Violet Evergarden
Voiced by: Yui Ishikawa (Japanese), Erika Harlacher (English) Foreign VAs
The title character of the story. A former Child Soldier of Leidenschaftlich's Army who lost her arms in the recent war on the Telesis continent. During her time in the army, she grew intensely attached to Major Gilbert Bougainvillea, her commanding officer and most likely the closest thing she's ever had to a caretaker. She seeks to find the meaning of his last words to her after the war ended.
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- Abandoned War Child: She has this as her backstory, having been discovered in the middle of a war zone as a young girl by a group of soldiers fighting in an analogue to the first World War, and when they tried to rape her she tore them apart. The soldiers' commanding officer had her turned into a Child Soldier to take advantage of her superhuman combat abilities; and by the time she was fourteen she was desensitized to violence, almost completely emotionless, and saw herself as a living weapon — with the bulk of the series being about her breaking free of that conditioning after the war's end.
- Action Girl: She's shown brawling with soldiers twice her height like it was a day job in a flashback. Even after months out of combat practice, she can take names like nobody's business.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The anime adds a great deal of inner turmoil to her character regarding her days as a soldier and the many men she has killed. This culminates in a serious suicide attempt in Episode 9 that was wholly anime original. The light novel's version of Violet shows no indication she regrets what she did during the war, and she fully acknowledges without discomfort that many (such as convicted war criminal Edward Jones) would view her as a Retired Monster, which doesn't bother her. This may be a case of the anime being a bit Lighter and Softer than the LN, as the LN's story shows that a good chunk of men she killed tried to rape or molest her, so she has plenty of reason to feel justified in those killings.
- The light novel's presentation of Violet learning that Gilbert is dead is much less dramatic. In the anime, Violet is accidentally told this by Tiffany Evergarden, which results in a minor Freak Out by her and she runs away and disappears for a time. In the LN, it is something she comes to accept while she's learning to read and write at the Evergarden mansion, and spends her days sending letters to Gilbert that go unanswered. One day on a social visit, Hodgins enters her room and finds her sitting on the floor among piles of unsent letters with a Thousand-Yard Stare, and she mournfully asks him if Gilbert is dead. She cries when he gives her an affirmative answer.
- Age Lift: She is made younger in the anime adaptation, which shows her beginning her Auto-Memory Doll career at the age of 14 immediately after being discharged from the hospital. In the light novel, there is a period of time where she lives with the Evergarden family before working for CH Postal, which makes her closer to 17 years old when she begins her career. This change ends up making the anime version of Violet more innocent and almost child-like in her understanding of emotions and human relationships. One major difference is during the "Eternity and the Auto-Memory Doll" story arc, when she is tutoring Isabella York: the anime Violet is Oblivious to Love and doesn't seem to register Isabella's feelings for her, while the light novel Violet understands it from the get-go and is sure to shut her down, when Isabella gets a bit too forward with her.
- The anime actually zigzags this a bit: the anime-original 2nd half of the Eternity and the Auto-Memory Doll movie has a 3 year timeskip, and then the 2020 movie further takes place one year later after that, making Violet 18 years old by the time the anime's story ends. In the light novel continuity, she is closer to 20 years old by the time the final chapter of Ever After takes place.
- All-Loving Hero: After having a better grasp of understanding others and the futility of damage that war causes, she becomes incredibly selfless and kind towards everyone she encounters and will do whatever it takes to help others if she can allow it. She also bears no ill will towards any enemies she encounters and prefers to resolve conflicts without any casualties.
- Alternate Universe: There is one via Violet Evergarden - IF where she had the title of Leidenschaftlich's Undine and was more closely associated with Dietfried. Does't stop her from still developing feelings for Gilbert.
- An Arm and a Leg: Lost both arms in her last mission. Then she loses both her mechanical arms in the final episode, but eventually gets them replaced.
- Animal Motifs: Dogs, for her habit to bite things, loyalty, and work ethic.
- Artificial Limbs: Violet lost both of her arms during the war, and by the time she woke up in the hospital, she already got replacements made in adamant silver. She has trouble writing with them, so she settles for typewriting.
- The Atoner: In the anime, 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.
- Attempted Rape: Violet was on the receiving end several times, back when she was serving her time as a soldier. There's a special emphasis on attempted as any of the soldiers who tried to do that was promptly killed by her, underestimating just how deadly Violet was.
- Badass Adorable: Is considered a secret military weapon and is shown to be physically stronger than most people her size. However, her child-like behaviour and naïveté makes her a very endearing character.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: She's definitely heroic, and very beautiful as well, despite having prosthetic arms.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Her prosthetic arms and the little scars she has certainly don't make her any less attractive. And also when she gets into fights, she always remains pretty.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Gilbert was the first person to show her care and compassion as a human being instead of treating her like a weapon. He also taught her how to speak, read and write. Violet wanted nothing but to be useful to Gilbert and protect him, although he wanted her to seek more to her life than that.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She is incredibly compassionate, gentle, and more than willing to help her clients with their emotional baggage. She's also a former soldier who was raised to be a weapon since childhood and was Leidenschaftlich's most feared military personnel. And whoever has fought against Violet ends up on the losing side hard.
- Big Damn Heroes: She pulls one off in the Light Novel in effort to save Lux Sibyl from being made as a sacrifice for the Utopian cult. she herself becomes the subject of rescue during the train hijacking, receiving help from Gilbert.
- Big Damn Reunion: She has one with Gilbert, though it takes longer for the occasion to happen in the anime than in the light novels. Of course, Violet couldn't help but let the waterworks flow when she talks to and embraces Gilbert for the first time after so long.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: While Violet is incredibly kind and selfless, her past as a child soldier temporarily turned her into sort of a robot who blindly follows orders and is disconnected from human emotions. Of course, she grows out of this and turns into Incorruptible Pure Pureness.
- Break the Cutie: Hoo boy. She loses the closest thing to a parental figure at the end of the war, which costs her her arms, which have to be replaced with mechanical ones. Being emotionally and socially stunted, she's not ready to learn and encounter the tragedies of several of her clients and loved ones, which end up affecting her far more than she expected. At one point, she became suicidal after a hallucination, the other times, she's a sobbing wreck. While she certainly learned a lot after becoming a mailwoman, she's also had to endure a series of heartbreaks.
- Brutal Honesty: She has been known to be a bit too frank with her words in the early chapters/episodes. When she met the Evergarden family for the first time after her release from the hospital, Violet proclaims to their face that she doesn't know what a 'family' is, doesn't need one, and that she can't replace their own lost child. She gets better with her Character Development, when she comes more and more in contact with human emotions.
- Bungled Suicide: She tries to commit suicide by asphyxiating herself with her mechanical arms after suffering a hallucination that Gilbert died because of her and that she will remain lonely and a monster. Fortunately, it doesn't take and Violet soon finds appreciation from others shortly after.
- Byronic Heroine: An emotionally stunted former Child Soldier with a tragic past, whose Character Development makes her get in touch with human emotions, leading to despair.
- By-the-Book Cop: At first, she'll follow her directives to the letter, no matter how anyone else would feel about it because that's what she's instructed to do. A good example is in Episode 4, where she sends an invitation to a man when Iris had previously told her not to because Iris isn't the customer she's ghostwriting for. Again, this changes through her Character Development.
- Cathartic Crying: Post-Character Development, she'll keep a broad and professional demeanor whilst working with her clients and writing their messages. If she learns or endures a tragic event or outcome, she'll still maintain her professionalism right up until she completes her task, after which she tears up and sobs openly about what the clients had to go through. This is best shown after helping Clara write her 50 letters to Ann and taking care of Aidan until his death and then having to break the news to his family.
- Character Development: In spades. Violet starts out as an young woman raised to be a weapon who's unable to understand human emotions thanks to her upbringing. Through being an Auto Memory Doll does she begin to learn about and start expressing emotions thanks to being exposed to and part of the emotional experiences of her clients'. It's through this that Violet begins to value human life and come to understand what Gilbert meant when he told her that he loves her.
- Character Tics: Violet tends to touch things to her mouth, occasionally even biting them, as her prosthetic hands can't transmit sensations of touch.
- Child Soldier: From her earliest years, Violet knew nothing except violence and warfare.
- Comfort the Dying: She stayed beside Aiden in his dying moments after having finished writing the letters on his behalf, even going so far as to hold his hand and give him a light kiss on the forehead (on behalf of his Childhood Friend Maria) just as he succumbed to his wounds and the cold weather.
- The Comically Serious: Due to Violet's stunted and delayed responses to emotional and social thoughts and reciprocations, she remains blunt and stoic, even if the situation surrounding her becomes comedic. Best shown when she casually tries to take off her shirt right in front of Benedict, who reacts in shock and dismay, whereas Violet doesn't quite grasp why he was freaking out.
- Covered with Scars: Downplayed. Violet does have scars as a result of participating in the war (most evident being a small cut on her right cheek); however, she doesn't have a lot of them and it certainly doesn't make her any less attractive as Benedict and Isabella found out.
- Cursed with Awesome: Her mechanical arms, in a way. While she's no longer capable of feeling via touch, her arms become insanely useful when she's in a fight, since she can use them to deflect bullets. Also, with her role as an Auto-Memory Doll, she is not that much perturbed about fatigue from continuous typing (though she does have to conduct recalibration of her arm's joints from time to time, as exhibited during her assignment with the Magnolia family.)
- Cute Bruiser: She may look cute, but she can hit hard and fast in spite of her size.
- Desperately Needs Orders: For a long time, Violet only knew how to live by following Major Gilbert's orders and she thought of herself as nothing but his "tool." When the war is over and Gilbert is no longer with her, Violet almost loses the ability to function without Gilbert telling her what to do.
- Determinator: She'll travel anywhere to meet her clients, no matter where they are.
- The Dreaded: Even after the war has ended, few would even dare go up against "The Battle Maiden of Leidenschaftlich", as was exemplified in Episode 11, where an enemy officer ordered his troops to stand down and retreat.
- Driven to Suicide: Her hallucination of how she was responsible for Gilbert's death and her being irredeemable shocks her so much she goes into an emotional panic, which escalates when she tries to strangle herself. Thankfully, she doesn't carry on with it.
- Dynamic Entry: Of the non-lethal variety in Chapter 3/Episode 11, where she para-dropped into an active war zone, weaved through incoming enemy fire, and disabled multiple enemy foot soldiers in rapid succession.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: She eventually manages to persevere, in spite of all the hardships and heartbreaks that she had to endure. She reunites with Gilbert, opts to stay with him and reciprocate their love, and lead a happy life together, which is cemented by their marriage in the light novel. While she dies in the movie during the 50 year time skip, it's implied that she lived a fulfilling life, in addition to having cemented a notable reputation for herself during her days as a typewriter.
- Emotionless Girl: Used to be this, having been trained as a Child Soldier.
- Even the Girls Want Her: In the Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll Movie, she attracts the subtle attention of a lot of the girls at the school due to her feminine beauty and knightly qualities giving her a Bifauxnen appeal, with many of them complimenting her refined manners and skills and comparing her to a princess. And during her arrival and dance with Isabella at the grand ball, large swaths of women can be seen blatantly staring at her with blushes, open mouths or both.
- In the final chapter of Ever After, Leticia Aster also ends up bonding deeply with Violet as they stay together in their time in the city of Alfine thanks to her offering Violet a free place to stay while she raises money to pay her travel expenses back home to Leiden. Even though she knows Violet has a boyfriend, she still ends up making a futile request to ask Violet to stay with her forever before she leaves for Leiden, something they both know is not going to happen.
- Expy: Of Saber/Artoria Pendragon from Fate/stay night and Rei Ayanami Expy from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She is nicknamed and called Fullmetal Saber by the Fandom, because her prosthetic arms resemble the Automail prosthetics from Fullmetal Alchemist.
- Finger-Forced Smile: Because of her upbringing, Violet not only doesn't know how to smile, but what a smile even is. When told by what it is, she gives out her first attempt by physically forcing her cheeks upwards to humurous results. She eventually learns how to genuinely smile overtime though.
- Floral Theme Naming: Well, duh! That said, her name isn't Violet in Violet Evergarden - IF, which is set in an alternate continuty. It's revealed in Dietfried Bougainvillea - IF that her name in said continuity is "Linaria Bougainvillea", which still keeps in line with characters generally being named after a genus of flower.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Eclectic. She has a massive Character Development and goes from unemotional to emotional, and from cold and detached to kind and gentle; also, she's quite a Rounded Character with many sides to her personality.
- Friend to All Children: Violet's interactions towards children have all been very kind and accepting on her perspective, though unlike most examples, she doesn't overtly express positive affection. She's very tolerant of whatever plights that children and young teenagers express as shown with Charlotte, Ann, and Yuris, and she even tries to help them out with her kindness and what she knows about struggling and moving on from it.
- Ghostwriter: As a member of the Auto-Memory Doll Service, Violet's main purpose is to visit clients and formulate their thoughts into a message that she types before sending it to the client's loved ones. Claudia recommended this job to Violet in the hopes that it could help her understand emotions and integrate into society.
- Good is Not Nice: Sort of at the beginning. While she never was a jerk or rude by any means, she used to be a By-the-Book Cop and Innocently Insensitive, and, understandably, wasn't able to comprehend human feelings.
- Good Is Not Soft: Violet becomes completely reluctant to kill when she truly comes in contact with human emotions. Still, this doesn't mean she's become a pushover, and Violet is indeed extremely skilled in self-defense and a very powerful fighter, even without weapons.
- Good Wears White: Much of her default costume is a balanced shade of blue and white, and Violet is a kind, compassionate person who is willing to try helping others out.
- Hair Intakes: The two "cat ears" in her hair.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Fits this trope to a T, especially after her Character Development, when it's revealed how kind and beautiful she is inside.
- Happily Married: Violet concludes her story by reuniting with Gilbert during the storyline and getting married years later. This is in the light novel, as the anime features the two reuniting on a later time period. It is assumed that they get married later on, given how Violet decides to retire from typewriting to live with Gilbert.
- The Hero: The titular character, and definitely heroic. May not be so much of an Action Hero anymore, but she helps lots of people by her writing letters and has an incredibly good heart, as revealed when she understands that she's a human being, through and through.
- Human Weapon: She was taken under Leidenschaftlich's army to be raised as a tool of destruction. Trusn out, Violet was an incredibly effective killer and almost immediately creaded a fearsome reputation for herself, though this ended up alienating everybody, sans Gilbert, who felt that she was unapproachable. This upbringing becomes Deconstructed the moment Violet is discharged from the war, where her upbringing to be a military asset deprived her of being able to function porperly in society nor understand a lot of basic emotional responses and social norms... at first.
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- Image Song: Violet gets a whopping thirteen
image songs, all sung by her voice actress Yui Ishikawa, and chronicles her journey from the TV series and both movies. - Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Let's check how her understanding emotions make her grow; reluctant to kill, selfless, wouldn't do anything morally ambiguous, acts with compassion... And makes the world better. She wants to bring peace, she's horrified for what she did when she used to be an emotionless soldier and is very worried about the possibility of the beginning of another war.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Violet's eyes are a bright shade of blue, which further emphasizes her compassionate demeanor and desire to help others.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: When she is given a work uniform to wear she immediately begins stripping down, right in front of a (very flustered) Benedict.
- Innocently Insensitive: During her early days as a typewriter. Violet genuinely means well and tries to understand her clients, but due to her severe inexperience and lack of properly understanding the needs and feelings of her clients, she ends up accidentally alienating or offending them, with Iris being a notable case, and she ends up having to be reprimanded for how she's doing things. She does learn her mistakes and becomes a lot better at understanding others over time.
- Insecure Love Interest: In Ever After, 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 woman 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.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: During her days as a soldier in Leidenschaftlich's Army, Violet wound up killing several soldiers from her own faction. Turns out, they were trying to rape her while she was sleeping, so it's not like they weren't asking to be killed.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Her fashionable and decorated dressing style does not deter her from still being able to decimate anybody in close-quarters combat and she's willing to fight if necessary, though she would try to solve these non-lethally. That said, she does sustain some Clothing Damage later on, especially during the train hijacking.
- Kuudere: A different example, as it's not due to actual personality coldness, but rather her being completely emotionally stunted before her Character Development.
- Literal-Minded: Violet is baffled when Hodgins tells her she's "on fire", not understanding his metaphor.
- This translates negatively to her early attempts at letter writing; she often interprets the client's words in the most straightforward manner possible, so that even something that's clearly meant to be sentimental and familiar reads like a formal report.
- Lightning Bruiser: She notably can hit hard at incredible speeds despite her age.
- Little Miss Badass: Violet is in her teens but possesses incredible fighting skills, having been bought up by Leidenschaftlich's military prior to becoming a typewriter..
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Violet's Mysterious Past becomes subject to this in the light novels. At best they're only possibilities, but nothing is truly confirmed.
- For magic, a cult 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 this might be the case.
- On the mundane side, 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 at sea might explain how Violet ended up on that island.
- Meaningful Name: In-Universe. Gilbert named Violet after the mythological flower goddess named Garnet Spear.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: A petite-looking girl who was capable of slaughtering adult soldiers even as a child and wield a gargantuan battle-axe. She still very much retains this strength as an adult whenever it's needed.
- Mysterious Past: Doesn't know why she ended up all alone on an island before Dietfried picked her up. Dietfried suspects she was a victim of a shipwreck, but he doesn't know for sure, nor does he care to investigate the matter any further. The light novels do offer a couple of possibilities on who or what Violet is, but there's no definitive answer.
- Mysterious Waif: 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 as well as being out of chronological order. 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.
- Nice Girl: With her Character Development, The Stoic and expressionless Violet turns out to be a truly kind, beautiful soul, who's very selfless and compassionate towards others. When she starts understanding emotions, she understands she killed lots of people when she was a soldier, and genuinely regrets it, vowing not to kill anymore. That said, Good Is Not Soft.
- No Social Skills: Violet lived her entire life as a Child Soldier, and thus has no knowledge at all about how to live in society when there isn't any war going on. She gets better, though.
- Not So Stoic: Violet is generally stoic and unflappable, but anything related to Gilbert is guaranteed to make her lose her cool: this happened even when she was an emotionless soldier.
- Not Used to Freedom: Having spend a good deal of her life in military services for Leidenschaftlich, Violet is confused and oblivious about how a normal life is like, to the point where she not only talks and responds like a soldier, but kind of gets lost without directing her to rules and obligations, not unlike a soldier following the commands of his superior. The reason Violet is suggested by Claudia to join the Auto-Memory Dolls service is to get a better grasp at how to understand and live a life where one can make their own choices, considering she is no longer a participant of war.
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- Oblivious to Love: Gilbert outright told her that he loved her, and all Violet could do in response was wonder what "love" is. She understands Gilbert was a person of prime importance to her, but she never knew why.
- Oral Fixation: Is prone to nibbling on things she's given, like the brooch from Gilbert or the plush dog from Claudia. She also removes her gloves by holding a finger with her teeth. It makes sense; she can't feel anything with her hands, so she uses her mouth to actually get some sensation from things.
- Parasol of Prettiness: A powder blue one covered in frills and ribbons. It was a present from Oscar Webster.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: A teenage girl who was shorter and smaller than all the men in the military but easily smacked them around with no problem.
- Posthumous Character: She died in-between the 50 year time skip between Violet's reunion with Gilbert and Daisy's journey into finding out more about Violet in the 2020 film. Given how the present timeline's story is influenced by Clara's letters, which were written by Violet and she had become renowned by that point, she remained an influential driving force for Daisy and the plot.
- Prim and Proper Bun: Violet's days as a typewriter are marked by her hair being neatly tied up in twin lower buns, which tends to further emphasize her kindly personality and her organized and determined nature.
- Primary-Color Champion: In her Doll uniform, she's easily distinguishable as the main character by her blue dress jacket, red hair ribbons, and blonde hair.
- Proper Lady: Her gentle and calm disposition as well as her prim and fashionable clothing evoke this archetype. It's furthered by Violet's nature to carry on with her determination to help her clients out as well as to atone for her acts as a soldier during her days in the military.
- Rape as Backstory: More like Attempted Rape as Backstory; the main reason she ended up killing a good deal of soldiers on her side was that they tried to rape her while she was asleep, completely underestimating the fact that Violet was a Wild Child and a fearsome killer/survivor prior to being drafted into Leidenschaftlich's Army. It also establishes why Gilbert means a lot to Violet, being one of them, if not only, men in the military to treat her kindly and why Dietfried has a cynical outlook towards her.
- Red Baron: Famously known as the "Battle Maiden of Leidenschaftlich" during and after the war. In the Violet Evergarden IF alternate universe story, she's instead called "Leidenschaftlich's Undine."
- Rei Ayanami Expy: With the exception of long and blond instead of short blue hair, she has all the characteristics. Is she a Love Interest? Yes, to Gilbert. Does she have mysterious origins and a Dark and Troubled Past? Oh, definitely. Age between 10 and 20? Check. Pale skin? Check. Appears emotionless, quiet, stoic, or otherwise odd? Oh boy... Tendency towards talking in Spock Speak, monotone, Robo Speak, or a combination thereof? Check. Suffers a major injury or illness, or at least is frequently hospitalized? Yes, she's in hospital after being severely injured during war, and she even gets the Artificial Limbs after her hospitalization. Strong connection to a parental figure, boss and/or antagonist, displaying Undying Loyalty to them? Gilbert, who adopted her, though she then becomes his Love Interest, and he becomes hers as well when she starts understanding emotions. Eventually becomes more emotional? CHECK, PLEASE!
- Retired Badass: She's a soldier finally allowed to live a normal life after the war is over. Unfortunately, Violet was a Child Soldier, so she doesn't know any lifestyle outside the military and isn't sure if she wants it at first. She chooses to work as an Auto Memory Doll to learn about others' emotions as well as her own.
- Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: 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 interpret human contact as more than threats.
- Sarashi: Certain illustrations from the Light Novels reveal that she wore one during her early days in the Leidenschaftlich Army.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Unconventionally so; life as a soldier and a weapon of war initially did not traumatize Violet because she never knew anything else. After living as a civilian and understanding her heart for a while, her bloody memories of war are seen in a new light and she struggles to cope with them.
- Sick Captive Scam: In Ever After Chapter 2, she pretends to be a woman of ill health to fool the robbers who have seized the art gallery into letting her use the bathroom, and escape out the window.
- Skilled, but Naive: She's a proficient and eloquent writer whose craft is nearly unmatched and she's a formidable fighter, but her stunted emotional development and not being raised in a proper social environment makes her aloof and unwillingly insensitive towards her clients, workmates, and close ones, which is a major struggle for Violet early in the series. Much of her Character Development involves overcoming this weakness and becoming more empathetic and understanding toward others.
- The Soft-Hearted Warrior: A former Child Soldier, who now serves as an "Auto Memories Doll", someone who writes letters for someone else. Rather than dictation, her duty is to figure out the essence of what a client is truly trying to say, and express that in the letters she writes. So intuitive is Violet at this task that she becomes the most requested "Doll" of her agency. But when danger threatens, she demonstrates that she can still hold her own in a combat situation, although she now tries to adhere strictly to Thou Shall Not Kill.
- Spock Speak: She has excellent grammar and typing skills, but initially speaks (and types) very formally, akin to giving a mission report. Her tone of voice is clipped and deadpan as well, and she is initially incapable of understanding figures of speech. She is called out for not being able to properly decipher emotions and convey them in her writing. Things change when she starts understanding what those letters mean to people.
- The Stoic: Because her social and emotional development was severely hampered by her being used as a Living Weapon by Leidenschaftlich's military, Violet's general demeanor appears to be blunt and deadpan, with her responses even sounding rather uncanny towards others. As her experiences as a typewriter goes on, Violet becomes a lot more receptive and understanding of emotions and while she retains her composed appearance, it's not hard to get by emotional and traumatic circumstances without Violet reacting to those with visible distress and sadness.
- Subordinate Excuse: She was originally given to Gilbert by his brother to basically be an attack dog. However, Gilbert looked after her and cared for her as a person. For this, Violet made it her entire life purpose to protect Gilbert and follow his orders.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She rarely displays 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 Ann's ill mother, who is going to die, and Aiden, the soldier Violet takes care of until he succumbs in front of her.
- Super-Strength: She is incredibly strong for her size, and it's even more obvious in the light novels whenever she wields the giant axe Witchcraft, a weapon bigger than she is, which she was already using as a young teenager during the war.
- Supporting Protagonist: While the central character of the series, some chapters in the light novel as well as as a select few episodes in the anime focus more on Violet's clients than the title character. The emphasis on the clients and their circumstances help to introduce Violet to further emotional reactions and social norms that she would come to express in the future.
- Tender Tears: After having a better grasp at emotions and social interactions, Violet weeping over her struggles and what her clients go through becomes a noticeable trait she exhibits. It highlights just how far she's come as a person, having become empathetic, selfless, caring, and determined in helping out others and making amends for her past acts.
- These Hands Have Killed: In the anime, becoming more in touch with her emotions allows Violet to break out of her Human Weapon conditioning and realize in retrospect just how much War Is Hell. The resulting Heroic BSoD 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 she contemplates suicide.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: In the anime, after learning empathy and realizing just how many lives she's taken during the war and the tragedies she may have caused, she resorts to being a Martial Pacifist. This doesn't bode well when she's dealing with the anti-peace faction, since while she's more than skilled enough to take them all on, her refusal to kill them eventually drives her into a corner; as they'll keep coming back up, and they're not as willing to return the favor by leaving her alive. Even Dietfried calls her out on this.
- In the light novel, during the job for Aiden Field when she neutralizes the enemy soldiers shooting him with her great axe "Witchcraft," Aiden is stunned to see that she only knocks out the enemies using the axe's handle, and only uses the oversized blade not as a weapon but as a shield to block bullets.
- Tragic Heroine: It's not certain why Dietfried picked her up and she was found all alone, but all the events that happened to her are definitely tragic.
- Tragic Keepsake: The brooch Gilbert got her becomes this after her recovery and his Uncertain Doom. It reminds her of his eyes.
- Tranquil Fury: In the final chapter of the Gaiden Volume, Violet becomes frightfully furious upon finding out Hodgins and Lux have been kidnapped.Her hand reached out to her brooch and gripped it tightly. "Who... and where... is the culprit?" she asked in a low voice, still gripping it and not letting go. "Who... and where?" Her tone was an absolute zero. It was so low and cold it went to the point of making whoever listened to it hallucinate that the temperature had dropped for a second. The air about her was bizarre, further enhanced by her usual robotic aspect.
- True Blue Femininity: She's a girl with a gentle (if, at first glance, stiff) demeanor, and her Doll Uniform comes with a navy blue jacket. The feminine part is further accentuated by the powder blue parasol that Oscar Webster gives her.
- Trying Not to Cry: Two confirmed instances in the anime adaptation:
- At the end of Episode 10, she admitted that she held back her tears for a whole week, while writing letters for Ann Magnolia, which the latter's ailing mother requested to be delivered on Ann's birthday one at a time for the next fifty years. She only managed to open the floodgates as she was contemplating the said letters with her workmates, especially with the fact that Ann would eventually be left orphaned once her mother succumbs to her sickness.
- The following episode, she held back her tears from the time her client Aiden passed away, up until the latter's mother gave her a hug as gratitude for the letters she wrote on his behalf.
- Undying Loyalty: To Gilbert, her Living Emotional Crutch. It gets to the point that with both of her arms lost and both of them grievously injured, she still tries to keep him alive.
- Unstoppable Mailman: If her assignment as an Auto-Memories Doll requires her to go to an active war zone, save the person who hired her from an ambush, write the letter he dictates and then escape said war zone to deliver it, then it's what she'll do.
- Vague Age: 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, and tells Charlotte she doesn't know how old she is. Other characters throughout the series refer to her as a child or child-like, and the novels note that her body is not quite that of a fully developed adult so she most likely is still in her mid-teens.
- In the light novel versions of their stories, both Aidan Field and Isabella York assume Violet is close to their ages. In the latter case, Isabella outright asks Violet if they're both girls of similar age, and Violet simply answers "Yes."
- Waif-Fu: Even more so during the war, when she was just a preteen taking out fully-grown men.
- Walking Armory: The light novel shows that due to the nature of her job as an Auto-Memories Doll (being a beautiful young woman traveling and working alone for long periods of time), she takes self-defense seriously. Even while working a practically risk-free job with the Magnolia family, Ann notices that Violet keeps a handgun in her suitcase. For more dangerous jobs, she will bring more weapons, such as the job for Aiden Field which takes her to an active warzone, in which she brings her battle-ax Witchcraft (omitted from the anime), and in Chapter 5, which takes her to a prison for dangerous criminals, she has knives in her boots, another handgun in her sleeve, extra ammo and a ballistic knife in her garter belts, and her hair ribbon also hides two additional stilettos. In the Gaiden Volume's Chapter 3, Claudia lectures Violet not to bring too many weapons on her next job since it'll weigh down Benedict's motorcycle, and also mentions he knows she buys extra weapons with her salary. She then reveals her most recent purchase was a long-range rifle, and also expresses a desire to buy a mace as well.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: The last words Gilbert spoke to her were "I love you". Since Violet has No Social Skills, she didn't understand the meaning behind them. She takes the job of an Auto Memory Doll to understand love better.
- When She Smiles: Violet smiles rarely, if mainly because while she's managed to become accustomed to her new life as a typewriter in a war-free environment, she's still yet to overcome the psychological troubles she's gone through in the military. But anytime she makes a genuine smile, it's really heartwarming.
- Wild Child: Until Dietfried found her, Violet apparently lived on an island with no human contact. Back then, Violet didn't know to do anything but attack anyone who got close to her. She didn't even know how to properly speak until Gilbert taught her. Since she showed some talent for killing, she was recruited in the military.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: She's on the giving end of this trope when she confronts Ann after she becomes distraught and anguished over feeling neglected by her mother. Violet tries to affirm and pacify Ann by telling her that she's admirable and resilient. She doesn't take it well at first but eventually concedes whilst crying her eyes out.
