Viola (The Witch's House)

Viola is the main antagonist of The Witch's House. She is also the deuteragonist of The Witch's House: The Diary of Ellen. She befriended Ellen who was the witch of the house (since she got her powers from a demon). She tricks Viola into switching bodies, since Ellen was weak and sick, but with the promise of "just for a day." In the end, however, they never switched back bodies, since Ellen enjoys her new painless body. Viola unfortunately dies in Ellen's body, shot by her own father, thinking its some monster - in the true ending of the game.
Viola appears in the game in Ellen's body where she tries to trap Ellen in the house with Ellen's own power (which Ellen's body still possesses). Ellen (in Viola's body) was able to escape the house in all the official endings, leading to the true Viola's death.
==Biography==
Viola lives with her father, described by Ellen as "a close family of two." Viola once stumbled into the house in which she met Ellen. They became very close "friends," although Viola was not aware that Ellen was a witch.
On the day that Ellen announced that she was going to die and that she was a witch, Viola accepted to switch bodies for a day without knowing that it was actually to "take her place." Once they switched, Viola was in shock to find that the body was falling apart. Ellen had gouged her own eyes out and cut her own legs off beforehand, clearly planning Viola's painful death from the start. Adding this to the pain from the illness, Viola screamed in agony. Ellen, not finding her own voice's screams pleasing, handed her a medicine she told Viola would ease the pain. However, it was actually a throat burning medicine, which resulted in Viola losing her voice for good.
Ellen walks outside of the house planning to escape. She finds that the only way to escape is now blocked by uncuttable roses, produced from the remaining magic in Ellen's original body which Viola now resides in. Knowing that there is medicine able to kill the roses inside of the house, she is forced to go back into the house full of traps. Throughout the game, Viola attempts to trap Ellen to get her body back and to protect her father. But when the house and black cat on Ellen's side her attempts fail, Ellen escapes out of the house with Viola's body. Viola desperately chases Ellen out to the forest, only to be shot to death by her own father, who was trying to protect "Viola" from the bloody, legless "monster."
==Appearance==
She is a 13-year-old girl with blonde hair that's put up in braids and has green eyes. Viola has long golden hair that is tied into multiple braids, with short bangs that just fall below her brows. Her eyes are shown to be large and green, and her dress (according to the sprite and several fanart of the game) is shown to be a simple sleeveless white dress with a blue and red trim.
==Personality==
She is a very sweet, kind, trusting, and innocent girl. Having lost her mother at a young age, she takes on household responsibilities while her father hunts. Her caring nature is evident during her visits to the Witch’s House, where she comforts the terminally ill Ellen.
Viola has a stubborn side and often feels embarrassed by her father’s over-protectiveness. She is also naive, believing Ellen’s lies about being hidden by the villagers due to her illness. This gullibility leads to her downfall, as she becomes a victim of Ellen and her Demon familiar’s manipulations, losing her body in the process.
Initially, Viola’s selflessness makes her willing to let Ellen live in her body. However, she changes her mind after seeing a vision of Ellen with her father, prompting her to try to stop Ellen. Throughout the game, Viola chases the player, driven by pain and despair, to protect her father and regain her body. Even in her last moments, she's still worried for her father.
==Trivia==
*Viola shows herself (in Ellen's body) in numerous glasses and mirrors, possibly in an attempt to make Ellen reflect on the betrayal.
*You can see trails of blood throughout the house, most likely made by Viola dragging her body in attempt to find Ellen.
*In the scene where the "witch protects you" from the black shadow that jumped in from the window, the shadow is most likely Viola (in Ellen's body), and the one that protects you is either the house's spirit or your own. You can tell the shadow has no legs, and is crawling - just like Viola.
*Viola, even in her near-to-death state, reacts when Ellen mentions her father.
*Viola moves a lot quicker towards the player as she sees her father, showing her love for him.
* When Viola's father yells "Viola, stand back!", Viola (still in Ellen's body) moves back a bit, thinking her father called out to her.
*In two endings, the cat demon reappears only to vanish along with Viola's dead body. He most likely ate her soul, officially ending the contract with Ellen - which, unfortunately for Viola, may also mean that her soul will forever wander in Hell.
==Licensing==
This article contains content derived from the "Viola" article on the The Witch's House Wiki, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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