it’s not the same. it never will be. the hotel denouement is not the same without the triplet brothers. and yet it stands, rebuilt to shining perfection by the only brother left, frank. she has no idea if ernest is dead or alive, but he’s shown no interest in returning if he is alive. beatrice doesn’t blame him. it’s taken her this long to bring herself forward, if only because her search for her children has forced her to. it isn’t as easy to hunt from the shadows anymore. but there are also no people left to try and kill her immediately, which is why she ventures forth. frank has been kind to let her stay at the hotel indefinitely, and offer she can’t refuse while she continues her search. which requires the use of the extensive archives beneath the hotel.
in the lift, she presses 135 all together, and the doors close. it sinks and sinks until it goes well past the basement floor, still lowering until it bottoms out. she’s only been here a handful of times, usually with kit when she and dewey . . . she swallows back the nostalgia and hurtful memories as the doors open and she steps out into the small room of files. only a cursor to the massive archives beyond.
soft boy with your head in the clouds ; a nose in a book was often better company than the too often dull conversations from classmates or family. save for the times you spent with your friends. there was comfort within the pages of a book - within the walls of a book shop. it felt like home, perhaps more so than the place you lay your head each night. legs cross as seats taken upon the floor, book in hand holds all concentration - as if the remaining sound in the shop disappeared into a vacuum.
falcons can swoop at over 200 mph. - how nice it must be to travel at such speeds that - how nice it must be to escape with ease.
it’s a falling book that rouses you from your focus, hardcover hits top of head with a smack before landing in your lap. “ouch - what the heck”
Below the cut is some very important meta pertaining to Violet’s main verse, much of this is based off of conspiarcies from @snicketsleuth, and also insane conversations between @eyedisguised and myself, if we’re roleplay partners please read this !! and feel free to discuss w/ me tyty. <3
PLEASE NOTE: a lot of this is gonna be hard to follow if u haven’t read the books. also this is basically a stream of consciences IE a complete fuckin mess so if u get confused at any point hmu !!
ALSO STEPH YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO READ THIS UNTIL YOU FINISH THE BOOKS, SO HELP ME GOD WOMAN.
For timelines sake we are assuming, here, that violet was born in august of 1985, as the novels are set in the early 2000′s (the first book coming out around 1999 when Violet is the age of 14) and -- despite the steampunk and classical nature of the novels -- lemony refers several times to 90′s pop culture (IE: Justin Timberlakes “Cry Me a River”). I am fully aware that this is not at all an acurate date, as “Lemony” most likely posted the novels AFTER “The End” and not during the Baudelaire’s misfortunes, but again this is just for timeline’s sake. So with that let’s begin.
actually wait one more thing before I begin: I WILL NOT BE TALKING ABOUT THE MATTER OF VIOLETS PATERNITY IN THIS. Daniel leaves that entire thing SUPER vague and while Violets conception coincides w/ the time that Beatrice and Lemony broke things off, it is also still entirely possible that she is Bertrand’s. Plus leaving it vague means that I get to have more fun. ; ))))
ANYWHO.
unknown time b4 Violet’s birth: The Baudelaire parents, with the help of Kit Snicket, murder Count Olaf’s parents in a plot to get his money.
In Snicket’s prequel series to ASOUE (ATWQ) it seems that Lemony, Beatrice, and several other young VFD members are very intent on changing the nature of the VFD. One can assume that to do this, they need a fair amount of money that is their own ( here meaning, out of the VFD’s reach ) , and did so by killing Olaf’s parents who we can assume, are well off. Honestly Imma just link you guys to this snicket sleuth article bc it explains it better and in full detail and I’m lazy.
September 1985: Violet Baudelaire is born almost immediately after Beatrice and Bertrand are banned from the island
Violets childhood is very vague. She doesn’t remember much before Klaus was born and it seems there’s still more she doesn’t remember after that. What she does remember is a nursery rhyme. She recalls it as Row Row Row Your Boat. However she also recalls her parents singing something with “The World Is Quiet Here” in it. She also claims that the name “snicket” is familiar to her in The Penultimate Peril. After closely reading Lemony Snicket’s Unauthorized Biography we find that she is actually recalling the same song, as the sheet music that Lemony provides to his editor is written to the melody of “row row row..” [ snicketsleuth, 2 ]
“Though they lived in a big mansion,
Down Robber Road a tad,
It was at the farm the lady
Bore the Little Snicket lad.
[…] So don’t scream when we take you:
The World Is Quiet Here.”
[The Little Snicket lad - Lemony Snicket’s un-Authorized Autobiography, pp. 9-19]
IMPORTANT NOTE: neither Klaus nor Sunny seem to remember this song, so I’m going to assume here that it was only sung to Violet.
This next part is all shitthaticameupwith™
SO. Let’s talk about the VFD’s whole mentor/pupil thing they got going on. It’s canon that they take talented children from a very young age and recruit them into the cult organization. We know this from Snicket’s “autobiography” where he provides pictures of him as a toddler and claims that shortly after that picture he was taken by his ankles from the kitchen (just as his siblings were) and recruited.
Now, with a schism in the midsts it’s fair to assume that both sides would be recruiting members as heavily as possible. They are essentially at war with one another at this point and need as many “soldiers” as they can get.
1987
Enter Violet Baudelaire, age 2, who exhibits extreme skill in inventing from a very young age.
With the schism, the broken memories, and the cloudy memories of VFD references ( which again, were not made to Sunny and Klaus, and seemingly stopped after Klaus’ birth -- along with the parents adamancy in keeping the VFD a secret from the kids ). I’m going to make the assumption that at some point, when Violet was just a toddler, the VFD tried to take her. Cue traumatic event, cue Violet forgetting shit, cue the Baudelaire parents realizing that they don’t want their children to have anything to do with this organization. After all, they did consider having Violet on the island to shield her from the worlds treachery, and only left because they were kicked off.
So why would the Baudelaire’s continue to have children? Well my theory is fairly simple. Beatrice was most likely already pregnant with Klaus at the time, and Sunny was an accident (sorry sunny, u were a happy accident i promise Violet loves u).
BACK TO THE KIDNAPPING. So now not only do the Baudelaire parents want to keep any knowledge of the VFD from their children, they also start concocting a plan (with the help of who I can only presume is the Quagmires), to get a blank slate -- to start over somewhere far away from the VFD’s grasp. And how exactly do they do this?
With Olaf’s fortune that was split between themselves and the Snickets.
1999
The plans are finally ready to come to fruition, the Baudelaire parents are ready to flee. However, upon finding that their friend and partner in crime Kit Snicket is pregnant, they offer to include her in the plan, assuming too would want her child to stay away from the VFD. However, Kit being an EXTREMELY loyal VFD member, betrays them to the organization. (perhaps this is why the children are sent to the beach ?? So B&B can meet with Kit, whom they were also keeping a secret from the children.)
NOTE: I will, of course, discuss this headcanon with any Kit’s I interact with, and leave it up to them if they wish to include it in their portrayal or not. If they don’t I will disregard it as it could have been ANYBODY -- ( maybe even the Quagmires in hopes of securing their children’s safety ?? ) who betrayed them.
the VFD, in response to this, burns down the Baudelaire mansion. Killing Bertrand, and later Beatrice at the Masquerade. Knowing full well they can blame these fires on the fire-starting side of the organization.
LE FIN
post note: I realize that these theories will undoubtedly have holes in them, but this is what makes the most sense to me and my portrayal of Violet. If you have any questions/comments/concerns PLEASE !! TALK !! TO ME !! remember that none of this necessarily has to come up in our threads unless you want it to, it can go completely ignored as she has no knowledge of any of this, but it does affect the way she thinks and acts, and I figured I would throw it out there incase anyone wanted to use it as a basis for plotting.
thank u and i hope u enjoyed this dissertation on Veronica Bloodyliar.
He sat across from Klaus, gloved fingers
interlocked in front of a seemingly-empty
jacket. There was little doubt in Millard’s
mind that the boy would want to know
more once he revealed himself, but he
now had a CHOICE to make. By telling him,
he could be putting peculiardom at risk,
encouraging yet another witch hunt and
decades more of hiding. By refusing, he
could lose possibly the first normal friend
he’s had since childhood. Or perhaps,
just maybe, this could pave the way for
peculiar and normal relations to improve.
With a sigh, Millard realized he
made his choice months ago,
by ever letting it get this far.
