Post by Violet Baudelaire on Mar 12, 2005 10:28:36 GMT -5
Name: Violet Baudelaire
Age: 14
Height: 5 ft 4
Species: Human
Body Alterations: (tattoos, piercings, scars, etc.) None
Hair: Long and brown, up to just beyond the start of the back. She doesn’t tie it up unless she’s inventing something. She has a few small braids in it as well.
Eyes: Green
Build: Medium
Clothing, Jewelry, etc: Violet has a somewhat odd dress sense. Her clothes aren’t exactly modern; she is always seen in a black-gray-green dress that’s quite Victorian in design. She has added onto the sleeves of the dress proper with fishnets, which extend to her wrist.
Where They're From: Lemony Snicket’s 13-book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and then as a main character in the movie adaptation of the same name.
Reasons for Joining the League: To put her abilities to good use
Personality: Of the three Baudelaire children, Violet was always the most optimistic one, trying to make the best out of things. Responsibility was shoved unto her at a young age, and as such she can be quite the mother hen. Violet knows what she wants and can be quite forceful in getting it, but she’s no brat. She treasures her family very much and is a firm believer in that there is more good than bad in the world. Despite her young age, Violet is mature in her actions and thoughts, reacting well under pressure.
Powers: In a world of discarded things, Violet has found her niche: inventing. Using everyday objects like forks, she has been able to fashion everything from alerts that sound when there is mail to makeshift rock-climbing gear.
Abilities: Refer to above.
Weaponry: Only a Swiss Army knife that she found.
History: Violet Baudelaire was the oldest of the three Baudelaire children. While at the beach with her brother Klaus and sister Sunny, their home caught fire under mysterious circumstances. With that, the Baudelaire children became the Baudelaire orphans.
All three were sent to live with their ‘closest living relative’, a Count by the name of Olaf. Count Olaf only took them in because it was stated in their parent’s will; in reality, he wanted the Baudelaire fortune that had been left to the three children. He treated them badly and abused them and eventually tried to kill them by leaving them in a car, which was then conveniently stopped in the middle of a railroad — with a train quickly oncoming.
His plan was to murder the orphans so that the money would come to him. However, Violet and her siblings managed to avert disaster and were then taken to live with another guardian, a professor by the name of Montgomery Montgomery, who they called Uncle Monty.
Uncle Monty was a nice man who had been at Violet’s birth, even though she didn’t remember him. He loved them and told them stories, understanding the pain they felt at losing their parents.
That night, however, Olaf made a reappearance, disguised as a stand-in for Uncle Monty’s usual assistant. While the children slept, he murdered Uncle Monty, trying to use the Incredibly Deadly Viper as the cause. Sunny managed to prove that the Incredibly Deadly Viper had not killed Uncle Monty, and Olaf and his minions fled.
They were then taken to live with Aunt Josephine, a multi-phobic, grammatically-correct woman. They tolerated her eccentricities, but she was killed by Olaf, who again disguised himself as a sea captain.
Violet was then forced to marry Olaf, as the law stated that he could only get the fortune if he was related to them by blood, which he was not. Masquerading the marriage as a play, he offered Violet and Klaus a bargain: she would marry him, but if she chose not to, Sunny would be killed.
Violet couldn’t refuse and signed the marriage certificate, making her lawfully wedded to Olaf. Her brother managed to sabotage the ceremony, by burning the certificate into shreds. As such, she was freed from the marriage and Olaf was arrested.
He disappeared, but Violet, Klaus and Sunny were sent to another guardian. On the way, they got into a car accident and her siblings were killed, as well as their driver, the banker Mr. Poe.
Violet is now alone in the world, and even though she puts up a brave façade, all she is, is a teenage girl looking for love and comfort and, most of all, a family.