Violo Aria

Art by Dyna

**Violo Aria** is a player character in Conquest of Talos. He is not one of the original members of Redemption Folly and is introduced to the group after (thing that happened before I don't remember). He is played by **Zel**.

## Appearance

Violo is a six-foot-one human male with pale skin. His hair is pulled back into a bun and is medium brown. He has side swept bangs and red sideburns. He has a blue music note hair clip and faux gold hoop earrings. Violo wears a wide collared shirt with long sleeves, half of which is red. He has a mesh covering over the exposed part of his chest. He wears a blue tie on his right arm and has blue music note decals on his sleeves. He has knee high boots and dark grey pants.

## Personality

Violo usually comes off as a carefree and laid-back individual. He is shown to be charismatic and somewhat flirtatious with the conventionally attractive male characters (PCs or otherwise). He is skilled in playing string instruments and also has proficiency in firearms. Before meeting **Redemption Folly**, Violo was often found drinking alcohol. Violo's drunk state is very stereotypical, where his personality is usually increased tenfold and his intelligence is reduced. He often says out-of-pocket things, even when sober. He is usually the person to try and lighten the mood during dark situations by cracking a joke, though this can come off as insensitive.

Despite putting on a smooth and charismatic face, Violo is actually rather insecure. He has a fear of abandonment and doesn't like being alone due to this, leading to an extremely extroverted nature. He usually detaches himself from any person he may have had romantic feelings for, being someone to sleep with a lot of men but not actually pursue a relationship with any of them with the fear of being left by them (the exception being Xyro Osmund).

## Backstory

### Childhood

Up until age seven, Violo grew up as an only child in a lower middle-class neighborhood with his two parents. His parents were both musicians (hence his namesake) and taught him to play string instruments. His parents were very loving and tried to give Violo the best life. Violo was a very outgoing kid who made many friends with whom he played outside with.

At age seven, Violo walked into his living room and witnessed his parents being murdered by Reyes. At the time, Violo was clueless as to what was happening. Soon after, a man named Amber took Violo in.

### Before Conquest of Talos

As he was growing up, Violo starting working for a winery that Amber owned. Once he was old enough to drink, he began doing so. He would use the excuse of working at a winery to get free alcohol.

## Conquest of Talos

### Meeting Redemption Folly

The way Violo meets the main group is that they enter a tavern Violo is staying in and see him doing a drinking contest with dwarves. He ends up joining them eventually under the guise of being bored, but in reality wants to find the person who killed his parents.

### Finding His Parents' Killer

When Redemption Folly was in the Feywild, Violo met the seer Gwenyth. Violo asked for details on who his parent's killer might be and finds out that they have red hair and that they have also met before. One day, Violo asks the group if anyone they've come across has red hair. One member of the group (can't remember who, probably Eleftheria) mentions that a man named Reyes - who owns a gun shop - has red hair and is someone they've met before.

### Confronting Reyes

Violo soon after confronts Reyes. Redemption Folly joins him in case anything goes wrong. At first, Violo tries to subtly get information out of him and once he is absolutely sure that Reyes is the one that killed his parents, he says it outright. Reyes stays calm and asks Violo some morally vague questions or something. Violo, getting heated, takes out his gun and aims it at Reyes. Reyes still stays calm, however, and mentions that his wife is upstairs. He proposes that if Violo truly wants to murder him that they have a battle in like a day or something. Violo accepts and the group leaves.

### Fighting Reyes

The day of the fight, Violo sets out and tells the group that if he isn't back by a certain time, they should presume him dead. Obviously some of Redemption Folly is reluctant to let him go, but ultimately say that it's his own decision. In particular, Violo says he loves Xyro and leaves to fight Reyes.

Violo ends up in an abandoned building. Reyes appears or something then they fight (I really wish I could remember the details cuz it was kinda cool). *SINCE I ROLLED AT NAT 20* the final blow is so cool and epic! /hj The two end up shooting each other at the same time and an explosion happens. Violo comes to and realizes Reyes is dead but also notices that his right hand appears to be gone (blown off in the explosion, presumably). He then passes out again or something and then awakens to see a devil named Colt. Colt offers to replace his hand if Violo makes a deal with him. Violo accepts, and he now has a weird messed up devil hand!1!!!!1! He ends up covering the hand up with a glove cuz yknow people would probably question it.

## Quotes

* CoT

*Conquest of Talos*

* "Oh heyyy! Right, my name’s Violo Aria. Can I, uh, join you guys, or whatever?” (To Redemption Folly)

* “I… I killed him… I killed Ardyn… I mean, he was trying to kill us, but… I can’t believe I murdered him.” (Right after the fight between RF and Ardyn)

* "Heyyyyy~ So uh, what’s \*your\* name? I’m Violo, nice to meet you~” (omg hot guy)

* “Those ‘people’ you killed... Yeah, those were my PARENTS. I swore that I would find their killer one day and avenge them. And, it looks like I did. You’re dead.” (Confronting Reyes)

* “U-Um… I… I love you, Xyro. Yeah, that’s right. Haha… Umm…” (Confessing to Xyro Osmund)

* "Ughhh… GAROU! No one even LIKES you! I don’t even GET what your… whole… THING is!" (Drunkily berating Garou)

## Trivia

* Violo was originally inspired by **Venti** from **Genshin Impact** and was meant to have a smaller stature. Then Zel said "no, he's taller and hotter now". Violo and Venti still share a few similarites:
	+ The two are both bards.
	+ Both characters have a like for alcohol (Violo being much more addicted).
	+ Venti and Violo both have a generally carefree attitude.
	+ Both characters have dyed sideburns.
	+ Both used ranged weapons.
	+ *BOTH ARE G O D S*
* Violo was also originally only 5'8" but was retconned to be 6'1", mostly because **Xyro** would've been taller than Violo and I didn't think that was right :')
* Violo knew he only liked men from a young age.

## References

1. ↑ Violo is not a virgin.
2. ↑ **Violo** is the fictional male version of the name **Viola** and is also a reference to the musical instrument, viol (the main instrument Violo was taught by his parents).