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"I'm Violet Heaslip. And here's what I think: Trees are beautiful!"
ā€” Violet, Kids Action News

Violet Heaslip is a supporting character on the animated series WordGirl, voiced by Maria Bamford. She is Becky's best friend and is likely 10 and a half years old. She shares her friend's love for mythic creatures such as unicorns and pegasi, and real-life animals. Unlike Becky, she has significant artistic skill. She organizes herself with her very shy, soft-spoken, poetic and daydreaming attitude; she refuses to display fear when a meteor was coming right at her, even doing a poem on the encouragement of the moment about the occasion. She often appears to have a tenuous grasp of reality.

Appearance

Violet has medium-length blonde hair with a purple-striped hairclip. Her clothing consists of a long-sleeved purple shirt with a blue overall dress, eggplant-colored tights, and black Mary Jane shoes.

Relationships

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Violet's family tree

Violet lives with her mother, though she appears to have an estranged father and brother, based on her family tree.

Violet becomes bolder when any of her friends are treated badly or endangered and stands up for them, the best she can. Violet also has a Persian pet cat named Priscilla, known earlier in the series as Fluffy, which accompanied Bob Botsford on the class' field trip to Zachary Zany's Candy Factory and also joined her for trick or treating as Captain Huggyface to her WordGirl costume in the Halloween-themed episode "Tobey's Tricks and Treats."

As well as being her best friend, Violet appears to be Becky's artistic mentor, deduced by the two of them painting together in numerous episodes. This implies that Violet cares a lot for Becky. Becky has mentioned feeling awkward visiting Violet's home. This is because it has a handful of rules (mainly art-related) that Violet tries to enforce, which Becky found annoying.1 Because of this, Violet will usually come over to Becky's house for a playdate.

It is also seen that she shares a special friendship with Scoops. In "Cherish is the Word", he asks Violet to be his valentine, which she accepted. In The Rise of Miss Power" they were also seen eating ice cream and holding hands. In "Time-Out with Two-Brains", Becky demonstrates that she is somewhat jealous of this relationship. Scoops and Violet are walking together in the park when time is stopped, and Becky/WordGirl slyly turns Scoops 180 degrees, so they will end up walking in opposite directions and losing track of one another.

In staying with her kind and compassionate personality, she also is more friendly to Tobey than other characters, even making an attempt to comfort him in "Tobey's Tricks and Treats". When they were very young, Violet beat Tobey in a game of checkers, she didn't boast over her winning, instead noticed a pony toy passing by. This event caused him to avoid the game, yet still desire to become a checkers champion, which led to the events in the episode "Monkey-Robot Showdown". In the episode "Mobot Knows Best", Tobey shows her and Becky his B+ on a math test. Even though Violet assured him that is still a very good grade, he was still concerned what his mother would think and was sending a robot version of his mother to the parent-teacher conference.

In "Rhyme and Reason", Violet finds out that Becky is WordGirl. At first, this discovery devastates her, as she can't believe that her best friend would keep such a secret from her, but by the end of the episode, they reconcile and move on. She also helps save WordGirl from a big fight between Rhyme and Reason.

Appearances

Violet Superhero

She becomes "The Framer" and imagines she has superpowers, but ends up getting defeated by The Butcher.

Tobey Goes Good

She enters the Young Inventors Challenge and Friendly Competition with a dual Egg-and-Apple slicer she made with Becky (who used a bit of her super-strength to hold the pieces together), and won the competition due to the judge's love of free food. Later, WordGirl used the slicer to defeat Tobey's robot, earning Violet yet another trophy (as her invention saved the day). This trophy was later stolen by Victoria Best, and finally returned by WordGirl.

The Birthday Girl

In The Birthday Girl" Violet found a way to shrink the Birthday Girl down to Eileen by tricking her into doing something generous, instead of something greedy.

Becky's Bad-itude

Violet is shown waiting in line for the Vanilli and Billy music concert, standing behind Shelby Joy and ahead of Tessa. These are girls she had recently attended Becky's birthday with.

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Appearances


Trivia

  • Her voice gets lower and deeper in every passing season. It may be because of puberty and her getting older.
  • Violet's birthday is the same as Eileen's as revealed in the episode "Sonny Days with a Chance of Showers", so when that episode aired she would have been 11 by now.
  • She, her cat, Bampy Botsford, Rose Franklin, Todd "Scoops" Ming, and Kid Math are the only characters who know Becky's secret identity until the end of the series.
  • In "Judging Butcher", it's revealed that Violet cannot only sing but can make up lyrics right on the spot.

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