Frank and Ernest Denouement
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| A Series of Unfortunate Events character | |
| Frank and Ernest Denouement | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color | Unknown |
| Age | Adult (no further details) |
| Film actor | None |
| 1st appearance | The Penultimate Peril |
| V.F.D. alliance | Volunteer/Villain (Frank is a volunteer, Ernest is a villain) |
Frank and Ernest Denouement are two of the three Denouement triplets featured in Lemony Snicket's series A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Frank is a volunteer for V.F.D., while Ernest is a villainous member of the organization. They are introduced in The Penultimate Peril as the managers of the Hotel Denouement. As they are identical, the Baudelaire orphans are not sure who is who. The two are described as "tall, and skinny, with long arms that stuck out at odd angles, like drinking straws instead of flesh and bone."
It is later discovered by the orphans that there was a third brother - fitting in with the book's motif of triplets - Dewey Denouement. A sub-sub-librarian, Dewey had catalogued information regarding the V.F.D. in an underwater storage facility identical to the Hotel.
The second triplet they meet tells them a coded message in The Penultimate Peril. The message ("I can't tell if you are in or enemies please respond") uses the Sebald Code, but since both sides of V.F.D.'s schism use the same codes, this does not clear up which brother he was. Frank and Ernest do not return in The Thirteenth Book, so they probably perished or escaped the fire, but never encountered the orphans again.
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(a.k.a. Daniel Handler)
Illustrated by Brett Helquist
