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[bedlamsbard]

I feel like writing Peta/Caspian. Prompts, please?

Also, argh, because I switched out my contacts...before I realized that my boxes of new contacts aren't clearly labeled which set is right and left, and my eyes aren't quite equally horrible. (Close, but not quite.) I think I have them in the right eyes, but they kind of hurt, which is, uh, bad.

ETA: Never mind, I'm wearing glasses today; I don't feel like screwing around with these until Everything Is Resolved.

ETA: Wow, you guys are in the mood for domesticity today. I was thinking porn. *bemused*

Comments

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

"it's sort of squashed!" AHAHAH. Peta...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

"I do not care if I'm nine months enormously pregnant. I am going riding now."

No wonder Caspian developed a spine. He kind of had to...

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

I'm imagining a GIANT RAGING ROYAL FIGHT about six months into the pregnancy- some military crisis, Edmund, Caspian and Lucy arming up to head out, and turning around to find Peter all ready to go.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Well, Peter would be fine. Peta, on the other hand...

It's a good thing it was the Telmarine castle and not Cair Paravel. They never would have succeeded in locking her in her room if it was Cair Paravel...

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Oops, yes, typo.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

We are very close to crossing an mpreg line here. *bemused*

*is back to picturing the climax of "Be Like Water", where Peta meets Queen Prunaprisma in Castle Telmar. "Hello, Pru," she says, unsheathed sword bloody in her hand. "Surprised to see me?"*

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

AHAHAH. Nice.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Followed by Caspian coming in with his sword at his cousin's throat, saying, "Hello, Aunt Pru. I'd really rather not spill a kinsman's blood if I don't have to."

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

mew.

OH GOD I HATE BEOWULF SOOOO MUCH.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

We are doing Beowulf for the next week and a half! And watching the movie. The 2007 movie. *bemused*

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

I'm doing Beowulf for this semester. Every bleeding week. In the original. It is interesting to study but horrible to translate. Although today's section (which I, ah, didn't finish), the Hildeburh Digression, was fun. It had heads exploding in cremation pyres!

The 2007 movie is an abomination. NORMAN STONE MOTT AND BAILEY CASLTES IN FIFTH CENTURY DENMARK WTF? Also stone doesn't burn.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, lordy. Wait. What heads exploding? I don't remember that bit.

My English prof is very excited about the movie. She just hasn't seen it yet. *really bemused* She seems pretty awesome -- such a spaz, though.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

In the bit where the scop sings about Hildeburh and her brothers and sons all fighting each other and dying and so on, it describes her putting her brother and son on a pyre, and they go up in smoke, and heads melt and blood boils and so on and so forth. Which is apparently what happens- the fat deposits in the skin melt, so that the faces melt, and then the brains and blood boil and explode, and so on.

For that, I dislike your English prof on principle. The movie is a disgrace to both Beowulf and Neil Gaiman. Hmph.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

My English prof is a Milton expert, which should tell you everything right there. I am quietly horrified at having to read Paradise Lost again; I wrote a fifteen-page paper on it in junior year and was really hoping to never have to look at Milton again. I like Paradise Lost better than Dante's Inferno, though. *scowls*

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Ehehehe, Milton... I like Milton, he appreciated a good Anlgo Saxon poem when he saw one. Having said that, I've never read ALL of Paradise Lost, just the fun Satan bits.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I read all of Paradise Lost. I procrastinated on my reading and more or less read all of Paradise Lost in a weekend. That was painful. *winces*

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

ouch. definitely ouch.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

My paper was about the Satan bits, though. I was just wandering around the high school going, "...Satan. Is a good guy! Is a heroic figure! Through the Greek ideal, but in the Christian ideal..."

...that kind of creeped people out.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

"...Satan. Is a good guy! Is a heroic figure! Through the Greek ideal, but in the Christian ideal..."

Ah, bollocks to the Greek Ideal. He's a heroic figure in the germanic ideal!

... ah, well, ok, ok, there's probaly Greek in there. No one says a poet has to have just one inspiration. Satan's characterisation, and the description, and all of that, are heavily borrowed from an Old English poem known as Genesis B. When I was studying Gen. B. I discovered that nearly all the work on its MS, the Junius MS, had been done by Milton people, so possibly there's some influence on the rest of the poem, too. [/end medieval rant here].
(P.S. Gen B is one of the most AWESOME things ever written. I swear.)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I did not know that. My paper, though, was fifteen pages on Satan and the Greek heroic ideal, which really did get me odd looks because I wandered around saying, "Satan! Satan satan satan!"

*cough*

Hey, you have a minute for me to babble Petaverse thoughtfully at you?

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Ahaha. Well, I stood on the corner near the uni library declaiming Gen B in my own translation: HELL SUCKS! IT'S VERY NARROW BUT ALSO WINDY AND BOTH HOT AND COLD AT THE SAME TIME! That got me some odd looks, too.

I'm at work but feel free to babble and I shall read when I can, or when I finish in about four hours ;)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I was in the band hallway at my high school, waiting for my director to get there after lunch. "Did you just say Satan?" my friend Maegan asked, startled.


Okay, so "Be Like Water" starts when Caspian and the Pevensies meet -- part one is Caspian's POV, so, well, obviously. And then we run into timeline issues. I think I still want to pull off the attack on the castle, mostly because I want to have Cornelius at the How, and this is movieverse, so no wandering through the woods and finding the Narnians because they suck so much at woodcraft that even an old scholar who probably hasn't left the castle in years can find them. And if the attack goes the same as it did in the movie -- with a few differences, because Peta is probably more pragmatic than Peter? maybe? -- then we end up with Peta and Caspian back at the How screaming at each other. Probably with Caspian venting some of his Telmarine, "A woman's place is in the kitchen!" anger and Peta punching him in the face until the Narnians distract them with Trumpkin. Question is, does Caspian still end up almost summoning the White Witch? I kind of want to keep her, and then maybe have an unconscious parallel between Peta and Jadis? Maybe? Or Caspian realizing he's an idiot, anyway. Something like that.

I think I want to extend their time in the How for a bit, bring out the "under siege" aspect, though I'm not really sure how. I know that one of the things that changes is that Lucy doesn't manage to find Aslan; I think that they eventually manage to wake up enough of the trees to turn the tide of the battle when it comes. And then there's the duel, of course, which I think will get suggested later -- and by Cornelius, not Caspian, because Cornelius isn't happy with the fact that Caspian's sleeping with Peta; he wants Caspian to be king and by now Caspian's pretty much figured out that, uh, he probably won't be. (La la la, something here about culture shock between the Narnians and the Telmarines.) Also, Cornelius is a Telmarine misogynist; he doesn't trust Peta and he's not really all that impressed with the Pevensies in person, anyway. (There's some interesting difference in mythology here between the Petaverse and the Warsverse that's influencing him.)

And, you know, there's a cave-in and Peta and Caspian start sleeping together sometime in there, and yeah, I think I definitely want to extend the siege to an actual siege. *thoughtful* And then they win the battle, and there is some stuff with the government and Peta gets pregnant and she and Caspian get married and part one either ends with the wedding or the baby. Or maybe just the announcement of the wedding; I'm not sure.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Er, yes. That all looks very complicated and interesting to me... I agree about the Jadis thing, particularly the Peta-Jadis connection. On the other hand, would Mr Misogynist Himself call up a witch? Does he know she's a she? I'm imagining him griping afterwards about the place being full of troublesome women.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Part two is Peter's POV, so skip forward eighteen years, although Peta and Peter are both back to being twenty-one. (I may have to screw around with the ages in order to make the dates line up, though.) Peter's stationed with the RAF in Burma, we know this part of the story, he and Peta start sleeping together, he says that if she wants to go back to England, then she can marry him; it'll give her legitimate citizenship. (Must look up British citizenship laws in the 1940s.) Peta demurs. Peter goes off into battle -- and gets shot down. And is MIA for three weeks, at which point he strolls out of the jungle and Peta slaps him and says she'll marry him. (And then there's a letter that one of Peter's mates sends to Edmund, which we'll hear about later.) Wedding, wedding night, eventually they go back to England, where there's a fun and exciting reunion with the Pevensies where Peta looks pale and Edmund yells at Peter for sending him that goddamned letter. And then there is a scene where Peter gets all the Narnian Pevensies and Co. together -- including Eustace and Jill; maybe the Professor and Polly, although that might be a little...I don't know -- and talks about Peta and her Narnia. And there is some Peta and Susan stuff, and somehow they decide to go to Peta's Narnia to win it back for her. I have no idea how or why, and this part is a little thin and very exposition-y. I could do flashbacks, I suppose, because I want to cover the Telmarine conquest of Narnia, mark two, somehow. But I'd be more comfortable doing it from Caspian's POV than from Peta's.

Part three is the Pevensies back in Peta's Narnia, and then there is some scurrying around the woods, and somehow they figure out the Telmarines -- meaning Prunaprisma, her son, and Sepaspian, who may or may not have married Prunaprisma (who was living in the Telmarine castle with the Petaverse Pevensies) after taking after Narnia (and I've talked about this bit elsewhere) -- are keeping Caspian alive for...um, reasons of their own? Something to do with the succession? Anyway, he's chained up in a tower somewhere, so of course the answer is to break in and get him. Which they do, of course, and then they all skedaddle back to the woods, where Peta and Caspian have sex and hiss at each other angrily and lovingly. Then they get set on by the members of the Narnian resistance, led by a, uh, familiar face, who are a little (understandably) confused, because everyone is dead and who the hell is this Peter guy, anyway? And why is the High Queen younger? *cough* And then they all go over to the Narnian camp, which is basically a treehouse village. (I HAVE NO WORDS. NO WORDS AT ALL. I JUST WRITE WHAT THE VOICES TELL ME.) Then there is plot, and sex, and they attack the castle, and regain the throne, and there is some confusion where the Pevensies prepare to return to England, and then there is Peter/Caspian/Peta sex. And then the story ends on a more or less happy and recovering Narnia, and the Pevensies returning to England -- or the implication that they may be doomed to wander the Narnian multiverse forever.

ANYWAY, the third section will probably end up being either Peta's POV or Caspian's, maybe Peter's -- I suppose I could do all three, but I'm kind of hesitant to do that. And I want to put in the last days of Narnian before the Telmarines took over again, but I'm not sure where to put that in, and flashbacks are so messy, and I don't think they'd work well anyway. Maybe an interlude between part one and part two?

Er, one may notice that my method of babbling is basically to spit everything out and wait for a reaction.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

I like your babblings, I do.

Hum. does Peta return to England with the other Pevensies?

Peta and Caspian have sex and hiss at each other angrily and lovingly
have I mentioned how much I adore them?