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Let's talk about... a good episode, of violet evergarden
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Violet is a former child soldier who works for the post office, helping people compose and send letters
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Season 1, Episode 10
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This is Clara, Violet's next client
This is Clara, Violet's next client
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She has been hired for a period of seven days to write a number of letters on Clara's behalf
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This is Ann, Clara's daughter, age seven
This is Ann, Clara's daughter, age seven
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Ann is very child, she thinks Violet is literally an animated doll because of her prosthetic hands
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she is also upset at Violet for monopolizing her mother's time
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because
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Clara is terminally ill
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and does not have a lot of time left
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Ann demands to know what these letters are about because she can't imagine any answer that would mean that the letters are more important than her own daughter
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but Violet refuses to discuss their contents or recipient on account of client confidentiality
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eventually there is a big meltdown scene where Ann reveals that she thinks she's responsible for her mother's illness
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verbatim, "Mom got sick because I'm a bad girl"
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but Violet helps her come to terms with her mother's condition, and when she's done writing the letters, mom assures her that nothing in the world is more important than her daughter
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she spends her remaining time with Ann, comfortable days full of love
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then, Clara passes on
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then, on her 8th birthday
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Ann receives the first of the letters her mother was writing
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speculating on how she's grown and what kind of things she must be doing now
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then, on her 10th birthday, the next one
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then again on her 14th, asking if she's fallen in love
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another on her 16th, 18th, and 20th birthdays, affirming that she's sure Ann has grown into a wonderful adult
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all of the letters she was writing were to be delivered to Ann over the next 50 years
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to continue to be, in some small way, part of her life
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after her death
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
hm.
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
fucked up a plurk could make me tear up in 25 comments
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it's one fuckin' episode
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what a powerful story to tell in 20 minutes
𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿!
tiny note – violet manages to write 50 years worth of letters for ann
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oh...
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the wiki just said until 20
𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿!
we hear from her again in the final movie and she gets the last letter in her late 60s
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wow
𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿!
her mom was with her for all that time
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
fuck.
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clara.....................
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I cry
𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿!
violet evergarden........ is good
violet evergarden........ is good
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anyway some people think that the way to make your audience cry is to make sad, depressing things happening
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but a melancholy, happy ending can be a hundred times more powerful
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I didn't cry because clara died, I cried because she found a way to be with her daughter throughout her entire life after she died
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the immense scope of her love
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BattroidBattery
I have literally never cried because something bad happened to a fictional character, and I have definitely cried because fictional characters did really life-affirming things.
Snowdrops ﾐ☆
I remembered this episode as I read it and started tearing up again
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RobotApocalypse
yeah melancholy bittersweet stuff always makes me cry, it's way more effective than just "a bad thing happened and now characters are upset"