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Post by violet on Mar 25, 2008 10:07:52 GMT -5
In TWW, Violet remembered Mr. Baudelaire saying that he had a cousin who burned ants as a hobby, and was referred as rude or treachurous for other things he did, including or besides the ants. "He's either a third cousin four times removed (though that's nearly impossible), or a fourth cousin three times removed." ....Count Olaf? Mr. Poe is-well, Mr. Poe, so he could've got that wrong, and only the cousin part right.
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Post by Dante on Mar 28, 2008 14:46:07 GMT -5
I recall this being raised before, and unfortunately for this theory the cousin in question was female (page 180). So you have to take your pick of female villainous characters. One of the white-faced women? The woman with hair but no beard? Esmé? Monday, a villainous woman who gets the tiniest of mentions in The End?
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Apr 9, 2008 15:09:47 GMT -5
... There *was* that portrait in the console game of someone who looked like young Olaf burning ants... But Dante's right - the cousin was female.
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Post by masterviolet456 on Feb 17, 2009 0:30:53 GMT -5
Hmm...such an interesting point! Well done!
However, I agree with the opp gender thing. I could see this being Esme though!!
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Post by Mijahu on Feb 17, 2009 1:43:59 GMT -5
I've always thought of the woman with hair but no beard as elderly, for some reason. I guess it could be Esme, but I'd prefer it to be Monday because I think she needs a fuller story
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Post by Hermes on Feb 17, 2009 10:06:24 GMT -5
I've always thought of the woman with hair but no beard as elderly, for some reason. I think that's right. The WWHBNB (or possibly the MWBBNH, but I assume they're about the same age) had an infant servant before the schism. So presumably they were adults then - and going by the TPP dating of the schism, that must have been at least thirty years or so ago. So they are significantly older than the Baudelaire parents, the Snickets, Olaf, etc.
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Post by colette on Mar 21, 2011 16:18:40 GMT -5
In my ficverse it was Countess Eleanor, Count Olaf's mother.
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Post by Dante on Mar 21, 2011 17:01:51 GMT -5
That's an interesting link to introduce, colette. I can see that you've thought carefully about some of the open-ended elements of the series.
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Post by bryan on Mar 21, 2011 19:48:44 GMT -5
So that makes the Baudelaire children and Olaf..... 2nd cousins? I think?
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Post by colette on Apr 14, 2011 8:08:00 GMT -5
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Post by A on Apr 12, 2012 1:13:00 GMT -5
It seems that there are families of volunteers. They all seem to be closely related.
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Post by friendofvfd on Dec 8, 2013 14:35:11 GMT -5
From what collete said, the idea that it could be Count Olaf's mother is an interesting theory. I know the person was female and wasn't she also described as having one eyebrow? I thought that was mentioned??... Which would make more sense for it being a person directly related to Olaf. So his mother? ...... Or perhaps a sister?
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Post by Dante on Dec 8, 2013 17:22:15 GMT -5
It was Aunt Josephine's mother-in-law who only had one eyebrow, I'm afraid - quite different from Bertrand Baudelaire's cousin.
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Post by The Duchess on Dec 8, 2013 19:35:49 GMT -5
Is Josephine's mother-in law the same as ish's student in TE?
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Post by Dante on Dec 9, 2013 7:05:48 GMT -5
Maybe. We're definitely meant to be reminded of her, but whether the two are the same person is for you to decide.
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