cygninae

one of the core elements of asoue that developed over time was a "you can't judge people by appearances" narrative where in the first five or so books all the ugly people are evil and the pretty people are good but then carmelita looks cute but is a bully, and esme looks pretty but is evil, and then jacques looks like olaf but is good, and then there are the house of freaks who look ugly but have the potential to be good and are only evil because they've been lead down that path, and then the hook-handed man (who's had his evilness tied to his appearance) is shown to be good (or have the capability for good), and then kit looks tired and unkempt but has a good heart, and then we have the denouments who have different ideologies but are identical (so you really can't tell based off their looks, now can you?) and so all of this primes you to wonder, as you face down the final book, is the man you've thought was the most evil thing in the world from the very beginning, with his crooked teeth and bony face and uncombed hair and unibrow, is he really so evil, or is that just another deceiving appearance?

so to make jacques look nothing like olaf. to not have a unibrow. to be given a fake one, even, an obviously fake one, because a good and noble person would never have an ugly trait like a unibrow is just. frustrating beyond words.

A song you liked as a child

A song that features an element (earth/fire/water/air)

A song you’d choose to introduce someone to your favorite genre

A song you’d put on a playlist for a character you love

A song you think most of your followers won’t have heard before

A song that makes you think of a family member

A song you know every word to

A song from a soundtrack

A song in a language you don’t speak

A song that makes you feel relaxed

A song that makes you dance

A song from the 90s

A song by a performer you’ve seen live

A song you love to sing along to

A song you’d play for a toddler

A song that makes you think of an old (or current) crush

A cover song

A song you’d play to set the mood on a date

A song that makes you emotional

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HIYA CYGNINAE!!! Eheheh a Quagmire question…. Wonderous…..

Quigley: A wolf. Hear me out; Quigley was alone for so LONG and I love the idea that because of that and bc of the trauma he endured from the fire+from solitude, Quigley goes a little wild. There’s a look in his wide eyes that wasn’t there before, he’s skittish, flinches at unexpected noises, holds conversations with people who aren’t even there (when he was alone after the fire I hc he developed a habit of talking to imaginary versions of his siblings, parents, and later, Jacques, using them to “help him” make decisions).

Before the fire, he was wild in a different way. A playful way. He’d map out areas as he explored, venturing into the wild with a parent or whichever of his triplets he managed to convince to come along (usually Isadora, Duncan preferred the warmth of home).

Then, of course, there’s the link between a wolf’s teeth which it uses to protect itself, and Quigley, who (in Netflix canon) was willing to take Esmé hostage, stating that sometimes you need to “fight fire with fire.” In the minuscule amount of screen time Quigley got this wasn’t even the only instance of him doing something immoral because he felt he had to. He also:

- Left an infant with her captors to use her to gain knowledge about the last safe place

- Broke his word to the Baudelaires by not meeting them at the last safe place like he said he would (instead he chose to try find his own siblings)

Also, wolves are fiercely loyal to their pack. The problem is, instead of being loyal to the Baudelaires Quigley is loyal to people who only want to use him (VFD).

- He doesn’t reunite with his siblings while they were at Prufrock, or before that, because he chooses to obey Jacques who warns him not to.

- In Netflix THH he enters a hospital which is in the middle of BURNING DOWN so he can retrieve the sugar bowl for VFD

- In TGG Quigley yet again travels in pursuit of the sugar bowl, which he then passes on to carrier birds to take to the hotel denouement.

Isadora: A black cat. Much like the book!Quagmires with their wide eyes and eery habit of talking in sync, black cats are considered creepy and/or cursed. The fact black cats are linked to witchcraft and Halloween especially makes me associate them with Isadora. You cannot tell me that girl wouldn’t be up for using an ouija board the second she could get her hands on one.

Duncan: A crow. I mostly associate crows with him because of TVV. However, it’s also because of how intelligent crows are, how they remember the faces of those who are kind to them.

Sunny: A shark. Mostly bc of that line in TAA where the kids are talking about their idols and Sunny yells that hers is a “shark!” But! Also! There’s a lot of misinformation about sharks bc of all the bad press and misinformation from movies like ‘JAWS’ framing them as needlessly violent villains when sharks usually only attack humans when they feel threatened by them. Similarly, Sunny gets bad press from the Daily Punctilio which calls her and her siblings “the Baudelaire butchers” [<in a Brett Helquist illustration]. Did she (very likely) commit mass murder via convincing Olaf to set the Hotel Denouement on fire? Yes. Did she only do that bc she felt cornered? Also yes. Additionally, I hc that post-canon Sunny has violent responses to everyday interactions bc of her PTSD. Like if a school or nursery teacher were to reach down to pat her head she’d bite their arm or swat it out of the way before they could make contact.

Hmmmm the other characters I need to think more about. Off the top of my head maybe an elephant for Klaus since elephants remember everything, a peacock for Carmelita bc they evolved to show off as a survival tactic, and possibly a whale for Violet bc her dress in Netflix TRR had whales on it and bc

-they are essential to the ecosystem (Violet is essential to her family)

-they die bc of a polluted environment (Violet is harmed by growing up in an environment polluted by abusive and/or neglectful adults)

HIYA CYGNINAE!!! Eheheh a Quagmire question…. Wonderous…..

Quigley: A wolf. Hear me out; Quigley was alone for so LONG and I love the idea that because of that and bc of the trauma he endured from the fire+from solitude, Quigley goes a little wild. There’s a look in his wide eyes that wasn’t there before, he’s skittish, flinches at unexpected noises, holds conversations with people who aren’t even there (when he was alone after the fire I hc he developed a habit of talking to imaginary versions of his siblings, parents, and later, Jacques, using them to “help him” make decisions).

Before the fire, he was wild in a different way. A playful way. He’d map out areas as he explored, venturing into the wild with a parent or whichever of his triplets he managed to convince to come along (usually Isadora, Duncan preferred the warmth of home).

Then, of course, there’s the link between a wolf’s teeth which it uses to protect itself, and Quigley, who (in Netflix canon) was willing to take Esmé hostage, stating that sometimes you need to “fight fire with fire.” In the minuscule amount of screen time Quigley got this wasn’t even the only instance of him doing something immoral because he felt he had to. He also:

- Left an infant with her captors to use her to gain knowledge about the last safe place

- Broke his word to the Baudelaires by not meeting them at the last safe place like he said he would (instead he chose to try find his own siblings)

Also, wolves are fiercely loyal to their pack. The problem is, instead of being loyal to the Baudelaires Quigley is loyal to people who only want to use him (VFD).

- He doesn’t reunite with his siblings while they were at Prufrock, or before that, because he chooses to obey Jacques who warns him not to.

- In Netflix THH he enters a hospital which is in the middle of BURNING DOWN so he can retrieve the sugar bowl for VFD

- In TGG Quigley yet again travels in pursuit of the sugar bowl, which he then passes on to carrier birds to take to the hotel denouement.

Isadora: A black cat. Much like the book!Quagmires with their wide eyes and eery habit of talking in sync, black cats are considered creepy and/or cursed. The fact black cats are linked to witchcraft and Halloween especially makes me associate them with Isadora. You cannot tell me that girl wouldn’t be up for using an ouija board the second she could get her hands on one.

Duncan: A crow. I mostly associate crows with him because of TVV. However, it’s also because of how intelligent crows are, how they remember the faces of those who are kind to them.

Sunny: A shark. Mostly bc of that line in TAA where the kids are talking about their idols and Sunny yells that hers is a “shark!” But! Also! There’s a lot of misinformation about sharks bc of all the bad press and misinformation from movies like ‘JAWS’ framing them as needlessly violent villains when sharks usually only attack humans when they feel threatened by them. Similarly, Sunny gets bad press from the Daily Punctilio which calls her and her siblings “the Baudelaire butchers” [<in a Brett Helquist illustration]. Did she (very likely) commit mass murder via convincing Olaf to set the Hotel Denouement on fire? Yes. Did she only do that bc she felt cornered? Also yes. Additionally, I hc that post-canon Sunny has violent responses to everyday interactions bc of her PTSD. Like if a school or nursery teacher were to reach down to pat her head she’d bite their arm or swat it out of the way before they could make contact.

Hmmmm the other characters I need to think more about. Off the top of my head maybe an elephant for Klaus since elephants remember everything, a peacock for Carmelita bc they evolved to show off as a survival tactic, and possibly a whale for Violet bc her dress in Netflix TRR had whales on it and bc

-they are essential to the ecosystem (Violet is essential to her family)

-they die bc of a polluted environment (Violet is harmed by growing up in an environment polluted by abusive and/or neglectful adults)