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PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Claire
CONTACT: DMs to Violet's journal | superorbital | superorbits | discord: superorbital#3758
OTHER CHARACTER(S) IN GAME: not a bean, sir

CANON INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Violet Evergarden
CANON: Violet Evergarden (TV Anime)
HISTORY:

Wikipedia has outlines of the anime episodes but it's pretty bare bones and the fanwiki primarily details the light novel which differs from the anime, so I'll write out the bulk of Violet's history here. Content warnings for war, death, inscription of child soldiers, loss of limbs, suicidal ideation and self harm.

That said, Violet's exact origins are never divulged to the viewer. As per the anime's timeline, she is found as a lone orphan in the north-west warfront of Leidenschaftlich by Dietfried Bougainvillea apparently mute and unable to communicate. He soon discovers that despite her apparent fragility, Violet (though she remains unnamed for quite some time) is a brutal killing machine, able to understand and enact orders to kill with little trouble. Following this, while on a boat back to the mainland, Violet, in apparent fright for her life, kills all of Dietfried's men with ease, leaving only him alive.

Upon returning to Leidenschaftlich, Dietfried turns Violet over to his brother, Gilbert, who has recently been promoted to the rank of major amidst the chaos of war. Dietfried himself claims to be giving her as a gift, dehumanizing Violet and referring to her as a 'tool' but there are some implications that he is afraid of her and is simply attempting to get rid of her as quickly as possible. Like any human being with a smudge of empathy, Gilbert is quite rightly horrified by Violet's treatment and takes her under his wing, becoming the first person in her life to treat her as a child instead of a tool of war.

Gilbert does his best to raise the feral Violet and give her the care she needs, teaching her to speak, read and write and eventually naming her. Violet, in turn, becomes incredibly attached to him, making Gilbert the center of her world and her only reason for existing. This is an unhealthy enough dynamic in any case that's made even worse by the fact that Gilbert is forced by his superiors to have Violet join him on the front lines, despite her age. The army neatly dances around the horrific implications of enlisting a child, by registering her as a 'weapon' with Gilbert as her user.

Violet spends most of the rest of the war quietly doing a lot of killing and not much else. She becomes infamous among the two opposing armies and is called "Leidenschaftlich's Soldier Maiden" which is kind of a mouthful and super unoriginal, but go off, I guess. Gilbert is incredibly torn apart by guilt, unable to go against his superior officer but horrified at seeing the child he'd raised become just a tool of bloodshed. This comes to a head when, during some downtime, Violet and Gilbert attend a small festival at which Violet is transfixed by the sight of an emerald brooch, which she compares to Gilbert's eyes. She struggles to find a word to describe it and when she is prompted with 'beautiful', innocently and matter-of-factly observes that she has never heard such a word and has no understanding of what beauty is. Faced with the catastrophic levels to which he has failed Violet as a parent – to the point of robbing her of a sense of beauty and wonder – Gilbert buys Violet the brooch and begins quietly planning on how to let Violet live a life separately from him.

Eventually, Gilbert (and therefore Violet) find themselves assigned to a potentially war-ending operation to reclaim an enemy base. The night beforehand, Violet expresses a great deal of anxiety about her future to Gilbert, but due to how thoroughly she has been stunted by her use as a tool in the army, she is only able to express this in terms of being 'reassigned away' and 'not receiving orders from' him. In guilt and self-loathing, Gilbert eventually lashes out verbally at Violet in an attempt to make her express some sort of emotion or sense of self-preservation but only succeeds in making Violet cry, while she insists that she does not understand how she feels and that she is simply his tool. This is implied to be what pushes Gilbert from "lowkey not expecting to make it out of this battle alive" to "high key hoping for it" as an expression of self-loathing over how thoroughly he has damaged Violet.

This, unfortunately, comes terribly true in the battle that commences. Gilbert's men (and Violet) are able to seize the enemy fortress, but Gilbert and Violet are both critically injured when the enemy attacks them again just at their moment of apparent victory. Gilbert is shot multiple times and Violet is hit with both a grenade and a shotgun, causing her to lose both her arms. The two of them scramble to safety out of the line of fire, and though Violet attempts to save him, Gilbert is aware he is a lost cause. With his dying breaths, he tells Violet that all he wants is for her to live and be free and tells her that he loves her. All Violet can do is sob that she doesn't understand and beg him to explain, but these are the last words they ever exchange. The losing enemy bombs their fortress and Gilbert shields Violet from the blast, giving his life for hers.

In the wreckage, Violet is found alone and hurried back to safety where she can be given medical care. To replace her missing arms, she is fitted with a pair of FMA-ass metal prosthetics that serve all the functions of her missing limbs, hands included. I am BEGGING you not to make me explain how this works because I literally do not know and the show never explains it. Violet then spends a considerable amount of time in hospital healing and regaining her strength (around half a year) but critically, is not aware of Gilbert's death.

Once she has recovered, Violet is released from the hospital into the custody of Claudia Hodgins, an ex-army Lieutenant who had been asked by Gilbert to care for Violet in his absence. He is unable to bring himself to tell Violet the truth and lies that Gilbert is still alive and has entrusted her to Hodgins, for the time being. She is taken back to Leiden, the capital city, where she is intended to be left in the care of the Evergardens, who are some of Gilbert's closest relatives. This arrangement doesn't work out, as Violet reacts with extreme distress at the idea that she is simply being left behind by the Major, asking Hodgins to "discard her" if she, as a tool, is no longer useful. Hodgins (and the viewer) immediately gains a +1000 Dad Modifier and decides to take Violet into his own care instead, offering her a job and a place to feel useful at the CH Postal Company, a letter-writing and delivery business he has established to meet the needs of the population following the war.

Violet tries her hand at a few odd jobs like letter sorting and delivery but her militaristic mindset makes it difficult for her to feel truly settled in any of them. By coincidence, however, she finds herself watching over a job taken out by one of the company's Auto Memoir Dolls, Cattleya – essentially, a ghostwriter whose responsibility it was to properly transcribe the often complex and messy thoughts and feelings of clients into a sincere letter. Cattleya is able to intuit from the twitterpated customer that he wishes to confess his love to the woman he's addressing and Violet finds herself quite emotionally affected. Wanting desperately to understand the meaning of the words "I love you" and therefore, the Major's last words to her, Violet begs Hodgins to allow her to work as an Auto Memoir Doll. Hodgins is taken aback, but recognizing that this is the first and only thing that Violet has ever requested of her own will, he agrees to let her do so.

It's a bit of a bumpy ride at first. Violet is trained both at CH Postal and at a school intended to train exemplary Dolls but struggles to pick up the skills necessary to thrive. She has incredibly typing skills and receives top marks when it comes to grammar and vocabulary, but her blunt and awkward nature upsets clients and her lifeless writing is unable to convey any true sentiment. This isn't helped by Violet's own confessed difficulties with understanding both her own feelings and that of other people. However, she is eventually able to write her first true letter, on behalf of her first friend who she wished to help. Her sincere efforts are able to properly convey the feelings she's been entrusted with and to honor that, she is granted a pin marking her graduation from the school and singling Violet out as an exceptional Auto Memoir Doll... in the making, at least.

From there, Violet's letter writing skills improve in leaps and bounds, even if her personal progress is somewhat less smooth. She's hired by a great many people, including royalty and through her services as an Auto Memoir Doll, Violet is both able to convey their feelings and see parts of herself in their stories, leading her both to a better understanding of her own feelings and that of other people. However, that progress also comes with it a deeper and more thorough understanding of Violet's own history of pain and atrocities during the war. Something that isn't helped by a passing encounter with Dietfried, who regards her with bitterness and reacts with scorn at the idea that Violet, who had caused so much death and despair with her hands, could be writing letters that bring people together with them instead.

This comes to a head when, after helping a grieving playwright to move past the death of his daughter by finishing a play dedicated to her, Violet finds herself shaken to the core by the sudden and painful understanding of the amount of lives she herself has snuffed out. In this intensely emotionally vulnerable state, Violet has a chance encounter with her would-be guardian, Tiffany Evergarden, who inadvertently reveals, at the worst possible time, that Gilbert is dead.

On the verge of a total breakdown, Violet demands the truth from Hodgins, who admits to his part in the deception. But Violet, hysterical with grief, refuses to believe him and flees from the CH Postal Company. She manages to find her way back to Gilbert's house where she had grown up but instead of reuniting with the Major, Violet is confronted with his grave instead. Shocked into numbness, the only thing she can bring herself to do is return to the place he died – the bombed out wreckage of the enemy stronghold – to try and find him. She is eventually found and brought back to the CH Postal Company by Hodgins, but she is so deep in grief that she locks herself in her room and refuses to take any more work.

Despairing of the Major's fate and crushed by her own self-loathing, Violet struggles to cope with his death, which peaks when she awakens from a nightmare where Gilbert speaks with Dietfried's words, scorning her for trying to do good with her hands when she has killed so many people with them. Apparently taking this to heart and unable to see any worth in herself, Violet tears apart her room, smashes her belongings and eventually tries to strangle herself with her metal hands – but is unable to go through with it.

It's here at her lowest point, though, that Violet finally receives the help she needs. It starts off as something so simple; a letter, written by the coworkers who have watched her grow, who express their concern and care for her and wish for some way to help. Gently encouraged by their words, Violet slowly begins to return to work – first with helping with delivery, where she sees first-hand the joy that receiving a letter can bring. And finally, with a return to her very first successful job as an Auto Memoir Doll; the recipient of her first letter hires her to send a letter of gratitude to his sister, Violet's very first client.

Remembering the reason she began her work in the first place and reflecting on how far she's come prompts Violet to pose Hodgins with a question: is it truly alright for her to be an Auto Memoir Doll, after all the pain and suffering she's caused? Or, more importantly, is it alright for her to even live at all? Hodgins, who has been struggling with the same questions himself, eventually responds that her actions as a soldier cannot ever be erased, neither can the sincere good that she does now as an Auto Memoir Doll. Violet takes these words to heart and decides that this is enough for her to be satisfied with, and is finally able to move past the grief of Gilbert's death and begin moving on into a life without him.

There's also like... four more episodes after this detailing a weird tacked on action finale about an anti-peace faction that Violet faces but that's outline pretty neatly on the Wiki page and it doesn't really add a whole lot more to Violet's arc as much as it just reiterates what we know, so I won't outline it here.

STRENGTHS:

Compassionate: Despite the military's attempts to stamp it out of her, there's no way to fully erase the fact that Violet is a genuinely kind, well-meaning girl. She has a deeply instilled understanding of the value of a happy life and if she sees the chance to do good for someone then Violet will do it, every single time. She's a very sensitive girl in her own sort of way, deeply empathetic for the pain of others – most of the times we see her openly weeping in the series are not for herself, but are tears shed for the plight of others. Causing pain, in particular, is deeply distressing for her

Tenacious: Violet is an incredibly diligent girl and when she has something she wants to accomplish, be it in work or her personal life, she will put everything of herself into it until she's brought it to a satisfactory outcome. She works patiently, almost mechanically, at any task set to her, to the best of her abilities and when she commits to something, she'll see it through to the end. This doesn't mean that she's exactly good at everything she does, but she takes everything in stride with a rather comical seriousness, regardless of the situation. She's aware that her own preconceived notions about the way the world works aren't quite in line with the reality, so rather than judging or making assumptions, Violet's more the sort of person to hang back and quietly assess before she engages herself with a situation.

Quick-Witted: Put simply, Violet's a smart girl. Because of the life she's lead, her sense of priorities can sometimes be warped in a way that makes people mistake her for unintelligent or lacking in common sense. This couldn't be further from the truth – Violet's sharp as a tack both in the sense that she's well educated (and genuinely enjoys learning) but also that she's quick-witted and observant, able to take in information very quick and apply it to whatever situation she's in. She's a quick learner, who likes to fully absorb things before she involves herself in them... with varying degrees of success.

FLAWS:

Self-Sacrificing: While Violet's compassion is admirable, it can also be her own worst enemy. Violet is not only self-sacrificing in the sense that she will put herself in immense danger for the sake of others, but also that she is willing to put her own wellbeing – socially, emotionally, mentally, you name it – on the line for the sake of friend and client alike. Unfortunately, for all she means well, this can also make her come across as a bit of a busybody and though she'd had success so far, she also isn't really equipped to deal with the problems of everyone she comes across. She'll try her best, though, doing massive amounts of emotional labor whether it's warranted or not. Her duties as a Doll only extent to letter writing, but Violet still feels responsible for the pain and anguish others feel, no matter if she's responsible for it or not.

Socially Stunted: Thanks to her background in the military, Violet can be incredibly off-putting to the regular person when she comes forward to engage with them. Her eccentricities and her aloof outer self make her seem fairly inscrutable but it usually doesn't take long before Violet shows her cards as an incredibly direct sort of girl. It might take a little bit for her to eventually pipe up, but once you get her talking, it becomes apparent very fast that she's remarkably – almost comically – straightforward. She's honest to the point of being blunt, simply because she doesn't really see the point of mincing her words. While she tries her best to take care and not tread on any toes, she'll occasionally do or say things that are rude or terribly insensitive without really getting why.

Gilbert Bougainvillea Gets His Own Bullet Point: Despite all the ways she's grown and everything she's been through, Violet will never be able to fully extract herself from the shadow of Gilbert's influence on her. Though Violet tries her best to be happy in a life without him, she still hasn't quite managed to process his death – even as late as the season finale, she admits that she still does not accept Gilbert's death and continues to believe he is alive somewhere. This is understandable – despite the fact that their connection was unhealthy in many ways, Gilbert was still the first person to treat Violet like an actual human and much of the life she has now can be traced back to the kindness he showed her. It's very unlikely she will ever be able to put the trauma of his death fully out of her mind – it is something she simply has to live with, which she's gradually learning to do.

CANON ABILITIES:

"Auto Memoir Doll, Violet Evergarden, at your service." - Violet is what's known as an 'Auto Memoir Doll' which is essentially a fancy name for a ghostwriter. It's Violet's duty to write letters for people who are either unable to write (as was common for the time period she comes from) or unable to properly express themselves in the way they wish. According to the school that Violet attends, a high-class Auto Memoir Doll is expected to have an exemplary sense of vocabulary, grammar, empathy and a flair for inventive, creative writing. Additionally, they must be able to type at a very high speed. Violet demonstrates that she can type at a rather frightening speed – when 200 characters a minute is requested, Violet does so without missing a beat. In a later episode, she is shown to be able to type at the exact same speed something is dictated to her and finishes typing a fraction of a second after the speaker is finished.
"You're a tool." - Violet is a child soldier, having been trained from a young age (possibly since birth, as she is a feral child the youngest we see her) to be a weapon of warfare. While the exact circumstances that led to this have yet to be revealed, Violet was a skilled enough fighter at the age of eight at the very oldest to slaughter an entire ship's crew of decorated military officers with nothing more than a knife. Being trained in the army has only made her more dangerous and when given reason to fight Violet is one hell of a force to be reckoned with. She's exceptionally agile with good stamina and has been trained extensively in some manner of martial arts (as we see her fighting with punches, kicks and other rather complicated techniques). She is also proficient in the use of weapons – so far, on-screen, she has been shown to make use of military-grade guns and rifles as well as knives. It should be noted that at no point is Violet ever implied to be unbeatable or skilled to a supernatural or superhuman degree, she is just really, upsettingly good at killing.
"These arms are made from adamant silver." - After losing both arms in the war, Violet is fitted with a pair of prosthetic arms made of adamant silver, starting from just above the elbow. They function identically to Violet's real arms once she has adjusted to using them with a few caveats: Violet cannot discern temperature with them and seems to have some difficulty with more delicate tasks. Additionally, while she seems to have some sort of sense for when she is handling objects she cannot feel texture. They are also bulkier and sturdier than a regular pair of fleshy arms. Despite this, they can be damaged and even shattered when put through enough strain and will have to be repaired or replaced. Because they are mechanical, Violet is required to perform maintenance on them, on a regular basis.

AU INFORMATION

AU CHARACTER NAME: Violet Evergarden
AGE: 17
GRADE: 11th Grade
AU BACKSTORY:

Like in her canon history, Violet was discovered as a half-feral orphan in the Outland Mists by the Bougainvilleas, an old German family of Hunters and mages. She is apparently unable to speak or communicate in any meaningful way, but Bougainvilleas are eventually able to establish that she is either half-fey or at least has powers resembling feycraft – it manifests as a sort of magical hypersensitivity that gives her heightened senses and reflexes as well as a healthy dollop of involuntary empathy. So like, Feelings, But Too Much. She's also extremely skilled at fighting, which is probably a consequence both of keeping herself alive in the Outlands and her powers.

Unsure of what to do with her, the Bougainvilleas eventually settle on gradually training Violet up to become a Hunter for her, seeing the potential in her to become a truly powerful weapon against the things lurking in the Outlands. To this end, she is entrusted to Gilbert Bougainvillea, one of their Hunters, who takes Violet under his wing. He's less interested in teaching her how to fight and more interested in treating Violet like, you know, the traumatized feral orphan she is. He gives Violet her name and teaches her to speak, read and write and helps her find ways of handling her powers. Though they're only together for around a year or so, the two of them become very close as a surrogate father and daughter unit.

With his devotion to Violet, however, comes a conflict of loyalties for Gilbert, who is under increased pressure from senior members of the family to put aside giving Violet a normal childhood and to concentrate entirely on raising her as a tool to use against magical creatures. As you might imagine, Gilbert doesn't exactly cotton to that shit and starts quietly planning behind the scenes to extract both of them from the Bougainvillea family and live a new life elsewhere. All seems to be going well until Gilbert actually tries to leave with Violet, at which point the two of them are essentially chased down in their car by a pair of Bougainvillea Hunters who suspect that Gilbert might be trying to hand Violet over to another Hunter family. Intentionally or not, the result is that both cars are run off the road in a wreck that kills all three adults save Violet, who still loses both of her arms.

Violet is sent to the hospital to recover and have her arms replaced with her FMA-ass prosthetics. It's here that she discovers that the loss of her arms has also warped the nature of her powers – while previously, her empathy had manifested itself through touch, it seems to have adjusted itself to the loss of her hands and instead become involuntary, with Violet picking up on the feelings of people around her whether she's touching them or not. This is incredibly overwhelming for the already ill-adjusted Violet and she only learns to cope with it by clamping down on her powers and suppressing it as best she can to minimize its effects on her.

The Bougainvilleas, meanwhile, pay for her medical care but after that, essentially wash their hands of her – after losing three of their own Hunters over this conflict, they're no longer interested in Violet. She is instead released into the care of Claudia Hodgins, a mage and an old friend of Gilbert's. He runs the C.H. Postal Company, an organization that handles confidential and sensitive information for magic uses who cannot or don't want to use more mundane correspondence. Violet is officially adopted by Hodgins at age ten and then spends the next eight years or so being raised by him (and basically the entirety C.H. Postal Company's staff, who all love her). Since she isn't really well-equipped to handle regular schooling, Violet is homeschooled at the company and gradually begins doing odd jobs for them, before being more-or-less officially hired as a delivery girl for them. She continues honing her ability to fight both to defend herself and the correspondence she's entrusted to deliver.

It's during one of these deliveries (to none other than Gilbert's brother, Dietfried, in fact) that she manages to thwart an attempted robbery of her goods. The thief, a young man named Therion is apprehended by Dietfried, but Hodgins is able to talk him down from the entire list of severe punishments Dietfried and the Bougainvilleas, in general, had in mind. It's eventually agreed that he'll be sent to Daybreak Academy instead and Violet surprises everyone by asking to go as well. Therion is the first Candle she's ever met and she sees this as her only avenue to properly learn about her powers, which is something she's always desperately wanted. Recognizing that this is the first thing Violet has ever been truly passionate about, Hodgins agrees to let her go and she is sort of unofficially tasked with being Therion's babysitter while they attend Daybreak.

AU PERSONALITY DEVIATION:

◈ The biggest immediate difference for AU Violet is that she is no longer an ex-soldier – while she certainly suffered a degree of similar exploitation by the Bougainvilleas, the scope of her experience is hardly comparable to being on the front lines of active warfare as a child, as canon Violet was. Because of this, she no longer carries the scars (both literal and figurative) that her life as a soldier would have left.

◈ Daybreak Violet is older by her canon self by only a handful of years, but she has also spent a much longer time living in a relatively stable, loving environment with an explicitly identified parental figure. This means she's much more well-adjusted both socially and emotionally and just, in general, has her shit together a bit more.

◈ Violet's obsession with Major Gilbert that exists in canon is more or less resolved by this point of her AU self's life and never reached the unhealthy depths it does in canon. She still thinks of him very fondly and he's still a very influential figure in her life, but she's reached a point where it no longer dominates her thoughts, as it were.(Briefly describe how the character differs from their canon iteration.

◈ Finally, since Violet hasn't been pushed to the same extremes as canon, she hasn't quite reached the places that her character arc takes her in canon. The seeds have definitely been sown and she definitely has the potential to get to those places eventually, but she just needs a few more pushes.

RACE: Human, with some fey lineage.
SECRET SOCIETY:

Violet is the adopted daughter of Claudia Hodgins, a well known (and mostly well respected) mage who runs the C.H. Postal Company in Germany, an organization that handles sensitive correspondence between magic users that cannot go through more mundane channels. Violet herself is a delivery girl for the company, and she is quite well known as one of their regular staff-members – she's kind of hard to miss. She's very fondly regarded within the company itself (SHE'S THE BOSS'S DAUGHTER SO THEY KIND OF HAVE NO CHOICE) and Violet, in turn, views the long-term staff of the C.H. Postal Company as her extended family.

Less fondly thought of is her connection to the Bougainvilleas, who are in this AU, an old family of Hunters and mages, rooted primarily in Germany but with a few branch families scattered here and there across the globe. They're generally viewed as skilled at what they do, but they hold their family members to extremely high standards and they receive their fair share of critique over what others sometimes to consider to be unacceptable methods and traditions of hunting. Outside of Gilbert who is still very dear to her, the relationship between Violet and the Bougainvilleas is at best frosty and at worst pretty much nonexistent. As mentioned in her history, they've washed their hands of her and Violet quietly but persistently resents them for their treatment of her as a child.

POWERS:

Feelings, But Too Much - Violet's senses are heightened to a just-about-superhuman degree – she essentially experiences the entire world in permanent 4k HD with surround sound with no reliable way to dampen it or turn it off. Her reflexes are also enhanced to this same degree, making her much quicker to react and much harder to startle than a regular human. Finally, Violet also has a strong empathy sense where (with player permission – this will be a strictly opt-in power) she can pick up on the feelings of people around her, though this she has purposely suppressed for much of her life, to a degree that only particularly overwhelming emotions can break through if she's trying to keep it contained. The obvious drawback here is that Violet is much more prone to experiencing sensory overload than regular people and experiences that would be hardly worth thinking about for others can be extremely unpleasant for her.
The Bullet Point About Being Good At Fighting: As in canon, Violet is an incredibly skilled fighter, both as a result of her training as a child and her years of experience protecting herself as a delivery girl for C.H. Postal. As in canon, she is certainly not unbeatable or invincible, she's just really, really, really good in a fight.
FMA-Ass Prosthetics - Violet's arms function the same as outlined in the canon section of the app, with the only additional caveat that her arms are enhanced with a bit of magitech to function as they do, though this is really just flavour text to justify them in the AU – they have no additional features or changes.

HOUSING: No preference! The only thing I ask is that Violet not be roomed with Therion despite their shared AU backstory, just in the interest of getting that sweet sweet new roommate CR.

RP SAMPLE

INTERVIEW SAMPLE PROMPT

1. WHAT DO YOU MOST DESIRE FOR YOUR EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE?

An enrichment both of myself and my abilities, magical and otherwise. [ ... ] And to socialize with other students.

2. WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACHIEVE IN THE FUTURE?

More than anything, I hope to come to a better understanding of my powers and find how I might be able to apply them to day-to-day living, without them becoming a hinderance.

3. DESCRIBE YOUR IDEA OF AN IDEAL SCHOOL EXPERIENCE.

I've never been to school so I'm not sure what the ideal would be for every student. But for myself personally, it would be an environment that allows me to thrive socially just as much as academically, without feeling pressured to sacrifice one in favour of the other.

4. WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR A SCHOOL TO OFFER TO ITS STUDENTS?

A safe and consistent learning environment where students of all types from any number of varied backgrounds can be offered a learning experience that benefits them most.

5. WHAT DO YOU FEEL MOST LIMITS YOU FROM ACHIEVING YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL?

... A lack of experience. And, a lack of an environment in which to properly expand my skillset.

8. WHAT ACTIVITIES DO YOU PARTICIPATE IN OUTSIDE YOUR EDUCATION?

I work as a delivery girl for the C.H. Postal Company. We manage magical correspondence that would be dangerous or perhaps endangered by a more conventional postal service. Aside from that... I suppose I don't have any unusual hobbies, in comparison to other people.

9. WHEN GIVEN FREE TIME, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH IT?

I enjoy reading... and finger knitting. I can't draw or paint, but I like to watch videos and timelapses of people painting and making things.

15. WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE DO YOU FEAR THE MOST?

[ There's a long pause before Violet's able to answer. ]

... That if I'm unable to become strong enough to protect the people I care for, they might be...

[ She trails off there and even if prompted, she won't finish that train of thought. ]

16. WHAT MEMORIES DO YOU HOPE TO HOLD AT THE END OF YOUR JOURNEY?

I would like to have at least one once-in-a-lifetime experience to look back on fondly. But I'm yet to decide on the specifics of what it might be.

17. WHAT IN THE FUTURE DO YOU MOST LOOK FORWARD TO?

... It would be nice to make some friends to spend time with. I don't think we would need to do anything particularly special together... I think making new friends would be more than enough.