Do you wonder what eventually happened to them?

[indyrams]

The End book just closes with them sailing away.
With hinting at the "Great Unknown" returning.
I'm always wondering what eventually happened to them.
Do they get arrested when returning to the civilized world?
Where do they go?
Does the Great Unknown get them?
Do they follow in the footsteps of V.F.D?

So many questions!!

[Anka]

I think everyone wonders what eventually happened to them. We are supposed to have all these questions, the questionmark in the end isn't only for the Great Unknown but for all the questions the reader thinks about.

[Christmas Chief]

I think that's precisely what we're meant to interpret, Anka. As we don't know, we can only imagine; though TBL does give us some hints about the future of the Baudelaires. We know Sunny has a radio show, for instance, and that Beatrice sank.

[Hermes]

There are a couple of clues that they survived. Sunny, as Sherry Ann says, appeared on the radio. (I'm not sure if it was her own show or someone else's.) In TRR we are told about regrets that Klaus had later in life: and in BBRE Lemony says he is trying to find out whether Violet met the Female Finnish Pirates 'on her third return to Briny Beach'. We never find out if she did, but that implies there was a third return.

[nopoweronearth]

The evidence of Sunny's survival is the strongest. It may be that she was the only one of her siblings to survive. The evidence for Klaus and Violet surviving isn't solid enough to say they survived or not :/

[Charlie]

Oh, pffft. They all survived, much like Josephine... I love you Josephine.

[MisterM]

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[Charlie]

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[Invisible]

My interpretation:

Beatrice, the boat, sank as well as Kit's Beatrice. But she survived the ordeal. She was taken in by the Great Unknown, or what is believed to be the Great Unknown, which is a small cavern/grotto thingy underwater. Beatrice was raised by the other people there, mainly Friday and her mother, Fernald, Fiona and the Quagmires. Years later, she and some others managed to get to mainland, where she meets Sunny as an elderly woman. As for the Baudelaires, they were saved by Stephin Merritt, who exists in this world, and were taken back to mainland. Klaus and Violet suffered some form of depression, while Sunny was left unaffected for the most part. At the age of 18, Klaus married and became a father three times between the ages of 23, 25 and 28, respectively. He and his wife were later divorced. He committed suicide at the age of 46, letting his daughter find him. Violet married later at the age of 32 and became a mother only once at the age of 33. Sunny, however, lived a long and happy life as a lesbian.



Wow. That was pointless. By the way, when does it say that Sunny was on the radio?

[Charlie]

TBL, I believe, without having read it

[Christmas Chief]

BB to LS #3, specifically. As for the rest of the theory, I think there might be some issues with the chronology. In particular Beatrice reuniting with Sunny as an elderly woman - the radio incident would imply Beatrice is in fact in touch with the main world much earlier than that.

[Dante]

I don't think it's a theory so much as what LSWannaBe wants to be true, though, so the same rules don't quite apply. I do rather like the idea of Stephin Merritt having a canonical role in the Averse, though, like Helquist does (and like Seth easily could if the conditions to mention him arose).

[Tryina Denouement]

Jan 6, 2013 7:54:45 GMT -5 Dante said:

I don't think it's a theory so much as what LSWannaBe wants to be true, though, so the same rules don't quite apply. I do rather like the idea of Stephin Merritt having a canonical role in the Averse, though, like Helquist does (and like Seth easily could if the conditions to mention him arose).

It was kinda silly, through I agree.