#beatrice & olaf

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VFD Yearbook

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asoue + tumblr

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asoue text posts (part 2 is up check the tag)

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me 🤝 slipping v.f.d. into everyday conversations and praying someone understands me

[fistfightinganxietyandlosing]

I don't like A Series of Unfortunate Events because of everything we know about its characters and world. Rather, I like it for everyone we don't know.

[beatricebidelaire]

Esme is the only one who gets it.

She's the only one understands hating Beatrice, understands revenge against Beatrice, understand the need, the desire to destroy Beatrice. Everyone else doesn't get it. The volunteers, the idiot bunch, adore her. But those on his own side haven't been smart enough to get him either.

Sure, neither Georgina nor Ernest cares for Beatrice. Then again, Georgina doesn't care about Beatrice, in the same manner that she doesn't care about most people. She does not like her, in the same way she does not like most people. She's absolutely unimpressed by her and finds her overrated, obviously - but just as she does not care for Beatrice, she does not care for spending her time hating her, either. She considers Beatrice irrelevant, and therefore while she would harm Beatrice if that's to her own benefits, she never had any strong desire of revenge. And while Ernest never liked Beatrice either and seemed to harbor some specific resentment towards her that Olaf never quite get, he does not hate her in the same way. Olaf doubts he could understand the betrayal by Beatrice.

So, there's really only Esme.

He appreciates her for that, even if he doesn't voice it. Neither of them are sentimental like that.

Still, occasionally, he gets suddenly very bitter. Sure, Esme gets it, gets what it feels like to be betrayed by Beatrice, wants revenge on Beatrice as much as he does. But what right did she have to feel those same feelings?

So Beatrice stole her sugar bowl. How is that even close to comparable with what she did to him? How could that ever come close? A stupid piece of teaset that Esme didn't even care about that much in the first place anyway. Sure, she gets him like no one else could, in this respect, but fuck her, what right did she have, how dare she thinks the two are the same, he thinks, angrily and bitterly.

No one gets it like him.

No one, he decides. Not even Esme. The only person who completely gets what he feels, the hatred in him - is probably Beatrice.

It's always been him and B.

No one else.

He hates her.

He misses her.

He's going to kill her one day. It won't be quick, it won't be soon, because he's going to take his time, because it's going to be elaborate, because he's going to make her suffer. And if anyone dare do it first and rob him of his chance, he'll kill them for that.

[miszmal]

child/preteen-aged beatrice wearing a frog-themed outfit? idk it just appeared in my head at the exact second i saw you were looking for art prompts, so-

oh, or also b&o with black nail polish, half of which is spilled everywhere, half of which is being used to paint their nails with.

i'm obsessed with your art by the way. have a nice train ride!

i always imagined olaf as having a secondary role backstage on costumes in the vfd theatre productions. based on this image

B: This is pretty garish, even for you, O. Garish means 'tacky', by the way.

O: Take your big words to the idiot that chose to put on Beatrix Potter, B.

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its killing me because everytime i think of the prufrock prep drama department all i can see them as is the glee club

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Sugar bowl generation edit

My tiktok :)

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asoue + reductress

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ASOUE Character Playlists

You can find the list of ship playlists (both romantic and platonic) here

Violet Baudelaire

Klaus Baudelaire

Sunny Baudelaire

Beatrice II

Quigley Quagmire

Carmelita Spatz

Count Olaf

Esmé Squalor

Beatrice Baudelaire

Dr. Georgina Orwell

Kit Snicket

Jacques Snicket

Lemony Snicket

Jerome Squalor

Geraldine Juliene

Olivia Caliban (Book!Verse)

Olivia Caliban (Show!Verse)

Jacquelyn Scieszka

VFD

I am constantly editing/changing these, most of them aren't really in a coherent order yet and some of them are currently ridiculously short because I haven't quite found the niche of songs for that character yet, but hey! Here you go ^.^ (also I will be making and linking a masterpost for each one explaining why I chose all of the songs, but if anyone ever has any song recommendations or wants to know about a specific song that's already on there, feel free to send me an ask!)

[morgangalaxy43]

A series of unfortunate events is the gateway drug to writing angsty fanfiction and making your characters suffer and be traumatized constantly like Lemony Snicket with everyone in his books (except Count Olaf, he got what he deserved)

[snicketstrange]

Sunny's Age and Lemony's Lies: An Investigation into the Great Hiatus

So, more and more my theory of the Great Hiatus seems to make more sense. Recalling, I defend the idea that the Masked Ball where Lemony was arrested happened many years after the main events described in TE. The Ball happened between the publication of the book TWW and TMM in the asoue universe. An important concept is that the books were originally published over many years.

Although TBB began to be written during the main events of asoue, TBB and TRR were only published at least 2 years after the main events described in asoue. TWW was published sometime shortly after TRR. But TMM was published many years after the publication of TWW. These years of hiatus, is what I call the Great Hiatus. Some events in the asoue universe that happened during the Great Hiatus were the Masked Ball, one of Lemony's false deaths, one of Lemony's escapes abroad, the closing of Prufrock-Prep, and evidently the sending of the original TMM to the editor.During the Masked Ball, Lemony tried to tell a supposed Beatrice something about Count Olaf.

According to this chronology, the only thing that would be relevant for a supposed Beatrice to know was the fact that "Count Olaf is Dead." Olaf died on a desert island. Olaf's death was not known to the general public, but it was known to Lemony, as evidently Lemony was on the island.

But the right question is: why would Lemony think it important that this information should reach a supposed Beatrice? That's because the reason that would lead a supposed Beatrice not to expose herself to the public was the fact that, in theory, Beatrice believed that as long as her death was accepted as true, at least one of her children would be kept alive by Count Olaf so he could recover the inheritance when the surviving child turned 18. If Beatrice showed herself alive, the inheritance would not be any of her children's but Beatrice's herself. So none of the children would have a reason to be kept alive by Count Olaf. Therefore she, in theory, needed to be regarded as dead. And that's why Lemony emphasizes so much that Beatrice is dead, even though he believes she may be alive. He tries not to alarm her and reinforce her pretense.

I want to make clear that all this is valid both in the case where Beatrice survived the fire and in the case where she died in the fire. Because it doesn't matter the truth, what matters is what Lemony believes to be true, and what he decides to do with his beliefs: reveal them or distort them for a greater good he believes to be a greater good. Lemony believes that lying is sometimes good and necessary. Even if he were right to say that Beatrice was dead, when he wrote that, he believed she was alive. So, he lied when he said she was dead. And all this can be seen by analyzing Sunny's age.

How old was Sunny when she arrived on the island? I can say more than 1 year, because of her behavior and the events mentioned in the story. Lemony claims he spent 14 years trying to talk about Count Olaf with Beatrice. But we have a limit for this subject to be relevant. When Sunny turned 18, if she was still in Olaf's clutches, he would find a way to cash the money and kill Sunny afterward. So, it wouldn't make sense for Beatrice to hide from Olaf anymore. If after discovering Olaf was dead, Lemony still tried to pass this information on to Beatrice, it's because he believed Beatrice believed Olaf had killed Klaus and Violet and preserved Sunny to cash the money. (It is interesting that Olaf tried to do exactly that at the end of TCC). Considering that Sunny spent 1 year on the island and Lemony didn't get there during that time, we can conclude that Sunny was at least 2 years old when she left the island, with the most likely being that she was 3 or 4 years old when she left the island. If Lemony got to the island during the year that followed and then found out that Olaf was dead (and also found the Baudelaires' notes), we can conclude that he spent the next 14 years trying to pass this information on to Beatrice, according to his own words, until the day of the Masked Ball.

This means that in the meantime he published 3 books, purposefully lying to the general public by saying that Beatrice was dead, when he believed she was alive.

That's why he couldn't complete the sentence for the general public. "Count Olaf is dead" would reveal that he believed Beatrice was alive.

It is interesting to note however, that evidence points to Beatrice in fact dying in her house fire, and that the woman Lemony thought was Beatrice was actually an imposter. Apparently that's what R meant to Lemony in the letter recorded in LSTUA chapter 2. "That girl was flammable." "Analyze these photos." "Impostors nearby in disguise". "Beatrice is far from reclaiming lost property." These hidden messages seem to be trying to tell Lemony, "Beatrice really is dead." And R only had to pass this message on to Lemony because he believed Beatrice was alive. This belief of Lemony's also explains why he was so alarmed when studying the city's underground, because he investigated possible survivors of fires hidden in fountains.

This deepens our understanding of the concept of unreliable narrators. Lemony Snicket becomes one of the most unique examples I've come across. He embodies the following notion: "One can tell an untruth without lying, simply by being mistaken. And one can tell the truth while lying, also by being mistaken." This intricate interplay of perceptions and realities adds another layer of complexity and intrigue to the narrative.

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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~)