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Okay, so people who have seen me make comments about how awful Vi is are probably surprised to see me make this. But truth to be told, I've grown weary of wanting to keep Violet as Sam's emotionally abusive, metaphobic mother, or David's bitchy ex-wife, or the anchor weighing Cole down. I want to have Violet as a character with substance, and she doesn't appeal to me as an abuser.For any further clarification, this is NOT me forgiving the version of Violet that dA currently knows, this is me trashing that version and putting in its place a more human one. (Which is an ironic thing to say, as you'll learn.)
I should also note that I don't mean to shame or put a bad label on people in the sex industry; I've found a lot of respectable people that work as strippers or prostitutes. For Violet in particular though, her personality and her lack of maturity when she was in the sex industry made it a poor choice, and endangered her relationships because of how she treated it. She isn't meant to be a reflection of real-life sex industry workers at all.
AUUUUUUUUGH. I'm so sorry if this is just a big ramble; I'm posting this on very little caffeine in the wee hours.
Name: Violet Michelle Riley (surname has changed to Falton or Putnam in accordance with marriages)
Nicknames: Vi, various pejoratives via David
Age: 40
Gender: Cisgender female
Identity: Heteromantic heterosexual, reconsidered several times
Orientation: Aromantic asexual
Species: Terran
Race: Metahuman
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Nationality: American
Birth town: Wichita, Kansas
Previous towns: Wichita, Kansas; Chicago, Illinois; Central City, Missouri; Dakota City, Illinois
Current town: Chicago, Illinois
Coloring/general features:
- Eyes: Aqua blue
- Hair: Medium brown, slightly reddish undertones
- Skin: Fair with peach undertones and light freckles
- Build: Violet is quite curvy with weight that fluctuates very apparently and very quickly. Her height, unlike her ex-husband and daughter, isn't particularly exciting in comparison, though she stands about 5'6". In childhood she was told her facial features were "mannish", comments which have evolved to "mature-looking" while growing up.
- Distinguishing features: Violet's hair is very thick and wavy with natural wisps, a trait she received from her mother and then gave to Sam. As said earlier, her features are slightly on the androgynous side, something she has learned to complement with makeup, and is certainly distinguishable on sight to those who know her.
Allegiance: Neutral good, alignment has experienced drastic sweeps to both sides over the years
Powers/Abilities/Styles/Gifts:
- Pheromone Projection. This power has only become apparent to Violet very recently, but for most of her life she has been able to unconsciously release pheromones that triggered chemical releases in others' brains. Those chemicals would induce strong feelings of emotional connection to Violet, usually in a romantic/sexual aspect, and the individual would often become devoted to Violet. This ability has increased in intensity very slowly, becoming more pungent and long-lived as Violet has matured; at first she would only induce crushes/puppy love, and the latest episode resulted in her twelve-year marriage to Cole.
- Violet's power has a rather curious effect in that it simultaneously releases chemicals in her own brain to the same degree as her victims, so the relationships the become of her powers are mutual until they wear off for both Violet and the victim. In truth, Violet has never truly been attracted to anybody in a romantic or a sexual sense; and she has never been in control of her pheromone projection.
History:
Violet was born in Kansas to a rather wealthy, religiously ignorant family, after her sister April. At heart, she was always rather happy and outgoing, but a tad socially inept if one asked her parents. In middle school she was more-or-less ushered into athletics, and joined a cheerleading squad with Beatrice Kearny, before moving to Chicago just shy of junior year.
Though Violet grew up knowing of the existence of superheroes and the Justice Society of America, her family was dead-set to despise them for having abilities that, as they saw it, were not God's intention for humanity to have. Those beliefs quickly became ingrained in Violet's thinking among a slew of other, equally hateful opinions. (April did as well, but she eventually confided in Violet of her "guilty pleasure" fantasies concerning Hydra II, something Violet was not sure how to respond to.)
Things went downhill for Violet when she slept with a few male peers in college, going against her family's "wait until marriage" rule. Her parents found out and, indignant, cut her off until she could learn her "lesson". To support herself and her college funds, Violet secretly began taking jobs at strip clubs and street corners, which quickly became an addictive habit for her, and she continued to work in the sex industry even after ties with her family were reconnected.
During a family vacation in Siberia, Violet met David Falton, a charming and attractive man around her age that was there alone. She hooked up with him, which quickly evolved into a long-term relationship, with one hitch--he was a metahuman, made obvious by his pointed ears and serpentine traits. Violet's parents would not have it and would not allow her to continue to date him, but Violet gave them no choice in the matter, and her relations to her family were strained once more until she and David were married.
That marriage was rather premature, as they would soon find out when Violet had a baby girl named Samantha. Violet loved Sam very dearly, though she found herself strained and self-inhibiting on the subject of Sam's own metahuman physical quirks, but it was nothing compared to how her marriage with David was breaking down. Wanting to be something other than a mother or a housewife, she returned to prostitution, much to David's anger when he found out.
The crux of the situation, however, would come a week or so after that revelation: David and Hydra II were one and the same. Furious with him, she demanded a divorce. Unfortunately for her, the legal details did not swing in her favor; there was no evidence of David being an assassin while there was of Violet being in the sex industry. Partly from court rule, partly from Violet's shame of not wanting to admit she'd sold herself on the street and married a supervillain, she grudgingly allowed David to take nearly full custody of Sam.
Violet moved to Dakota, where she joined a church and struck up a relationship with a pastor named Cole Putnam, whom she married in three years' time. Things began to wind down somewhat after that; Violet could encourage Sam to do her best from a state away and see her during the holidays, though she fought tooth-and-nail for a say in where she attended high school. She had to learn that she could not make Sam behave a certain way; Sam didn't share her cheerfulness or femininity, and it made it difficult for Violet to really connect with her sometimes.
When Sam was seventeen, she was reported missing. Violet was horrified and worried sick for her, trying to convince herself that David was again to blame, in order to maintain some sense of rhyme or reason again. Sam returned five months later and Violet learned that she had been abducted and experimented on by the Reach, who at the time had been trying to make a benevolent image for themselves. That wasn't all--the experiments on Sam had turned her skin blue-white and her eyes cyan and black. It took time for Violet to know what to do, as her ingrained instinct was to spite humans that looked like "meta freaks", but she managed for Sam's sake.
Some months later, Sam's electrokinesis also surfaced. Violet's initial reaction was devastation and shutdown, which Sam immediately interpreted as scorn, and decidedly cut off contact with her. Weeks later, when Sam joined the Team, Violet came to her and apologized profusely, assuring Sam that she loved her whether she was meta or not, and that she would be by her side if Sam wished. Thus, her relations with Sam resumed, albeit awkwardly, but lovingly.
Violet then was left to realize she was a metahuman herself. She had not realized it, but her affairs with men, and her marriages with David and Cole, had been wrought by her natural incidental projection of pheromones. It had increased over time, growing stronger and more apparent--so, when Cole and Violet realized they no longer loved each other romantically, Violet realized she had exhaled a magenta-colored smoke.
- Violet is clearly not very quick to mature, and feels very badly about a very vast majority of her decisions.
- With that is personal guilt, particularly with her powers, and how she feels she "strung along" David and Cole and other men she had dated in the past. She still gets very upset when her powers seem to resurface, and has needed Sam's assurances to find confidence in her powers.
- So far, Violet has only told her sister April of her powers, for fear of disownership from their parents. Cole and Sam have been her strongest supporters in allowing her to see that she isn't a monster for harboring powers that toy with emotions, a conclusion she quickly came to herself.
Notable relationships:
Cole Putnam
Sam Falton
David Falton
April Riley
Beatrice Kearny
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Comments: 4
I agree with Yoru, I'm liking this version of Violetβshe seems much more... "human," I should say?Β With her flaws and such.
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;^; I personally see no harm in scrapping the previous version of Violet in favor of this one, really. ESPECIALLY if Violet herself was nudging you to do so.
I honestly love this version of Violet, because I'm a sucker for seeing adult characters who are already considered "mature" in the eyes of society come to recognize their own shortcomings and continue to grow as people. It adds a greater sense of realism and substance behind a character, because we as people never stop growing and maturing. Seeing that reflected in Violet and the profile you've listed here is a wonderful example of that!
Plus i also really enjoy the fact that she herself also is affected by the pheromones she releases. It sets up a believable and tragic explanation for her failed romances and simultaneously addresses the notion of a meta who is directly affected in a way by their own powers.
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Ohhh, so am I~. We see OCs that are socialized as teens grow, but society is already willing to accept that teens will make mistakes, and I feel like we just tend to see parent OCs as rather static, as if they don't need to do any growing. (I guess that's why I'm also hooked by awkward parent OCs? It seems much more realistic and loving to me to have a parent that tries to support their child even if they don't fully understand what they're doing, than to be the iron-fisted naysayer or the one right in the fire with the kid.) ;~; Thank you~.
I feel like that's something that also needs to be addressed more? Metas having experiences through their powers? That was part of my thinking behind Sam's lightning scars, Sophie's ear infection, and Jae's blindness, and it's so fun but I rarely see it toyed with too often. > > I guess another motive with that was to move away from the "black widow" trope I had for Violet, and most people have for women with similar powers.
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Hey, there's nothing wrong with that. And in any event, it's there to clear things up with anyone new that might come along and see both versions?
Agreed, to the max. Heck, even in some of the media that's done well, they seem to struggle with characterizing parents as individuals who can grow as well. I suppose it might be something having to do with not everyone knowing how to balance out the need to appeal to both a teenaged audience (who is more likely to relate to protagonists that struggle with how they feel about their parents) and an adult, parental audience (who can relate to the frustrations and confusing territory of what it means to parent a child, or heck, more than one child, because each child is an individual and they're all going to have individual needs.) You're not at all wrong in that awkward parent characters come across as more realistic and loving when they try to support their child regardless of their own confusion and uncertainty; there's something more endearing, more enduring, and far more real about them. (Perhaps it's because it's so common to focus on the different extremes when it comes to parent OCs?) And you're always welcome, of course!
Agreed~!! I approve most highly, particularly because metas themselves need to learn to adapt to suddenly having powers they didn't have before?
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