#jacques snicket

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i also feel like the implications that vfd was never as forgiving as they portrayed themselves as is heavy, especially with count olaf. his and jacques' confrontation in tvv seems confusing; jacques is offering him, essentially, a get out of jail free card. telling him that he can rejoin vfd, with no consequences. that no one will hold him accountable for the several murders and arsons he's committed. even though this seems like an absurdly favourable deal, olaf still refuses. now, this could of course be chalked up to olaf's own stubbornness; "i'm sorry" will never be enough to quell his thirst for revenge against the baudelaires, "we won't throw the book at you" will never account for his bitterness, resentment, hatred, or the sheer joy he takes in taking all of that out on other people. but the fact that he didn't even consider jacques' proposal, even though the baudelaires managed to convince him to do something good by literally just telling him he has the capacity to (twice!), seems...suspicious. almost like he doesn't believe jacques. almost like he knows jacques is lying, either willfully or unknowingly. because jacques snicket may be a forgiving person, but vfd is not a forgiving organization. olaf has a sort of sunk cost fallacy relationship with his own villainy; he believes he has simply gone too far, devoted too much of his life to this to go back now. if he were to suspect that vfd feels the same way, that they'd hold his actions against him in more ways than just a slap on the wrists and a "do better next time", well...of course he wouldn't willingly turn himself in.

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