five things meme

[bedlamsbard]

Because I refuse to look at "In Constellated Wars" for at least twenty-four hours, and because I'm working on a Golden Age slice-of-life fic (Peter: really stressed out despite everyone's attempts to make him figure out that he doesn't have to do everything. We can tell that this story takes place early on because he hasn't learned how to delegate yet. Although he's not a virgin anymore, and wow, you guys really didn't want to know that, did you?).

So! Y'all know the five things drill, and for some reason I can't find a good root version of it to post here -- you know, ask me five things about my characters/fic/'verse, same old, same old. I will do other fandoms -- my fandoms are anything vaguely fandom-shaped on my tags sidebar -- but my preference is for Narnia.

Comments

[kthxrawr.livejournal.com]

[hi, i lurk in your lj :D i find all your narnia stuff really interesting!]

peter! anything about peter.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (I always lurk, so it's fun to see who comes out of the woodwork.)

1. Peter has nightmares, bad ones, after he gets back to England, and they're not the same nightmare, but they're all of the same type: Narnia under attack, on fire, his people dying and the walls of Cair Paravel falling. After he gets back to Narnia in PC, he realizes that his nightmares were actually true visions of what happened.

2. About a month into his reign, when he was still a scared kid in over his head, an angry satyr stabbed him in the stomach. Peter nearly bled to death on the floor in front of his throne before Lucy got there.

3. Peter was a WWII RAF fighter pilot. He chose it: he knew that even though he'd always been infantry in Narnia, things had just changed too much for him to do any good as just another warm body. Besides, as a pilot, he'd have more independence, and he'd have a better chance of rising through the ranks quickly.

4. Peter learned how to kiss from the dryads around Cair Paravel.

5. When he became High King, Peter swore two oaths: one was public, and at the same time as his siblings, and he swore to Aslan. The other one was coordinated by a small group of Narnians, and he swore that oath in the dead of night, spilling his blood for Narnia. This is the one he considers binding.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

(Came here from ineptshieldmaid's rec.)

1. must have happened, just like that. I do hope there were nights Peter dreamed of Narnian revels in the woods and such, and that those dreams were also true.

3. I do think Peter would have been a fighter pilot, given the chance, except that as I understand it, the Pevensies were evacuated from London in the Blitz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz) in 1941 -- that is, they were children during WWII. In an AU in which the Pevensies were evacuated in WWI, that could have worked.

5. I like it. Is an oath to Aslan not sufficiently binding for Peter, though?

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

Mr. Tumnus.

Just for a change. :D

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Tumnus? But I know nothing about Mr. Tumnus! Make me think, why don't you.

1. Until Aslan brought spring to Narnia, Tumnus had lived his entire life in winter.

2. Tumnus doesn't really remember his father at all.

3. Tumnus has never slept with Lucy, or wanted to. Instead, he's more than content to be her dearest friend; he's the one she goes to when she needs to complain about something wrong at court, or something stupid her latest lover has done, or when she simply wants the best gossip.

4. Although he knows the Royal Family very well, Tumnus always gets tongue-tied around Peter. He has a little bit of a fanboy crush on him, though he'd never admit it even to Lucy.

5. Tumnus died defending Cair Paravel about a year after the Pevensies vanished from Narnia.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

5 things Edmund did in his role as "intelligence officer" for the good of Narnia, whether he liked it or not.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

1. Betrayed his brother. He'll never forget the look on Peter's face when Peter thought that Edmund would willingly usurp him, or the sick realization in the pit of his stomach that Peter could so easily believe it.

2. Destroyed Ransky, a tiny country sandwiched between Natare and Belgarion. Ransky might have been tiny, but at the time it posed the most urgent threat to Narnia, so Edmund used every one of his contacts to tear it apart from the inside out, then send Belgarion and Natare nearly to the brink of war fighting over it.

3. Order the death of a man he'd never met and never seen.

4. Pretend to be part of a traveling carnival. He juggled knives.

5. Developed an immunity to certain common poisons.

[snacky]

Tell me five times Lucy killed for Narnia.

I am so tempted to ask you about Space: Above and Beyond, but... :D

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I haven't thought about S:AaB in ages! Although my copies of LWW and PC are actually sitting on top of the DVD boxset next to my desk.

1. During the first few months of their reign, she spent a lot of the time with the Beavers; Cair Paravel was too big and too empty and she never saw her sister and brothers anyway. One day she was fishing with Mr. Beaver when a pair of wolves that had escaped Beruna attacked them; she had the dagger in the first one's ribs before she even thought about it.

2. When Peter was still engaged to Rinee -- and thank Aslan that relationship went nowhere fast, otherwise Lucy might have killed the girl -- a pair of Belgarine assassins made their way over the Narnian border, intent on killing Rinee and putting Narnia and Natare at odds. Lucy and Rinee were out riding that day, alone, since Rinee was terrified by the Royal Guard and Susan thought Lucy was a suitable guard, and when they were attacked, Lucy killed both the assassins. Rinee was horrified because she thought it was unladylike.

3. Natarene tradition holds to seven individual duels to the death before a battle actually begins. Lucy fought the third one.

4. The under-ambassador from Calormen was really an assassin sent to kill Peter. He was also very good in bed, but not that good. He had a political enemy among the Calormene embassy, too, who'd been sent by someone not the Tisroc for similar purposes, and that man was sent back to Tashbaan.

5. The time that Lucy nearly married Prince Pelagian of Telmar. It was a pity about the whole trying to poison Peter part; he probably should have waited until after the wedding, and the bloodstain completely ruined her dress.

[swift-tales.livejournal.com]

Eum.... how about five times Peter nearly started a war or an international incident because of his inability to talk politics or negotations, and the siblings had to fix the mess :p

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

1. Resi. (Rhun in "Ere Yet We Loose the Legions".) Throwing out the princess he was supposed to marry tends to annoy certain people. Like the entire country. Narnia's lucky that Edmund's a fast talker, and also that there are a couple of countries in between Resi and Narnia.

2. Peace negotiations with Archenland, version 3.0. This is the time that Peter and Lune started screaming at each other over a negotiating table. Peter was nineteen. Lune was thirty-nine. They nearly re-began a war that had just ended, and Peter threatened to break Lune's neck right there and then. Susan threw Peter out and negotiated the peace treaty. Given the fact that Archenlander nobles were raiding over the Narnia border six months later, Lune clearly didn't feel inclined to hold with it.

3. Shoushan, which later became the Shoushan Empire. Granted, they were the ones who demanded Narnia pay them tribute or be invaded. Peter was the one who punched the Shoushani ambassador in the face. Lucy was the one who helped him up. Susan was the one who put a knife to his throat. Edmund was the one who pointed out that if Shoushan wanted to invade Narnia, there were a hundred miles of dense forest between the border and open land, and that forest was very, very loyal to Narnia. Shoushan did not invade.

4. Terebinthia. Of course, at that time, the Terebinthians were insulted because Peter was too busy throwing up to say anything, which wasn't actually his fault. Edmund talked very fast.

5. Calormen. This is the time Susan and Edmund forbid Peter from saying more than two words from Rabadash; in retrospect, maybe if they'd let Rabadash see that Peter was crazy, then they wouldn't have to deal with the whole kidnapping/invading Archenland problem

[franceica.livejournal.com]

Thanks to the inspiration of swift_tales, I have thought of something I really would like to see you writing! How about the five times that Peter's siblings underestimated him?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

1. The first time Peter executed someone for high treason. Nobody thought he'd be able to do it without hesitating.

2. The time Peter nearly killed Edmund for what he thought was, at the time, treason. Nobody thought he'd be willing to kill one of his siblings.

3. The first time Peter got engaged. He didn't even put up a token protest.

4. The time when Susan, Edmund, and Lucy were all away from Cair Paravel for various reasons; when they rushed home after getting notices that the Telmarine ambassador had arrived early, all of them expecting that Peter had cooked up some kind of international incident, they were shocked to find that Peter and Caspian (an ancestor of Caspian I the Conqueror) were having a spirited discussion about the best tactics for fighting off mixed-species bandits, and sharing complaints about Shoushan's presumptions. Also, that Peter had arranged a marriage contract between Prince Pelagian and Lucy without offending anyone.

5. The first time Peter admitted he couldn't handle what was going on and turned it over to someone else.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

5 times Susan tries to forget about Narnia.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

1. The time she and Peter went out dancing and drinking. Peter started a barfight. That went badly.

2. When she went up for nurses' training. Narnia was past; this was the present. But battle-wounds look the same everywhere, even though the weapons and the fighters are different.

3. Every night Peter wakes up screaming from nightmares, shouting words in languages that have never been spoken on Earth. It's easy to pretend she doesn't know exactly what he's going through.

4. The first time she had sex in England. She'd thought that this would be the same in both places. It wasn't.

5. The time she went to the zoo with a few of her friends, and looked at the animals in their cages.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

five times peter got done over/sent to the headmaster at school due to the whole not coping thing.

also, five conversations/tellings off involving peter in the fencing club.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

1. The time Peter ran away from school and almost succeeded in joining (underage) the army.

2. The (six) times that Peter got into fights. That got reported.

3. The time Peter broke his fencing instructor's nose.

4. The time Peter got in an argument with his history professor about the tactics used by some historical military general. A very loud argument. That ended in the two of them shouting at each other while the rest of the class watched in bemused horror.

5. The third time Peter woke up screaming from nightmares.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

1. "GET OUT! I don't ever want to see you back here again!"

2. "You broke my nose!" "Your nose was in my way. And you're lucky it was just your nose."

3. "Edmund tells me you've been doing badly in the fencing club." "Have you been talking about me behind my back?" "Of course not." "Are you lying?" "Of course I am."

4. "This thing is ridiculous. You can't kill anyone with one of these. A broadsword could break it to bits with one blow." "Well, it's good we aren't fencing the Jerries, then." "Mr. Pevensie! Fencing is an art. Certainly you wouldn't try and kill someone with this. It's all about skill --" "No, it's about standing in one place and poking someone. This is skill."

5. "All right, Pevensie, if you're so smart, how would you kill someone? Not that I think you've the balls for it, of course." "Like this." "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME, YOU BASTARD?"

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

What would General Glozelle have done if Edmund had been captured during the castle raid, during the parley (Miraz being dishonorable), or at the duel (in the event that somebody shot Peter, say, but didn't kill him-big mistake!)? Poor fella...*laughs*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

His duty, of course.

[kc-rumors.livejournal.com]

If you're still taking prompts, how about 5 international incidents/wars that almost happened, but not because of Peter?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Almost? What's the fun in "almost"?

1. Lucy's proposed marriage alliance with Belgarion. They asked if she was a virgin, she said, "No, of course not. Why? Is Prince Caren a virgin? Why should I have to be a virgin if he doesn't have to be?", they stormed out, Susan smoothed things over. There was no marriage alliance. A few years later there was an invasion, but it was probably not related.

2. A group of men who may or may not have been Shoushani placed explosive charges all around the Cair Paravel throne room on a day just before all four of the Pevensies were scheduled to be in court. By blind, sheer luck, the Royal Guard swept the room before anyone actually went in there, and they got lucky. Unfortunately, the men were sort of unfortunately killed by the Royal Guard before Peter could interrogate them, so they were never able to conclusively prove they'd been sent by Shoushan.

3. The time when Peter's sixth fiancee was still claiming to be pregnant, and Peter's thank-god-not-seventh-fiancee through a fit and left Narnia before Susan or Edmund could re-open marriage negotiations.

4. The time when Calormen's ambassador refused to negotiate with a woman, and Peter and Edmund were both away from Cair Paravel. Susan kindly told him (via very annoyed centaur) that if he wasn't going to acknowledge her presence, then he could go back to Calormen immediately. It was one of Narnia's very bad winters, and no ships were sailing. He wisely decided to negotiate with her.

5. That time the ambassador from Telmar thought Susan was a complimentary concubine. Telmar was very embarrassed, and agreed that her response was quite reasonable.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

can I put in for extra?

Five times other nations first realised the child royalty of Narnia were a force to reckoned with. (hey, rich country, just lost extremely powerful ruler... and there's children on the throne? Right, boys, time to expand the borders.)

Five times Archenland and Narnia had to back off from outright war.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

1. The time Archenland sent troops into Narnia to claim the southern bits, and Peter went after them with a vengeance.

2. The time Peter invaded and conquered Galma. (Although it wasn't technically another nation.)

3. The time Lasci, um, disappeared Peter and went to war with Narnia, only to find a very annoyed Peter riding into battle with them.

4. The time Peter executed a group of Calormene assassins and sent the heads back to Tashbaan.

5. The time Edmund tricked Natare and Belgarion into fighting with each other over teeny-tiny little Ransky rather than joining forces to invade Narnia, or invading Narnia separately. Natare and Belgarion did not realize that Edmund had arranged this. Shoushan and Calormen did.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

What, like, every single time they had to meet?

1. The first time Archenland sent troops into Narnia. The only reason this didn't turn into outright war because neither Peter nor Lune officially declared it, and because the horrible late autumn-early winter storms stopped most of the actual fighting.

2. Three separate "hunting parties" that wandered onto Narnian soil and tried to kill Narnian citizens. Lune wrote an "apology" to Peter that was more along the lines of a thinly-veiled promise.

3. The time that Archenlanders tried to settle on what may or may not have been Narnian soil; Archenland claimed that it was Archenlander, Narnia said it was Narnian. There were some very ugly clashes between the two borderguards before the official international boundaries were negotiated.

4. The time they realized that Calormen was trying to trick them into going to war with each other.

5. The time Susan, staying in Anvard as a royal "guest", was forbidden from leaving Archenland. That ended when she mysteriously vanished from the castle and appeared in the throne room with a sword held to Lune's throat.