Narnia (movieverse) fic: "Truth No. 2" (Peter/Susan)

Title: Truth No. 2
Author: bedlamsbard
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia movieverse
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Peter's the one who's more likely to panic; Susan has the feeling he's still operating on the edges of wonderment, still not quite sure that this is really happening. Golden Age, Peter/Susan.
Warnings: Incest
Disclaimer: The Chronicles of Narnia and its characters, settings, situations, etc., belong to C.S. Lewis. Certain characters, settings, situations, etc., belong to Walden Media. Title from the Dixie Chicks' "Truth No. 2".

( Truth No. 2 )

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Neighborhood porn. Oh, yeah, we're back to channeling Lynch and not Stirling. Stirling does weaponry and fighting, Lynch does city-building. I am afraid to see what rereading Martin might do to Dust; fortunately I don't have my copies of the books with me.

This, of course, means that I'm wandering around the Internet looking at cool neighborhood names. Sooner or later -- probably at the same time we get a map of Narnia -- I'm going to have to make a map of Cair Paravel.

So far, we have the following neighborhoods:
North Bank (poor neighborhood outside the city walls)
South Bank (new money neighborhood outside the city walls)
Riverfront District (on the, uh, riverfront, a fairly dangerous neighborhood)
Mare's Quarter (old city neighborhood by the sea, borders the Riverfront)
Garden District (old city neighborhood, home to nobles who keep houses in the city)
Goldhouse Row (old city neighborhood, home to new-made nobles and well-established merchants)
Liberty Park (borders the Garden District)

Neighborhoods that have been ripped off of New Orleans
Garden District = Garden District (okay. Who didn't see that one?)
Riverfront District/Mare's Quarter = French Quarter
North Bank/South Bank = West Bank/East Bank

Others:
Goldhouse Row = The Gold Coast, Chicago, IL
Liberty Park = Gramercy/Gramercy Park, New York City, NY

I...thought I was more original. Well, neighborhood names.

being in the army is like being in the boy scouts, except the boy scouts have adult supervision

You have no idea how much I'm restraining myself from writing, like, basic training in the Narnian Army. Like, a lot. Complete with the drill instructors yelling, "YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO MY BELOVED NARNIA. This is the Narnian Army! We can fight on the land, in the air, or while we fucking swim! WHAT'S THAT, RECRUIT? Do you think those squids in the Navy are going to come up the Archen River when Lune makes a move on us? YOU WANT IT EASY, YOU JOIN THE AERIAL CORPS. You aren't on your daddy's clanstead anymore, Recruit! THIS IS CAIR PARAVEL. THIS IS THE NARNIAN ARMY."

Complete with Peter hanging around, occasionally being helpful, new recruits not really recognizing him because hey, there are a fair number of humans around, including one of main instructors, Aliecer Greyjoy. (Who, seriously, I need to introduce at some point. Maybe this point.) And occasionally Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, as the mood strikes them. Possibly it's at the same time as basic training for the Navy and the Aerial Corps and there are bar fights in the taverns in the White City.

WARSVERSE GOLDEN AGE: CRACK.

You know what else I want? Whales. One does not see whales in fantasy very often. (I'm somehow guessing that one sees whaling even less often. Nobody tempt me; I have Word and I'm not afraid to use it! Also, I think that the colonial fantasy novel shall have whaling. Also incest and daddy issues. Possibly werewolves. And I still want western fantasy, damn it. What would the American Revolution be like with magic? Not dragons, that's Naomi Novik. MAGIC.)

Really, one wonders what the hell goes through my head at times.

ETA: ARMY. NOT NAVY. I do not know why my brain gives me an Army scenario and then a Navy MC and vague plot. Although I suddenly know more about Aliecer Greyjoy. One of these things is not where he's from. (I am trying to figure this out based on his name. Could be Telmarine, maybe, or Natarene. Not Shoushani or Belgarine. Not Ranskan. Maybe Lascar.)

ETA2: Oh my God, the Narnian Army is the French Foreign Legion. Also, Navy problem has resolved itself. I haven't even started writing yet! This would be the most self-indulgent thing ever.