VFD is also discovered inside Count Olaf's mysterious ankle tattoo. The three letters together form an eye, a symbol that the children seem to see everywhere they go.

The Baudelaire orphans discover opaque VFD symbols everywhere they go. Netflix And it comes up elsewhere as various characters say phrases like "Very Frightening Decisions," "Vigorously Fixed ...

The presence of the VFD's all-seeing eye means that either that the Baudelaires are safe or that they are in grave danger – a fittingly foreboding symbol for a series as morose as this one.

The V.F.D. symbol cleverly combines the letters V, F, and D into the infamous image of the eye that keeps following the Baudelaire children around. 2 The Symbol AND The Motto.