Kit Snicket
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A Series of Unfortunate Events character | |
Kit Snicket | |
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Gender | Female |
Hair color | Blonde |
Age | Adult (deceased) |
Film actor | None |
1st appearance | The Grim Grotto |
V.F.D. alliance | Volunteer side of the schism |
Kit Snicket is a fictional character in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. She is the sister of author Lemony Snicket and has a twin brother named Jacques Snicket.
First mentioned by name in The Grim Grotto as she was sending a letter to Gregor Anwhistle to not use the poisonous mushrooms, Medusoid Mycelium, against the enemies of V.F.D. Last seen dying on the costal shelf of the island, after giving birth to baby Beatrice and confessing to the Baudelaires about her failures to bring the Quagmire triplets and Captain Widdershins, as well as Fernald and Fiona. In The Penultimate Peril it is revealed that she is pregnant, and possibly married to or at least in a romantic relationship with Dewey Denouement, as it was strongly indicated he was the father. It is also indicated that Kit has a house of some kind that she lives in, for on the bottom of page 33, Kit says, "I've scarcely looked at these maps, poems, and blueprints that Charles sent me, or chosen wallpaper for the baby's room." Kit Snicket is part of V.F.D and on the good side of the schism.
It was mentioned that she went water-skiing to meet Captain Widdershins, and she also hinted that she would end up on the self-sustaining hot air mobile home.
From a photograph found on page 70 of Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography there is reason to believe that she, along with her younger brother Lemony, was sent to Prufrock Preparatory School. Other information in the Autobiography indicates that she taught there as an adult, and recruited two orphans while she was there - some believe that the photograph on page 70 depicts these two orphans and their dead sibling rather than the young Snickets.
In the last book, it is revealed that Kit dies while giving birth. So the Bauldelaires end up being the "parents" of Beatrice. There is also a strong possibility that in the past she has had romantic entanglements with Count Olaf as he kisses her in the last book and says "I told you I'd do that one last time."
In "13 Secrets You wish you never knew about Lemony Snicket" secret #3 said that Lemony's niece is an orphan.
A 2006 spin-off book The Beatrice Letters describes Kit's 10-year-old daughter Beatrice Baudelaire's search for her uncle, Lemony Snicket, and for the Baudelaire orphans who adopted her after her mother's death and named her after their own mother, Beatrice Baudelaire.
(a.k.a. Daniel Handler)
Illustrated by Brett Helquist