Lilac: Incorporates gifs related to shows she likes whenever she can. She’d also use the ‘<3’ heart.
Violet: the ‘👍’ and ‘👎’ emojis are her best friends bc they’re straight to the point and she doesn’t like spending a lot of time typing or reading long messages (which is why she despises messaging Klyde bc he sends entire ESSAYS for what Violet reckons could be summarised to a simple 👍 or 👎).
Laurie: uses ‘UwU’ unironically. Also uses LOTS of acronyms (ttyl, lol, ily , etc) and an unnecessary amount of positive emojis with every message bc she gets paranoid about accidentally coming off as aggressive💞💗😄😚⭐️🌸😜
Veronica: Has a habit of shortening words to just numbers or letters (like ‘y’ instead of ‘why’, and ‘l8r’ instead of ‘later’) bc she values efficiency. It annoys the hell out of Klaus+Klyde. Which, naturally, makes Veronica do it even more. Her most used emotes are ‘>:D’ , ‘>:((‘ , ‘😶’ and ‘:-/‘
Nick: Doesn’t reply to messages for weeks, and when he eventually does it’s with a rickroll
Klaus: Autocorrect is his worst enemy. He keeps typing out complicated words in a rush to get his thoughts out and doesn’t notice till too late that autocorrect has changed 40% of the words to nonsensical ones. His texting style is pretty friendly though, he uses the ‘:)’ smile a lot.
Klyde: Perfect grammar and spellings. On the rare occasion he uses emojis they’d be used with carefully thought out grammar (he took Aunt Josephine’s lessons to heart). For example, he’d send a text like this; “I am thoroughly disappointed; 🙁.”
Larry: Texts entirely in minion memes+ ‘despicable me’ screenshots. He could be told via messages that his house burned down and he’d respond with a
[Image description: A screenshot of a sad minion who stares at the ground whilst holding their hands together.]
Solitude: hieroglyphs.
Sunny: Eats the phone
Susie: emojis; although it gets a little confusing trying to figure out which sibling she’s talking about given she only uses 👦, 🧑 and 👩 to describe them.
Lil’ Linda: doesn’t message. She just stares mesmerised at her reflection in the phone’s turned off screen.
Should I change the name of my 12 Baudelaires AU? 🖋️
Keep it as ‘A dozen ways the day could go wrong’
Change it to ‘The Doomed Dozen’
Voting ended onJun 29, 2025
@haze-of-hyperfixations came up with the name ‘The Doomed Dozen’ which I thought sounded so cool that I’m now considering naming the fic that, but I figured it’d be good to get readers’ opinions on the matter! :)
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