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{{Character Template|image1 = [[File:Captain_Widdershins_russian.jpg|250px]]|gender = Male|status = Unknown deceased|family = [[Fernald]] (stepson)<br/>[[Fiona]] (stepdaughter)<br/>Wife (deceased)|titles = Captain|loyalty = Volunteer|appears_in = [[When Did You See Her Last?]]<br/>[[The Grim Grotto]]<br/>[[The Penultimate Peril]] (mentioned)<br/>[[The End]] (mentioned)}}'''Captain Widdershins''', captain of the ''[[Queequeg]]'', is a [[V.F.D.]] Volunteer and the stepfather of [[Fernald]] and [[Fiona]]. His personal motto is "He who hesitates is lost."
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{{Character Template|image1 = [[File:Captain_Widdershins_russian.jpg|250px]]|gender = Male|status = Unknown|family = [[Fernald]] (stepson)<br/>[[Fiona]] (stepdaughter)<br/>Wife (deceased)|titles = Captain|loyalty = Volunteer|appears_in = [[When Did You See Her Last?]]<br/>[[The Grim Grotto]]<br/>[[The Penultimate Peril]] (mentioned)<br/>[[The End]] (mentioned)}}'''Captain Widdershins''', captain of the ''[[Queequeg]]'', is a [[V.F.D.]] Volunteer and the stepfather of [[Fernald]] and [[Fiona]]. His personal motto is "He who hesitates is lost."
   
 
Widdershins has a very long mustache that curls up at both ends like a pair of parentheses. He has a rather peculiar way of speaking, often making redundant comments and interjecting them with the word "Aye!" and he feels a great need to remain in control, objecting when anyone makes a statement that could be even slightly construed as a command. Widdershins cares very much for Fiona and refuses to discuss any of V.F.D.'s secrets in front of her. This, he believes, will keep her from harm. It is clear that he knows many of said secrets, and it is known that he taught [[Olivia Caliban|Olivia Caliban (Madame Lulu)]] how to read coded stains on maps.
 
Widdershins has a very long mustache that curls up at both ends like a pair of parentheses. He has a rather peculiar way of speaking, often making redundant comments and interjecting them with the word "Aye!" and he feels a great need to remain in control, objecting when anyone makes a statement that could be even slightly construed as a command. Widdershins cares very much for Fiona and refuses to discuss any of V.F.D.'s secrets in front of her. This, he believes, will keep her from harm. It is clear that he knows many of said secrets, and it is known that he taught [[Olivia Caliban|Olivia Caliban (Madame Lulu)]] how to read coded stains on maps.

Revision as of 12:34, 3 May 2017

Captain Widdershins, captain of the Queequeg, is a V.F.D. Volunteer and the stepfather of Fernald and Fiona. His personal motto is "He who hesitates is lost."

Widdershins has a very long mustache that curls up at both ends like a pair of parentheses. He has a rather peculiar way of speaking, often making redundant comments and interjecting them with the word "Aye!" and he feels a great need to remain in control, objecting when anyone makes a statement that could be even slightly construed as a command. Widdershins cares very much for Fiona and refuses to discuss any of V.F.D.'s secrets in front of her. This, he believes, will keep her from harm. It is clear that he knows many of said secrets, and it is known that he taught Olivia Caliban (Madame Lulu) how to read coded stains on maps.

He disappeared in The Grim Grotto when a woman came and convinced him (and Phil) to leave with her. He was last heard from when Kit Snicket said he was aboard the Queequeg when Hector's Self-Sustaining Hot Air Mobile Home crashed into it. Widdershins chose to take his chances with the Great Unknown and nothing else has been heard of him.

Trivia

  • Widdershins mentions that he was friends with Josephine Anwhistle and that he patrolled the waters of Lake Lachrymose for years.
  • In The End, Ishmael mentions that Captain Widdershins searched the wreckage of the Baudelaire Mansion and discovered the Duchess of Winnipeg's ring, only to lose it later in a storm at sea.
  • He is possibly Friday Caliban's father. Due to this rumour, the assumption can also be made that his first name may be Thursday.
  • He wholeheartedly believed and shared the false news report of Lemony Snicket's death to Beatrice Baudelaire and several other members of V.F.D.
  • Widdershins is a rare word for going counterclockwise or something unlucky.