#e snicket

They named their first son Jacques. That’s fine, but Jacques is a French name, and they’re not French. At least, Jacob isn’t a French name, and Snicket isn’t either. Albeit E’s full name is unknown, but didn’t the Snicket surname come from her?

They named their daughter Kit, which means something like “pure of heart.” At least, it’s full version, Katherine does. Is Kit’s full name Katherine? Because she’s always referred to as just Kit. I headcanon that her brothers used to get her gifts of different kinds of kits (disguise kits, makeup kits, etc.) as a joke.

Then they named their second son Lemony. Not even Lemon, Lemony. 

anyway. thinking about how a parent's "nothing" response can be interpreted as "giving permission" going by the manual, a simple word that could've easily been said by a unknowing parent. that said, since e snicket is vfd and her reaction is more about, not getting to say goodbye, she doesn't seem that surprised and the snickets being taken is probably not unanticipated, just sooner than she expected. (so they probably gave permission, but thought the recruitment wouldn't be that immediate, or something?)

in the case a child has read the manual and decided to reply "if there's nothing out there, what was that noise", even if a parent had replied "nothing", while not knowing what that would mean, so technically it could be said that the parent didn't really give permission, but it might be argued that the child gave permission themself in this case.

"we get permission first when we enter people's homes, taking young children who show exception observational and/or notetaking skills" <- well the permission does not have to be from the parents.

probabilistically speaking, "if there's nothing out there, what was that noise" is far less likely to be accidentally spoken (even if the wording doesn't have to be exact) than "nothing", but it's not impossible. in fact, if a child has "exceptional observational skills", it'll probably make it likelier.

that said, if your sibling said that without your knowledge, does the volunteer listening outside know which child said the words? does it matter, in that case?

if the snickets recruitment followed the rough guidelines, then that means the phrase was said. did either J or K reply "if there's nothing out there, what was that noise" because they were instructed by their parent(s) this coded phrase (going with the assumption that they knew what the word "nothing" implied, and therefore did allow it, and therefore might've taught their kids)? did they read about it themselves, therefore knowing exactly what to say? or was it spoken, without the hidden meaning?

actually, "if there's nothing out there, what was that noise?" is the kind of thing young!lemony would say. the questioning authority kind of question. the curiosity. could it have been lemony who said it - perhaps not knowing what that could've implied? while little snicket lad said lemony was still an infant when they were taken, lemony himself said otherwise, in his letter. so he could have been old enough, too.

That means that when Jacob and E. Snicket were expecting their first son they had to choose a boy's name starting with the letter J (and since is taboo for most jewish comunities to name a child over someone who is still living Jacob was out of question). So if you want a commom but not super common boy name with J is not that much of a reach they choose a french name without being French.

Same goes for Kit. They wanted a girl's name with K and Katherine is as classic as it goes. Till this point it just appear they like classic names that aren't too weird but also not too common either.

[Word count: 2,616]

🗣️Main Character: Moxie Mallahan 🗞️

👥Side characters: Ellington Feint, Kellar Haines and Mr Mallahan

🫂Main relationship: Moxie Mallahan / Ellington Feint

Fic Type:

Oneshot 📕

Hurt/Comfort

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Set: Post-Canon/after book 4⌛️

Rating: General Audiences ✅

Description:

‘In which Moxie Mallahan, Ellington Feint, and Kellar Haines are going to spend a pleasant evening together, but one pesky storm is determined to ruin everything.’

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[Word count: 5,253] (Moxie isn’t in this one however this was too good a fic not to recommend!!)

🗣️Main Character: E.Snicket (J,K+L’s mother)

🫂Main relationship: E. Snicket & Jacob Snicket & Jacques Snicket & Kit Snicket & Lemony Snicket

Set: Pre-Canon ⏳

Rating: Teen and Up ⬆️

Fic Type:

Oneshot 📕

Angst, Family Feels, Parenthood, VFD is Terrible

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Description:

‘If E had known what plans VFD had for her family, she would have run away as soon as she possibly could, and never looked back.

She had an investigation one day, and Jacob was able to stay and watch the children while she went to the lumbermill for the morning.

When she returned, her children were gone.’

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[Word count: 577]

🗣️Main Character: Moxie Mallahan 🗞️

🫂Main relationships:

Moxie Mallahan / Ellington Feint

Moxie Mallahan & Mr Mallahan

Fic Type:

Oneshot 📕

Fluff and Angst, Light Angst, Angst with a happy ending

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Set: Post-Canon⌛️/ after book 4 (WITNDFAON)

Rating: General Audiences ✅

Description:

‘"Her eyes were an interesting color too. They were dark grey, as if they had once been black but somebody had washed them or had made her cry for a long time."’

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[Word count: 2,498]

🗣️Main character: Lemony Snicket

👥Side characters: Ornette Lost, Jake Hix and Moxie Mallahan

🫂Main relationships:

Lemony Snicket & Moxie Mallahan

Lemony Snicket & Jake Hix

Lemony Snicket & Ornette Lost

Set: Post-Canon⌛️

Rating: General Audiences ✅

Fic Type:

Oneshot📕

Angst with a Happy Ending

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Description:

‘Lemony Snicket is on the lam with nowhere else to turn— so, of course, he heads to Stain'd-by-the-Sea.’

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A SERIES of works. [Total word count: 8,805] [No.of works in series: 5]

👥Characters: Lemony Snicket, Moxie Mallahan 🗞️, Cleo Knight, Jake Hix, Pip Bellerophon, Squeak Bellerophon, Ellington Feint, Kevin Old, Florence Smith, Oliver Sobol, Ornette Lost, Marguerite Gracq, Kellar Haines, Jackie, Stew Mitchum

Rating: Teen and Up ⬆️

Fic Type:

A SERIES of oneshots 📕

Chatfic, Modern AU, Comedy, Crack

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Description:

‘everything’s the same except they have a group chat this time. that’s it. that’s the series.’

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[Word Count: 7,124] [Last updated 2020❗️]

👥Characters: Lemony Snicket, Jacques Snicket, Kit Snicket, S.Theodora Markson, Ellington Feint, Drumstick, Kevin Old, Florence Smith

Rating: Teen and Up ⬆️

Fic Type:

Multichapter 📚 (Described by author in notes as a ‘series of loosely connected oneshots’.)

Modern AU, Foster Family AU, Found Family, Autism, ADHD

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Description:

‘The Snicket siblings were just trying to survive their boring guardian. Ellington Feint kept trying to run away to find her Dad. Drumstick just kinda wanted to be left alone. But now they're all stuck together, so while they're here, they might as well prank S Theodora Markson once in a while. And sing off-key ABBA songs whenever she's out.

Modern AU, Foster Family. Series of loosely connected one-shots. Updates randomly.’

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