Violet Evergarden (anime)/Characters

Characters from Violet Evergarden include:

Violet: Main Characters

Green: CH Postal Company

Violet Evergarden


The series' titular character, Violet is an orphaned child who was raised by the military as a killing machine. After the war ended, she given a new lease and a chance to find her purpose in life; an opportunity that is given to her by former Lieutenant Claudia Hodgins to work for his newly established postal company. She decides she wants become an Auto Memory Doll in a bid to discover the meaning of the words "I love you".


 * An Arm and a Leg: She loses both of her arms during the last leg of the war, and her prosthetic ones are.
 * Artificial Limbs: She has a pair of prosthetic arms to replace the real ones she lost, which always surprises her clients when she removes her gloves.
 * The Atoner: Becoming aware of the pain she caused in the past, she vows to make amends by refusing to kill anymore, as well as bring people together through letters.
 * Character Development: Violet receives plenty of this in spades. She grows from an orphaned war child to an acclaimed writer whose letters bring people together rather than rip them apart.
 * Child Soldier: Violet was in the army when she was found as an orphaned child. In episode five, long after the war has ended, she reveals that she's only around fourteen years old.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: Oh very much so! Having never known her parents, she was discovered by the military to raised to be a living weapon. It doesn't help that the Navy's captain would get physically abusive by shoving her around and barking orders at her like she was a dog. Then there is the crippling injuries she received during conflict and, of course, losing the one person who ever treated her with love and care.
 * Finger-Forced Smile: When criticised for being inexpressive, Violet pinches her cheeks, or smooshes them together in an attempt to emote.
 * Floral Theme Naming: Errr....a rose?
 * Heroic BSOD: After learning about Gilbert's fate, Violet becomes an emotional wreck, screaming, crying, and . She snaps out of it when she receives a letter from.
 * Icy Blue Eyes: Has large sparkling blue eyes, but her role as a murder weapon for the army is what lands her here.
 * Innocent Blue Eyes: After the war and over the course of the series, she gradually begins to learn about human emotions, as well as letting her kind-hearted and compassionate nature blossom.
 * Image Song: She has a few of these... thirteen to be exact, all of which chronicle her journey across the entire series (read, the show and both films), all of which are sung by her Japanese voice actress, Yui Ishikawa.
 * Innocent Fanservice Girl: She doesn't see anything wrong with changing clothes right in front of other people. Doing so causes Benedict to cover his eyes in panic.
 * Kick the Son of a Bitch: Though trained as a vicious murder weapon, Violet wasn't above killing soldiers from her own faction. In context though, they were kind of asking for it considering they tried to rape her in her sleep, so...
 * Literal-Minded: Due to her lack of social skills and inability to understand human emotions, she takes Hodgins' "on fire" metaphor literally.
 * This trope also has a negative effect on her work. Though she means well, she tends to take what her clients say too literally at first, thus her first letters read like they are mission reports.
 * Nice Girl: While appearing cold and robotic at times, once Character Development kicks in, she is a kind young lady who thinks more about others rather than herself.
 * Not So Stoic: Once she gets a firm grasp on the range of emotions humans can feel, she starts to feel/express said feelings herself.
 * Oral Fixation Fixation: Because her prosthetic arms can no longer transmit any feelings, she has a habit of sticking things in her mouth, be it her brooch, or removing her gloves with it.
 * Posthumous Character: In the second film,
 * The Stoic: Because of her upbringing, Violet initially has a hard time processing emotions, so she just talks in the most flat and robotic manner imaginable. This changes as the series progresses.
 * Tragic Keepsake: Her emerald brooch is the only thing she has to remind her of Gilbert.
 * Trying Not to Cry: Episode 10 has Violet write a large batch of letters on behalf of Clara Magnolia, her 7-year-old daughter, Anne . Once she returns to the office though, she admits that she had to hold her tears back for the entire week she was gone, and just starts crying in the comfort of her co-workers upon explaining to them that.
 * She demonstrates this trope again in the next episode in which she, only to burst into tears again when.
 * Undying Loyalty: Major Gilbert Bougainvillea means the world to Violet, mainly because he was the first person to treat her like an actual human being, so much so that she would anything she could to serve and protect him, even if her injuries at the end of the war made it impossible.
 * Vague Age: Due to how unclear the series' timeline is, it's hard to tell how old Violet is, but when she is commissioned to write letters on behalf of Princess Charlotte Abelfreyja Drossel in episode 5, she reveals that, while unsure of her age, she is around 14 years old.
 * What Beautiful Eyes!: Her reason for picking out the Emerald brooch in the first episode, because it matches her superior officer's eyes. When contextualised in a later episode, it is the first time she learns what "beauty" is.
 * Woman Child: Despite her elegant and beauty, she does have a couple of childish quirks like pinching her cheeks to force a smile, rubbing a stuffed toy with her face, nibbling on inedible objects (though that one is not her fault), and standing in the corner of a room when research becomes too tough. All of which show that she is technically still a child at heart.

Gilbert Bougainvillea
A major in the Leidenschaftlich Army, who raises Violet. His last words to Violet were "I love you", the meaning of which Violet spends the series pondering. He acts like a father figure to Violet, and is an important part in her character arc.


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Claudia Hodgins
The president of the CH Postal Company, and a good friend to Gilbert in the war. He helps Violet transition away from life as a Child Soldier, and integrates her into the post-war society.


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Benedict Blue
One of the few men working for CH Postal, Benedict is one of the company's mail couriers. He is the first character to give Violet a rundown of how operations at CH Postal run.


 * Alliterative Name: Benedict Blue
 * A Day in the Limelight: He becomes the central protagonist in the second half of the first film, helping Taylor, in addition to voicing over the epilogue.
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: Implied by the occasional bickering between him and Cattleya.
 * Big Brother Mentor: He becomes this to Taylor Bartlett in the second half of Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, who calls him Brother every time she sees him.
 * Bishonen: A very pretty looking guy compared to his more rugged, gruff looking boss.
 * Casanova Wannabe: Tries to charm some of his female co-workers by asking them if they'll eat lunch with him, but he gets shot down each time.
 * Covert Pervert: Though panic-stricken by Violet changing clothes in front of him, he still gets a peep in anyway.
 * Impractically Fancy Outfit: Benedict opts to wear a spiffy pair of high heel boots. As fashionable as they may be, they aren't exactly the most practical thing to wear when carrying mail for hours at a time. He even sprains his ankle in them in a later episode.
 * Like an Old Married Couple: He is often seen getting into arguments with Cattleya, often for the pettiest of reasons.

Cattleya Baudelaire
A doll who works alongside Violet in the CH Postal Company. Cattleya is the most popular doll before Violet became famous.


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Iris Cannary
Iris is another key employee at CH Postal, and soon becomes one of Violet's closest friends. Her ambition is to become the most popular Auto Memory Doll in the continent, but is having a tough time achieving that dream due to her co-worker Cattleya, and eventually Violet getting requested all the time.


 * Brutal Honesty: Like Violet, she is very to-the-point and direct.
 * Boyish Short Hair: Her hair is noticeably shorter than the other girls at CH postal. By Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll however, she has grown it out a little.
 * Childhood Friend Romance: She had a crush on a boy she grew up with some time ago, but unfortunately, when she told him she loved him, she essentially got friend-zoned. Ouch.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: A non-romantic example, in the sense that she is annoyed that she almost never gets requested to write letters on behalf of the company's clients, with Cattleya (and soon Violet) sucking up all of the attention.
 * Dramatic Slip: As she gloats about receiving her first commission as an Auto Memory Doll, she fall down a small flight of stairs (thanks to her discomfort in high heels), complete with close-ups, slow motion, and dramatic hand reaches from Violet and herself. Despite Violet trying to catch her, Iris winds up breaking her arm, forcing the former to tag along with her to ghost write for her, all to Iris' total annoyance.
 * Floral Theme Naming: Irises, of course. Her parents give her a small bouquet of these for her birthday, after all.
 * Girliness Upgrade: In both films, Iris has grown her hair out, wears a neat hairband, and has started wearing long dresses. She is the one character who has undergone the biggest design change in the films.
 * New Media Are Evil: A mild example; in the second film, Iris shows that she is not a fan of a new invention called the telephone. Her distain for this new tech stems from people being able to communicate almost instantly over long distances, thus threatening her job as an Auto Memory Doll since the telephone could make handwritten letters obsolete. She warms up to it soon after when.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: She is the tomboy to...well, pretty much every other female character in Leidenschaflicht. She has a shorter haircut, doesn't wear dresses at work, and has a harder time walking in high heels.

Erica Brown
A doll who starts out working for the CH Postal Company, but eventually quits to work for a playwright.


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Princess Charlotte
The princess of the Kingdom of Drossel, introduced in episode five.


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Leon Stephanotis
A member of the staff in the Shahar Observatory's Manuscript Division, who Violet helps in episode six.


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Oscar Webster
A playwright who becomes an alcholic, helped in episode seven.


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Anne Magnolia
A young girl, whose mother is Violet's client in episode ten. Her granddaughter, Daisy, is used to frame the theratical film.


 * Children Are Innocent: Her behaviour is portrayed as this, with her calling Violet a literal "doll" and comparing her to other plastic dolls. This moves into Break the Cutie territory, with what she has to go through in the tenth episode.

Aiden Field
A soldier who Violet helps in episode eleven.


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Irma Felice
A famous opera singer who hires Violet to write a love letter in the OVA.


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