Oscar Webster is a famous playwright and screenwriter in the *Violet Evergarden* series who lives alone in a private house and returns to writing after commissioning Violet Evergarden as his ghostwriter.
Oscar Webster appears in the original story in Volume 1, Chapter 1, “The Novelist and the Auto Memory Doll,” and in the final chapter of “Ever After,” “The Dream Chaser and the Auto Memory Doll.”
In the anime adaptation, he appears in Episode 7.
He is a celebrated playwright and scriptwriter, and Erica Brown, an Auto Memory Doll from the C.H. Postal Company, is a longtime fan of his work.
He lives in the resort town of Roswell.
After losing his wife and daughter to a hereditary illness, he fell into heavy dependence on alcohol and medication.
Although he overcame the alcohol and drugs, his hands continued to tremble, stalling his career.
Because of the tremor, he asks Violet Evergarden to write on his behalf, which becomes the turning point that allows him to complete a new work.
He is reclusive and socially inexperienced, and he initially mistakes Violet for a mechanical doll.
Later, when he meets Leticia Aster, he reunites with Violet and proposes that Leticia audition for a stage play.
In *Violet Evergarden: The Movie*, he hires Erica Brown as his assistant at Violet’s introduction.
Wife
Oscar met his wife before he achieved success as a scriptwriter, and he described her as “a beautiful person.”
She worked as a librarian at the library he often visited, where they first became acquainted.
She was an orphan from a family in which early deaths were common, and her father had died of a hereditary disease.
She carried the same illness but hid it, fearing that Oscar would not marry her if he knew.
She ultimately died from the disease.
Her death was a major trigger for Oscar’s later collapse into addiction.
Daughter
Oscar’s daughter was a girl with honey-colored hair.
As a small child her cheeks looked healthy, like rose petals, but prolonged medication left her skin yellowed and her body severely thin.
She suffered from the same hereditary illness as her mother.
Oscar sought help from renowned doctors to avoid repeating his wife’s fate, but he could not save his daughter, and she also died.
Wife’s Close Friend
Oscar’s wife had a close friend who knew about the hereditary illness.
At the funeral, she told Oscar the truth, and he described her as “a decent person.”
After the wife’s death, she devoted herself to supporting Oscar and his young daughter through their loss.
When the daughter’s condition worsened, she was the one who took her to the hospital and learned before Oscar that the child had the same disease.
She stayed with them at the hospital for a time, but the strain of watching an unstable condition wore her down.
Over time, she visited less and less often.
Oscar looks like an ordinary man who does not seem like a typical protagonist at first glance.
He has messy red hair, a baby-faced look that makes him seem younger than his actual age, a slight slouch, and thick black-framed glasses.
He is sensitive to cold and regularly wears sweaters.
Because the production studio is the same, he resembles a music teacher from another work set in a different world.
Violet Evergarden
Violet is the Auto Memory Doll he hires when his hand tremor prevents him from writing.
Their work together becomes the catalyst that gets his stalled career moving again.
Erica Brown
Erica Brown is a fan of Oscar’s writing and works for the C.H. Postal Company as an Auto Memory Doll.
In the film, Oscar employs her as his assistant after Violet introduces them.
Leticia Aster
Oscar encounters Leticia Aster later in his story.
After reuniting with Violet, he invites Leticia to audition for a theatrical production.
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