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.

If you look closely at the eye, you can see a few letters hidden within the symbol. Specifically the acronym VFD, with the "V" and "F" making up the Iris of the eye and the "D" being the pupil.

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 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.