Violet Sorrengail

by HaChanDraws

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**Violet Sorrengail** is a dragon rider, who is bonded to both Tairn and Andarna. In the Riders Quadrant at Basgiath War College, she is in Second Squad, Flame Section, Fourth Wing.

## Biography

### Early Life

Born July 613 AU, Violet was the youngest daughter of General Lilith Sorrengail and her scribe husband, with two older siblings Brennan and Mira. Due to a fever her mother contracted while being pregnant, Violet was born with a rare condition, causing the ends of her hair to turn silver-grey and her ligaments and joints to subluxate frequently. This led to her father sequestering her in the Archives while they lived at Basgiath War College. Because of her fathers influence, Violet spent her entire life training to become a scribe like him. After his untimely death Professor Markham took over her studies and considered her his star pupil. Growing up she became friends with Dain Aetos in 619 AU when she was five, and he six, as his father Colonel Aetos worked as her mothers most trusted aide. Violet and Dain spent most of their time together finding places to swim and climb, and subsequently led Violet to become familiar with Nolon and his healer wife Winifred when she was injured.

In 628 AU, at 14 years old, Violet last saw her oldest brother Brennan Sorrengail prior to the Battle of Aretia, leaving her to mourn her brother once news spread that he had been killed by Fen Riorson with a crossbolt. His death led to their father developing heart complications which ultimately led to his untimely death a year or so before the events of Fourth Wing.

### Fourth Wing

Violet was ranked amongst the top 25% for speed and agility during her entrance exam for Basgiath War College.

The morning of Conscription Day, Violet sees her mother and sister in her mothers office. Her sister, Mira, argued with their mother that Violet shouldn't go to the Riders Quadrant because she wont survive but their mother will not change her mind. Mira then repacks Violet's rucksack for her and gives her rider boots so she has better grip on the parapet and a corset made out of dragon scales as armour.

She meets Rhiannon before crossing the parapet and they swap left shoes so that both of them will have one shoe with good grip. She meets Xaden at the top of the turret and while crossing, the candidate crossing behind her, Jack, attempts to kill her but she survives.

Violet on the Parapet by AokiViolet during Threshing by Rosiethorns88Daily Flight with Tairn and Andarna by emilyedrawsViolet and Xaden by Rosiethorns88
At Basgiath, Violet is unlike the majority of the volunteers there; she is much smaller than her peers and her fragility causes her to receive harsher injuries than others, while her smaller body and lack or training puts her at a disadvantage during challenges, completing gauntlet, or while riding her dragon. In order to stay alive, she chooses to be one of the cadets that helps prepare and serve breakfast so that she can poison her opponents, leading her to win the five challenges before Threshing. In order to complete the Gauntlet, she took Xaden's advice and was able to think of a unique method since she was too short to complete it in the expected way.

During Threshing, she overhears three of her fellow cadets planning to murder a smaller dragon so she beats them to the dragon and defends the dragon from them. She was able to disable one, Jack, and makes him flee, while she fights against the other two and knocks Oren unconscious, and Tairn kills the third, Tynan, when he runs away.

During the events of Threshing, she manages to bond to two dragons: Tairn and Andarna. After the Threshing, she and Dain kiss, only for her to realize she felt nothing from it, and losing interest in her crush on him.

After some time, Violet is attacked while she slept, by six unbonded cadets, hoping to kill her and claim her bond to Tairn. Thanks to Andarna's power, she was able to stop time and get pass them, right before Xaden arrived and killed all the assailants. Despite her concerns of her claims being disregarded, she told Xaden that it was a wingleader who helped the attackers gain access to her room, and he made a former inquiry, leading to the offender's death.

After her attack, Xaden had first year cadet, Liam Mairi, transfered to the squad and help protect Violet. Despite her resentment of the extra protection, she soon became friends with Liam.

During the War Games, Jack seriously injured Liam, and soon, Violet first unleashed her signet ability of lightning, killing Jack and destroying the structure he was in. When Xaden went to see her, as she was reeling from her first kill, the two finally gave into their desire for one another.

## Physical Description

Violet is self-described as too small and too fragile. Her exact height and weight are not given, but she is shorter than 5''4 based on Xaden's comments (she’s assumed to be 5’2 or 5’3). At the start of the series she weights no more than 115 pounds. Due to a connective tissue disorder, she bruises, dislocates joints, and breaks bones easily. According to Mira, Violet had already broken her arm prior to the events of Fourth Wing and sprains some joint every other week. She uses cloth wraps with metal clasps given to her by Major Gilstead to wrap her joints and prevent them from dislocating/being further injured.  Prior to any sparring match, Violet makes sure to wrap her joints to prevent them from dislocating or tearing.

She is mentioned by her mother to have "*pale skin, pale eyes and pale hair*" due to a sickness her mother caught during pregnancy. According to Violet she has two shades; pale and burned. Her hair is brown and starts to slowly fade around her shoulders to a steely, metallic silver by the ends. The natural pigment seems to gradually abandon it no matter the length so cutting it short wouldn't remove the metallic ends. To stay agile in sparring and in battle, she keeps her hair braided in a crown around her head so it can't be grabbed easily. Violet's eyes are a light hazel of varying blues and ambers. She wears size 7 boots, and carries a sheathed dagger in her right boot as well as three other daggers sheathed on her ribs across Parapet.

During her Conscription day she swaps a cream colored tunic and belt for a tight fitted black shirt that covers her arms and breezy pants for leather ones, with sheaths on her thighs, that hug every curve. Mira then gifts her a vest-styled corset to wear over the shirt that covers her from collarbone to just below her waist wrapping around her breasts and crossing up and over her shoulders. The vest was specially crafted using Teine's scales which were shrunken so that they could be sewn in to protect her. Hidden sheaths are sewn diagonally along the ribcage of the vest.  Later, Violet notes that the vest shimmers slightly as she moves due to the scales catching the light under a camouflaging mesh that covers them.

Daggers:

* Four brought across parapet (three on her ribs, one in her boot)
	+ one of the ones she wears at her ribs is the one she damaged while climbing the final ascent in the gauntlet.
* one dagger (heavier and longer than the others, sheathed on her left thigh) from Oren Seifert.
* one dagger from unnamed first wing girl during sparring challenge
* one dagger from unnamed tall third wing boy during sparring challenge
* one dagger from unnamed buxom cadet
* one dagger (pretty ruby hilt) from third squad, claw section, third wing cadet

## Personality

Violet is extremely smart, confident, and stubborn. She cares deeply for her friends and older siblings, and she'll easily stand up for herself and those who need it. Despite Xaden's nickname for her, "*Violence*," she's actually very opposed to killing, often showing mercy for her opponents, despite the possibility of them retaliating and trying to kill her in the future. Violet also shows extreme emotional intelligence when it comes to her romantic relationships, refusing to settle for hiding her feelings. Her inner strength and courage made Tairn choose her.

Violet loves nights where storms beat against the window of her room, both illuminating and throwing shadows over the book she's usually curled up reading.  Violet notes that prior to the events of Fourth Wing she only had two relationships.

Mentally Violet is capable of building a mental wall around the pain and then telling herself the pain only exists in that box inside her mind when she suffers an injury.

## Power and Abilities

### **Powers**

#### **Lesser Magic**

* Every rider is capable of using Lesser magic once their dragon begins channeling through them after Threshing.

#### **Time Manipulation**

* Due to her bond with Andarna, Violet was briefly able to stop the flow of time. Due to the power coming directly from Andarna, Andarna would die if Violet overused the power. While still being able to use the power, Violet was able to stop the flow of time for around thirty seconds before its usage would put Andarna's life at risk. Since this wasn't connected to Andarna's power, but her gift as a youngling, they both lost this power. It remains to be seen which signet will result once Andarna comes into her power.

#### Dragon-Sight

* Due to her bond with Tairn, Violet is able to briefly see through his eyes during battles. It is unclear if this is considered a lesser magic, an ability that everyone is capable of using, or if it's simply something that Tairn chooses to share with Violet.

#### **Signet**

* *Lightning Wielding*
	+ Due to her bond with Tairn, Violet developed the signet of being able to wield lightning. She was one of the last of the first-years to start channelling power through her dragon and to manifest a signet. Her signet manifested during the last of the war games when she used it to kill Jack in a fit of rage. Her signet reacts with strong emotions but she still struggles to aim her lightning strikes and is still learning to control and direct this power.

### **Abilities**

#### **Combat/Weapons Expert**

* Violet is an expert with several kinds of weapons and apt in learning new kinds, although she prefers to fight with daggers. Her combat style uses her small size and speed to her advantage. She moves quickly to dodge blows and cut her opponents with her daggers. During challenges she poisons her opponents beforehand to weaken them before they fight. She has significant skill with daggers, using them in close combat and has remarkable aim when throwing them. She is adverse to killing, even when her life is in danger, and often aims for joints and areas to disable her opponents.

#### **Poisons Master**

* Thanks to her training as a scribe, Violet has access to a book about poisons and it is the only book that she brings with her to the riders quadrant. She uses poisons delivered in her opponents food or drinks to disable them before the challenge match.
	+ Oren Seifert - fonilee berries in his eggs
	+ unnamed first wing girl - leighorrel mushrooms
	+ unnamed third wing guy- zihna root
	+ unnamed buxom cadet- tarsilla leaves in tea
	+ entire third squad, claw section, third wing- Carmine tree bark in waterskin
	+ Rayma Corrie, third wing- Walwyn fruit

## Relationships

### Xaden Riorson

Before going to Basgiath, Violet is warned to stay away from Xaden because he will kill her since Violet's mother is the one that killed Xaden's father. She was attracted to Xaden from the first time that she saw him on the parapet but even though she was worried that he would kill her, she continued to challenge him.

She gained respect for him when she learned that he was trying to help the first-year marked kids survive in the Riders Quadrant and agreed to keep that secret. Violet struggles with feeling jealous of Imogen because of her close friendship with Xaden. After discovering that Violet had been poisoning all of her sparring challenge opponents Xaden takes the opportunity, when one of her victims falls ill before the match, to take their place and spar with Violet in an effort to both confront her about poisoning opponents as well as thank her for keeping his secret safe. She however, still fearful of his true intentions believed he would use the opportunity to kill her.

Violet begins to compare the way Dain and Xaden would react to certain situations, noting that Xaden would be a lot more violent. noting that Dain was more likely to stick with formal reprocussions whereas Xaden would be more likely to beat the shit out of someone.

Her life became attached to his when she bonded with Tairn, who is Xaden's dragons mate, and keeping Violet alive became his top priority. She was annoyed with the lengths that he went to to keep her protected (instructing Imogen to train her and making Liam be her shadow), but she continued to be attracted to him. They first kissed when they were influenced by their mated dragons strong emotions. Eventually they stopped denying their feelings for each other and they had sex a couple times. At the end Violet felt betrayed by him because he didn't tell her that he was helping Navarre's enemies.

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### Tairn

During Threshing, Violet protects a small golden feathertail dragon, Andarna, from a group of three of cadets that were attempting to kill it for being weak (Jack Barlowe, Oren Siefert, and Tynan, who was in Violet's squad). Tairn shows up as she is about to lose the fight to Tynan, and he kills Tynan with dragon fire. Tairn bonds with Violet because he knew that she was smart and cunning and most of all, because she defended Andarna from the group trying to kill her. Tairn thinks that strength of courage is more important than physical strength.
"I know exactly who and what you are, Violet Sorrengail."

### Andarna

During the Threshing, Violet went to defend the small dragon from cadets who wished to kill it. Andarna had chosen to bond with Violet around the same time as Tairn, making Violet the first human to bond with more than one dragon. Unlike Tairn, the little dragon does not order or advise Violet of her actions. Violet once mockingly told Tairn she liked Andarna better. Also, since Andarna is not a mate of Sgaeyl, Xaden cannot hear the dragon's communication, unlike Tairn.

### Lillith Sorrengail

She's envious of the relationship her older siblings have with their mother, as she mentions that Lilith respects Mira and loves Brennan but only tolerates her. She notes that Lilith rarely listens to her when she tries to argue.

### Mira Sorrengail

Violet and Mira grew up together, with Mira being overprotective over Violet and being against their mother's decision to sent her little sister to the Rider's Quadrant. She makes sure that despite her disadvantages, she will stay safe, such as advising her to at least keep her hair braided for combat and to wear the vest-shaped corset made out of her dragon's scales, that is able to withstand knives and daggers. She tells Violet to stay away from Xaden Riorson, one of the Separatists' children, as he will try to kill her at any cost to avenge his family. Even after claiming Tairn and Andarna, Mira makes sure that Violet will be safe from any harm.

### Dain Aetos

Violet and Dain have known each other since they were five and six. They are best friends and Violet had a bit of a crush on him. After their reunion at Basgiath War College, Dain tries to change Violet's mind on becoming a rider in fear her of not surviving till Threshing. He offers multiple times to help her to switch to the Scribe Quadrant, often have conversations that revolve solely around convincing her to go to the scribes. Violet is displeased with the way Dain sees her as weak and that he has no faith in her, causing both of them to split apart even further. Though arguably the biggest rift in their friendship is caused when she keeps Xadens midnight meetings a secret from Dain. The first secret she's ever kept from him. She also loses respect for him when he tells her that even though he likes her, they can't have a relationship because it's frowned upon to have a relationship with anyone in their chain of command and wants to be a wingleader as a third-year. She initially feels betrayed by him after realizing that he was using his signet on her the entire time.

### Rhiannon Matthias

Violet made fast friends with Rhiannon on their first meeting. Before crossing the parapet, Violet traded one of her rubber-bottomed shoes with Rhiannon, so Rhiannon could have a better chance of surviving the crossing. Since that day, they were best friends through the first year, as well as squadmates. Rhiannon helps train Violet in sparring, while Violet helped Riannon in history. However, Violet did keep a few secrets from her friend, such as Xaden meeting with others marked with the rebellion relic, or Andara's sharing her gift to stop time. Their relationship became more tense during their second year, when Violet had to keep even more secrets from her friend. Rhiannon could clearly see that both Violet was keeping secrets and that it was causing emotional stress.

### Liam Mairi

Violet first held Liam with resentment towards Liam when he was transfered to her squad, by Xaden, to act as her bodyguard after she was attacked in her room. But soon she started becoming friends with Liam, able to learn about his (and Xaden's) past, and he became a trusted friend to her.

### Jack Barlowe

Jack is Violet's main antagonist of Fourth Wing and Iron Flame. Starting from the moment Violet begins to climb the turret up to the parapet, Jack beings by pushing and shoving her forward, and ultimately threatens to kill her by pushing her off the parapet because he sees her as the weakest link.

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## Quotes

* *"I will not die today."*- Violet
* *But I will not run. I wouldn't be standing here if I'd quit every time something seemed impossible to overcome.*- Violet
* ''*The reason we'll never be anything more than friends isn't because of your rules. It's because you have no faith in me.*'' - Violet to Dain
* "*Conformity is for the Infantry.*"- Violet about Riders Quadrant uniforms
* "*Not all strength is physical, Violet*." - Professor Kaori to Violet

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* Because she gets injured easily and often suffers from bruises and dislocated joints, it is widely believed that she has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
* Rebecca pictured Dove Cameron and Florence Pugh while writing Violet.
* The first time Violet states her full name on the parapet, thunder cracks above her that she finds oddly comforting.
* Her favorite target when throwing daggers is the shoulder.
* At the end of Fourth Wing Violet has 24 daggers. She brought 4 across the Parapet with her, earned 19, and had 1 left over from the battle against the venin.
* Knows many languages from her time training as a scribe and traveling, including sign language (which she spoke with Dain) and Old Lucerish

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fourth Wing, Chapter 1
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Fourth Wing, Chapter 3
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fourth Wing, Chapter 4
4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 Fourth Wing, Chapter 8
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Fourth Wing, Chap 5
6. ↑ Fourth Wing, Chapter 11
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Fourth Wing, Chapter 2
8. ↑ Fourth Wing, Chap 1, Pg 10
9. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@rebeccayarros
10. ↑ Iron Flame, Chapter 11