Viola Cadaverini

"Viola Cadaverini"

- I love fire, you know... I love the way it crackles... Hee... Hee... Hee...

Viola "Violetta" Cadaverini is the beloved granddaughter of the infamous mob boss Bruto Cadaverini. She was an assistant for loan shark Furio Tigre, owner of Tender Lender, but took over the business after Tigre's arrest.

Accident
In September of 2018, Viola Cadaverini was involved in an accident in which her car collided with Furio Tigre on his moped. She suffered life-threatening head trauma and was hospitalized. The operation required to save her life cost $1 million, and her grandfather Bruto demanded that Tigre pay him the cost of the bill. After Viola's surgery, Tigre took care of her; Viola, not knowing that Tigre was the man involved in her accident, or perhaps not wanting to acknowledge the fact, became affectionate, deeply loyal and respectful toward Tigre. She began to work for him at Tender Lender soon afterward.

Involvement in a murder

 * Main article: Recipe for Turnabout

On Dec. 3, 2018, Tigre asked Viola Cadaverini to help him to set up a fake murder to cover up a real murder he had committed at Trés Bien. Cadaverini posed as the waitress at the restaurant, Maggey Byrde, while Tigre disguised himself as the victim. The owner was forced to play along due to the debt he had to Tigre. An unwitting Victor Kudo soon entered the restaurant, and Tigre and Cadaverini reenacted the crime as Tigre wanted it to be seen; Cadaverini sprinkled powder into the coffee she served to Tigre, and Tigre pretended he had won a lottery (as the victim had won the lottery prior to the real murder) and took a sip of the coffee. Tigre pretended to feel the effects of potassium cyanide poisoning and die.

Kudo would later testify to the fake crime as a witness during Byrde's trial. However, Phoenix Wright, Byrde's attorney, worked out that Tigre was the real killer.

Current whereabouts

 * Main article: The Kidnapped Turnabout

Viola Cadaverini now runs Tender Lender. One of her debtors was Lance Amano; she would send payment bills to Amano in the form of "love letters".

Personality
Cadaverini is very soft-spoken and polite, but she strikes fear into everyone around her by slipping quiet death threats into everyday conversation. This made her very effective at asking for repayment of loans when Tigre was unable to do so. Before Tigre's court appearance, Cadaverini was very loyal to him, calling him "Don Tigre" as a sign of respect and quietly demanding that others do the same. She also believed that she and Tigre were lovers until that point.

Cadaverini has a distinctive giggle ("Hee...Hee...Hee...") that she uses whenever she utters her death threats.

Name

 * "Shikabane" ("鹿羽") comes from the Japanese word for "a corpse".


 * "Urami" ("うらみ") means "a grudge" in Japanese.


 * "Viola" is an Italian name derived from the Latin word for violets. It is also a string instrument similar to the violin.


 * "Cadaverini" is Italian for "little corpses". The word is a variation of the Italian "cadavere", of which the English equivalent is "cadaver", a synonym of "corpse". Like "Viola", the choice of an Italian name is likely meant to be a reference to the Sicilian Mafia.