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📁 again, again!

After the events of ATWQ, Cleo and Jake took on guardian roles of sorts for Moxie, looking after her in all the ways her neglectful father couldn’t.

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also YIPPIEEE i never see asoue fans on this site >:3

Bertrand and Ellington are first cousins on Ellington’s mother’s side.

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Cleo has albinism, as does her whole family on her father’s side.

Thoughts my dad had while we were talking about Lemony Snicket's unreliable narration

Because I've fallen back into the Snicketverse obsession.

By creating a cast of such colourful characters, Lemony diverts attention away from himself. 

He couldn’t possibly be a character we should be paying attention to or worrying about. He’s merely the author of the tale. A cowardly man who would weep if any of the book’s events ever happened to him. Supposedly.

The assumed truthfulness of ATWQ is likely caused by it having been written so soon after the events. 

This might've felt obvious to others, idk.

Although ATWQ Lemony still keeps many secrets, he’s relatively open compared to the Lemony of ASOUE. This is likely because the books are, at their core, reports sent to V.F.D. regarding his apprenticeship. He doesn’t shy from writing his thoughts and uncertainties, or the events that take place, because he has not yet developed his duplicitous nature. My dad also suggested that the development of that nature may have been caused by the events of ATWQ. 

Given that the series exists as a children’s series in the canon, things may have been altered to suit that purpose. 

Like the over-the-top personalities of the side characters and guardians. Then again, so many things within the canon are over-the-top or absurd, they may actually be like that. 

Lemony must be fabricating most, if not all, of the conversations 

After all, how could he know any of them? I doubt even his informants and resources could tell him the contents of conversations. 

In the Netflix show, it’s possible Lemony Snicket is not how he appears. 

I’ve recently thought Snicket’s representation in Netflix’s ASOUE is too put-together to really feel like him, but my dad suggested that perhaps he only appears as Snicket wants to appear. That, as he chose what to write in ASOUE, he has chosen to appear put-together in the series. 

Does V.F.D. even exist? 

I don’t think this one really holds water, given that correspondence does exist between Lemony and other members of V.F.D. and I think some allude to the organization and many use codes we know they use. But it’s interesting nonetheless, that he has perhaps fabricated the organization (or merely fabricated their original noble purpose) to explain events. 

Moxie for the blorbo bingo? :)

Look she’s just such a sweet girl and so it was hard to select a lot of options bc I just realised this is a slightly violent Blorbo bingo. Anyway, she deserves sm better than she got :(((

just saw a tag on a fic that said "cleo and lemony both secretly think of the other as the sidekick" and i can't think of a more accurate descriptor for their (nonexistent) relationship

Qualifier: Lemony Snicket

Okay Moxie's way too far behind, and I know she won't win at this point, but also she's the best and I'm making my case for her anyway.

"I'm a journalist, Snicket. A dangerous story is an interesting story, and interesting stories belong in the newspaper."

Brave and curious, she still types up all the goings-on in Stain'd-by-the-Sea, despite the newspaper being out of business.

Moxie Mallahan: I’m the only reporter left in Stain’d-by-the-Sea. It’s in my blood. My parents were both reporters when this place wasn’t just a lighthouse but a newspaper, too. The Stain'd Lighthouse. Maybe you’ve heard of it? Lemony Snicket: I can't say I have, but I'm not from around here. Moxie Mallahan: Well, the newspaper's out of business, but I still try to find out everything that's happening in this town. So? Lemony Snicket: So? Moxie Mallahan: So what's happening, Snicket? Tell me what's going on.

She's also quite physically strong, as shown when she pulls Snicket inside the train in Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?, as he jumped onto the edge of the train to cling to the railings.

Snicket: How did you manage to pull me up here? Moxie: You don't lug around a typewriter for years without getting a few muscles.

And she's often the one to call Snicket out on his crap. Especially when it comes to Ellington Feint - yes, part of it is that Moxie's jealous, but also she's right that Ellington really isn't trustworthy.

So vote for Moxie, intrepid journalist and all-around awesome character.

Qualifier: Lemony Snicket

What All the Wrong Questions character are you-Lemony Snicket

I got Moxie Mallahan. We are both kind of cynical and writers, although I prefer fiction.

(This picture inspired me, although my idea has very little in common with it. In an AU where Moxie is psychic, and, since Moxie and Lemony being cousins is an idea I like, is the cousin of the Snicket siblings (with Moxie being F. Snicket's daughter), Lemony and Moxie accidentally forged a psychic connection by being excellent associates to one another.)

When Lemony was alive, he and Moxie looked very similar to one another, except for Moxie's silvery-blonde hair. Also, they share a birthdate, and thus, a birthday. That birthday is February 29.

Moxie is impossible to photograph well, similar to her prime associate.

When someone a psychic forges a connection to dies, their hair turns the color that their connection-mate's was in life. So Moxie now has dark hair.

Moxie's legal name is Moxie Absinthe Mallahan-Snicket, although she rarely uses her full name.

After Lemony died Moxie's hat got ruined. He told her that she should use his hat, "since he would never have reason to use it again." Giving someone still living an item that belonged to you in life is how you tether yourself to them, which L. did not know, as he was a newborn ghost then.

Someone who is a tether does not age past the point at which they become tethered. So Moxie is forever 13.

Moxie decided to cut her hair shorter after the funeral, as a sign that her life was forever changed, though the change in color was enough proof of that. She definitely inherited the Snicket Drama Gene.

Lemony accidentally possessed Moxie once. She told him that he could possess her whenever she was not working on an article as long as he made sure that her younger sister was safe.

Moxie's younger sister was named Adrianna-Clarissa Alizarin Mallahan-Snicket, in defiance of the Mallahan family naming traditions. She normally goes by A.C. or Rian, because her first name is too fancy for casual use and much too long for emergencies. Rian is a full decade younger than her sister, but looks older, not being frozen at 13.

F. Snicket's name is Fiona. She did not change it when she married Mr. Mischance Mallahan (who was nicknamed Chance). First names that start with the letter 'M' are traditional for the Mallahans.

The Mallahans were once a large extended family, but in the time from Moxie's birth until the time of this story they have dwindled to Moxie and Mr. Mallahan and A.C. because everyone else met their demise in various arsons and chose to move on to the afterlife.

Due to Moxie and Lemony's tendency to switch out who is in charge of the body as they please, even people who are in the know tend to be ambivalent as to whether Lemony is an actual ghost or merely a split personality strongly based off of someone who M. knew. Anyone who knew him knows that Lemony is a real ghost, though, as he completely lacks the monotone that Moxie always speaks in.

Moxie and Jacques do not talk about their journalistic opinions of each other, as there is emotional bleed-over between M. and L. Aside from that, Moxie genuinely respects J. for doing his best as an older brother, being an older sister under extreme circumstances for her own part. J. disapproves of Moxie's tendency to risk her well-being for the truth but cannot say anything about it to her without being called out as a hypocrite.

Moxie joined VFD after dealing with Hangfire. She does not regret killing a man who killed her best friend prime associate slash cousin.

Kit Snicket is deeply freaked out by this whole situation, but is doing her best to hide it. She spent her family time watching A.C. and teaching her things that her teachers will not appreciate but that a young child can not harm themselves with instead, until A.C became old enough for proper training.

Moxie always signs her correspondence with a part of her name or an alias derived from it, while Lemony does the same with his name, to avoid confusion.

Moxie swore off color in her (personal, non-disguise) wardrobe after her father died on her 13th birthday. The hat is an exception.

Moxie can do astral projection. She used to use it to force her body to take a nap, thus short-circuiting her chronic insomnia.

Author's Note: I have edited a few things, and added others. "Michael" was only a placeholder until I could find Mr. Mallahan's legal name. There is a fun story about supernatural children with magical colored fire that you could read for more information regarding tethers, why ghosts need them to stay sane, and the consequences of being one at https://archiveofourown.org/works/9878324?view_full_work=true, the mechanics of how bodies work for ghosts are different, though, as real ghosts are naturally non-corporeal.

With all due respect,

Adrianne Derr.

(Miss Derr is a Snicket-verse OC of mine, who I will write more about later. Most of my ATWQ and ASOUE posts will be primarily from her perspective.)

Outside looking in.

A woman at work confided in me that her daughter is in an abusive relationship.  She’s telling me all of the things that I don’t want to hear myself:

 “She knows better,”  

“ I don’t get it, why won’t she listen” 

“Why would she be with someone who called her a cunt?”

She kicked her daughter out of the house in an attempt to make her ‘wake up.’  While I think this was the wrong decision, I can tell that she loves her daughter very much and is just at her wit’s end.

I know that people like me are difficult to love. I also know that loving me takes a toll on the people who do. 

I had no words of comfort or advice to ease her mind.

tough luck

real

goncharov exists in the snicketverse. reblog if you agree.

me trying my fav book's art style: