Some headcannons about Beatrice Baudelaire Jr (Kit Snicket’s daughter):
- She is just barely ten years old.
(Only just young enough to order from the children’s menu, only just old enough to pass in the streets unobserved.) - Her specialist subject is oceanography.
(Her commonplace book is full of facts about marine life and ecosystems, ocean circulation patterns, plate tectonics, the geology of the seafloor, the chemical properties of seawater.) - She lost the three Baudelaire siblings at sea.
(A rough voyage, a storm, a monster of the deep, a wreckage in the shape of a question mark.) - She believes they are still alive, knows they are alive.
(Any other option is unthinkable.) - But she has searched the waves of the sea and the hills of the land and the underground tunnels in the city and still she cannot find them.
(She is running out of places to look.) - She tries not to ask herself the question – if they are still alive, why aren’t they looking for me too?
(It’s a dangerous question and the world is dangerous enough already.) - Speaking of dangerous, her father was a dangerous Count and a very bad actor.
(But she doesn’t know it yet, may never know it. And there may only be one person left alive who does know it.) - She is on her own but she is not entirely alone.
(It’s the feeling she gets that she’s being watched.) - There are rumors of an old and shady organisation with secrets and schisms and fire scattered throughout its past.
(And, unknowingly, she is already as helplessly entangled within it as a dolphin trapped in a fisherman’s net.) - There is a man with connections to this organisation, who may or may not be dead, and she has learned through coded messages sent via sea turtle that this man could help lead her to the Baudelaires, who may or may not be dead.
(Her future may hinge on the acceptance of an invitation to a root beer float.) - Her life so far has been a lesson in loss; learning to love people she never met, learning to let go of the people she loves, and learning to live with the ache they always leave behind.
(Her family tree is made up of gravestones.) - And she is still learning to live in the silence that follows.
(’The world is quiet here’ - she found that written on a scrap of paper hidden in between some faded theatre programs in an abandoned office and she thinks it would make a good slogan for a noble organisation dedicated to keeping the world quiet and safe. She thinks perhaps someone should set up such an organisation.)