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[violet evergarden] so like
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if you had asked me to guess Violet's age
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with five guesses
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I would not have succeeded
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this is Violet
this is Violet
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a soldier since childhood, traumatized by approaching combat as if she were a living weapon
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who survived to the end of the war, then her superior officer bid her live freely
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now trying to understand what it means to be human in a peaceful world
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.................
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Violet is 14
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seems perfectly reasonable to me
seems perfectly reasonable to me
Doctor Ansem
WELCOME TO ANIME
Doctor Ansem
(We all hate it here)
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trying to guess anime characters' ages
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oh haha it literally starts with a violet evergarden reference
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Violet's friends: "You should have come with us to this play about a soldier being consumed with guilt for all the lives he took, I bet you'd really enjoy that specific story"
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I feel like Oscar Webster is making Violet do a lot of emotional labor for him that she isn't being paid for
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she's here to dictate your play, not be your maid and also your proxy daughter
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she actually looks 14 during the war flashbacks
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what was she, ten
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Violet: "Do you know what would be appropriate for me to ask for?"
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Major: "Let's see, a girl your age would probably want... dresses, or accessories?"
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Violet: "Then I want dresses, or accessories."
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i'm in pain again!!!
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I'm picking nits here and there but like, Violet is a good character
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I sure don't have lots of feelings about a traumatized youth trying unsuccessfully to learn how to be a human being
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there's a particular character beat around this part tho idr if it's specifically this episode that just. ruins me
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also lmao to the major's commander just saying, out loud
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"exploit this orphan"
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that's fist of the north star level evil
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jesus that guy shot her arm clean off
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what's in those guns
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"Do I have any right to live?"
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"My mom got sick because I'm a bad girl"
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so by weird coincidence, when VE first aired in 2018 that ep came out like. either just after or literally the week my mum came out of hospital and that episode. almost wiped me off planet earth
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it was extremely cathartic and it's my favourite episode but i sure did have to go lay facedown on the sofa puddled next to her for like an hour afterwards
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it was a very good little sad story
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that final reveal about the letters and the sheer number of them is my single favourite VE moment
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it's so sad and cathartic and lovely
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finished
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1. which one is the good movie and which one is the bad movie
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2. murkrows what was the thing you stopped watching over
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"eternity and the auto memory doll" is the first movie & deeply sapphic so it's the good one
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the bad one is just called "violet evergarden the movie"
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netflix seems to have "violet evergarden the movie" and "violet evergarden special"
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is the latter eternity and the auto memory doll
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uhhh lemme check
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does either thing on netflix have a promo image of violet with a redhaired girl in glasses
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no
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"Violet accepts an unusual request from a very demanding opera singer"-- oh wait
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no here's eternity and the auto memory doll
oh i'm scary
okay so I know this is dumb, I said it was dumb
oh i'm scary
but
oh i'm scary
it was the term "auto memory doll"
oh i'm scary
I just checked out,
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no yeah I do think the phrase is bad
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especially because for some reason in the dub it's
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"auto memories doll"
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which is even worse
oh i'm scary
why are they called that, Violet Evergarden the Series
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it's one of those like
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weird wonky engrish translations in the original text
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the kana used for it is 自動手記人形 which should be translated to "auto memorandum doll" and i think the author got the words mixed up in translation or thought 'memories' sounded better
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when i played violet i went with "auto memoir doll" bc i think that's closer to the intent of the kana and it sounds less dumb LMAO
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anyway Gabriel Aurora and Violet would vibe