you know, at this point I'm really hoping the story doesn't disappoint

[bedlamsbard]

Suddenly I think I might have been wrong, and what we see in Caspian in PC isn't naivete at all, it's inexperience mixed with culture shock to the nth degree. Because seriously, there's so much culture shock there it isn't even funny, and it's about fifty different kinds of it, too. (I mean, you have the Narnians, and then you have the Pevensies, who are caught between two different cultures themselves, England and Old Narnian, which is completely different from the New Narnians, so basically everyone has culture shock. But Caspian especially.)

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[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Someone who understands the Telmarine mindset, but also KNOWS just who and what the Pevensies are to Narnia and her people, Peter in particular.

I'm still thinking Cornelius. He loves Caspian but I think he'd be able to pull him up short, if needed.

I think it *would* be a fascinating problem to explore. I don't know if the 2 pieces where Peter and Caspian had sex/exchanged oaths are part of your greater cycle; but if so, *something* had to change enough for Peter to approach him and for Caspian to say yes, and then for the sex/oaths to mean...something. A shift in understanding each other-because Peter doesn't "get" Caspian, either.

At least, this is how it appears to me from outside your head...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I don't think Cornelius is a Narnian, though. I mean, he has Narnian blood and he knows the legends, but he wasn't raised Narnian and he knows the legends from books, and what he wants is to put Caspian on the throne and peace between the Narnians and the Telmarines. He doesn't think like the Narnians, he doesn't understand the Narnians -- and the Narnians don't trust him. (Which I think is one of the things that the book gets across that the movie doesn't.)

Hell, Cornelius probably helped Caspian come up with the plan to kill Peter.

They're technically supposed to be, or at least "Once More for the Ages" is -- I meant "Freely Offered" to be a missing scene, but then contradicted the set-up in "Ages." Um, whoops.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm only saying Cornelius because he's mixed, so he's got a foot in both world.


Who would you use for the outside pov, then? Somebody observant enough to at least understand where each of them are coming from...unfortunately, that pretty much eliminates everybody *but* the main cast! *laughs*

No, I think those two Peter/Caspian fics still do fit together fairly well. It would account for some of the shock the morning after when Peter pushes Caspian away on a *personal* level and threatens him on a *professional* one. Caspian's half in love with him by then...but Peter probably knows they're not staying and I don't think he'd tell Caspian what he was really feeling, in any event.

The problem with *most* pairings in Narnia that won't gross you out (Puddleglum/Trumpkin! *roftl*) is that they're ultimately tragic due to being separated.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean. He seems like the obvious choice -- but not so much, really. *muses* I suppose he's going to have to show up soon; I haven't actually written him.

A Narnian OC, I think, like I did in "These Last Golden Days of Summer" and "The False Knight." (I mean, I could also do Trumpkin, Reepicheep, Glenstorm, or Trufflehunter, but where's the fun in that?) I have Caspian for a Telmarine look, but for a Narnian one -- at this point I have enough OCs from "In Constellated Wars" alone to pick and choose.

*nods* Exactly. At that point Caspian's either in love with Peter or very close to being there -- on a couple levels, I think -- but Caspian really, really doesn't get Peter. AT ALL. (Sometimes I think those fics are just me trying to push Peter/Narnia via proxy. *facepalm*)

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Puddleglum: Ah, well, neither of us are getting any younger. Won't be able to get it up, like as not.

Trumpkin: EH? Speak up, youngster! Haven't got all night to fiddle about!

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

*snickers*


I was trying to gross out celandine during one of her drabble calls.