Violet Evergarden

Female

Birth date: 25.9.1888 y.

Cabin: Nurses-36

Biography:

Birth date: Sept 25, 1888
Height: 5' 7"
Sex: F
Role: Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse
Place of Residence: Plymouth, United Kingdom
Peacetime Occupation: Writer, typist
Nationality: British, Dutch

Before the Great War, Violet was a ghostwriter who worked for C.H. Postal Company in idyllic Plymouth. At first sight, many note her excessively formal demeanour, her intricate metal prosthetic arms, and the large green gemstone brooch she wears on her collar when not on duty.

Belying her peacetime occupation, she is formerly known as the Soldier Maiden of Leiden, for her ferocious reputation in the Second Boer War under the company of Major Gilbert Bougainvillea. Very little is known about her past before coming to Britain; her childhood memories had all been of duty, survival, and fighting in the Boer War. Violet entered civil life after being seriously injured in the last month of the war, during which her company was annihilated and the Major disappeared. In peacetime, she likes a secluded life with a few trusted friends from the post company, writing letters on behalf of clients who could not find the right words to express their thoughts. The decade has helped Violet come to terms with the scars and horrors of war, and learn what it means to care. She has also shunned the Soldier Maiden title and built a new name for herself, by writing for some high-profile artists and family members of government officials.

Now, Violet volunteers as a nurse in this new war, to help people physically through helping them heal, and emotionally by using her writing skills to send messages of hurt or dying soldiers back home. She spent 1914 at a military hospital in the mainland, before being transferred to hospital ships in early 1915 at her request, and as the VAD’s role in care expanded. She served aboard HMHS Asturias before joining Britannic on its first voyage. Although she has outgrown her habitual impersonality, Violet once again takes up formal mannerisms within Britannic’s command structure, and maintains her quick wit and vigilance. But the nuances about human emotions that she has learned in civil life means that she can quickly switch it off, and tend to patients with an understanding and empathizing demeanor.

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