nononononono

[bedlamsbard]

Okay, no, Bedlam, no. Bad Bedlam.

I don't care if it would be cool, you are not writing post-Last Battle stories where Susan stopped aging when she reached her last Queen Susan age and sixty years later is now an American (because she left England after that train accident, of course) top-secret FBI agent in, like, the paranormal affairs bureau when all of a sudden she gets a "ransom" note from some bad guy types who have resurrected Peter and want them to find a way to Narnia so they could exploit it. No, no, no. "Because it would be cool" is not a valid excuse. Crack after-the-books stories count as AUs and you are not writing either one in this fandom.

I don't even care if she goes over her superiors' heads and rescues bleary, drugged, twenty-three-year-old Peter all by herself, then realizes that she's being tailed by another agent, a hot young thing who wants to know if those rumors about her are true and also (of course) has the hots for her. And then they all kick ass.

NO NO NO. There is crack, and then there is crack. Peter Pevensie/Christopher Chant is not crack. Eomer/Susan and Lucy/Eowyn and Peter/Legolas is not crack. THIS IS CRACK.

Even if it's not strictly an AU.

Comments

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Well, the way I set it up, Narnia's pretty far away, so it's not really close enough to do much good (or to take over, either) -- and it's not like Rohan; its troops aren't mounted. There's heavy cavalry in the form of the centaurs, and then there are the fastest of the talking animals, but everyone else is going to take a lot longer getting anywhere on their own two or four feet. So it's not that practical for them to move very quickly; I'm not sure if they could even get to Gondor in time to save Minas Tirith. If they did, though -- Peter and Lucy are still in Rohan, and Peter will probably send a messenger to Narnia asking for troops, so that will get Edmund there, because Edmund's probably the next most experienced general after Peter.

Once that particular mess is cleared up, I think Peter would take the majority of the army home, and leave Edmund in Gondor and Lucy in Rohan to set up diplomatic relations, Narnian embassies, and such-forth, along with trusted Narnian officials and a detachment of guards. That'll get both Lucy and Edmund away from Narnia for the better part of a year, probably, and Peter and Susan back in Narnia taking care of their own problems. (Orcs traveling northwest to Narnia? Maybe!)