[Lemony Snicket - The End, Chapter Thirteenth] Olaf did burn down the mansion but the Baudelaire parents' death had nothing to do with the fire, as at least one of them escaped the fire. Olaf was coerced into killing the Baudelaire parents and was only an accomplice to the murder.
Arthur Poe claims that the fire killed both the Baudelaire parents (Bertrand and Beatrice), although no mention has been made that their bodies were ever found, leaving Violet, Klaus, and Sunny to later suspect one of them may be alive.
Bertrand Baudelaire is the father of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, the husband of Beatrice, and a V.F.D.
Played by Will Arnett and Cobie Smulders and credited simply as "Father" and "Mother" respectively, they calmly assess their predicament and resolve to get home to their kids. As the show presents it, there's only one conclusion: the Baudelaire parents are alive.
While their children were at Briny Beach, Bertrand and Beatrice perished in a fire in their mansion.
After their parents are killed in an unexpected fire, the Baudelaire children quickly become the Baudelaire orphans. They are sent to live with their closest living relative who happens to be the mysterious and devious Count Olaf.
Olaf did burn down the mansion but the Baudelaire parents' death had nothing to do with the fire, as at least one of them escaped the fire. Olaf was coerced into killing the Baudelaire parents and was only an accomplice to the murder.
And the big question, did the Baudelaires survive fleeing the island? Yes, and they lived on to raise Kit Snicket's child to be a new kind of volunteer. A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS Credit: It makes sense that a TV show would have a more traditionally satisfying ending than a series of very weird books from the '00s.
It's Actually a Metaphor Related to the Baudelaires
The fact that Mr. Poe can't take care of his own body is a troubling sign that he's not fit to manage the Baudelaire children or their massive fortune. The cough becomes, in this case, a constant reminder of his negligence.
Quagmire, parents of three children Duncan, Quigley, and Isadora Quagmire. They're another set of characters in the books. Beatrice and Bertrand, the Baudelaire parents, we learn, are definitely dead.
We can assume that Beatrice at one time believed that Snicket was dead. When Lemony was revealed to be alive, she had already married Bertrand and she could not marry him.
Violet forced to marry Olaf under duress in his play.
Known Members. It is presumed that Count Olaf's title is legitimate, and thus either his father or mother (or both) are of noble birth. This is assumed due to the fact that Olaf seemed to be a student at Wade Academy, mainly attended by royal children.
The Baudelaires and Ishmael go back to the other side of the island, where the mutiny is already underway. Ishmael harpoons Olaf in the stomach, inadvertently shattering the helmet containing the Medusoid Mycelium, a deadly fungus, infecting the island's entire population.
Count Olaf is either a fourth cousin three times removed or a third cousin four times removed of the Baudelaire children; it is unknown which parent he was related to. Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire adopted the daughter of Kit Snicket, whom they named after their mother.
One popular fan theory is that the Baudelaire fortune is the remains of Count Olaf's fortune, stolen by the Baudelaire parents and Kit Snicket after murdering his parents, which would explain Olaf's personal vendetta against the Baudelaire family, why he seems to live in poverty despite being royalty, and the motive ...
Some fans of the series believe that Poe is being deliberately unhelpful and ignorant - (that he is actually a villain or a member of V.F.D., although there is no evidence in the books to suggest this), this could also just be a result of his incompetence.
The couple were first cousins and publicly married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27. Biographers disagree as to the nature of the couple's relationship. Though their marriage was loving, some biographers suggest they viewed one another more like a brother and sister.
It is described that the narrator experiences anxious, delusion, and auditory hallucination. The two symptoms prove that he suffers from disorganized schizophrenia.
'“Man hands on misery to man,'” the villain said. “'It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can–'” Here he coughed, a ghastly sound, and his hands clutched his chest.
Early on she has feelings for Duncan, and then she has feelings for Quigley.
Justice Strauss is forced to admit that the marriage is valid; Count Olaf is Violet's husband and has complete control of her estate.
The consensus amongst the fandom is that Violet and Quigley held hands and/or kissed. Back in the old days a lot of fanfiction writers tried to rearrange this “missing passage” as a writing exercise.
In the first book, Olaf attempts to marry Violet to steal the Baudelaire fortune, doing so by pretending that the marriage is the storyline for his latest play.
What became of them once they left the Island? A coded sentence in “The Beatrice Letters” gives us the answer: their ship, the Beatrice, sank. End of story: the Baudelaires died in the depths of the ocean. Except their foster daughter, Beatrice Baudelaire Jr, somehow survived this shipwreck.