Violet Baudelaire is the oldest of the Baudelaire children. She is 14 years old and often helps her 12-year-old brother Klaus and her baby sister Sunny solve problems with her inventing skills. As the eldest, she is the natural leader of the group.Violet turns fifteen in the book The Grim Grotto but, turns sixteen in "The Fourteenth Chapter".) When thinking and concentrating on new inventions, she ties her hair in a ribbon, in order to keep it out of her face. Violet is an amazing inventor, inventing items such as: a grappling hook that gets her up Count Olaf's tower in The Bad Beginning, a lock pick that lets her to open Count Olaf's suitcase in The Reptile Room,a signaling device in "The Wide Window", a climbing device made from ties,curtains,and old socks in "The Ersatz Elevator"a invention that frees her and her brother and sister from jail in the Village of Fowl Devotees. In The Vile Village, she made some fork-assisted climbing shoes that help her and Quigley Quagmire get up the frozen waterfall of Mount Fraught in The Slippery Slope and many more inventions. Violet and Quigley Quagmire have romantic interest in each other.