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That's a very good point, Fiona is different than most the villains. (Though I don't consider her entirely bad since she
SPOILER did apologize at the end..)
I'm not so sure that Fiona is so different from the other 'villains'... We just don't have their backstory. Like Fernald: at one point, he did have hands. Maybe after he lost them he somehow thought he had no choice but to join Count Olaf. Even the orphans 'joined' Count Olaf for a bit when they thought there was no other way out of their situation. Isn't that the most common reason people do terrible things? Desparate times call for desparate measures. For example, people don't usually go and just murder someone for the fun of it. There's usally some kind of desparate circumstance that makes them feel as though they have no other option. I mentioned it in another thread somewhere, I think, but I believe this is sort of the theme for the books: Bad times often create 'bad' people. We have to be strong and rely on our loved ones to get through tough situations and still maintain our morals and values.
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