama (Japanese), Ben Pronsky (English) Foreign VAs
An old friend of Claudia and a rather blunt man who took up postman duties in CH Postal Company.
- Alliterative Name: Benedict Blue.
- A Day in the Limelight: After spending the first part of Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll as a relative background character, he spends the second part as an important psuedo Big Brother Mentor to Taylor, delivers her letter to her older sister by the end, and delivers the epilogue.
- He's the protagonist of Gaiden volume Chapter 3, which delves deep into his past.
- Badass Bystander:
- He may only be a civilian mailman, but that doesn't prevent him from spearheading a rescue operation that involves blowing up a train station in the novel.
- In the anime, he helps Violet dispatch one of the two bombs taped to the bridge by drop-kicking it off, and is able to quickly maneuver around the bridge to save Violet in time from falling below. Bonus points for him doing all that while wearing heeled boots.
- Big Brother Mentor: Becomes a non blood related one to Taylor in the second part of the first movie, with Taylor even insisting on calling him brother and teacher.
- Butt-Monkey: Seems to take the brunt of most of the jokes in the anime.
- Casanova Wannabe: Despite his good looks, none of his female co-workers seem to like him, occasional Slap-Slap-Kiss with Cattleya moments aside and the final episode revealing Erica's crush on him.
- In the light novels, he has major Belligerent Sexual Tension with Cattleya, and they get a full-on Relationship Upgrade in the Gaiden volume's 4th chapter.
- Deadpan Snarker: Has shades of this in the anime.
- Deuteragonist: Or maybe tritagonist, of the second half of the first movie, given his important role in aiding Taylor alongside Violet.
- Impractically Fancy Outfit: Benedict, for some reason or another, wears high heeled boots. While fashionable, they're impractical for his job of walking around delivering letters. He defensively says they're cool when Cattleya makes fun of him for wearing them in the Gaiden volume.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be short-tempered and slightly rude, and tends to face people head-on, but despite this he's a genuinely kind-hearted young man, who is helpful and considerate towards those he cares about.
- Like an Old Married Couple: Often gets into spats with Cattleya.
- Like Brother and Sister: Grows into this role with Taylor as he mentors her, Taylor even insisting on calling him brother when she first seems him.
- Long-Lost Relative: His younger sister in the light novel. His Gaiden chapter explains that he doesn't remember his past, or even what his sister looks like, but feels that he'll know her when he see's her. It's suggested that she might actually be Violet. Not only do the pair have similar blond hair and striking blue eyes, but aspects of Benedict's past neatly explains a few mysteries surrounding Violet. Namely, her enhanced fighting abilities - military drugs that enhance one's abilities but affects one's memory - and how she ended up on the island - escaping a "military camp" by boat and getting separated at sea.
- Luminescent Blush: Sports one after he is caught off guard when Violet suddenly starts to change in front of him.
- Reality Is Unrealistic: In real life, high heels were first worn by men as a way to hook the shoes to the stirrups when riding horses. The story takes place during the in-universe transition period between horse riding and motor vehicles, hence hinting at why a motorcycle rider like Benedict wears said footwear past his claims of making a fashion statement.
- Twisted Ankle: Gets one in a later episode while delivering letters due to his boots.
Cattleya Baudelaire
Cattleya Baudelaire
Voiced by: Aya Endo (Japanese), Reba Buhr (English) Foreign VAs
A beautiful and widely famous Auto Memory Doll, and a senior member of Violet's department.
- Boxing Battler: The Gaiden volume's final chapter reveals she used to do boxing, and when she joins Violet and Benedict for their assault on Salvatore Postal Company, she takes a pair of brass knuckles as her weapon.
- Cool Big Sis: Tries to be one to Violet in the novel. In the anime where the office dynamics of CH Postal get more of the spotlight, she's this to all of the Dolls, and Iris especially looks up to/envies her. She's also this to Lux in the light novel's Gaiden volume.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine. She's outgoing, cheerful and friendly, has a teasing and sarcastic side and is very kind, helpful and empathetic.
- The Gadfly: Teases Claudia by acting clingy with him knowing Benedict was watching.
- Like an Old Married Couple: She and Benedict are bickering more often than not, but they do care for each other.
- Ms. Fanservice: Most Auto Memory Dolls dress to appeal to some level. Cattleya however takes this trope to a tee with an absurdly low-cut dress that ends slightly past her pelvis. This also applies to her past as a dancer.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her outfit includes an open bustier that reveals her cleavage.
- Nice Girl: She's flirty, but also a very kind and helpful person. She's very compassionate and sweet towards Violet and others as well, although she can be a bit of a tsundere towards Claudia and Benedict.
- The Runaway: Her origin, as she tells Violet in Volume 2 of the novel.
- Shipper on Deck: In the 2020 movie, she is pretty supportive of the idea of Violet taking Dietfried as a romantic partner. When Hodgins recoils from the idea and reminds her that Dietfried was the one who most treated Violet as a living weapon during the war, she counters that having that kind of shared past as well as their shared grief over Gilbert is exactly why she thinks they would be good for each other.
Iris Cannary
Iris Cannary
Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English) Foreign VAs
An outspoken woman from the country. Part of CH Postal's Auto Memory Dolls team.
- Always Someone Better: She's a little irritated in the movie that CH Postal's customers constantly request for Violet to serve as their amaneunsis, although Cattleya reminds her she already gets quite a few customer requests.
- Boyish Short Hair: Which contrasts well with Cattleya's long hair and Erica's bowl-cut.
- Brutal Honesty: Rather straightforward in speaking her mind.
- Canon Foreigner: An anime-original character.
- Childhood Friend Romance: An unlucky version. She developed feelings for a boy she grew up with, who rejected her.
- Country Mouse: Iris grew up in a rural village and moved to Leiden for a more glamorous life as a Doll. She's annoyed that exciting things seem to be avoiding her.
- Dramatic Slip: While gloating about getting her first requested letter as she's going down the stairs, she trips from her inexperience in heels. Violet seems to help cushion her fall and keep her from seriously hurting herself, but she still hurts her wrist enough to not be able to write and needs to have Violet accompany her and do the ghostwriting for her.
- Girliness Upgrade: In the 2020 movie, she's the one character who has changed most dramatically in appearance, now opting to wear a long dress, growing her hair out a bit longer, and also adding a neat hairband on top of it. Her personality is still the same though, and she's the #3 most requested Doll at CH Postal behind Violet & Cattleya.
- Hopeless Suitor: She had feelings for her childhood friend who rejected her when she confessed.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. She's short-tempered and can be touchy and slightly rude, but otherwise she's genuinely kind.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's the tomboy to Cattleya and Erica's girly girl. She wears pants instead of dresses and doesn't seem very used to walking in high-heels.
- Tsundere: Not exactly open about her feelings, even coming across as somewhat dishonest, hiding them underneath a snarky attitude.
Erica Brown
Erica Brown
Voiced by: Minori Chihara (Japanese), Christine Marie Cabanos (English) Foreign VAs
A newly hired ghost-writer of the Auto Memory Dolls team. She dreams of becoming a novelist.
- Canon Foreigner: An anime-original character.
- Demoted to Extra: Her appearances in the 2020 movie are few, as she has left the CH Postal Company in favor of pursuing an apprenticeship in theater with the playwright Oscar Webster.
- Hopeless Suitor: The last episode reveals she's recently developed a crush on Benedict, who seems to be oblivious and uninterested.
- Nice Girl: She's a shy yet gentle, kind and considerate girl, who is supportive of others.
- Shrinking Violet: She's mousy, shy and sometimes has trouble standing up for herself, though it's ultimately shown she's fairly confident in her own opinions.
Military of Leidenschaftlich
Gilbert Bougainvillea
Gilbert Bougainvillea
Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese), Tony Azzolino (English) Foreign VAs
An army major and a steadfast son of the Bougainvillea family. Following his ancestors' long and well-known military tradition, he rose through the ranks of the army. He was entrusted with taking care of Violet, who fought and lived side by side with him all the way until the final moments of the war.
- An Arm and a Leg: He lost his right arm in the bombardment of Intens Fortress that nearly killed him. In the light novel, he gets a prosthetic replacement since he stays in the army. In the anime's 2020 movie, he remains armless for the entire duration due to having abandoned Leidenschaftlich and living out his life on a tiny rural island in the former enemy country's territory.
- Child Soldiers: In the light novel's sixth chapter, it mentions he first saw combat action when he was a 17-year old enlistee.
- The Dutiful Son: He was raised to follow his father's footsteps in military career, becoming obedient to his family's demands and wishes, in contrast to his laid back elder brother Dietfried.
- Dying Declaration of Love: After he gave his final order to Violet, he proclaimed his love for her before expiring. Though in the anime there's some debate on whether that love was paternal or romantic.
- Eye Scream: Horrifically lost his right eye during the war when he and Violet recaptures a cathedral in Intense; In the light novel, an enemy soldier stabbed his eye with a bayonet in an attempt to kill him, or in the anime, an enemy soldier shot it there with a rifle. Afterwards when he reunites with Violet, he has to wear an eyepatch over where it remains.
- Inappropriately Close Comrades: In Ever After Chapter 4, he confesses in a letter to his sister Julia that he was already falling in love with Violet during the war. Knowing full well how inappropriate this was due to both her being his subordinate and an underaged girl, he did his best to bury his feelings as hard as possible and to treat her only in a strictly professional manner. He was successful at keeping their relationship only as officer and subordinate until he really thought he was going to die in the Battle of Intens.
- Line-of-Sight Name: 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. Averted in the light novel, where he chooses the name "Violet" to refer to a goddess instead.
- Living Emotional Crutch: He was the first person to treat Violet as a human and not a weapon, and she depended on him during the war. She isn't certain how to function in a world without him and goes off the rails when she thinks he's dead; in fact, Claudia suspected that this would happen, which is why he was reluctant to tell her about Gilbert's fate.
- Nice Guy: 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 by purchasing an emerald brooch for her to wear to a point it blossomed to love from his POV as he declares it to her as they were grievously wounded after recapturing a cathedral in Intense.
- Uncertain Doom: 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, 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, 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.
- What Beautiful Eyes!: Violet learns the word 'beautiful' when trying to describe the feeling she got when looking at Gilbert's eyes.
- Wife Husbandry: Gilbert's relationship with Violet started out fairly paternal, especially because of their age difference. It's a lot more muddied in the anime, since Dietfried stated that Gilbert wanted to adopt Violet into the Bougainvillea family. Whether it meant taking her as a wife or as a daughter is left up in the air.
Dietfried Bougainvillea
Dietfried Bougainvillea
Voiced by: Hidenobu Kiuchi (Japanese), Keith Silverstein (English) Foreign VAs
Gilbert's elder brother. Dietfried is a rebellious son who is notable for joining Leidenschaftlich's navy instead of the army like prior generations of Bougainvillea men.
- Adaptational Badass: He is part of the security detail on the train hijacking incident in the anime and takes out several of the terrorists. In the light novel, he is not present on the train and his role in the incident is mostly offscreen preparing his naval battle group to set up an offshore blockade, in case the terrorists attempt to escape by sea after the train arrives at its destination.
- Anti-Hero: He's rather unpleasant and selfish, and kinda amoral to an extent, since he can be ruthless and uncaring. He's not evil, however, and is ultimately redeemable.
- The Captain: He's a well-respected naval captain, and Episode 12 of the anime reveals him to be a highly effective and ruthless marksman and hand-to-hand fighter.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's not really evil as much as he's just unpleasant. He may be a Jerkass to Violet, but he sincerely cares 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. His major beef was with his father, whose funeral he did not attend, but Chapter 6 reveals another reason he skipped the funeral was so that way, he wouldn't be eligible for the inheritance and it would all go to Gilbert instead.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Again, evil is a stretch, but despite his morally grey qualities and jerkass behavior, he's the one who took Violet to Leidenschaftlich, deeming "it" to be a "weapon" of the state. But even so, he felt that Gilbert would handle her better than himself. This is explored more in the novel, where Dietfried comments that he found his former subordinates trying to rape Violet on an island just after they are shipwrecked to be quite distasteful, only to see the young girl kill those people then ceaselessly chase after him. It could be said that it's mostly fear that prompted Dietfried to give Violet to Gilbert.
- Guile Hero: In his chapter in Ever After, he foils the robbery of the Artemisia art gallery by having Violet pretend to be an ill woman while he acts as her concerned caretaker, then has her alert his subordinates at his nearby hotel of the incident. He also manages to distract the robbers by talking at length to them about how he's figured out the escape route they were going to take will be by sea since the gallery is near the port and as a navy man, he knows the fastest way out of the country would be to take the ocean.
- Hidden Depths: Ever After Chapter 2 reveals he has a secret hobby of painting which he has not told anyone in his family about. His work is good enough that it catches the attention of a local art patron named Artemisia, who requests to have one of his paintings publicly displayed at her art gallery in town.
- Interservice Rivalry: Him joining the Navy instead of the Army was a really big deal for the Bougainvillea family, as he bucked 26 generations of tradition and made him out to be the black sheep of the family.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: He explicitly referred to Violet as an "it" when introducing her to Gilbert, and often speaks to or about her in a derisive manner, even outright calling her a tool.
- Jerkass Has a Point: As much of a dick as he is, he felt that Gilbert is foolish for going on with what their family dictates instead of living his own life. Although Dietfried did take on a soldiering career, the circumstances were different as Dietfried joined the navy to fulfill his dream of captaining a ship (which shocked his family as the tradition was to join the army).
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: And his brother mentioned their father would have hated that style.
- Pet the Dog: Despite his contemptuous treatment of Violet, he does help her retrieve her brooch back, and acknowledges by the end that she has become her own person.
- Self-Made Man: Him joining the navy meant he had to work his way up the military hierarchy on his own, as he broke what had been an unbroken tradition of Bougainvillea men joining the army for 26 generations. This alienated him from his father and family, and he had no connections to call on during his training and subsequent career outside of what he made himself.
- Took a Level in Kindness: He is much, much nicer to Violet in the 2020 movie, always speaking to her in a gentle tone and never once raising his voice towards her. 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 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.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: In the alternate universe story Violet Evergarden - IF, one of the tactics he uses is to put the Undine (a.k.a. "Violet") on a small boat near an enemy vessel. The crew, thinking Violet is just a lost little girl, brings her on board... at which point she slaughters them all and leaves the ship open for seizure by Dietfried's fleet. This is as much an attempt to get her killed as well when he is trying to get rid of her in their early days.
- You Should Have Died Instead: Part of why he deeply resents Violet is because he blames her for Gilbert's death, and even outright tells her that she also should have died.
Clients
Oscar Webster
Oscar Webster
Voiced by: Satoshi Taki (Japanese), Joe Ochman (English) Foreign VAs
A former renowned playwright who was struck with the death of his wife and more recently, his daughter Olivia.
- Beard of Sorrow: Oscar is a despairing man with unkempt stubble. He is clean shaven in Episode 9's "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue to show he has come to terms with his grief.
- The Bus Came Back: He reappears in the final chapter of Ever After when scouting out singers in Alfine for his next theatrical work, and decides Leticia Aster will be the one. He also ends up paying Violet's travel expenses so she can get back home to Leiden.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Not Oscar but his wife, who hid her fatal illness for fear of Oscar abandoning her. He later learns this from a friend after her passing.
- Despair Event Horizon: He's toeing it when Violet comes to ghostwrite for him, grieving his family and too drunk to type a script. Violet's care brings Oscar back from the edge.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Watching his beloved wife and daughter die reduced him to an alcoholic recluse. Violet prohibits him from drinking while she's working for him, and thanks to her impression, he goes on to get sober.
- Outliving One's Offspring: As if losing his wife to a terminal illness wasn't bad enough, he had to watch their young daughter waste away from the same disease.
- Too Upset to Create: He was a renowned playwright, but the loss of his wife and daughter to terminal illness makes him unable to write, and it doesn't help that he deals with his sadness by drinking. He hires Violet to ghostwrite a script for him since he's too depressed and drunk to do it himself.
- Tragic Keepsake: A parasol which was Olivia's prized possession. Oscar gives it to Violet as a token of gratitude.
Ann Magnolia
Ann Magnolia
Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi (Japanese), Cassandra Lee Morris (English) Foreign VAs
A 7-year old girl whose ailing mother hired Violet Evergarden to write letters for a week.
- Children Are Innocent: Ann takes her mother's words literally and assumes Violet really is a life-size doll for the duration of her stay. That said, she is precocious enough to understand her mother will die soon.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Views anyone who approach her mother with hostilities, believing everybody always lies to one another.
- Happy Ending Override: A downplayed example as she did live a long and fulfilling life, but the 2020 movie puts a more bitter spin on her later years when it is revealed her relationship with her daughter became estranged due to said daughter prioritizing work over family.
- Parental Abandonment: In the novel, her father left her family with financial problems due to his gambling habits and alcoholism. In the anime, he died in the war. Then her mother dies when she's very young.
- Write Back to the Future: The result of the letters her mother had written.
Clara Magnolia
Clara Magnolia
Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English) Foreign VAs
Ann's mother, who serves as one of Violet's clients. By the time of their meeting, Clara is terminally ill and wants to write a letter before she passes, though the details surrounding it remain confiscated to Ann until Clara's death, which causes a wedge between their relationship for some time.
- Your Days Are Numbered: She knows she has little time left to live because of her illness.
Aidan Field
Aidan Field
Voiced by: Shintarō Asanuma (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English) Foreign VAs
A young conscript of an unnamed nation stationed at Camp Menace.
- Blood from the Mouth: Starts coughing blood into his handkerchief after Violet rescues him. It's a sign that he's not long for this world.
- Childhood Friend Romance: He's been friends with a girl named Maria since childhood and they both have feelings for each other. Just after she confessed, he shipped out.
- Determinator: He's determined to survive so he can return home and be with Maria, no matter what. He survives longer than the rest of his section but he dies.
- Fatal Family Photo: Takes a peek at his almost-girlfriend Maria's photograph just as his unit ships out. He lives long enough to let Violet know of his feelings for the letters he commissioned.
- I'm Cold... So Cold...: Remarks that he feels cold, despite being bundled up next to a fireplace just before he dies.
- No One Gets Left Behind: He could have left behind his wounded friend but he kept on carrying him.
- Reincarnation Romance: A nonsexual example. He wishes that if his parents reincarnate and fall in love again, he'll be their son again.
- Stay with Me Until I Die: He explicitly asks Violet this during his dying moments, right after she had written down the letters he wanted to give to his parents, and to Maria.
Princess Charlotte Abelfreyja Drossel
Princess Charlotte Abelfreyja Drossel
Voiced by: Megumi Nakajima (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English) Foreign VAs
The young princess of the Kingdom of Drossel, soon to enter marriage with Prince Damian from the neighbouring country of Fluegel. CH Postal is appointed with writing their public love letters.
- Altar Diplomacy: One offered by Fluegel, but she does make a lot of arrangements on her part as well after she received it.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: She fell in love with Prince Damian when she first met him at her 10th birthday because he treated her like a person and not a potential wife.
- Canon Foreigner: First appeared in the anime. In the light novels, her story is told in the first chapter of the Gaiden volume, which was published in March 2018, a month and a half after her episode aired.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Charlotte starts out childish and volatile, with messy, voluminous hair barely tamed by small braids. At the end of episode 5, her hair is contained in a Prim and Proper Bun for her wedding, showing she has become a mature young woman.
- Flower Motifs: Charlotte and the Kingdom of Drossel are associated with the white camellia.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Although Charlotte is in love with Damian, she realizes that he may not be keen on an arranged marriage to a girl ten years his junior. At Violet's encouragement, Charlotte personally writes the letters to the prince asking what he really wants with an offer to break off the engagement. He admits a desire to marry her, politics or not.
- Missing Mom: Her short story Charlotte Abelfreya Fluegel and the Forest Kingdom reveals that her parents' marriage was a political one with no real emotion behind it, and her mother abandoned her after giving birth to her in favor of shutting herself up in a luxury palace built by her husband the king for her. While Charlotte's mother did attend her wedding to Prince Damian, she promptly disappeared again as soon as it was over and has never bothered to contact her daughter again ever since.
- Perfectly Arranged Marriage: She fell in love with Prince Damian years before the marriage was planned by their countries. Episode 9 shows them to be Happily Married.
- Politically-Active Princess: 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. In her booklet Charlotte Abelfreya Fluegel and the Forest Kingdom she proposes to her husband Damian to construct an orphanage on the border between their two countries. The short story The Queen and the Auto-Memories Doll takes place some years later and shows the orphanage did indeed get built.
Edward Jones
Edward Jones
A criminal jailed in a high-security cell in Altair Prison, and the client of Chapter 5.
- 13 Is Unlucky: The amount of time Violet is allocated to work with him is exactly 13 minutes.
- Adapted Out: His chapter was not part of the anime.
- Armor-Piercing Question: He's rather fond of this with Violet, asking her all kinds of questions about how she felt killing people during the war. It's not very effective at eliciting any kind of significant reactions from her, though, as she is still unfamiliar with emotions, and when he asks her if she thinks she's wicked, she flatly answers "Most likely."
- Dark Messiah: Part of his extensive crime list involves founding a cult after the end of the war, persuading 400 of his followers into committing mass suicide by poison, and then building a tower out of their severed limbs.
- Faux Affably Evil: Nobody suspected that the nice guy who willingly gives up his seat on a passsenger carriage for the young Auto-Memories Doll desperately trying to help save her friend was a war criminal fugitive on the run.
- Karma Houdini: Despite being an incredibly violent and vile criminal who is chained to a chair and kept under constant surveillance, in a prison that is incredibly isolated and in a freezing environment, Chapter 13 shows that he has somehow escaped Altair Prison and is traveling incognito across Telsis. The last we see of him is him walking off into the countryside after he gives up his seat on a passenger carriage to Cattleya.
- Kill the God: His letter is addressed to God, whom he desperately wishes to kill.
- Rape, Pillage, and Burn: He's been convicted of all manner of war crimes, up to and including rape and murder.
- Riddle for the Ages: What exactly he wished to write to God is unknown, as he only whispered the words in Violet's ear, and she refuses to violate client-employee confidentiality when the prison guide assigned to her asks what's in the letter.
- Snow Means Death: Altair Prison is located in the extreme north of the continent in a perpetually snowy region, and is so isolated that it would take half a day of driving just to reach any other town.
- White Void Room: The cell he is kept in. Even the furniture and wallpaper are completely white.
Irma Felice
Irma Felice
Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (Japanese), Miho Karasawa (singing voice), Cristina Vee (English)
A famous opera singer who hires Violet to write a love letter, which is actually meant to serve as the lyrics to the climax of her latest opera.
- Canon Foreigner: Only appears in the OVA (titled "Violet Evergarden Special" on Netflix) and the beginning of the 2020 movie (in a voiceless cameo).
- Her Heart Will Go On: She's still waiting for her lover Hugo to return from the war, but so much time has passed that even Hugo's father Aldo has given up hope. She hopes that her newest work can help people like her find closure for their lost loved ones.
- Tears of Joy: She starts crying when Violet presents her final draft of the job's letter to her, finding it's exactly what she wanted to see.
- Write What You Know: The heroine of her latest opera is based off of herself, a grieving woman who needs to come to terms with the loss of the man she loved.
Isabella York
Isabella York
Voiced by: Minako Kotobuki (Japanese), Colleen O'Shaughnessey (English)
A young woman originally named Amy Bartlett, who was discovered the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman related to Drossel's royal family. Violet is hired to aid her progress at finishing school.
- Ambiguously Bi: She falls into this, enamoured by Violet's feminine and knightly qualities, and gets really close to her, but this may be due to Situational Sexuality because of the lack of men around her and her fellows, who also admire Violet (though in perhaps a more platonic manner than Isabella). She also appears to not mind the fact that she is inevitably going to be married off to a man. Booklets 4 and 5 make it clear that while she is treated well as a duchess, she does not love her husband.
- Arranged Marriage: Three years after her schooldays, Isabella marries a Duke Neville. While she appears comfortable in the marriage, it is as much of a Gilded Cage as the finishing school.
- Deuteragonist: The first half of the first movie is centered on her background and development alongside Violet's journey.
- Old Man Marrying a Child: It was implied, and then outright confirmed in Booklet 5, that Duke Neville is significantly older than her.
- Penny Among Diamonds: Compared to all the Proper Ladies at her school, Isabella is blunt, sullen, slouches when she walks and stumbles with the Lessons in Sophistication. With Violet's emotional support, however, she improves.
- Promotion to Parent: After discovering Taylor on the streets, Amy decided to raise her as a sister.
- Rags to Riches: Amy lived in poverty until her Disappeared Dad showed up out of the blue and whisked her off to the world of nobility.
Yuris
Yuris
Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (Japanese), Anne Yatco (English)
A young boy who has since become deathly ill and is under the care of his friend, Lucas. He contacts Violet to be his typewriter, hoping that she can write a message to his family from Yuris's perspective before he passes away. He is the last client Violet has before she is reunited with Gilbert years after being separated from him.Others
Tiffany Evergarden
Tiffany Evergarden
Voiced by: Toshiko Sawada (Japanese) Foreign VAs
The matriarch of the Evergarden family who looks to adopt Violet.
- Demoted to Extra: She and her husband play a very significant role in Violet's life in the light novel, as Violet ends up living with them for well over a year after being discharged from the hospital but before Hodgins hires her at CH Postal. It is the Evergardens who teach her to become truly literate and train her in etiquette on how to behave as a respectable, elegant woman. However, in the anime, Violet goes to work for CH Postal mere days after leaving the hospital, and the Evergardens are relegated to background characters.
- Replacement Goldfish: What Violet is to the Evergarden family for her son who was killed in the war. Obviously ended up subverted, as both parties came to realize they cannot repair the emotional void of losing the son/Gilbert.
- Saying Too Much: In the animated adaptation, she accidentally implies to Violet that Gilbert has died.Tiffany: "I'm so thankful to see how far you have come. I am sure Gilbert can rest in peace too."
Luculia Marlborough
Luculia Marlborough
Voiced by: Azusa Tadokoro (Japanese), Kira Buckland (English) Foreign VAs
A friend and classmate of Violet's from their shared Auto Memory Doll training course.
- All-Loving Heroine: She is very selfless and kind to everyone she meets.
- Canon Foreigner: An anime-original character.
- Career Versus Man: Subverted. In Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, Iris and Erica wonder if the man Violet saw her with is her fiancee & question if she's quitting being a Doll after she gets married. Erica, however, comments that Luculia said she was planning to keep working as a Doll after she gets married.
- The Caretaker: To her brother Spencer, now a crippled alcoholic after the war.
- Nice Girl: Exceedingly kind and friendly. She makes an effort to befriend Violet and show her around Lieden, confides in her about her family situation, and helps her graduate the training course. She's also her brother's gentle and considerate caretaker.
- Parental Abandonment: She and her brother lost their parents in the war. The reason Spencer acts the way he does is that he feels guilty for not being able to protect them.
- Significant Greeneyed Redhead: As a friend of Violet's and the deuteragonist of episode 3, she's got green eyes and red hair.
Leon Stephanotis
Leon Stephanotis
Voiced by: Yūto Uemura (Japanese) Foreign VAs
A brash, bitter young archivist at the Shahar Astronomical Observatory's Research Institute.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: His sea-green hair is changed to black in the anime.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Booklet 2 which was issued as part of the Japanese theatrical release of Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll movie tells the story of how he met Violet again during his travels years after the CH Postal job at the observatory. This time, he does manage to tell Violet he loves her, and they both know nothing will come of it because she has already been reunited with Gilbert and is in a relationship with him. In fact, Leon already immediately knew upon seeing her again that her more expressive facial expressions and lighter demeanor meant she had been reunited with the man she loved. It's even specified it's unlikely he'll ever get over these feelings.
- Ambiguously Brown: The novel described him of having beautiful brown skin due to having mixed heritage. His complexion in the anime is fairly darker than everyone else's.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Noted to be the youngest scholar in the manuscripts department at sixteen years old.
- Bold Explorer: The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue in episode nine of the anime shows Leon makes good on the dream Violet inspired in him and he travels the world, and he eventually does meet her again years later on one of his expeditions.
- Bonding over Missing Parents: Bonds with Violet due to both of them having missing guardians, his missing mother for Leon and Gilbert for Violet.
- Crush Blush: Blushes rather frequently whenever he is in the presence of Violet as noted by his male co-workers.
- Deadpan Snarker: Being abandoned by his mother turned him into this.
- Defrosting Ice King: Interestingly enough this applies to both him and Violet as by the end of the chapter both of them warm up to each other significantly than when they first met.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Until it's not revealed who he is, you could easily mistake him for a girl, due to his androgynous look.
- Good Is Not Nice: He's a genuinely good man, but he's rather cynical and grumpy because of his past.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Became this over time due to his resentment towards his mother's abandonment of him.
- Hopeless Suitor: Develops feelings for Violet that remain unreciprocated.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Is rude and grumpy most of the time towards other people but is actually quite kind and caring as discovered by Violet.
- Jerkass Woobie: Downplayed. He's often pretty rude because of his sad backstory, but he's ultimately a kind guy deep down, as revealed in his dialogue with Violet.
- Love Confession: He gives one to Violet in the novel, though is given a succinct but kind rejection from her.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He wears his hair long and has androgynous qualities.
- Love at First Sight: Became enamoured with Violet the moment he laid eyes on her, though it took him a while to come to terms with it.
- Parental Abandonment: Was left with his mother by his father who went off on an expedition and never returned and was then abandoned by his mother who went off in search for the former, leaving young Leon completely alone.
- Pursuing Parental Perils: Decides to go on an expedition for ancient literary artefacts like his missing father at the end of the chapter, despite knowing its dangers.
- Tsundere: Is bad with words and has a harsh disposition. However, he eventually shows Violet his caring side as their partnership develops. In the anime, he is a much milder example.
Lady Lux Sibyl
Lady Lux Sibyl
A 14-year old girl and the "demigod" of the Utopia cult, who coincidentally meets Violet when the latter is forced to take shelter from the rain. She later begins working for CH Postal as Hodgins's secretary.
- Adapted Out: Does not appear in the anime.
- Damsel in Distress: Violet saves her from the Utopians right as they are leading her to her execution. In the Gaiden volume's final chapter, she is also taken hostage by Salvatore Postal Company to keep Hodgins in line.
- Human Sacrifice: The Utopians ultimately intend to kill her, as they believe demigods should not interact with the human world.
- Little Miss Snarker: She's more than capable of matching every one of Hodgins's jabs with comebacks of her own.
- Mark of the Supernatural: Her most prominent feature is her heterochromia, which the Utopians take as proof of her demigod status.
- Mystical White Hair: Has long silvery hair, which the Utopians also regard as proof of divine heritage.
- Semi-Divine: Her unusual physical features make her the center of the Utopians' interest. She's not divine in the slightest, and it's all but said the Utopians' delusions have led them to murder a lot of innocent people over the years.
- Sweet Tooth: She loves cake and apple pie, and the start of Chapter 4 of the Gaiden volume is her eating a three-level cake stand with Cattleya at Café Magnolia. Then she eats a scone for dessert, which she decides is better than the cake.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: In Chapter 4 of the Gaiden volume, Cattleya is a little surprised when Lux is the one to comfort her regarding Benedict's sudden leave of absence from the company. She also has surprisingly mature insight into the relationships of the adults around her, as she knows full well the signs of when Hodgins is going to be out having yet another one-night stand with some woman, and is also aware of Violet & Gilbert's relationship, and the fact that Cattleya and Benedict Cannot Spit It Out around each other.
Taylor Bartlett
Taylor Bartlett
Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (Japanese), Sandy Fox (English)
A young girl who runs away from her orphanage to become a postman.
- Cheerful Child: She's a bouncing ball full of enthusiasm.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Becoming Violet's foster sister in the first movie doesn't prevent her from completely dropping off the map in the second.
- Genki Girl: Always happy, upbeat and energetic.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: The only possession Taylor has to her name is a cheap and ratty teddy bear, but she loves it because Amy made it for her.
- Happily Adopted: At the end of The Movie, Taylor is adopted by Tiffany Evergarden, becoming Violet's foster sister.
- Messy Hair: Very much so and it's clear she doesn't take the greatest care of it. When she asks Violet to style her hair, the hairbrush is audibly struggling against the tangles.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Unlike other characters drawn with a Tooth Strip, Taylor's teeth are sectioned.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: Apparently resembled a boy when attempting to travel to Leiden, although it's unclear if she was deliberately disguising herself as a boy or was just covering up while running away. It appeared to convince Erica and Iris though, the two expressing surprise when they see how much hair is hidden under her hat.
Lucas
Lucas
Voiced by: Rina Sato (Japanese), Cassandra Lee Morris (English)
Yuris's best friend, who is forced to take care of him as Yuris's family is unavailable during his last days. Daisy Magnolia
