Violet Baudelaire is the eldest of the three Baudelaire orphans and one of the main protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events. She is the daughter of Beatrice and Bertrand Baudelaire as well as the elder sister of Klaus Baudelaire and Sunny Baudelaire. Like her siblings, Violet is intelligent, charming, polite, kind-hearted and resourceful, but is most well-known for being an incredibly talented inventor. Lamentably, Violet is extremely unfortunate, a phrase which here means "having a continuous streak of bad luck." Violet is fourteen years old at the beginning of the series, turns fifteen in The Grim Grotto, and is sixteen upon leaving the Island during Chapter Fourteen. She would inherit the Baudelaire fortune upon her coming of age at 18. Despite his best research, Lemony Snicket does not know what happened to Violet or her siblings after the events of The End.