#bertrand baudelaire

[snckt]

there is a certain thrill to wearing a disguise — a thrill that is half excitement and half danger. i once attended one of the famed masked balls hosted by the duchess of winnipeg, and it was one of the most exciting and dangerous evenings of my life.

@asouefanworkevent day five of woevember : the masked ball, alternatively titled,   the dragonfly.

#woevember #asoueedit #a series of unfortunate events #beatrice baudelaire #bertrand baudelaire #the premise for this piece was 'pov : you're legally dead but your lover locks eyes with you from across the ballroom' #exciting and deadly indeed ahahaha #series . asoue #laineysedit #character . beatrice baudelaire #the ruby ring makes a reappearance ! and i chose her dress based on netfl*x's opera night . i thought it went nicely with her mask 💕

[lyeekha]

Bertrand and the little one

#bertrand baudelaire #asoue #sketchbook #asoue fanart #illustration

[witherydithery]

#you can't go wrong with eye imagery #they're so adorable #beatrice/bertrand/lemony #lemonberry ice #bertrand baudelaire #beatrice baudelaire #lemony snicket #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #my art #tw eyes

[dykemaclachlan]

pov you’re bertrand driving the taxi and you have a vital decision to make

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #bertrand baudelaire #jacques snicket #kit snicket #beatrice baudelaire #count olaf #lemony snicket #esme squalor

[fanonical]

the baudelaire parents are actually alive and fine and living on a nice tropical island which doesn't have any cults or deadly poison or anything, they just managed to get outta their ridiculous lives

#A Series of Unfortunate Events #ASoUE #Beatrice Baudelaire #Bertrand Baudelaire

[curiouscreationss]

ASOUE characters: How popular are they on Ao3?✨📚😎😮🫢

No.of fics with each character in them

Baudelaires:

Beatrice: 417

Bertrand: 257

🔧Violet: 977 🏆

📚Klaus: 822

🍳 Sunny: 662

👶 Beatrice II: 192

Quagmires:

Mrs Quagmire: 34

Mr Quagmire: 28

🖋️Isadora: 369 🏆

🗞️ Duncan: 367

🗺️ Quigley: 332 (Surprising tbh, I thought he’d win out of the triplets at least)

Widdershins:

⚓️Captain Widdershins: 40

🍄 Fiona: 114

🪝 Fernald: 166 🏆

Olaf+his troupe:

🎭 Count Olaf: 722 🏆

🍸 Esmé Squalor: 379

Woman with hair but no beard: 30

Man with beard but no hair: 25

👓 Georgina Orwell: 143

Henchperson of indeterminate gender: 84

Bald man: 57

White-faced women: 56 (just mildly less popular than the bald man yet there’s TWO of them- that’s gotta blow 😔-)

🎪[The Freaks] 🎪

Kevin: 14 🏅

Hugo: 13

Collette: 12

Denouements:

Frank: 76

Ernest: 92

🦄: 102 🏆

Snickets: (Take this with a grain of salt bc they have a whole other series -ATWQ- going for them)

Jaques: 347

Kit: 410

Lemony: 536 🏆

Guardians+the likes:

🏦 Mr Poe: 104

🗞️ Eleanora Poe: 14

📰 Polly Poe: 1

🐑 Edgar Poe: 10

💰 Albert Poe: 6 (Why is Edgar more popular??)

🐍Uncle Monty: 114

🐍 Ink/The Incredibly Deadly Viper: 8

🪟 Aunt Josephine: 72

Ike Anwhistle: 26

[🚬 Sir: 30

Charles: 54

👓 Georgina Orwell: 143 🏅

😃 Phil: 10 ]

[🎻Vice Principal Nero: 37 (That’s less than the bald man who has maybe 3 lines total, take that!)

Mrs Bass: 4 (Damn.)

Ms. Tench: 2 (Double damn)

Mr Remora: 3

📚 Olivia Caliban: 237 🏅]

🍸 Jerome Squalor: 104

(✨Esmé Squalor: 379 but I put her in the Olaf’s troupe section. This is just for quick comparison to Jerome. Poor guy. Ish. I don’t actually feel that bad for him tbh.)

🦅 The Council of Elders: 4

🎈 Hector: 48

Hal: 8

Babs: 9

Phil: 10

[🍎 Ishmael: 17

🐟 Miranda Caliban: 8

🕶️ Friday Caliban: 26 🏅

🚢 Thursday: 5 ]

Miscellaneous VFD members:

😎 Jacquelyn Scieszka: 172 🏆

🎥 Gustav Sebald: 78

🐟 Larry Your-Waiter: 85

👑 Duchess R of Winnipeg: 61 or 64 (3 are under ‘Duchess R’

Uncategorised:

Ben: 4

🚲 The Paperboy: 3

💃 Carmelita Spats: 149

Top 3:

1~ Violet Baudelaire! 🔧💜 (977 fics on Ao3 are tagged ‘Violet Baudelaire’! 🎉)

2~Klaus Baudelaire!!📚💙(822 fics!)

3~ Count Olaf! 👁️ 😈 (722 fics!)

Loser:

Polly Poe (with a disappointing 1 fic!😱)

#asoue #asoue fic #a series of unfortunate events #soue #ao3 #asoue fanfic #klaus baudelaire #Violet Baudelaire #Sunny Baudelaire #beatrice baudelaire #bertrand baudelaire #lemony snicket #kit Snicket #Jaques Snicket #quagmire triplets #Baudelaire children #Baudelaire orphans #fiona widdershins #fernald widdershins #count Olaf #esmé squalor #jerome squalor #Charles #sir #jacquelyn scieszka #olivia caliban #the denouements #dewey denouement #ernest denouement #gustav sebald

[drowninginredink]

I was rereading The Penultimate Peril, and I got to the section where it explains how Bertrand taught the Baudelaires the prank of pushing every button in the elevator before you step out so the next person is stuck going to every floor. You know who he pulled that prank on?

"A tiresome woman named Eleanora"

Bertrand Baudelaire annoying Eleanora Poe is canon

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue #snicketverse #bertrand baudelaire #eleanora poe #the penultimate peril

[badlydrawndrawnings]

ASOUE Characters (The Adults)

And the Beatles Songs I Can't Help But Associate Them With

Lemony Snicket, In My Life (~All these places had their moments/With lovers and friends, I still can recall/Some are dead and some are living/In my life, I've loved them all~)

Beatrice Baudelaire, Golden Slumbers (~Golden slumbers fill your eyes/Smiles await you when you rise/Sleep pretty darling do not cry/And I will a lullaby~)

Bertrand Baudelaire, All My Loving (~All my loving, I will send to you/All my loving/Darling, I'll be true/All my loving/All my loving, Ooh/All my loving, I will send to you~)

Count Olaf, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (~I once had a girl/Or should I say she once had me/She showed me her room/Isn't it good Norwegian Wood?~) + (~And when I awoke I was alone/This bird had flown/So I lit a fire/Isn't it good Norwegian wood?~)

Esme Squalor, Girl, being the Girl in question, not the 'singer'* (~She's the kind of girl who puts you down/When friends are there/You feel a fool/When you say she's looking good/She acts as if it's understood~)

*The 'singer' of 'Girl' is Jerome Squalor, who has strong feelings of his former marriage with Esme, more bad than good

Jacques Snicket, While My Guitar Gentle Weeps (~I look at the world and I notice it's turning/While my guitar gently weeps/With every mistake we must surely be learning/Still my guitar gently weeps~)

Kit Snicket, Help* [~When I was younger so much younger than today/I never needed anybody's help in any way/(Now) But now these are gone (These days are gone)/I'm not so self assured/(And now I find) Now I've changed my mind/And opened up the doors~]

*Despite the upbeat tone, the lyrics really do fit Kit

Dewey Denouement, A Day in the Life (~I read the news today, oh boy/About a lucky man who made the grade/And though the news was rather sad/Well, I just had to laugh/I saw the photograph~) + (~A crowd of people stood and stared/They'd seen his face before/Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords~)

Ernest Denouement, Carry That Weight (~Boy, you're gonna carry that weight/Carry that weight a long time/Boy, you're gonna carry that weight/Carry that weight a long time~)

Frank Denouement, You Never Gave Me Your Money (~You never give your money/You only give me your funny paper/And in the middle of negotiations/You break down~)

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #the beatles #song association #lemony snicket #beatrice baudelaire #bertrand baudelaire #count olaf #esme squalor #jacques snicket #kit snicket #dewey denouement #ernest denouement #frank denouement #jerome squalor #this is a text post #after i made my 'norwegian wood (this bird has flown) is a count olaf song' post i started making a list of song associations #i didn't get to all the characters but i got to a good amount #if you saw my denouement triplets moodboard edit you'll see the 'quotes' i picked for them in my netflix edits are the songs #anyway expect a part two in the unforeseeable future

[beatricebidelaire]

prelude to a game of monopoly

Whatever Lemony Snicket was expecting to see when he enters the room, it definitely wasn't this.

~1.9K. Lemony Snicket / Ernest Denouement / Bertrand Baudelaire

__

Whatever Lemony Snicket was expecting to see when he enters the room, it definitely wasn't this.

He's here to receive certain documents on certain information, relevant to events occurring two weeks ago on 7th floor of the hotel. He could technically have contacted any of the Denouements for such information, but he wants to keep a low profile about the fact that he's digging into this. There are some people in the organization who would not approve, and while Lemony's never particularly cared about approval from higher ups, in this case if he showed his hand too soon he might more likely encounter obstacles that could have been avoided. Going through either Frank or Dewey might risk this going into official records of who has requested the relevant information, but if he tries to obtain information from Ernest - who hasn't exactly made his opinions on disregarding VFD rules a secret, well, that might just be what Lemony needs right now. Luckily, Lemony has a - sort of cordial alliance going on with Ernest Denouement. They're not exactly friends, but they share a tacit understanding that they've never directly talked about. It's unsurprising, considering Lemony himself is considered to be quite troublesome for the organization at times as well.

For a moment he thinks that he may have interpreted the whole situation wrong - perhaps the coded message wasn't from who he thought he has been corresponding with; that it wasn't actually Ernest, with his disdain for VFD's methods, who has asked him to come to this room at this time. Or maybe it was Ernest who sent the message, but something went wrong and now he isn't here, and instead somehow it's one of his brothers in this room, along with Bertrand. Or maybe Lemony himself has knocked on the wrong door. He did check the number on the door twice before knocking, but still. What if he read it wrong? What if he misremembered the room number from the message? Wait - what if the message had been intercepted and altered?

Because there had to be some kind of explanation to why Bertrand - perfect, perfect Bertrand who Lemony has heard so much praise about, the wonderful apprentice who could do no wrong - is right here in this very room along with the Denouement triplet who's supposed to be Ernest, considering that's who Lemony supposedly have been in correspondence with? Not just in the same room together, but also with an easy, casual intimacy between them that Lemony was definitely not prepared for. The Denouement triplet is leaning lazily on one side of the sofa, reading a book. Bertrand leans on the other side, but with his legs extending out long across the sofa, his feet propped up on the Denouement triplet's thighs.

[continue reading on squidgeworld] [ao3]

#asoue #lemony snicket #ernest denouement #bertrand baudelaire #lemony x bertrand x ernest #my writing

[snicketstrange]

Where did the Baudelaire fortune originate?

Short theory:

The elusive VFD, unable to use legal entities, actually holds all of its assets - think money, estates, books, even Uncle Monty's exotic snakes. The wealth comes from generous families donating fortunes to this shadowy organization. That's why the Snickets, once rich, are now far from it. This also sheds light on the Baudelaires' lack of hired help - they weren't free to spend the money as they pleased because they were stewarding VFD's assets. In essence, they were the secretive custodians of the Baudelaire mansion.

#asoue #asoue theory #lemony snicket #a series of unfortunate events #lemony snicket the unauthorized autobiography #beatrice baudelaire #kit snicket #snicket family #bertrand baudelaire

[unfortunatetheorist]

*Joint Theory 3: @unfortunatetheorist with @snicketstrange *

The Masked Ball - Book Canon VS Netflix Canon

After quite a wait (my [@unfortunatetheorist's] bad), here it is.

The Masked Ball that Duchess R invites Lemony to in LSTUA is notably different in both the book and Netflix canon. This post will try and take into account all of the differences that both Masked Balls have.

Obviously, the Very First Difference is that:

BOOK: The Ball happens AFTER the Baudelaire fire, during the events of The Carnivorous Carnival.

NETFLIX: The Ball happens 'IN THE PAST, a phrase which here means BEFORE THE BAUDELAIRES WERE BORN'.

This impacts the storyline greatly, as the book canon allows for the possibility of Beatrice surviving the fire, before Lemony met her at the Masked Ball and tried to save her, where she ultimately died.

This also paves the way for a slightly chilling possibility, especially when you look at it in terms of Lemony:

According to Netflix canon, if the Baudelaires weren't born at the time of the ball, and we know Beatrice was there... who's to say that Bertrand was not? The possibility is there, however slim it may be.

This COULD, in THEORY, mean one thing - Beatrice CHEATED on Lemony with Bertrand, and he didn't know. He found out later when she confessed to it, out of guilt, in her 200-page book. This, in turn, is what led to Lemony spiralling into depression, and is what makes him say this line in TPP:

"The man in the back of that taxi is myself, many years ago when I was much younger and more naive than I am now."

His naivety is referring to his unrequited love for Beatrice, despite the fact that she cheated on him.

It also, referring to BOOK canon this time, makes him say this line in TAA:

"[And] because I felt like a different person, I dared to approach a woman I had been forbidden to approach for the rest of my life."

The only reasons he would've been forbidden to approach her are:

a) Bertrand

b) Beatrice - if she ever saw him again, it would bring back all those emotions of guilt and sadness that she didn't want to hold on to.

(But that's just theoretical. Back to the point...)

Another key difference is that:

BOOK: Olaf is not present at this ball.

NETFLIX: Olaf IS present at this ball.

This is important, as @snicketstrange points out in a theory, Lemony sees Beatrice at the ball and says to her "Count Olaf is dead" - in book canon only.

Here's an interesting one:

BOOK: The Masked Ball is mentioned in TAA.

NETFLIX: The Masked Ball is only mentioned/shown in TCC.

This plays quite a part, as it allows for the possibility to be referenced in TEE, and therefore, for Esmé to have been at the ball, as she says in the Netflix series (TSS):.

"You once threw a Masked Ball here and didn't invite me - not that I care! A face this gorgeous should never be hidden behind a mask."

However, it is also not made explicitly clear in the books as to whether or not Esmé was invited/there.

BOOK: It is not mentioned whether or not Esmé is at the ball.

NETFLIX: Esmé is clearly NOT INVITED to this ball.

Another similarity is that both Balls were held explicitly by the Duchess of Winnipeg, Duchess R:

BOOK: Duchess R of Winnipeg holds the Masked Ball.

NETFLIX: Duchess R of Winnipeg holds the Masked Ball.

Speaking of people at Masked Balls, let's refocus on the main man himself - Lemony. Here's some things @snicketstrange pointed out:

In the books there are two dances mentioned. One of them was during the main events described in TCC. But it was NOT the same ball at which Lemony was captured nor the same ball at which he said "Count Olaf is..." This other ball is the one mentioned by the narrator Lemony in TAA, but it took place after the publication of TWW.

It's important to think in 5 dimensions here. (@snicketstrange is one of the few people that can do that!)

Lemony published his books over the years after the main events described in the books. And over these years, Lemony experienced some things that he, as a narrator, INCLUDED in the books as he published them. And the Ball at which Lemony was captured was one of those events.

Some more differences are:

Lemony's outfit

According to Lemony, it was the only time in his life that he wore this outfit. This detail is VERY significant. During the Netflix show's second season, Daniel Handler was still on the show's creative team.

It may be that he made these demands to ensure that people knew that the ball depicted in the show was a different ball than the ball depicted in the books, even though there were similarities.

In other words, in the show they weren't trying to replicate what was described in the books, even though there are SOME thematic similarities, and purposeful differences.

The fact that Lemony is being chased or not

The people described at the ball. Note that there are no people who died (with the exception of one Beatrice present) at the book ball. Monty, Dr. Orwell, Josephine, are not mentioned.

[Thank you again @snicketstrange, your words continue to provoke wisdom and thought into the minds of keen ASOUE fans...]

¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph (@unfortunatetheorist) & @snicketstrange, Unfortunate Theorists/Snicketologists

#asoue #vfd #a series of unfortunate events #lemony snicket #asoue netflix #snicketverse #theory #esme squalor #count olaf #masked ball #beatrice baudelaire #bertrand baudelaire #snicketstrange #joint theory

[croquel]

i would love it if you drew bertrand baudelaire! :)

i apologize for how much longer than usual this took; i did these at random points during the day because i had some stuff to get done

anyway, the name "bertrand baudelaire" has such pretentious wine taster energy, but in my mind he has a sort of other father from coraline energy to him

#my klaus has a bit too much lemony in him here but eh #we get so little about bertrand #besides just 'oh no he died 💀💀👻' #but from what we have he seemed like a neat guy #and i would like to know more about his history #// #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #bertrand baudelaire #snicket #croque art #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #croque comic

[archangelsunited]

Olaf: You won’t hurt me, I have witnesses.

Beatrice: Esme, Bertrand- Turn around.

Esme&Bertrand: *turn around*

Olaf: Okay, now you can hurt me.

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #beatrice baudelaire #esme squalor #count Olaf #bertrand baudelaire #Justice is blind

[afterthegreatunknown]

given that widdershins has canonical knowledge of poetry and bertrand has implied canonical knowledge of poetry, i have the funny image of these two holding an unofficial poetry meeting in a non-vfd connected or approved of establishment that ends with them running out of said establishment because one of them got in trouble there prior and didn’t tell the other.

so now they’re both ban from the place, and are force to find a new establishment.

and like, as much as widdershins, aka ‘he-who-hesitates-is-lost’ is the one who should likely be the one that got into trouble somehow due to his philosophy, the idea that bertrand, the apparent golden boy of their generation, as the one who got into trouble is funnier to me.

#randomity things #book verse #captain widdershins #bertrand baudelaire #ramblings #the cherry on top of this: no one believes widdershins when he says #it's bertrand who got them out of the establishment #well...almost no one #kit and the denouements i feel would believe widdershins

[a-series-of-fluff-events]

Side-blog for Lemony Snicket's ASOUE (will add the other books when I read them, which is hopefully soon), centring on giving our characters a well-deserved happy ending.

Maybe angst, maybe not, but I'm going to make the Baudelaire children happy, along with a few AUs, memes and Headcanons!

Btw, Free Palestine.

#a series of unfortunate events #a series of unfortunate quotes #count olaf #klaus baudelaire #violet baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #beatrice baudelaire #bertrand baudelaire #josephine anwhistle #captain widdershins #justice strauss #esme squalor #jerome squalor #hooky #carmelita spats #kit snicket #jacques snicket #lemony snicket #uncle monty #sir #mr poe #free palastine #quagmire triplets #isadora quagmire #duncan quagmire #quigley quagmire

[i-dont-know-nor-care-go-away]

I know that lemony snicket wrote his series to be timeless but I always have and continue to believe that the weirdness was just because the VFD was just that much of a cult. Yes they all got out, but look at the adults. Monty lived alone with his reptiles, Lemony was.. yk, and Beatrice and Bertrand lived in a mansion. It would be super fucked up if they all grew up and even left but they still never really entered the modern world. Yeah Bertrand reads the new mechanics magazine each week, but his toaster is ancient and he doesn't have a microwave because he likes to cook, no other reason. Beatrice always knows some history fact, but she calls Thailand "Siam" and doesn't know who is president. Mr. Poe does their taxes for them because they are just so silly with their money, but they know how economics work, totally. Monty is just an odd fellow, it makes sense to his neighbors that he doesn't know how to work a tv or what a cd is. Emse is different though, she chases trends like if she lets them slip past her for a second, they'll never come back.

#vfd #lemony snicket #beatrice baudelaire #bertrand baudelaire #esme squalor