Spotted at Grand Central, bags in hand, {RAMI MALEK}. No, that’s a mistake. It’s {MARIUS PONTMERCY}, they are a {CANON CHARACTER} and come from {LES MIS}. They are {TWENTY-SEVEN} and I’ve heard they are {GOOD-NATURED}, as well {UNOBSERVANT}. They happen to hold {NO} memories. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.
Welcome to New York, what is your character’s name?
Marius Pontmercy
Where have they been pulled from in their fandom?
Marius has been pulled from the moment he was shot on the barricade and has been in New York for four years.
With the curse, how has your character’s life changed?
The circumstances of Marius’ life, or what he believes them to be, have changed. Instead of being raised by a controlling and unkind grandfather, Marius was raised by his parents in upstate New York. He moved down to the city for college and law school.
Do they have a job, and if so what is it?
Marius is a lawyer, specialising in civil rights law.
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You know that that post where op says that they have a smart from who asked them if there were calories in soap? Marius is that friend. He’s book smart but not... life smart.
He means well, can be very oblivious at times and might say the wrong thing.
Spotted at Grand Central, bags in hand, USMAN ALLY. No, that’s a mistake. It’s FERNALD WIDDERSHINS, they are a CANON CHARACTER and come from A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. They are THIRTY-SIX and I’ve heard they are PHILOSOPHICAL, as well SYCOPHANTIC. They happen to hold NO memories. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.
welcome to new york! what is your character’s name?
fernald widdershins - one name he likes, another name that his feelings toward are...... complicated. some ppl might also call him hooky, ferndale, ferdinand, the cakesniffer that is not family, etc. etc.
where / when have they been pulled from in their fandom?
going from both the show and books, fernald has been pulled from the uncertain time after he and fiona commandeered the carmelita - a short time, relatively speaking, after he left what still existed of olaf’s troupe, and a long time after he probably should have. the submarine co-captains were on a mission to find their missing stepfather, and just when it seemed they had found him and their whole family would be reunited at last - fernald went missing in the chaos, and found himself climbing out of the subway entrance nearest to his university, blinking and clearing from his mind what must have been just a very fraughtful daydream
do they have a job, and if so - what is it?
in this production, fernald will be playing the role of the long-suffering grad student! he’s working his way towards a phD in marine biology, and is employed as a TA for the undergraduate program. he’s definitely underpaid, and definitely looking for other work - possibly putting his secondary degree in theatrical arts to use
what with the curse and all, how has your character’s life changed?
fernald was just about to be happy, so of course it is now time to be Sad. speaking in a fairly non-specific way, fernald’s quality of life is set somewhere halfway between his life in olaf’s troupe and his life once he had been reunited with his sister. he doesn’t remember or know the man who’d encouraged him down a path with more murder, arson, and kidnapping than he was really comfortable with; he doesn’t remember how he did a terrible thing for a noble reason, and paid for it.
but he is still distant from his family. fernald believes he and his stepdad fell out after he pursued theatre along with marine biology in his first stint at university - it unraveled several years’ of pent-up frustration about his stepdad’s controlling nature, and eventually their fight grew to such a point that it ended with fernald, practically, disowned. widdershins discouraged contact between fernald and his sister, and though he loves and cares for fiona very much, he hasn’t been in contact with her for years now
basically, the guy is in a very similar position as he had been right before he joined count olaf’s troupe - just without the sheer, crushing levels of self-loathing that comes with the knowledge that one had to betray every ideal held dear to protect them, only to be shunned by everyone one cares about because of the act that protection took. still worryingly vulnerable and open to manipulation
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THE LOWDOWN ON THE ELDEST WIDDERSHINS (og captain nonwithstanding)
fernald widdershins -- or, depending on how early one is in their reading/watching of asoue, hooky/the hook-handed man!! resident baby-whisperer and Guy Who Exclusively Fixes Vegetarian Meals
netflix asoue did such a good job at expanding his character that most inspiration will come from there, ngl, with some book inspiration thrown in for morally-grey flavor
also Guy With Terrible Taste In Romantic Interests, but honestly that could prob describe about half the people in this series
man’s got a heart of gold and hooks of iron
so desperate for love and approval he hitched his wagon to the first person who showed it to him after he burnt down anwhistle aquatics, and barely looked back
fernald was previously a firefighter of v. f. d., a research assistant at gregor and ike anwhistle’s laboratory in The Sea, and a member of count olaf’s troupe (mostly understudy/musical accompaniment work)
beware utter headcanon territory! in the years before he set the anwhistle aquatics fire, fernald was increasingly distanced from his fellow members of v. f. d. after he began to confront gregor over the senior researcher’s dangerous engrossment in the medusoid mycelium. this was done with purpose to keep the information about the mycelium isolated to the laboratory. so, when push came to shove and fernald set the fire, he had few allies within v. f. d., and none who knew or understood the truth of his actions. count olaf was the first person he had known in years that didn’t immediately treat him with disgust or disdain, and the first friendly face he’d seen in years... so it was little wonder that fernald decided he’d rather commit a series of morally dubious acts than to go back to that terrible loneliness and judgement
plEASe if you’d like to do anything w/ fernald, just hmu or leave me a reply and i’ll come to you!! desperate for approval/attention son will be so happy no matter what (red flag red flag redfLAG RED FLAG)
Spotted at Grand Central, bags in hand, {ABIGAIL COWEN}. No, that’s a mistake. It’s {ANNA}, they are a/an {CANON} and come from {FROZEN}. They are {TWENTY} and I’ve heard they are {OPTIMISTIC}, as well {NAIVE}. They happen to hold {NO} memories. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.
hello hello. my name is caroline, and this is my precious ray of sunshine princess anna of arendelle. depending on my schedule, she will be first of the many musical? babes i bring around these parts. you’ll catch me online at the weirdest times in the days and nights, and i’m so not sorry in advance. also this is under construction as i still get a grasp on anna and her backstory rn.
Welcome to New York, what is your character’s name?
originally known as princess anna of arendelle, she’s now known as anna solberg.
Where have they been pulled from in their fandom?
anna was pulled a good while after the final events of the animated film / musical and some time after the shorts. basically, anna was happily living her best life with her sister, snowman best friend, and her mountain man fiancee.
With the curse, how has your character’s life changed?
(( still under heavy construction ; subject to change ))
still lived a very sheltered life.
while her parents remained alive, they were distant and busy people, often leaving anna to her own devices
thus, she developed quite the imagination. her favorite game to play was to come up with stories behind photos and drawings. this eventually led to her love of art.
as she grew older, anna grew tired of her isolated life. her imagination could only take her so far, so she started applying to universities all over. she settled on nyu, because it provided the exact opposite of her current lifestyle. she hasn’t turned back since.
Do they have a job, and if so what is it?
anna is currently a student at nyu, where she studies art history. she is a student worker in the art department, where she mostly works in the archives. during summers / extended breaks, she also works some miscellaneous jobs (retail, waitressing, etc) to pay the bills.
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in terms of canon memories, she doesn’t remember much. however, she does have a recurring dream where she is locked in a room, literally feeling like she’s freezing to death. she always wakes up terrified, grasping for all the blankets within her reach (even if she’s covered in sweat). similar dreams include visions of important people in her life, but she can never quite pinpoint who they are or why they keep appearing to her.
Spotted at Grand Central, bags in hand, {JUDE LAW}. No, that’s a mistake. It’s {LEMONY SNICKET}, they are a {CANON CHARACTER} and come from {A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS}. They are {THIRTY-FOUR} and I’ve heard they are {DETERMINED}, as well {DRAMATIC}. They happen to hold {THEIR} memories.
Welcome to New York, what is your character’s name?
Lemony Snicket!
Where have they been pulled from in their fandom?
He has been pulled from a few years after the series! He believes both his siblings dead, his niece lost, and is still very disillusioned with the VFD. But he has started to compile the stories of the Baudelaire children as a sort of penance for losing his siblings and blaming himself for their mother’s death. Which happens to be a ridiculous pursuit when he’s constantly on the run and considered dead.
With the curse, how has your character’s life changed?
While researching exactly WHAT happened to the Baudelaires after, Lemony found a lead which led him to try to find them in New York in order to find them and get every single aspect of the story from them (particularly what happened to Sunny on Mount Fraught). He somehow managed to get to New York in a time that is not his own in a world that is not his own. But ya know, he’s gonna deal with it. All in the name of researching the Baudelaire case.
He’s still dramatic. Prone to midnight flights out of fire escapes and throwing himself on couches.
Do they have a job, and if so what is it?
Currently, he does not. However, his representative, Daniel Handler, in contact with him and has just procured a book deal for his two finished manuscripts, The Bad Beginning and The Reptile Room, in hopes that the public story will lead him directly to information about what happened to the children after the hotel.
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How I’m assuming the timeline to gorging before/after the schism:
1. Lemony proposes to Beatrice
2. The Opera Incident happens
3. Lemony retracts said proposal, gives Bertrand the go ahead
4. Masquerade Ball Incident happens, Olaf figures out Beatrice killed his father, not Lemony
5. Lemony manages to convince Olaf (again) it was him that made Beatrice throw the dart.
6. Lemony fakes his death, thinking that Olaf will not go after anyone else (as usual, boy is WRONG)
If you are at all involved in this timeline let me know and we can work out a coherent one!
Spotted at Grand Central, bags in hand, {EMILIA CLARKE}. No, that’s a mistake. It’s {DAENERYS TARGARYEN}, they are a/an {CANON} and come from {GAME OF THRONES}. They are {TWENTY FIVE} and have no memories. I’ve heard they are {POISED}, as well {IMPULSIVE}. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.
Welcome to New York, what is your character’s name?
Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons.
Or Dany, whatever works. She just says it’s a greek name.
Where have they been pulled from in their fandom?
Dany has been pulled from the moment she arrived at Dragonstone for the first time since she’d been younger, when she arrived with her court.
With the curse, how has your character’s life changed?
In this new life, Dany grew up a daughter of NYC politicians, and she was expected by her family and people who know her to follow the steps of her name. She majored in political sciences at Columbia University, which made her change her mind about perhaps pursuing that path, which she was originally reluctant about.
Do they have a job, and if so what is it?
Currently she’s the Borough president of Brooklyn, which she didn’t expect to ever be, but she did it...
somehow...
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She’s outspoken when she sees something she doesn’t like, even if she’s not the most sociable person ever. You’ll find her in marches and protests, but she’d rather spend her time at home than socializing.
She has a pet iguana who she named Rhaella after her mum, and she’d rather be around her than talk to most people. If you have reptile pets she’ll instantly like you.If you have any complaints please call her, but not to her personal phone or she will track it and set you on fire to roast marshmallows.
Spotted at Grand Central, bags in hand, {TOM HOLLAN}. No, that’s a mistake. It’s {DIMITRY SUDAYEV}, they are a {CANON CHARACTER} and come from {ANASTASIA}. They are {TWENTY-FOUR} and have no memories. I’ve heard they are {CLEVER}, as well {STUBBORN}. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.
Welcome to New York, what is your character’s name?
Dimitry Sudayev. Honestly though, the spelling of it changes on a regular basis because I swear 12 different people spell this kid’s name 12 different ways.
Where have they been pulled from in their fandom?
Okay, so my Dima will be a mix of both movie and musical because both of them are incredible. So, I’m thinking that he’s been pulled from when they get to Paris and he’s just starting to figure out that this Anya kid who has been an absolute pain in his side is both a) not as horrible as he first thought, and b) might actually be the grand duchess who waved to him exactly once from a carriage.
With the curse, how has your character’s life changed?
With the curse, Dimitry knows nothing about his life in Russia. He also doesn’t know that he’s been pulled nearly a hundred years into the future. Dimitry believes that he was born to teenage parents who were in way over their heads raising a kid. His mom eventually decided that she couldn’t handle it anymore and moved across the country to California in order to escape the life she had once had in New York. So, it was only Dimitry and his dad. The two were close, and his dad instilled a love of the city in him. They used to spend hours walking through Central Park after his dad got off work to look at the way the lights of the city bounced off the sky.
Eventually though, things took a wrong turn. His father, desperate to make some extra money, began dabbling in illegal affairs and was arrested. In jail, he got into a fight with someone much bigger than him. The man drew a makeshift knife and Dimitry was an orphan before his eleventh birthday. For the next seven years, he was bounced from group home to foster home, but was always trying to run away.
When he turned eighteen, he was officially released from the system and he got a job working with an old friend of his dad’s at a car dealership. It turned out that he was pretty good charming the customers and talking up hunks of junk into making someone else think it was something magnificent. It’s not the best paying job, but as long as he keeps getting commission, it definitely works to pay the bills.
Do they have a job, and if so what is it?
Dimitry is a used car salesman. Basically, I sat here and went ‘what’s the closest thing we have to a modern day conman?’ and settled on that. Honestly though, shout out to all the actual super good car salesmen, ya’ll the real MVP okay. I just bought a car and that man was a hERO LET ME TELL YOU.
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wants to travel the world and get rich
would like to go back to school to get a business degree. too much money though
has a music box that he believes belonged to his mother
not a fan of dogs
stubborn af
not really anything you need to know about the character but look at this picture of me and derek klena. not my good angle but i was shaking because anastasia was incredible last december
Spotted at Grand Central, bags in hand, {EMILY BETT RICKARDS}. No, that’s a mistake. It’s {FELICITY SMOAK}, they are a {CANON CHARACTER} and come from {ARROW}. They are {TWENTY-SEVEN} and have no memories. I’ve heard they are {INTELLIGENT}, as well {AWKWARD}. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.
Welcome to New York, what is your character’s name?
This beautiful cinnamon roll is Felicity Megan Smoak, but her closest friends call her Lis.
Where have they been pulled from in their fandom?
She was pulled from her canon right after she gets shot in 4x09. She passed out in Oliver's arms, next thing she woke up in a gorgeous Upper East Side penthouse without any memories.
With the curse, how has your character’s life changed?
Felicity is still a genius that only needs a wifi connection and three minutes to hack the shit out of you, but she's no longer just an IT girl and she obviously isn't the Overwatch anymore. Born and raised in Las Vegas, she wanted more than following her mother’s steps. She went to MIT and graduated Summa Cum Laude in three years. She went to college when she was 15 and graduated when she was 19. She remembers Starling City, she worked in the I.T. department at Queen Consolidated for a while, however, she never met anyone from that family. Received a wonderful job offer and moved to NYC when she was 21.
Do they have a job, and if so what is it?
She founded Smoak Technologies and she has been the CEO for four years. The most ultimate and exclusive technology comes from it. It also has a medical division because this cupcake wants to make this world a better place.
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Excellent hacker -- she can break into any system, you name it.
Awkward genius that’s too pure for this world.
She's just really sweet and deserves better than the shitty Arrow writers.
She dyes her hair blonde, natural black hair, but there was a time she was blonde with pink (Yes, because I adore that and it might come back).
Chocolate mint chip and red wine is the way to her heart, also coffee.
She's v happy here, but she's still a trouble magnet.
She always speaks her mind without thinking about it first.
Has a thing for red pens, and she’s always chewing on it.
Uses humor and jokes to hide her emotions.
Really emotional, she always follows her heart and that will be her downfall.
Spotted at Grand Central, bags in hand, RACHEL WEISZ. No, that’s a mistake. It’s KIT SNICKET, they are a CANON CHARACTER and come from A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. They are THIRTY-ONE and I’ve heard they are DISCERNING, as well BRASH. They happen to hold THEIR memories. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.
welcome to new york! what is your character’s name?
kit katherine snicket ; firefighting volunteer, occasional fortune-teller and taxi driver. consumer of tea as bitter as wormwood. pretending to not have her true memories.
where / when have they been pulled from in their fandom?
the last thing kit can remember before she suddenly found herself waking in this new vexing and fallacious dwelling was medusoid mycelium crawling down her throat on an otherwise ideal island, fingers numb and falling limp as the baudelaires cradled newborn beatrice and promised that kit snicket’s daughter, though orphan she may be, would not grow up alone
— or, when i’m not just trying to stretch writin’ muscles that have gotten too used to academia, kit’s story has picked up rather unusually after her death in THE END (both episode and novel). she had died of a vile fungus, comma deadly, shortly after giving birth to her daughter whose custody she had entrusted to the baudelaire orphans. she remembers recently losing her brothers, one to death and another to his misery and exile, and her parents much less so. she remembers giving one of her last goodbyes to a wicked man whose one kind deed she can’t forgive the rest of his treachery for, but to whom she still owed a life and more. her last repayment could only be a short stanza from a long and complicated poem. she remembers her heart breaking twice, the first composed of so many crumbling increments of a once-noble organization and the second for a man first among brothers and second among an underground librarians (both literal and figurative). but most of all, she remembers beatrice baudelaire ii, the last in a long line of failings she needs to make up for.
do they have a job, and if so - what is it?
kit works at a kitschy alternative tea shop, where her position alternates depending on whether she keeps making the tea more bitter than the customer requests. on those days she gets shunted into the back, or into occasional tarot readings since the owners discovered she has some theatricality and training with it. it becomes difficult to not put on a vaguely european accent or remark upon the virtues of deciding one’s own fate whenever that’s requested, however.
what with the curse and all, how has your character’s life changed?
there were definitely some adjustments necessary - not only had kit just suddenly woken up from her definite reality of being dead (though she cannot honestly say this has been her first flirtation), but this new york was unlike one she had ever experienced. not only were technologies congruent and the entire city utterly devoid of code, but her reliable expectations of municipal aristocracies have been completely pulled out from under her. her initial attempts to contact those who might remain of her once-noble organization were quickly stoppered when she could not locate a reliable telegraph anywhere, and olive jars at local grocers lay infuriatingly unspecific.
so safe to say, kit quickly found herself a regular fish out of water, her only relevant skills those she had picked up from her own varied interests and inordinately ordinary assignments. the moment she realized something was amiss in the city, spontaneous appearances, fuzzed memories and personalities scattered in the people who passed through the tea shop, was the exact moment she felt warm comfort settling in her spine at the case of a spectacular scheme to be investigated.
kit spends most of her time at her work or freely wandering the streets of new york, occasionally under a cloak of night. in this city whose volunteer firefighters align most with the literal definition, she is trying to be the most noble member of a more distinguished volunteer fire department she can be, hitting the pavement and chatting with nearly all she comes across until she can uncover the mystery behind new york city.
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yea! so, first off before any deeper introduction to kit’s canon-wise character as it stands below — kit has maintained all her memories, and always has, but apart from the first few days in the city during which she had been running around chicken-without-a-head-style, she has adapted a disguise in which she pretends to be an ordinary kit snicket, just another new yorker. as a V.F.D. member, after all, she is equipped with the training necessary to slide into an alternate identity when a sussing out of friends and foes is needed. if she undoubtedly trusts someone, she will let them in — otherwise, she does her best to keep up her facade.
anyway! i’m going to be pulling from both book and tv canon for kit - } a noble member on the firefighting side of the schism in the V.F.D., or Volunteer Fire Department. kit is one of the snicket siblings, twin sister to jacques and one of the last surviving snickets along with her younger brother lemony. kit was shrewd and a very practical child, though as likely as either of her siblings to throw herself into trouble for a good cause. she attended Prufrock Prepatory School twice, once as a student and later as an English teacher, during which she required V.F.D. readings of all her students — a requirement that ended when the vice principal quickly fired her (continuing, however, for the two students she grabbed on the way out for their V.F.D. recruitment)
as a member of the V.F.D. herself, kit was engaged in multiple missions involving the dousing of fires both figurative and literal. she was once arrested trying to break into a museum in order to steal an artifact back to its rightful place, and once helped construct a submarine. she also masterfully constructed a chilled salad recipe that included mangoes and black beans among other items. most notable, however, was a certain mission that included poison darts, a sugar bowl, and the assassination of members of a family that might have been as noble as her now-splitting organization. whether or not kit feels any guilt for the death(s?) of olaf’s parent(s?)... well, she regrets any vile act, and this one’s particular role in the deepening schism, but this is another secret she’ll keep close to her heart.
kit didn’t have much time for relationships as she globe-trotted for the V.F.D., but at some point she did love a certain melodramatic count and shared with him an ill-kept secret of adoration for sad poetry. in the later years of the schism, her path fell in with the eldest denouement, and she and dewey began preparing for a life together.
kit loves secrets and secrecy ; it’s integral to V.F.D., and she is nothing if not a loyal Volunteer. she loves them to her own detriment - keeping them, seeking them, and squirreling them away. toward the end of the series’ events, she was starting to have to admit to herself the some of V.F.D.’s secrecy was the very thing poisoning it from the inside... but, old habits die hard, and in this city so far away from the V.F.D. it’s easy to slip back into her secret-hunting ways.
kit cares for children, but doesn’t particularly know how to interact with them. she thinks of them like miniature adults, rather than having considerations in mind for the trials of their own age group. being pregnant with beatrice was no wake-up-call, but it made her more aware of how ill-equipped she was going to be as a mother to an infant. with dewey at her side, that seemed easier -- but without him, and with medusoid mycelium crawling up her throat, she knew her baby would be better off with the baudelaires than she’d ever be with her. with a second chance at life, she does keep catching herself distraught without her daughter -- but has also decided it better not to look for her, when she believes her safe with the baudelaires.
ASOUE S3 SPOILERS; i loved almost all of the expansion netflix brought to the series, but definitely mourn some of the moral ambiguity kit lost in the transfer over. kit is caring and daring, but she is also incredibly stubborn to her own sense of being one of the smartest minds in the room and ruthless to the point of being willing to do anything to accomplish Greater Good (kudos to netflix tho for correctly pulling over that impulsive streak, nice 👌 👌 dragon-flying off a cliff while 8mos pregnant, definitely kit). i’m still not quite sure how much i want to incorporate netflix’s interpretation of the opera into kit ; she definitely had a much larger role in the death of olaf’s parents. anyway for now i’m probably going to loosely go with she being the admirer who slipped beatrice the poison dart, and may have been on-mission to distract olaf from the theft of the sugar bowl at the time, and eventually i’ll get around to expanding on that
