That is a very interesting question.

Asoue Blog

[natdenouement]

Main Blog: @sadb1tchoclock

I just feel the need to organize my life a little bit more. So here is where I'll be posting Asoue from now on.

[outtagum]

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS + siblings

[wrongitsablog]

kitdewey is like hetslop final boss sorry

[annabellevlee]

"if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives"

[natdenouement]

If asoue happened somewhere in the early 60s, assuming all of the adults are all in their 40s, then almost all of the men would be in the age group that was drafted for world war two. I wonder if they served or if they dodged the draft?

[natdenouement]

Something I do when I write about asoue is I'll combine both book and show canon (cause I can) but honestly I think my work has become more and more tied with book canon then anything else. Unfortunate, lol, not really, I think I just like the book canon more. But there was a time, like a year ago.

[miszmal]

severed family (x)

without the vignette

[junenotjulyoraugust]

Thinking about what those kids went through makes me sick

[victorsqualor]

thinking about esme and olaf and how unnerving it mustve been for esme seeing olaf regress at the sight of the sinister duo.

esme has built her entire persona on constantly having her claws out and her guard up, there hasnt been a day where shes let that down not in years! so to see olaf who is so eerily similar to her in so many ways and the only person who truly understands What They Went Through suddenly become sensitive and not at all like the olaf who she built her trauma bond with, it must scare her so bad

if this can happen to him it can happen to her, and if esme isnt terrifying and powerful who is she? if we take away the performance she's just like olaf. and no one likes olaf

also thinking about esmes incessant need to be liked. she could never get in vfd's good books no matter how hard she tried, so she resorted to using her looks and fashion to get the admiration and love she so deeply craved. if they wont accept her for who she is inside she'll get people to admire her for who she is outside.

but unfortunately this doesnt stop loneliness. and unfortunately people who know her on a deeper level than blind adoration will see right through this disguise. ugh

[i-am-dead-inside-666]

head chef ernest, pastry chef dewey and maitre'd frank hello can you hear me

[i-am-dead-inside-666]

of the young denouements i think Ernest was the most accident prone, i think he was constantly falling down stairs, tripping over nothing and falling flat on his face etc etc. to be fair he was also the most active so whilst dewey watched in admiration and frank watched in mild judgement, he'd be scaling trees and walls and bouncing all over the place. Teachers could tell them apart because one of them was always covered in bruises and that was e

Constantly ill dewey, young dewey's immune system had a dream life and it's living underground and never being in contact with anyone. bless him the poor guy missed a lot of classes being excused for being ill, so he started hanging out in the library instead of his room and accidentally endeared himself to every librarian in the place. Nevermind the fact that hes sneezing and coughing over the books.

Oh frank my socially inept little guy. i believe adult frank who comes across as an overly blunt, too serious occasional asshole- is in fact exactly who he also was at the tender age of ten. he has a problem making friends in a way that ernest and dewey dont seem to and it makes him feel incredibly isolated which in turn makes him decide to keep people at arms length. oh im sick this hc wasnt meant to be sad but ive made myself sad thinking about this now

[i-am-dead-inside-666]

forever mourning who every character in vfd could have been if they weren't kidnapped

[natdenouement]

Lawyer au

Frank is a prosecutor who is held in high esteem, and Ernest is one of the most sought after criminal defense lawyers. The kicker is that they are identical brothers.

Dewey on the other hand is a civil litigation attorney, just trying to avoid any work conversations at the dinner table. Especially when the two have opposing cases.

[loreandchapters]

Is there something wrong with me if my comfort show literally has the word "unfortunate" in it?

[emmettverhoogen]

netflix!canon ≠ book!canon aside, I think it’s really intriguing how esmé reacts in both versions to the orphans’ question about why stealing from them if she’s already filthy rich.

esmé from the books is matter-of-factly, toying around with them, as if it’s all fun and games. we only see how the sugar bowl theft issue isn’t fun at all to her during TSS (from lemony’s perspective, in THH), specially in TPP when she threats dewey and doesn’t flinch at the idea of manipulating a child to very literally murder him with a harpoon gun if he doesn’t tell her the lock code to retrieve her sugar bowl from the laundry room.

netflix’s esmé is much more emotional about it, more possessive, and despite my personal grievances with the show’s changes in her personality and, by extension, her relationship with olaf, I think it does fit a little with who she appears to be in the books.

esmé (in both versions, but book!esmé specifically) is all about façades; she doesn’t bother pretending she’s the kinder woman there ever is, but she’s reserved, at the surface just a vain, self-centered and fashion-focused woman. in the books, we only get to know (part of) what is her deal with beatrice late in TSS, when she wears a coat and implies it was stolen from beatrice; when the sinister duo is around and scheming a wicked scheme even olaf and esmé shivers at; when VFD seems a bigger issue than the baudelaire fortune; when retrieving the sugar bowl before the volunteers is a greater good that demands esmé’s immediate attention more than olaf’s plans to get the fortune (olaf’s personal grudge against beatrice).

netflix!esmé might’ve been more gentle with the orphans at first, but right after klaus’ question (it’s violet in the books, which I think it’s fun bc in TEE she’s the only orphan esmé bothered to learn the name of and it’s said somewhere in the books that violet looks just like beatrice) we get to know esmé and her motives. no mysteries. no pretending it’s all fun. in the book she says; in the show she shouts, stomping her high heels as she walks away as if she’s genuinely offended by such a stupid question with a clear answer. from there, the sugar bowl is her main goal—in TVV, merely some couple days or less after TEE, she even suggests olaf on giving up his goal to go after her sugar bowl. book!esmé only verbalizes that in TSS, when the threat of VFD is real and the sinister duo is present.

all of that might be a huge over exaggeration, and it might not even make much sense considering I’m writing this before bed, but I like to think it’s something cool to ponder.

book!esmé is more offended by the theft, whereas netflix!esmé is (even) more offended by the theft of her sugar bowl. book!esmé cares about the baudelaire fortune as long as olaf’s beside her and aiding her in her own goals (the fortune is the least of her concerns in TPP during all the hotel, VFD and sugar bowl chaos, isn’t it?). netflix!esmé doesn’t even pretend to care—her grudge against beatrice, her incomplete tea set, her missing sugar bowl is much more important than any orphan fortune to the point where her alliance with olaf starts showing the cracks still in TVV (in the books it’s implied in THH, confirmed in TCC, insufferable by TPP; all that in the spawn of nearly two weeks since TVV events).

yet while esmé’s story through the baudelaire’s pov end the same way in both versions, each of those endings only further show how different book!esmé is from netflix!esmé; the first coys when olaf denies there’s a fire, apparently unbothered about the sugar bowl that should be still locked inside the laundry room. netflix!esmé is more vicious, anxious to go after her sugar bowl, whether the orphans or olaf are telling the truth or lying.

not a huge deal, but that’s interesting. I think. esmé seems cold in the books, hiding her cards as long as she can, while she’s emotional in the show, untamed, more attached to what’s hers than what happened to her. her tactic in both universes brought her to the same ending: clashing with olaf, without her sugar bowl.

[feelinmissfeint]

maturing is going from wanting to be in VFD to reeling at what is really is

[i-am-dead-inside-666]

young esme trying to get main roles in the theatre club unrelated to any feelings around b of course - but struggling immensely with learning her lines due to her unsupported dyslexia - spending every audition day pushed to the back and hurt and sadness turn to confusion - why couldnt she just learn the words the way all of her peers seem to do so so easily - confusion turning to anger and anger to hatred

oh she was just a young girl in an environment that punished her for her differences and then punished her further when she got angry about it