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unfortunatetheorist · 7 months

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The R - Part 1:

What is the connection between Mr Remora and Duchess R [of Winnipeg]?

One of the many mysteries that Lemony Snicket has left behind for readers (and viewers, to a certain extent) is 'What does the R stand for, in "Duchess R" ?' I am going to attempt to answer this question using any resources available, under the title 'The R'. This will be over a series of unfortunate posts, in this format.

Firstly, we must look for any and all clues that can give us even the slightest hint as to what R might stand for.

For this, I have gone through every character in ASOUE and this is produced: (after the cut, but feel free to skip ahead)

Lemony Snicket

Violet Baudelaire

Klaus Baudelaire

Sunny Baudelaire

Count Olaf

Bald Man with the Long Nose

Mrs. Bass

Beatrice Baudelaire

Beatrice Baudelaire II

Bertrand Baudelaire

Bruce

Colette

Fernald

Hal

Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender

Hugo

Incredibly Deadly Viper

Geraldine Julienne

Kevin

Kind Editor

Man with a Beard but No Hair

Vice Principal Nero

Phil

Arthur Poe

Duncan Quagmire

Isadora Quagmire

Quigley Quagmire

Mr. Remora

Carmelita Spats

Kit Snicket

Esmé Squalor

Jerome Squalor

Justice Strauss

White-Faced Women

Woman with Hair but No Beard

Albert Poe

Edgar Poe

Polly Poe

Wart-Faced Man

Alaskan Cow Lizard

Androgynous Cobra

Madame diLustro

Dissonant Toad

Green Gimlet Toad

Inky Newt

Irascible Python

O. Lucafont

Mamba du Mal

Monty Montgomery

Monty Montgomery's Sister

Gustav Sebald

Stephano

Virginian Wolfsnake

Ike Anwhistle

Josephine Anwhistle

Bertrand Baudelaire's Cousin

Gina-Sue

Larry Your-Waiter

Captain Sham

Charles

Foreman Firstein

Flacutono

Georgina Orwell

Shirley

Sir

Elwyn

Coach Genghis

Ms. Tench

Ben

Gunther

Chief of Police

Council of Elders

Detective Dupin

Hector

Mr. Lesko

Officer Luciana

Mrs. Morrow

Verhoogen Family

V.F.D. Crows

Babs

Bearded Man

Laura V. Bleediotie

Lou

Mattathias

Milt

Mr. Sirin

Volunteers Fighting Disease

Beverly and Elliot

Olivia Caliban

Chabo the Wolf Baby

Man With Pimples On His Chin

Ringmaster

Volunteer Feline Detectives

Infant Servant

C.M. Kornbluth

Snow Gnats

Snow Scouts

V.F.D. Eagles

White-Faced Women's Sibling

Winnipeg Scout

Gregor Anwhistle

Fiona

The Great Unknown

Captain Widdershins

Mrs. Widdershins

Count Olaf's father

Count Olaf's mother

Dewey Denouement

Ernest Denouement

Frank Denouement

Alonso

Ariel

Jonah Bellamy

Sadie Bellamy

Rabbi Bligh

Brewster

Byam

Friday Caliban

Miranda Caliban

Calypso

Erewhon

Ferdinand

Finn

Professor Fletcher

Gonzalo

Ishmael

Dr. Kurtz

Larsen

Ms. Marlow

Monday

Madame Nordoff

Omeros

Mr. Pitcairn

Robinson

Sherman

Thursday

Weyden

Willa

Beekeeper

Building Committee

Emily Dickinson

Dolores

Esmé Squalor Fan Club

Gerta

Daniel Handler

Haruki

Ivan Lachrymose

Eleanora Poe

Lena Pukalie

Duchess R

R's Mother

R's Father

Young Rölf

Sally Sebald

Shoemaker

A. Snicket

B. Snicket

Chas. Snicket

D. Snicket

E. Snicket

F. Snicket

Jacob Snicket

Mr. Spats

Mrs. Spats

Town Fathers

Valorous Farms Dairy

Baron van de Wetering

Yeah. Every single one.

Now, let's rule out everyone who does not have a name beginning with R, or is unclear: (again, feel free to skip ahead)

Bald Man with the Long Nose

Mrs. Bass

Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender

Incredibly Deadly Viper

Kind Editor

Man with a Beard but No Hair

Mr. Remora

White-Faced Women

Woman with Hair but No Beard

Wart-Faced Man

Madame diLustro

Monty Montgomery's Sister

Bertrand Baudelaire's Cousin

Foreman Firstein

Coach Genghis

Ms. Tench

Verhoogen Family

Mr. Sirin

Man With Pimples On His Chin

Infant Servant

White-Faced Women's Sibling

Winnipeg Scout

The Great Unknown

Captain Widdershins

Mrs. Widdershins

Count Olaf's father

Count Olaf's mother

Rabbi Bligh

Dr. Kurtz

Ms. Marlow

Madame Nordoff

Mr. Pitcairn

Robinson

Beekeeper

Duchess R

R's Mother

R's Father

Young Rölf

Mr. Spats

Mrs. Spats

Town Fathers

As the title states, we'll keep some focus on Remora, but we'll eliminate all other minor characters:

Bald Man with the Long Nose

Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender

Incredibly Deadly Viper

Kind Editor

Man with a Beard but No Hair

Mr. Remora

White-Faced Women

Woman with Hair but No Beard

Wart-Faced Man

Madame diLustro

Monty Montgomery's Sister

Bertrand Baudelaire's Cousin

Robinson

Duchess R

R's Mother

R's Father

Young Rölf

According to Various Fan Deductions:

TMWABBNH & TWWHBNB are Gifford & Ghede

The White-Faced Women are Zada and Zora

Lemony's Kind Editor is Moxie Mallahan

Madame diLustro is Sunny Baudelaire

This rules out the 4 of them.

Bald Man with the Long Nose

Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender

Incredibly Deadly Viper

Mr. Remora

Wart-Faced Man

Monty Montgomery's Sister

Bertrand Baudelaire's Cousin

Robinson

Duchess R

R's Mother

R's Father

Young Rölf

Logically speaking, why would there be a connection between Ink and Duchess R? Let's eliminate unlikely possibilities:

Mr. Remora

Monty Montgomery's Sister

Bertrand Baudelaire's Cousin

Robinson

Duchess R

R's Mother

R's Father

Young Rölf

Monty Montgomery's sister would be (_insert name here_) Montgomery. This, to me, rules her out too... and the same logic applies to Bertrand's cousin.

Mr. Remora

Robinson

(Duchess R)

(R's Mother)

(R's Father)

Young Rölf

Obviously her family are related:

Mr. Remora

Robinson - Islander

Young Rölf

So, the above names are generated. I will, henceforth, analyse a link between each character and R, starting with Remora.

POINTS:

a. It's known that a few characters in the Snicket-verse have alliterating names, such as Quigley Quagmire, Beatrice Baudelaire.

b. It's also known that some characters have WEIRD connections to others, such as Quigley's 'relation' to Mr Poe.

THEORY: Given a. and b. to be true, Mr R _______ Remora, has some abstract connection to the Duchess.

This connection can only really be established if one goes by Netflix canon and assumes Nero's surname to be Feint, and combines this with ATWQ:

Duchess R is Remora's boss' ancestor's murderer's friend.

R's friend is Lemony, who murdered Hangfire, who is the ancestor of Nero, Remora's boss.

Part 2 Still to Come...

¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

#asoue #vfd #lemony snicket #a series of unfortunate events #snicketverse #asoue netflix #theory #duchess of winnipeg #duchess r #hangfire #vice principal nero #nero feint #mr remora #part 1

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halfbakedideas · 1 year

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✨Multifandom AU Masterlist✨

I have so many across so many fandoms. Feel free to ask any questions!

✅: completed ⭕: ongoing ❓: stagnant ❌: discontinued (not abandoned, I've got a habit of spontaneous updates) 🔔: not yet posted

Link to all series (Tumblr didn't like the individual links I tried to put):

half_baked_ideas - Series | Archive of Our Own

Transformers

Road Trip ‘verse⭕

Renamed from I’ll Ride in This Life With You

That AU where everyone lives in 1987 and Cybertronian Civil War still continues while the U.S. government gets involved in something they don't understand and falsely tries to weaponise the situation.

Continuity mashup of aspects from Bayverse, Aligned Continuity, and my own headcanons.

AU begins from the post-credits scene of Bumblebee (2018).

Ninjago

Secrets ✅

Darkish modern-day AU

Wu ends up taking in all the ninja

Vaguely inspired by an Ao3 fic called When The School Bell Rings by an author that I can't remember the name of

It’s Normal, No It’s Not ✅

Normal life!AU

All of the ninja don’t have good relationships with their parents

Something Inside Me is Trying To Remember A Story❓

Race against time

The Ninja wind up in an alternate universe where they’re convinced their boring lives there are all they’ve ever known

Nothing Is Permanent Except Change❓

Animal shifters AU where the ninja can shift into various animal forms.

Wishing Box 'verse❌

A magical object called the Wishing Box has the ability to change reality

Resulting in the creation of many different alternate universes

Time Moves Forever Forward❌

Lloyd gets yeet'd 43 years into the future and, as a result, gets a taste of what the (AU) future holds for him and the rest of the ninja

The Winged❓

Title WIP

The ninja live in a world where a good chunk of the human population is born with wings

Sonic the Hedgehog

Lab Rats⭕

Sonic and Tails were taken by Robotnik when they were young(er)

Maddie and Tom are government agents (sort of, their job descriptions are very vague).

The Wachowskis take in the two Mobians after finding them during a raid on a former research laboratory

Batfamily

Kaleidoscope Scales❓

Batfamily as merpeople

These Iridescent Wings ❌

The Batfam, like the rest of the human population, have wings.

Life is A Succession of Lessons That Must Be Lived To Be Understood ❌

Not really an AU, more of a sandbox for me to create my own Batfam canon

Combines aspects from multiple media (from fanfiction to animated DC movies)

The home of my they/them Jason Todd fics

Various Fandoms

Step 1: Rescue; Step 2: Life ❌

Star Trek Discovery

Title subject to change

Burnham takes Mirror Universe!Saru to the Prime Universe

Home is Where You Hang Your Hat ❌

Agents of SHIELD

Normal life!AU where Phil and May run a foster home and various characters are teen-aged/kid-aged.

Mostly Skye/Daisy-centric

Still-untitled Octonauts AU ❓

Octonauts

The title says it all

Somewhat human AU

Feel free to ask me about this one

Birds of a Feather ❌

Legends of Tomorrow

All of the Legends all have wings.

Peter Parker's Slightly Normal (But Actually Rather Ridiculous) Life ❌

MCU

Peter has been adopted by Tony after May dies and he now lives in the Tower.

There's No Happy Endings… ❌

A Series of Unfortunate Events (ASoUE)

Everything is just a bit worse than it already is in canon

#alternate universe #work in progress #fanfiction #au masterlist #masterlist #sonic the hedgehog #batfamily #ninjago #lego ninjago #star trek #legends of tomorrow #transformers bayverse #batfam #ao3 links #transformers aligned #aligned continuity

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fallowfield · 1 year

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finally watched the s1 finale of asoue!!! all i remember of it are phil's flat leg and the musical number

#crops #/hj i remember more but these are the main things

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weirdthoughtsandideas · 5 years

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The Quagmire-Baudelaire switch part 11

The grim grotto

The Quagmires get greeted by a submarine

And hears a man ask for the password

”VFD?” ”The world is quiet here?” ”Quagmires?”

The submarine opens and they climb in

So they are instantly greeted by a weird smiling man

It’s captain widdershins! And he talks like this! Everyone hates him but I enjoyed how he talked like this! Aye aye! I was a weird kid! But I found him more funny than annoying! Forgive me!

He introduces them to his stepdaughter Fiona

And all three of the triplet’s minds had a lowkey panic because WOW Fiona was in good shape

And that tight suit too...

And the first thing she says is literally ”shiver me timbers” in a kind of flirting way

And then comes Phil!

Phil does not do much more rather than smile and be optimistic :)

Anyway Fiona gives them a short tour and then gives them uniforms

Isadora almost starts posing in her uniforms because it feels like her you know? Maybe she’s found her style

Then they have dinner and Phil actually begs them for help because he can’t do much more than get gum

So the triplets teamwork to make some potato and garlic soup

Which became delicious

Captiain Widdershins is like ”You are so great at cooking! I should have let you come here a long time ago! Maybe adopt you! But let’s not rush! Maybe Duncan can marry Fiona! Just joking! But he who hesitates is lost!”

Duncan justs stands there in panic because he doesn’t know how to cope with someone suggesting he should marry someone he has known for an hour

And Fiona just corrects Widdershins, ”and she”.

Then they go to bed

The next day, everyone researchers pretty much all day

The Widdershins explain that they are on a mission for VFD to retrive the sugar bowl

Fiona also explains later that she is a mycologist

Which makes Isadora instantly come up with a poem to impress her

”Every human even with one eye, will spot and seek for fungi”

She then hides her face because she felt it was bad but Fiona just giggles

Then they find the gorgonian grotto

And all the children head off

They search the grotto but just finds the medysoid mycelium

When they are back they realise neither Widdershins or Phil is seen anywhere

Then they hear a clunck! And down comes a hee hee ha ha

Olaf and Esme walk around the sub and makes these weird giggle noises

Carmelita finds the triplets in hiding the storage room, which makes all three of them make an internal facepalm because she of all people found them

They get lead to the octupus submarine and witnesses all the snow scouts rowing for their lives

Anyway Quigley had trouble talking off his helmet so it’s still on

This is when he realises there’s green spots on it

Isadora and Duncan freak out

The hook handed man sees this and after a long discussion he agrees to let them atleast escape to save Quigley

Quigley is very confused since the hookhand man never cared before??

Anyway they scream to all the snow scouts to run, which causes chaos

Also Carmelita is as mad as you can be because someone ruined her recidal

They meet up with Fiona at the Queequeg

And all of them just resarches about any cure

Quigley just coughs and tells them to hurry

He then just mumbles ”try... substitutions” which was something he remembers from the night before when they had to use white garlic instead of red

They feed him wasabi and he instantly feels better

But they force him to go and rest, much to his dismay because he wants to help

So the hook handed man comes and Fiona hugs him ”Fernald!! <3”

Isadora and Duncan are hella confused

Fernald explains the situations but they are still not happy because of that

Then Olaf comes and yells at them for not being in the brig

Fiona distracts him with the medysoid mycelium in Quigley’s helmet

So he gets happy and almost goes up

Before telling her to bring the Quagmires too

This is when Fiona lets them escape

Duncan and Isadora feel a little betrayed but understands her

Fiona kisses both of them. She tells them to close their eyes

”Duncan, I am sure some things here will be useful for your journalism”

”Isadora, I know you are full of emotions and thoughts. Maybe this can help you a little.”

She leaves with a last ”aye aye” and climbs up

Duncan and Isadora start to cry while Quigley wakes up and wonder what the heck happened

”I have never in my life needed to write down things in my notebook as much as now” Duncan sniffs

”I have known all along and now I just got it confirmed” Isadora says, which just confuses the hell out of her brothers

But they have a faith idea what she could be reffering to?

Anyway the great unknown has found them so they need to dash Queepeg out of there

Eventually they find themselves on Briny Beach where mr Poe finds them

He wonders where in the world they have been and begs them to follow him

”No.” Duncan says.

Then a taxi comes

”Don’t argue with me.” Poe argues

The taxi driver is a woman who says she’s looking for the Quagmires

”Leave us alone!” Quigley yells at mr Poe

”Are you going to get into the taxi?” the woman asks and the triplets nod

”You can’t jump into a strangers taxi!” Mr Poe says desperately

”Fuck you, Mr Poe.” Isadora yells as a last word. ”I wish you nothing but sorrows and woes”

Ok I kind of forgot to mention the telegram part so now Kit just appears ready to retrieve the Quagmires. Which also could work. As always, hope you liked it

#asoue au #the quagmire baudelaire switch #fiona widdershins #captain widdershins #phil asoue #the grim grotto

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beaft · 3 years

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there's a special place in my heart for stories about people desperately seeking out an answer, a cause, a purpose, some sort of meaning to it all, finding nothing - and deciding, in the face of that utter emptiness, to try and create meaning for themselves. sometimes it's too late; they've lost too much. they no longer have the will or the desire to go on. but sometimes there's just enough left behind for them to gather the scraps together and say, this means something. i will make this mean something.

#it's phil in asoue saying 'you're alive. that's one good thing. and i'm sure i can think of something else.'#it's jon and martin choosing to leave the safehouse even though the world is basically fucked #it's hadestown telling us 'it's a tragedy but we're gonna sing it again'#it's sam saying 'there's some good left in this world and it's worth fighting for'#it's undertale's 'despite everything it's still you'#i just have feelings about this okay

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alice-blogs-things · 4 years

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The Terrible Troupe- A Summary

Sometimes a family is a former volunteer with hooks instead of hands and a soft spot for small, biting orphans, a woke nonbinary actor with a fear of reptiles and a lot of opinions about society, two elderly sisters with a painful past and a fondness for causing mischief and chaos, and a bald guy with hidden creative talents and a hopeless crush on the city's sixth most important financial adviser. And that's okay.

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue #the terrible troupe #fernald widdershins #the hook handed man #ainsley orlando #the henchperson of indeterminate gender #henchperson of indeterminate gender #mildred murphy #maud murphy #the white faced women #phil stevens #the bald guy

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under-the-blue-sun · 4 years

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requests are open!

other blogs: @skiesofsunsets, @under-the-blue-sun, @ryann-rosss and @ dont-know-how-but-they-found. look under edits and you’ll see more things!

ao3: skiesofsunsets

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afterthegreatunknown · 11 months

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Inspired by the Six Baudelaires AU by @unfortunate-stranger-losers, it’s the Curse Concept ASOUE AU: The Seven Six Widdershins Family Members AU.

Tegan K. Widdershins

The Lichenologist/The Captain’s Apprentice

Stepdaughter of Ephraim B. Widdershins

Three Words: Persistence, Stern, Reminiscing

Turns Seventeen in TWW

Tegan has little memories of her biological father, for he died when she was an infant. As a result, Tegan has a very close relationship with her stepfather, partly because he’s the only parent she knew for most of her life. The opposite can be said about her stepbrother and step-niece. Tegan and her stepbrother tend to clash with one another due their different ways of approaching things. And recently, Tegan feels she can’t be a proper aunt, for she and her step-niece are too close in age. Still, Tegan loves them, and pushes back those setbacks that make their relationship difficult to be manageable.

Tegan always has her sight on being a lichenologist since her thirteen’s birthday. Due to the insisting of her stepfather, Tegan is also a young captain-in-training. The second in command and the mechanic of the Nautilus, a sudden solo mission has her stepfather deciding Tegan should go live with her stepbrother as part of his Crew of Two, and apprentice on the Queequeg. Never in her life had Tegan felt so overwhelm. Tegan knows being captain would make Stepfather proud, who always wanted another captain in the family. However, such pressure is soon overpowered by even more pressing family matters Tegan thought best left to be ignore.

Other Notes:

Face Claim is Kassius Nelson (the ‘K’ stands for Kassius)

Tegan’s age of seventeen is due to Kassius Nelson’s apparent age at the time of filming Season Three (20/21), to keep her in the Unfortunate Generation range.

Tegan having the Widdershins surname is taking into account how Netflix!Fiona introduces herself as “Fiona Widdershins”.

Tegan doesn’t go into the grotto with Fiona and the Baudelaires. She stays on the Queequeg. Tegan as such knows why Widdershins and Phil left, but doesn’t say more other than ‘VFD escort mission’ (Tegan also knows something more, but that should have a proper post). Tegan being captain instead of Fiona creates a different but similar conflict when it’s discover Sunny is infected with the Medusoid Mycelium.

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #asoue au #widdershins family curse concept au #tegan widdershins #moodboard aesthetic #moodboard edit #netflix asoue #asoue netflix #fiona widdershins

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aseriesofunfortunatetexts · 8 months

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#phil #sunny baudelaire #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #asoue edit #texts from last night

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yourfavisabaudelaireguardian · 5 years

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can dan and phil be the new baudelaire guardians?? (if you don't want to do real people, then that's perfectly okay xxx)

Dan and Phil are the New Baudelaire Guardians!

(don't worry about it, I make real people guardians all the time lol)

#dan and phil #asoue netflix #asoue spoilers #asoue #a series of unfortunate quotes #a series of unfortunate events

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vacuum-fluorescent-display · 5 years

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phil is philip larkin, i connected the dots

#phil is the secret 4th snicket #so in the end all of them were part of the queequeg crew/built the queequeg #it all makes sense #i've connected them #asoue #phil #philip larkin

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vfdbaudelairefile13 · 5 years

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Chapter Forty-Six:

The One Where Violet Loses Her Cool

Lemony entered his house to a very unpleasant surprise. His daughter was sitting at the table with her hands laid in front of her on top of a book. A book that Lemony had to take a double-take to see if he was seeing what he thought he was seeing and unfortunately, for him, his vision was perfect. Violet’s hands laid across The Incomplete History of Organizations and Lemony could tell by the intense glare that she giving him that she knew too much. Lemony looked at his daughter’s expression realizing that he didn’t recognize the young girl that sat across from him.

“Lemony, we need to talk,” Violet said chillingly serious. Lemony looked at his daughter in utter disbelief.

“What did you just call me?” he asked in a slightly stern tone. He was more confused than angry. Never had Violet ever called him by his first name. ‘Lemon man’ and ‘Mr. Lemons’ was the closest she had ever gotten to calling him by his first name.

“Lemony,” she said simply, before cocking her head to the side, “That is your name, isn’t it?”

“Yes, but I am your father and--,” he began as she interrupted him.

“What’s VFD?” she asked staring at him with unblinking eyes. Lemony took a step closer to the table and looked at his daughter. He had never seen her so angry or serious before. It slightly scared him. What did she know? Who did she come in contact with? He asked himself.

“What?” he replied.

“What. Is. VFD?” Violet asked again, this time in a louder, angrier tone. Enunciating every syllable in her sentence slowly that way her father can’t pretend that he didn’t hear her correctly.

Lemony sighed. “Something that you don’t need to know about,” he said after a minute.

“Fine,” Violet said opening the book that was in front of her. “I knew you were going to say that. I mean I’ve already found my answer, I just wanted to know what you would say...”

“Violet...what’s up with you?” He asked calmly.

She took a deep breath and stood up, slamming her hands on to the book with all her might. Lemony was surprised that the table didn’t collapse from under her. “ You’re lying to me! You’ve been lying to me my entire life! ” she screamed in his direction. Her veins were full of boiling blood. Her mind was on fire from holding this back for so long. It’s time. No backtracking now. Get your answers, Vi. Don’t let him manipulate you. She told herself as she glared at her father.

“What are you talking about?” Lemony asked trying to figure out what to say to his daughter’s very sudden and unexpected outburst.

“About VFD! About your ‘job’! About my fucking mother!” Violet yelled. “You’ve been in contact with her, haven’t you?!”

Lemony looks at Violet with a face that was a clear mix of guilt and confusion. He knew that this was not the time to explain to her that her birth mother was dead. So he took a deep breath. “First off, don’t speak to me like that Violet. Let’s have a rational discussion.”

Violet shook her head. “No! No! You’re not going to manipulate me into listening to any more of your bullshit lies! You threw any chance at a rational discussion out the door, the moment you started lying to me!” She yelled hitting her hand on the table angrily. “Now, have you been in contact with my mother at all!?”

“No,” he said simply rubbing his face, trying to stay calm for the both of them.

Violet glared at her father. “Then what are these!” she yells throwing several documents on the table. Lemony glanced at them and he saw correspondence letters from Beatrice, a copy of a telegram, and the letter that Beatrice sent to him asking him to temporarily take their daughter.

“You went through my stuff?” He asked feeling his annoyance and anger rise. He took a deep breath. “Violet Malina Snicket…” he began prepared to lecture her on respecting people’s personal property.

“Answer the question!”

“Violet! Do not speak to me like that!” He yelled back. Violet glared at him.

“Answer me!” she cried angrily. “What are these!?”

“Vi, those are old,”

“How can I be so sure? You’re a known liar and there aren't any dates on any of these letters!”

Lemony tried to disguise his hurt from Violet’s words, but he was unsuccessful. His guilt was taking over, suppressing his anger. “Violet, you have to take my word…”

“Your word means shit!” She screamed, slamming her hand down on the table.

“Violet Malina!” he yelled back. “I am not going to sit here any longer and let you speak to me this way!” he took a deep breath. “I have been quite patient with you, young lady. First, you’ve gone through my personal belongings, snooped through my work documents, and now you’re accusing me of lying…”

Violet rubbed her face angrily as her hands formed tight fists. She laughed a cruel laugh before yelling, “Accusing…. accusing!? No, I am proving. ‘Accusing’ is a word which here means…” she began mocking her father.

“ I know what ‘accusing’ means! Do not get smart with me, young lady!”

“Apparently, you don’t. Cause it’s not accusing if I can drown you with evidence.”

Lemony sighed angrily and tried to think of something to say.

“So...what’s VFD?”

“Nothing important. Definitely not something you need to worry about,”

“Really? Because I have evidence of the contrary,” she replied annoyed.

“Violet…”

She took the spyglass out of her pocket and slammed it on the table. “You wanna show me how this thing works,”

“You...you had my spyglass…” he said confused.

“Yep. Sure did. I’m not completely sure what it does, but I assume you can receive codes from special movies with it.”

His face went pale as his eyes got wide. “How do you know that?”

“I followed you to the movies,” she admitted.

Lemony shook his head fiercely in utter denial. “No...no you didn’t. I would’ve noticed my own daughter.”

“Not if I was in disguise,” Violet said simply.

“How do you know how to use disguises?”

“I’ve learned from the best...honestly, I’m surprised I’m not a politician. With the amount of lying you’ve done over the years, I’d surely be an expert at lying.”

“Violet! That’s enough! ” Lemony yells but Violet doesn’t back down. She continues glaring at her father. Fire still within her inner core, boiling her blood.

“Why won’t you let me meet her?” Violet asked quietly.

“I haven’t found her yet,” Lemony lied.

“You’re lying!” Violet yelled. “Why don’t you ask someone from your cult! Cults don’t usually let people defect, which can explain why you’re both pronounced dead and on the run.”

“Violet…”

“ Let me meet her!”

“I don’t know where she is!”

“Then ask VFD!” Violet yelled. “Ask your cult with their disguises and their codes. Surely, they can locate her! Or does she have enemies, too?”

Lemony’s eyes went wide. “How do you know that? Who have you come in contact with?” he asked desperately.

“Doesn’t matter,”

“Violet, it does matter! There are people from my past who would give anything to hurt you...and I will not let them, but I need you to cooperate with me!”

Violet shook her head. “I will never be apart of your cult! VFD has ruined your life! It’s ruined my life before it even began! VFD…” she began choking on her words. “VFD forced you to kill someone!”

Lemony frowned realizing that Violet knew too much.

“VFD...I mean...you’re not...you’re right.” Lemony stammered.

“Why would you stay in an ‘organization’ that would coerce you to commit murder!?” she yelled. “Like do they have dirt on you? Are they blackmailing you? Did they threaten me ?”

“It’s…” Lemony started trying to find the right words, but he was completely speechless. His daughter knew too much. She knew too much and this knowledge could make her a target to both sides of the schism. “Violet...you have to let this go. You have to forget everything you know about VFD...or…”

“Or what they’ll find me and kidnap me?” She asked watching her father’s expression change. “I know...they kidnap children…and force them to be volunteers.” She began quoting the ‘Snicket Lad’. “When we drive away in secret, you'll be a volunteer. So don’t scream when we take you...the world is quiet here.”

Lemony’s eyes went wide. “Don’t ever say that phrase to anyone!”

“Why...is that how they know who their members are? Is that how they assume a child is ready for their apprenticeship?”

“How...how do you know all this…?” he asked desperately. Looking at the evidence she laid on the table. He knew not a single piece of evidence spoke about apprenticeship. Someone had to have told her that. But who?

Instead of answering, Violet proposed a question of her own. “When we went to the fair when I was younger, did VFD try to kidnap me twice?”

He nodded his head with a defeated sigh.

“Which side? The ones who start the fires or the ones who put them out?”

“Both. The man with the two children...he’s an old associate of mine and your mother’s. He’s too far gone...completely brainwashed. The other two are monsters...people that I’ve spent your entire life keeping you away from!”

“So you willingly ‘volunteer’ for a cult that kidnaps children!?”

“I’ve never kidnapped a child…”

“But you have murdered,”

Lemony just frowned. Unfortunately, he had murdered more than once. There was the night at the opera and that one time during his apprenticeship in Staind-by-the-Sea. But Violet didn’t need to know about both of these incidents.

“Who’s the Snicket Lad?” she asked impatiently throwing the song down on the table.

Lemony rubbed his face again. “That’s not important,”

“They kidnapped you and made you do their bidding. Telling you that it was a wicked thing to do for a noble reason...they brainwashed you. They have you investigating fires that defects of their cult are starting.” Violet cried as she began to ramble, pointing at his investigation board. “But they can’t give you the location of my mother?”

“Violet…it’s complicated,” he replied.

“Who are those kids?” she asked pointing at a picture of a young boy with glasses and an infant with sharp teeth.

“They’re not important…” Lemony lied.

“Really? You have a whole investigation board dedicated to them!” she yelled. “But yet...no investigation board dedicated to finding my mother.”

Lemony opened his mouth to speak, but he decided against it. Anything he would say about the connection between that investigation board and her birth mother would tell her about her mother’s tragic death. Lemony knew she had every right to know...he just did not feel that right now, during her break down and interrogation, was the best time to tell her.

Violet growled and smacked the table again. “ Why won’t you let me meet her? Tell me again...tell me again how I got conveniently separated from her and into your custody?” she asked, her anger fully taking over. Her words were spat out like venom. The look on her face was one that her father didn’t recognize. He knew it was his daughter speaking, but it did not sound or look like her.

“What are you implying?” Lemony asked sternly.

“I saw her marriage proposal retraction, too,” Violet explains, lifting the briefcase onto the table. “You know, my initials aren’t the best combination...pretty obvious,” she remarked.

“Violet! This is enough!”

“Did you kidnap me!? Because this letter clearly states that she was going to work out a plan where I can be raised by you, her and B!”

Lemony was speechless. He didn’t know what to say. Violet was coming at him with so much information, he didn’t know what to say. He couldn’t just tell her that her mother was dead and he was trying to protect her younger half-siblings. Violet began to read the letter aloud to her father. “ After that, you and I can discuss possible arrangements for Violet, so she can grow up with all three of her parents. I am truly sorry, my dear, for the events that have transpired and for the retracted marriage proposal but The Force of Destiny has taken over and has made it impossible for us to be together any longer. But no matter what, I don’t believe that Violet should be punished for things not going the way that we had planned. I hope you agree on this matter. ” She read aloud angrily. “She was willing to share! She was willing to let you raise me as well. It was never going to be just her and it never should have been just you!”

Lemony looked at Violet, speechless. He frowned. He felt defeated. He didn’t know what to say at all. She completely surprised him with this. Violet continued to glare at her father as she opened her mouth to say something, but then she closed her mouth. She sighed.

“What?” Lemony asked.

“Why didn’t you give me back to her? Why didn’t you share me with her? She was willing…”

“Violet...life got in the way. The on the run life was new to me…I had to relocate to protect you! You will never understand the dangers that I have faced...you will never understand what I have sacrificed to keep you safe!”

“You know my whole life...I thought it was me she didn’t want,” Violet stated in a quieter voice than the one she had been using, not even caring.

“Huh?”

“She wanted me,” Violet said to herself then her anger took hold of her again and before she could stop herself, she glared at her father looking him in the eye. “ It was you that she didn’t want! ” She screamed at the top of her lungs.

Lemony was taken aback by what Violet had just said. The truth hit him like a train. Lemony could feel tears forming from his eyes. He quickly wiped them, staying silent. Staring at the heated mess that his daughter was. He was angry. He was disappointed. He was hurt. He was guilt-ridden. But deep down inside, he knew that Violet was right. Beatrice did not want him...she had explained this in a two hundred page letter that his daughter apparently has read. He felt humiliated, he felt destroyed. He ruined all hope of living his happily ever after with Beatrice the moment that he convinced her to steal from their former friend and to commit that double homicide. Now, nearly fifteen years later he has his daughter throwing it into his face. She was placing all the blame for the wrongs in her life on Lemony and he didn’t fault her for that. He understood why she was doing that. He felt that she was correct, he was in the wrong for everything. He has ruined more lives than Count Olaf has, and he hated himself for it. It seemed to him that his daughter would have been better off if he never met up with Beatrice that Thursday so many years ago.

Violet stood there trying to do her best to not show that she was sorry. Trying to show that she didn’t care that her venomous words had hit her father harder than she thought they would. She wasn’t used to making her father cry. She has seen him cry, yes, but the only times that she had made him cry...they were happy cries, proud cries, relieved cries. They were never sorrowful cries. He had never cried due to what she said to him, so it slightly hit her that maybe she had been too harsh.

Lemony stood there for several more moments trying to process what his daughter had just said. He glanced around the room, his eyes focusing on his investigation board. Fuck! He thought. He remembered Jacquelyn’s phone call to him earlier that day, he knew he had to go help the Baudelaires but he couldn’t leave his daughter. Not like this.

He sat down. Violet continued to glare at him.

“What do you want me to say?” he asks still wiping tears from his eyes.

“First, I want you to give up VFD...nothing good will come of it,” she said in a meek voice still trying to hide the fact that she was beginning to feel bad for what she had said.

He rubbed his face while he sighed. “Right now, I can’t do that,” he said finally.

“Why?”

“It’s hard to explain.”

Violet’s anger boiled through her veins again. “Is this why she left you...because you wouldn’t give it up...you convinced her...to murder,” she said in a chilling tone. “ She didn’t want you so you took me to punish her!”

Lemony stood up. “No! That’s not how any of this went, Violet!” as the phone began to ring. Both Violet and Lemony glanced at it. Neither one stood to pick it up.

Violet rolled her eyes. “Oh, look. Your cult is calling...right on time. Let me guess, those kids on that investigation board they want you to kidnap them, don’t they?”

“No…” Lemony said defensively. “It’s not like that! I’m not kidnapping children! I didn’t purposely take you from your mother!”

“I don’t believe you…” she said simply shrugging her shoulders and shaking her head. She watched as her father’s face went pale as he frowned. “Do you blame me? All you’ve done is lie to me,”

Lemony sighed as he began to cry a bit harder now. Still looking at the phone as it rang again. He knew it was Jacquelyn. If she was calling twice, he knew it was bad. Something was happening to the Baudelaires. He would call her back using his taxi phone.

“Give VFD up...whatever they’re calling for, they can handle,” Violet said again. “Just give up your cult…”

“I already told you, I can’t,” Lemony said as he began walking towards the door.

“Where are you going!?” she yelled standing up quickly.

“Back to work,” he said simply.

“You didn’t answer any of my questions! You don’t get to walk away! What’s VFD?!” She screamed.

Lemony turned around to face his daughter, his face was red and tear-stained. He looks her dead in the eye and says, “It’s better if you don’t know,” and with that, he turns to the door again.

This infuriated Violet. “ I hate you!” She screamed in his direction, allowing every ounce of venomous anger to pour from her mouth. “ I hate you!” she screamed again as he didn’t turn around to confront her, he simply kept walking. She rushed to the doorway and peered out of it as she watched him walk away. “ I fucking hate you! Do you hear me? I hate you!” She screamed wiping angry tears from her cheeks. He kept walking down the hallway, wiping the tears from his eyes. He heard the harsh sound of their door slam but he still didn’t turn back. He couldn’t face his daughter right now, she had never said that to him. And because of that, Lemony believed that she meant every word. Lemony’s tears continued to fall even when he reached his taxi, even as he called back Jacquelyn and explained to her that he was on his way to Paltryville.

As Violet slammed the door to her home, she screamed one final time as she slid to the ground in a fit of rage. She couldn’t breathe from how hard she was crying. This interrogation did not go as she planned, although she had a feeling her father would continue to deny and try to cover up his involvement in VFD. She laid on the ground and curled up into a big ball of guilt, anger, and sadness.

I don’t have to tell you that there are times in our lives, where we are either so mad or so sad because we feel betrayed and lied to, and we just say things that we simply do not mean. We say the first irrational things that pop into our minds without thinking of the consequences or impact that our words have on the person that we are saying them to. It is a very common thing, to say these rather mean and impactful words and immediately feel guilty because deep down you know you didn’t mean them. But you said them anyway simply to intentionally hurt the other person.

And sometimes...we may not know it (until it’s too late) but these harsh words could be the last thing we ever say to someone…

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