Violet Argyle

For the chapter of the same name, see Violet Argyle (chapter).

Violet Argyle is one of the main protagonists in VNLA. She is a Huntress-In-Training, currently attending Beacon Academy. Her weapon of choice is her dual revolvers, which turn into swords. She named it Meraki.

Violet made her first digital appearance in 2018, as part of a project on DeviantArt. However, she had been thought of previously, and was featured along with the rest of her team in the original first draft of Volume 1, written in 2017.

The first night Violet stays at Beacon, she meets a girl named Anna Bleu. The girl is shy, but the two seem to hit it off, and Violet is rather excited to work with her if given the chance. During Beacon's Initiation, she meets Anna again, and the two become a pair. Later, she chooses the King of Spades, and is made the leader of Team VNLA, including Nero Vanta, Lincoln Forrest, and Anna Bleu.

Appearance
Violet has peachy skin and dark purple hair and eyes. She normally isn't seen without her beanie, regardless of the setting.

Original Outfit (Volume 1)
While attending Beacon Academy, when Violet is not wearing the school uniform, she's dressed in a much more relaxed fashion. According to the official VNLA story, she wears a white button-up shirt, a mocha-colored sleeveless sweater, dark blue jean shorts, brown boots, and a pale red bandana around her neck. And her matching beanie, of course.

Violet's emblem is a violet surrounded by small triangles pointed at it, and appears on the hilts of her guns.

Pajamas
Violet has at least two pairs of pajamas. The first set she wears is a long-sleeved plain black shirt and purple plaid pants. Her second outfit is a white graphic t-shirt and pink-and-white striped shorts. She always wears her beanie to bed as well, regardless. When asked why she sleeps with it, Violet simply replies with "Hair stuff," and none of her teammates can prove her wrong.

Beacon Uniform
Whenever attending an important ceremony or class, Violet is wearing the generic girl's uniform. She also wears knee-length black stockings, but other than that, nothing differs from her and the rest.

Personality
Violet is the type of person who enjoys keeping busy. She enjoys doing work, up to the point in which it's self-destructive. She is also a rather preppy student, always coming to class prepared with whatever she might need, including various pens, pencils, rulers, folders, binders, and so on. That being said, she has a habit of assuming others are just as responsible, which leads her to neglecting to wake up her teammates in Chapter 4: The Immovable Object.

Violet was once a very rowdy student, and in fact she was a bully. At her previous school, Pharos Academy, she and a couple of other faunus students would torment their fellow human students. She attended Pharos with Coco Adel and Velvet Scarlatina, but doesn't seem to have a very good relationship with the former. Coco and Violet have a short altercation at the beginning of initiation, which results in Coco ripping off Violet's beanie and exposing her as a faunus, not that anyone was around.

Violet is very sensitive about her past, and whenever it's brought up (namely by Coco), she starts to get irritable. She is intent on putting it behind her and starting over, and as stated in a letter to her parents, she says that "I’m going to be a Huntress to help everyone." However, she had said several times afterwards that she was scared to go to Beacon. She didn't back down for one second, however, proving herself to be a very determined young lady.

Although it is ironic, Violet also doesn't tolerate bullies. She steps in without hesitation to help Anna from a couple of boys who were troubling her during their first night at Beacon. She does this in an effort to rewrite the wrongs done at Pharos. She's always been passionate, ever since she was a child. Her parents could tell from the way she used to talk about the White Fang. Now, that's been redirected into her work. It was revealed that Violet actually used to help her Aunt Siva (also a teacher at Pharos) grade papers. Alongside this, she also did other house chores, but she never complained.

Powers and Abilities
Violet's urge to be a fighter started when she was very young, watching the White Fang from a distance. It is unknown where Violet's originally from, but she was sent to Vale to live with her Aunt and Uncle. Eventually, when she got older, she went to learn at Pharos Academy. During this time, Violet developed strong leadership skills and equally intense work ethic.

Her first test of strength was during her time in Pharos, when she and a couple of other faunus students beat up one of their human peers. Violet deliberately plotted to make his defeat humiliating, although in the end he ran and told a teacher. Who happened to be her Aunt.

Violet is a very strong tactician, but isn't so great at thinking on her feet. Nero pushes her to her limit in their first physical fight, and shows her that she's still got a long way to go before she can be a good leader.

Violet's movements are fluid and energy-conserving. Each attack and defensive measure is made with meticulous calculation, and her body language shows that in a fight. She can get overwhelmed quite easily, but she never loses her cool.

Weapon
The Meraki aren't the most unique of weapons, but they most certainly gets the job done. They're capable of long-range and short-range attacks, as most weapons are. One form allows Violet to use a pair of buccaneer-like revolvers, and once transformed she wields two swords. In the melee configuration, the guns can still fire, allowing Violet to put some serious power behind her swings.

The revolvers can be combined with Dust, but Violet is very careful with these bullets because they're somewhat expensive. She uses them sparingly, so much so that she doesn't even reveal this ability until she and Coco are trapped in a water system underneath the school.

Semblance
Violet's semblance is called Helping Hands. This allows her to focus her aura into physical shapes in a manner very similar to Sun Wukong's semblance. She can form up to six arms the color of her aura, which appear from her back.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that this is very taxing on her. One or two arms isn't so bad, but six will drain her aura rather quickly. Nero exploits this weakness of hers in their first fight, which is how he wins.

Weaknesses
Violet doesn't have many physical weaknesses. She's relatively strong, but Nero proves to be stronger. Her large dog ears, when exposed, could easily be targets on their own. High frequencies can also prove to be a challenge, as her ears are extra sensitive to such sounds.

Her real weaknesses come in the form of attacks on her psyche. Her past is only one way to get her riled up, but should her friends or family be in danger, she will stop at nothing to protect them, even if that means destroying herself. Once Violet is "off her game," she becomes significantly easier to fight. One just has to know how to push the right buttons.

Trivia

 * Violet is a workaholic, which is her mental motif.
 * "Violet" is obviously a flower, but so is "Argyle." Her name can also be a way to describe it - a violet argyle.
 * Argyle is also a place in Texas, if that interests anyone.
 * Violet used to be much more purple. Her original outfit consisted of large purple sleeves, a white crop top, shorts, purple flip flops, and a sleeveless purple hoodie. Also, her beanie was purple. All of that, combined with her hair and eyes, meant she really was an eggplant.
 * This concept can still be found on DeviantArt, in the Group Gallery.
 * "Eggplant" is the intended name for Violet's and Lincoln's team attack.
 * Violet's astrological sign is Virgo.