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Asoue would be very different if aunt Josephine had a gun.

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fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation

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tragic how prosper lost sent ornette off to live with the talkie brothers so soon after her mother died. he was terrified of losing her to another fire but all she probably wanted was to stay with her dad.

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Prefered cards in Europe

by dalmatian.mapper

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potential scenario where the quagmires, fiona, carmelita, and friday are hanging out

(Because Hector, Widdershins, Fernald, Ernest Denouement, and Miranda Caliban are hanging out, so of course they make the children hang out as well.)

Friday: *looking up from her Cam Jansen book* If you got arrested, what would the charges be?

*Everyone stares at Friday in confusion due to her question*

Friday: I’m reading a mystery book. Cam Jansen just discovered who stole two gold coins.

Everyone: Oh!

Isadora: Theft.

Carmelita: Disturbing the peace.

Duncan: Aggravated assault.

Fiona: Arson.

Quigley: All of the above. In that order, probably.

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post-canon au where...

*Widdershins, Hector, and Miranda are somewhere in the dead of night. A long tiring argument conversation between Hector and Miranda happened on the drive. And it's still going on as the three get out of the van*

Hector: *opening the trunk door* All I'm saying that-

Miranda: *with a shovel in her hand* And I said it's bullshit-

Widdershins: *has enough* Everyone, just calm down, aye!

*Hector and Miranda are quiet*

Widdershins: We're grown ups, let's deal with this like adults!

Hector: So, we're just going to wing it and hope for the best?

Widdershins: Aye, obviously. Now, Miranda, pass the shovel.

*Miranda gives Widdershins the shovel*

*Hector pulls out a body wrap in plastic from the van*

*The body wrap in plastic is Thursday*

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there was once a rumor among those part of the eventually titled original schism generation that ishmael is someone's biological father.

one person in particular, abram widdershins.

it started when many of the future osg members were in high school, back when ishmael still taught chemistry. ishmael always nagged abram. not in a teacher way, but in a fatherly way. ishmael whenever around abram would actually behave himself.

of course, some took it as ishmael not wanting to get into trouble with abram's parents. abram's mother in particular. close with ishmael, mrs. widdershins takes her son's words of concern about poor teachers seriously to where she will get them sack from their job.

and so the rumor died out when everyone graduated. with all of the osg no longer teenagers and now proper adults and volunteers, they see they were just treated with kids gloves by ishmael.

especially abram.

everyone figure that ishmael really didn't want to lose his job from someone on the pta.

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widdershins: lemon-lime soda

hector: ideally jamaica drink, lemon-lime soda because it's common

fernald: whatever he's least repulse by

fiona: root beer; lemon-lime soda if it isn't an option

duncan: dr. pepper; water with half full ice if it isn't an option

isadora: she picks whatever drinks calls to her

quigley: sweet ice-tea; water full of ice if ice-tea isn't an option

bonus:

miranda: water with decent amount of ice (halfway)

friday: ideally lemonade; lemon-lime soda because it's common

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partly how i see their dynamic

*Fernald and Fiona are in the kitchen. Both are running around with their arms up. The pan on the stove is on fire.*

Fernald: *at the top of his lungs* WE NEED AN ADULT!

Fiona: *stops running abruptly* Fernald, you ARE the adult!

Fernald: WE AN ADULTIER ADULT! GET HECTOR!

Fiona: *salutes and does as told*

*thirty seconds later*

*Hector turns off stove, and drops the lid on top of the pan*

Hector: *sighs, and turns to both of them* At least you didn't try to put it out with water...

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even though i personally see all the quagmires with longish hair and the only way to tell them apart is how their hair ends flip (as inspired by the book illustration in taa) and how they do their bangs.

i like and appreciate that netflix in regards with duncan and quigley, has duncan with short kempt hair. and quigley while having the same hair initially, went 'lol i'm gonna grow it out' by his appearance meaning netflix!quigley never like his hair short.

very subtle way to show their personality differences.

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@beatricebidelaire i have not yet written how ernest and carmelita met, but the fic in question will also show how they met! that said!

in my headcanon, carmelita heard of ernest in passing from olaf and esme, and how he has an identical brother name frank (but nothing more they didn't want to 'bother' her vacation even though she has to shoot down a bird later on). esme talks about ernest more, because she got to be executor of the quagmire estate through him. carmelita isn't comfortable hearing how the quagmires' own family allowed them to live in the orphan shack initially.

carmelita and ernest properly meet after the fire. with esme gone (for carmelita was incorrectly announce dead), carmelita hunts down ernest. ernest vaguely knows of carmelita (for esme made reservations at the hotel and mention she took in an adorable little girl from the snow scouts) and he's just '??' with her demanding him to take her back to her real mom and dad. ernest agrees too, because he figures he can drop carmelita to her real family who he planned a good, long lecture of her parent's irresponsibility for not searching for her after her kidnapping and then leave the city for good, for he has no family left in the city, and he is done with vfd and wants out.

does any mutuals want to tell me something about what they’ve written lately. like maybe a short snippet or plot point or cut scene or fun fact or character development or interesting dialogue. preferably snicketverse but doesn’t have to be. just kind of feeling like i have been out of touch with writing snicketverse for too long (or writing anything in general) that im losing the ….. connection with writing snicketverse. just want to get into the …. vibe of it i guess (?

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the denouement triplets have this .... game / brother bonding activity where they occasionally put on a disguise and go to stay at hotel preludio or other hotels in the city for information gathering purposes. spy shenanigans but for rival hotels kind of thing. the game was started by dewey and ernest, they thought it would be a fun thing to do - and also to engage in spy shenanigans that are non-vfd related. they already do too many vfd related spy things and those are complicated, sometimes against each other, tiring, and comes with a lot of messy relationships to deal with, guilt to carry, and all that. and they thought it'd be a change of pace to do spy shenanigans not against each other, not causing rift between brothers, not related to their daily vfd work. something they're on the same team/side together.

so they would go to other hotels (mostly hotel preludio, the Main Rival) and observe what are the latest changes, to see if the hotel's making any renovations, any new ideas, etc. corporate espionage, dewey says. started out as just a game, something fun to do together, but they then they soon start incorporating things they see into their own hotel business as well, getting competitive.

eventually dewey also manages to rope frank into the game. they would take turns going out to stay at the different hotels (they can't really go together because it's best to have two managers at the hotel at any given time, not just for hotel business but also vfd business) (plus, twins/triplets showing up together increases the chance of being recognized, even if they put on some kind of disguise). sometimes one of their friends would go along as well. it's also a way for dewey to just, get out of the hotel, play a different role, play someone who's not him, just for a couple of nights. sometimes he and bertrand would pose as aspiring musicians from some small town outside of the city.

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post-canon, isadora once compared widdershins to the (at the time) pringles logo.

isadora meant it as an insult; she thinks that widdershins' mustache is similar to the pringles man's mustache, and she thought it as dorky.

widdershins took the insult as to his hairstyle; widdershins at the time had his bangs similarly done as pringles man. promptly the next day, widdershins asked isadora herself to give him a new hairstyle.

isadora (with hector's guidance; hector has no idea why widdershins wanted a thirteen year old girl to cut his hair specifically but in good faith assumed it was a way for them to bond) took this chance to get rid of his bangs completely.

and widdershins genuinely liked the new bang-free look.

(isadora screamed into her pillow when returning to her bedroom because she can't believe widdershins liked her terrible styling).

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the almost different generations fernald and fiona have is like, something i think is even more on the nose when applying the theory friday is their half sibling (or full sibling).

fiona and friday are in the same generation (unfortunate gen) with a normal-accepted age difference siblings can have (fiona is ~16, with friday being ~7 or ~8).

and we have fernald, who is lump with the previous generation (sugar bowl gen) and he's in his late twenties or very early thirties. really, it depends on how old or young of a teenager fernald was when fiona was born + when the photo was taken.

like. think about it. in a no vfd life, fernald would probably be graduating high school and fiona would be starting kindergarten or first grade. fernald would maybe be graduating college when friday is born, or a year or away from it.

fernald probably has to start paying for his own insurance at 25 or 26 while fiona and friday are still covered by their parents' insurance. the man has to pay taxes online for free while his sisters are looking over his shoulder and seeing him stress the f out over his w-2 form.

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Randomity: Another Surprise Appearance

[Chit-Chat Time Among the Quagmires]

Quigley and his siblings continue to wait for Hector to come out of the post office, sitting on the nearby wooden bench. The three passed the time by telling stories. In particular, stories of one Carmelita Spats. Duncan and Isadora have more stories than Quigley though. And there’s one story that Quigley thinks as the odd one out.

It was a story where Duncan broke his pacifism —Quigley can’t believe he missed it— to punch one of Carmelita’s former friends. Former friend, for Carmelita defended Duncan’s actions to the gym teacher not long afterwards.

“I still can’t believe she backed you up!” exclaims Isadora. “I was so certain Carmelita was going to make it worse by exaggerating what you did!”

“Maybe she thought she was going to get a reward from it,” says Quigley. “Carmelita did do good deeds in the Snow Scouts if she got something from it.”

“I don’t think so,” says Duncan. “I can understand why you think that, Quigley. You and Isadora. I think Carmelita, in that situation, was—”

RUSTLE!

[~What Kind of Animal, I Don't Know~]

“Um…you don’t think we’re being watch, are we?” asks Isadora. She feels her heartbeat racing faster. She truly hopes it isn’t that she fears it could be.

“Well, there are a lot of pigeons around here,” says Duncan, gesturing to the flock of pigeons before them all, cooing every so often.

“Then where’s the pigeon, Duncan?” asks Quigley. “Assuming it’s a bird that took flight, where it is then? There’s no way we just missed it taking off!”

“There’s a simple explanation for this,” replies Duncan, softly clapping his hands together. “It might not be a pigeon, but another animal roaming around. I bet it was a squirrel, or a chipmunk, or maybe a—”

RUSTLE!

“Okay, I’m pretty sure it’s not a small animal, Duncan!” Quigley quickly stands on top of the wooden bench, and starts to hug himself tight. “It’s something bigger! I think it’s a person!”

“I agree with Quigley!” Isadora joins Quigley on standing on top of the wooden bench. “Someone is watching us! What if-what if V.F.D. is watching us!?”

 [You Won 't Believe Who Has a Self-Defense Weapon]

Duncan runs a hand through his black hair, and closes his eyes. He gives a deep sigh, and then reopens his eyes. “I’m pretty sure V.F.D. isn’t stupid enough to watch us this close up. But if they are, to the volunteer listening right behind us, you’re a dumbass.”

Duncan then carefully pulls out the Swiss army knife from his coat pocket. It was given to him by Hector, for Hector deem Duncan the only Quagmire to be trustworthy of it, and carefully pulls out the small blade.

“I’m not sure why you think we’ll join the organization that ruined our lives and got our parents —and others— kill, but let me tell you now: we’re not fucking joining,” continues Duncan, as he takes the long route to get behind the wooden bench behind them, where all the shrubs are at.

“You even ruined the life of the bully who made our lives miserable,” says Duncan coldly. “Carmelita Spats deserves a chance to learn and mature. She has the potential, from what I seen of her. But now? Who knows!”

RUSTLE!

“Show yourself, cowards!” Duncan breaks out into a sprint, and jumps at the shrubs.

But no one is there.

[Running Because Your Life Depends On It]

Carmelita catches her breath. She uses her free hand to keep her standing against the coffee shop brick wall. Carmelita regrets not waiting inside the shop. She should have listened, but NOPE! She wanted to stay outside! She wanted to prove that no harm will come to her when alone. That she will be safe, especially from the organization they’re still hiding from.

Ernie agreed with a compromise: stay outside, but only around the block. And the block is rather small. So, Carmelita does that. What she didn’t except is that within the same block were the Quagmires. Is finding them a total coincidence? Lady Fortune deciding to mess around? Really, the world can’t be this small!

“Out of all the orphans in the world to find and eavesdrop on, it has to be them,” says Carmelita quietly. She leans her back against the brick wall, and slumps to the ground.

As much as she wants to be selfish —to keep it a secret— it’s only fair the Quagmires know that they have family still alive. Carmelita can’t deprive them of that.

It’s best to tell Ernie that his cousin’s children are alive. When is what is on her mind.

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Hector (a series of unfortunate events)

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