Quagmire triplets

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Duncan, Isadora, and Quigley Quagmire are fictional characters in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Isadora's and Duncan's first names are derived from that of the dancer Isadora Duncan, and their last name, "Quagmire," literally means a swamp, but is to be interpreted here metaphorically as "a difficult or precarious situation." [1]

[edit] Isadora and Duncan

A Series of Unfortunate Events character
Duncan and Isadora Quagmire
Gender	Male/Female respectively
Hair color	Black in book illustrations
Age	13/14
Film actor	None
First appearance	The Austere Academy
V.F.D. alliance	Volunteer side of the schism

Duncan and Isadora first appear in The Austere Academy, when the Baudelaires children, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, meet them at Prufrock Preparatory School. The five instantly bond.

Count Olaf kidnaps the Quagmires at the end of the book. The Baudelaires find them in The Ersatz Elevator, but fail to rescue them. At the end of The Vile Village, the Quagmires escape from the Village of Fowl Devotees with Hector in a large self-sustaining hot air balloon. In "The Vile Village", the Baudelaires try to climb up the ladder connecting to the balloon, but fail when Esmé Squalor shoots the ladder with a harpoon gun.

It is strongly implied that Isadora and Duncan are part of the good side of V.F.D.. Kit Snicket reveals in The Penultimate Peril that they were last heard of flying over the sea, but were apparently attacked, and the narrative later reveals that these attackers are the V.F.D. Eagles. In the final book it is revealed (by Kit Snicket) that they reached Quigley in the balloon. However, shortly afterwards, Kit says that the balloon was popped by the beaks of the eagles, and they were sent hurtling down to the ocean surface. There, they were picked up by the "?" shape, or 'The Great Unknown' which first appeared in The Grim Grotto. Kit tried to persuade them to not leave with the mysterious figure, but they did not hear her shouting. It is then told that Kit heard either Duncan or Quigley shout out "Violet" over the noise. They are not seen or heard from again.

Snicket states that the triplets are older than Klaus (who is twelve years old) but younger than Violet (fourteen years old), so the triplets must be around thirteen years old. In the course of the series, Violet turns fifteen, and Klaus thirteen, so the triplets might now be fourteen.

Duncan and Isadora both used to carry commonplace books with them. Duncan's was dark green and Isadora's was black. Duncan would use his to write interesting facts, while Isadora used hers to write couplets in. In The Vile Village Duncan and Isadora attempt to give their notebooks to the Baudelaires, but Esmé Squalor, disguised as the village's Chief of Police, shoots the notebooks with a harpoon gun.

Duncan and Isadora appeared in the Austere Academy, the Ersatz Elevator, and the Vile Village.

Duncan's favorite book is The Portable Dorothy Parker, and his sister Isadora's favorite book is Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire.

[edit] Quigley

A Series of Unfortunate Events character
Quigley Quagmire
Gender	Male
Hair color	Black in book illustrations
Age	13/14
Film actor	None
First appearance	The Austere Academy (mentioned), The Slippery Slope (discovered)
V.F.D. alliance	Volunteer side of the schism

Quigley Quagmire was thought to be dead until Violet and Klaus Baudelaire met him in a cave with the Snow Scouts in The Slippery Slope. He and Violet Baudelaire seem to have some romantic interest in each other.

His mother hid him in a trapdoor during the fire to protect him. He was under there for a few hours, then he found that it was a tunnel. It took him to Dr. Montgomery Montgomery's house, after the Baudelaires had been there. The house was empty, so the Baudelaires had already left and Dr. Montgomery was already dead. This also implies that the Quagmire house burned down after the Baudelaire mansion. Then, Jacques Snicket arrived, but left for Paltryville.

At the end of the book, The Baudelaires and Quigley escaped Olaf but the icy Stricken Stream melted, and Quigley got washed away by the current of the river into a separate tributary. He apparently survived, as he sends the Baudelaires a telegram with a hidden message in it in The Grim Grotto. He is on the "good" side of the schism.

Like his siblings, Quigley has an interest related to writing, in his case cartography.

In The Penultimate Peril, it says that he took a stolen helicopter to rescue his siblings, and Kit Snicket suggested he would do this by constructing a very large net to capture the attacking eagles.

At the end of the series, Kit informs the Baudelaires that Quigley did indeed manage to meet up with his siblings, shortly before the eagles popped the balloons holding them up. Everyone inside the mobile home was sent toppling downwards, destroying the Queequeg directly below them. Duncan, Isadora, Kit Snicket, Captain Widdershins, Fiona, Fernald, Hector, Ink, and Quigley were all left stranded in the water, before the large question-mark shaped object, The Great Unknown, appeared below them. Kit and Ink managed to escape, while everyone else was pulled under, either to their deaths, or to their rescue. It is unknown if they are alive or not.

Quigley's only physical appearance is in The Slippery Slope.