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I personally know, um, nothing about ancient Britain except what I remember from reading Marion Zimmer Bradley's books, like, five years ago, so, uh, pirates it is!
Peter Pevensie used to be a captain in the Royal Navy before his brother, Lieutenant Edmund Pevensie, was arrested and condemned for treason. Faced with the prospect of watching his brother be hanged for treason (and now under suspicion himself), Peter breaks his brother out of prison, along with a number of other felons, steals his ship (taking with him a significant portion of his crew), and takes to the high seas, sailing south for the Caribbean. Amusingly, he falls into piracy mostly by accident, sinking another pirate ship as it attacks a merchant boat. He robs the merchant mostly because Edmund and his second mate Oreius point out that the Royal Navy's going to be after them anyway, so they might as well.

Five years later, Peter and the Narnia have made a pretty significant name for themselves, garnering friends and enemies alike among the Caribbean's thriving pirate community. He regularly sends money to his sisters in England, and Lucy writes letters back, most of them light gossip about what's going on in Society (of which they are largely outcast, what with the treason and the piracy thing) and how much fun it sounds like Peter and Edmund are having. Susan does not write back. She's too pissed off at Peter.

Planning on using Susan and Lucy as bait to capture Peter and the Narnia, the Royal Navy sends Susan and Lucy, who are being cared for by their old tutor, Professor Kirke, to the Caribbean. They're traveling on the same ship as Caspian, a young lieutenant in the Royal Navy whose uncle owns most of the private ships in the Caribbean. Susan, no fool, has figured out the plan, and she may be pissed at Peter, but she's not going to let just anyone take her brothers back to London to be tried and hanged for treason. Without telling Lucy about the Crown's plot, she sets about figuring out a way to warn Peter to stay far, far away for the time being. In the mean while, their ship docks at Port Royal, and there's some fancy society stuff with Lt. Caspian, Lord Miraz, and some other types, where Susan smiles sweetly and looks charming. Then she realizes that one of the men dancing with her is Edmund. Peter's not about to let his sisters come to his neck of the woods and not see them after all. She and Edmund have a whispered argument about Peter's general pigheadedness and really, where the hell is he? Then the Marines drag Peter in front of the governor, and Miraz gloats about his plan, and Peter says something sharp and mocking and gets hit across his face and dragged off to the jail. And Susan hisses to Edmund, "I'm assuming this wasn't part of your clever plan?" and he replies, "No, not really," and slips off. Later, she and Lucy are in their rooms, worrying at each other, when Edmund climbs in the window. Lucy runs to hug him, and together they all try to come up with a plan to get Peter out before he gets shipped back to London. But the ship's leaving tomorrow, and finally Edmund just sneaks Susan and Lucy out, saying the Narnia will figure something out.

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They don't plan on the hurricane. The navy ship wrecks on an island, and while the Narnia rides out the storm, Edmund's forced to anchor just off said island, where they find out the navy ship took pretty significant casualties and poor young Lieutenant Caspian is the ranking officer. Caspian tries to arrest the pirates. Edmund points out the navy men are outnumbered, and also, Edmund has the only boat. Then he drops another bombshell: Miraz's ships actually belong to Caspian rightfully by virtue of his father previously being Lord Suchandsuch, only old Caspian was murdered under mysterious circumstances, and Miraz had actually opposed Caspian's posting to the Caribbean, because he'd made arrangements for Caspian to die elsewhere. "Have any close accidents lately?" Edmund asks, and Susan and Lucy look at each other, because there were a few times on their way over from England that just might have been -- and Caspian goes pale, but manages to snap something about not listening to a traitor, which is a subject Edmund and Peter never, ever talk about, because Edmund feels horribly guilty about Peter throwing away his career and his position to go after him and Peter honestly doesn't want to know whether or not Edmund's a traitor. But he wasn't a traitor after all -- he was set up, but it wasn't him that was supposed to be caught. Wrong Pevensie -- Peter had just been promoted to captain, and the papers had still said "Lieutenant." And who set it up, and why? Miraz, of course. The Pevensie family was fairly important in Parliament, but Papa Pevensie retired after the shock of both his sons committing treason and piracy and died soon afterwards. The family lands (Cair Paravel) have reverted to Susan, who Miraz was planning to marry. It's one of the reasons he wanted her in the Caribbean. Edmund pretty bitter about the whole getting set up for treason thing, so he's spent the past five years ferreting this out.

The other three Pevensies and Caspian are suitably horrified, and then Peter tries to apologize to Edmund while Caspian -- suitably pissed off -- orders his irons struck off. They all plot how to get rid of Miraz and get Peter and Edmund's names cleared. "The governor!" Susan exclaims, and Peter gives her kind of a dubious look. "You are aware he's spent the past five years trying to string me up, aren't you?" he says. "But if Edmund tells him --" "Yes, because he's going to believe the word of a convicted traitor," Edmund says caustically. But they eventually come up with a plan. Granted, the plan involves Caspian taking command of the Narnia and pretending to have captured Peter and Edmund, who've supposedly kidnapped their sisters, and sailing them back to Port Royal, but it's a plan. The rest of the plan involves Peter and Edmund breaking out of the Port Royal jail and sneaking into the governor's quarters, which goes as well as might be expected, which is to say, Caspian hauls Miraz in with a sword to his throat, and then Miraz shoots him. Peter cuts his arm off and threatens to run him through if he doesn't confess. Which he does, and the governor kind of cocks his head, considers the matter, and adds up a long list of other suspicious actions, which means Miraz = traitor. Then he tells Peter he can't run him through, which Peter's a little disappointed about.

Epilogue: Peter and Edmund both get pardoned, and offered their commissions back. They both accept, but Peter keeps the Narnia. Susan and Lucy decide they like the Caribbean and are going to stay there, preferably, at this moment, on board the Narnia, which Peter kindly doesn't tell the navy brass. Peter becomes Captain Pevensie of HMS Narnia again, and Edmund and Caspian are his first and second lieutenants. And they sail off into the sunset, hunting some very confused pirates.

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!!!!!

I want to call this crack, but I'm not entirely sure that I can. It has plot! It has cause and efect! It has conspiracies and jailbreaks and hurricanes and sibling snark and people getting their arms cut off! Hooray!

Most amusing point: Caspian trying to arrest the pirates while Edmund is all "Point A) outnumbered, point B) you have no ship."

Okay, calm no. Off to do Psych

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I think I could write this as an original and have it actually work. *is pleased* Because Peter! Committing treason to save his brother's life! (That's the part that gets me.)

You know that Caspian would totally try to arrest the pirates and Edmund would just raise his eyebrows and cross his arms.

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and then Caspian would sort of look down, dig his toe into the sand and go "er, I have the force of the law?" And then Susan would also raise an eyebrow, give a ladylike little huff of air, and turn away to find someone who was actually important, and Caspian would deflate that last little bit as Edmund explained what was actually going on.

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Then a few minutes later he has the force of indignant fury, of course! Tempered with, oh shit I have a superior officer in chains and actually, he kind of scares me and I have no idea what is going on!

So just like canon, actually.

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Only possibly with less hair tossing. And less confusion about who is really In Charge when it comes to Narnia. Caspian won't get those silly ideas about captain-ship.

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But he will be in a navy uniform. Let us pause to contemplate this mental image.

...I just realized he'll be wearing a wig, so, uh, I suppose there could be some hair-tossing.

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aella_irene

Narnia, Jacobite Rebellion AU!

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Dude, I am rereading Dragonfly in Amber at this very moment. *bemused*

Huh. I think I would make it a murder mystery/love story, starring Caspian the young British army officer and Peta the Scotswoman whose father is killed at Culloden and whose brother is now a POW/traitor. Poor Edmund. (Okay, perhaps we are slightly immediately post-Jacobite Rebellion here.) Caspian's company is occupying the area, and his superior officer keeps putting the moves on Peta, who is having none of that, thank you very much. Then British soldiers start dying, and then attention on the Pevensie place really tightens, and it was already pretty tight beforehand. The three Pevensie girls may or may not be accused of witchcraft, and Caspian stands up for them, which pisses off his commanding officer. At some point, Caspian and Peta get drunk and have sex, but sometime during the night another British soldier has been murdered, and Peta is the prime suspect, which sort of goes out the window when Caspian points out that she couldn't possibly have killed anyone, she was with him all night. And then attention gets spotlighted on Susan and Lucy, and the Brits are very, very angry.

The next day, Peta disappears. Susan makes some excuse, but then they all realize Caspian's gone missing too. And -- I'm not entirely certain, but there is missing treasure, and then Caspian and Peta break Edmund out of prison, and Edmund punches Caspian, and then they all...something. Er. Live happily ever after, except for the famine? Caspian resigns his commission, anyway.

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aella_irene

Really? What do you think of it?

Your Jacobite Rebellion AU is wonderful. Who was the murderer?

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I love the entire series bunches and bunches. Dragonfly's not my favorite, inasmuch as I actually have a favorite -- I have to admit that I really like the later ones because of Brianna and Roger -- but I really like it.

I have no idea who the murderer actually was. *sheepish* Tumnus, loyal retainer, maybe? Or possibly Lucy.

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aella_irene

Lucy. No one would suspect Lucy, she's all little, and sweet, and what is she doing with that dirk?

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And she has the power of righteous fury! Because her father is dead and her brother's in prison and probably going to be dead and these English have taken over her land and her castle and they keep hitting on her and her sisters, and by god she wants them to suffer for it.

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Er, this is probably silly, but I want to know anyway-that is, if you don't find it too silly to worth considering.

Narnia, and Harry-Potter-verse AU. *facepalm*

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Huh. It's not silly.

I think I'd still set it during WWII, when the MoM is trying to keep wizards from being drafted by the Muggle government. Peter's right in the thick of this, since he's just graduated from Hogwarts and started training as an Auror. But, there's a pretty strong movement for wizards to participate in WWII too -- after all, England is their country too. A few of Peter's yearmates are involved in this -- mostly the Muggleborn. Even though Peter's pureblood, he's leaning towards it too. Susan, on the other hand, still in Hogwarts, is completely opposed, and part of the story would be the letters she and Peter write back and forth to each other, with occasional contributions from Edmund and Lucy.

There's a high-level Ministry murder that becomes Big News pretty quickly. As an Auror trainee, Peter wouldn't be involved, except then he gets arrested and convicted but misses getting Kissed, just spends about a decade or so in Azkaban. Then it's proved he was innocent. (Okay, I apologize, my default setting for plot is "mystery", back from my CSI:NY days. Also, I just mainlined the entire first season of Life.) He comes back as an Auror and he's only a little bit insane, or maybe a lot; nobody can quite tell. And Lucy works with dragons, Susan works in the Ministry (but not as an Auror), and Edmund's an Auror too; he's the one who's come up with most of the evidence to prove that Peter was innocent. But Peter gets partnered with Caspian, who's a little (rightfully) alarmed, and then there are Hijinks.

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*dances* You wrote it.
I have always been wanting to put these two 'verses' together, somehow, and I love your version. And Auror!Peter and Auror!Edmund are cool. But I was thinking whether Caspian went to Hogwarts though. I wonder which house he would be in if he attended Hogwarts? Somehow I have the houses for the Pevensies in my head, but I am not so sure about Caspian. Hmm.

just spends about a decade or so in Azkaban
Shudders. No wonder Peter might be not quite right in the head.

And then I love Edmund piecing all the evidence to prove Peter's innocence (Just as I love Peter committing treason to save Edmund)! I will always be fond of these two, especially them saving each other.

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*cocks head to side* Gryffindor, maybe? He's very full of noble ideals and all that. He's ambitious, but I don't think he's quite conniving enough to be in Slytherin.

*cough* I like them crazy, apparently.

Edmund and Peter saving each other -- without the other's cooperation! -- may be my favorite thing ever. I may have to write just that scene from the pirate AU, because you just know Edmund tried to talk Peter out of it and Peter snorted and went, "It's a little late for that, isn't it?"

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*cocks head to side* Gryffindor, maybe? He's very full of noble ideals and all that. He's ambitious, but I don't think he's quite conniving enough to be in Slytherin.

Well, maybe, Gryffindor's probably the closest we can get. He definitely wouldn't be in Slytherin, at least I couldn't picture him one. And Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff also, can't picture him as one. So, maybe, yeah, Gryffindor that is.

Edmund and Peter saving each other -- without the other's cooperation! -- may be my favorite thing ever. I may have to write just that scene from the pirate AU, because you just know Edmund tried to talk Peter out of it and Peter snorted and went, "It's a little late for that, isn't it?"

You should totally write it. Ah, I would be so excited about it!

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I just accidentally bumped into one of my old fandoms, that being X-men, and I instantly thought of your AU ideas. And then I wonder if Narnia got a chance to be in X-men AU? *laughs* I wonder what mutations would fit them.

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Peter would be Wolverine, or maybe Cyclops. (I like Cyclops better than Wolverine, but man, Peter as Wolverine just fits, doesn't it? At least if it's my Peter.) Lucy would be Kitty, what with phasing through stuff and whatnot. Edmund can be Rogue. No, that's just mean. Edmund can be Emma Frost. (Damn straight he can turn into solid diamond.) Susan can be Mystique. (We're talking powers here, not personality or affiliation.) Caspian is Magneto.

Also, they are mutant terrorists.

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Ah, Wolverine. Well, actually I like Cyclops better, too. I am actually introduced to all these through movie, and only then I went for some background knowledge digging and learning something about the comic. But I think the images in the movie kind of stuck. So, I don't know, I feel that Peter isn't wild like Wolverine is? At least not in the same sense. But the trauma part fits though. Edmund's part is so neat. Oh Emma Frost. And King of Whisper, Shadowmaster, etc. *snickers* It totally fits. And Susan, too. But Caspian as Magneto kind of make me laugh, I don't know why, maybe I am picturing Caspian doing the Magneto stuff, kind of comical.

Also, they are mutant terrorists.
They must be the really scary lot.

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OMG
NARNIA
ROCK STAR AU

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I...don't think I can come up with anything for that. I have a general abhorrence towards the subject in general.

Option B?

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MUST I DO EVERYTHING AROUND HERE. Peter gets caught up in and snobby about his Art, Susan smokes too many cigarettes, Edmund keeps them both from sounding too ridiculous during interviews, and Lucy loves doing outdoor festivals though Susan kind of loathes it. Miraz is an industry mogul trying to take over Narnia Records. Caspian is part of boyband (IT'S FUNNY 'COS IT'S TRUE) that Miraz is dropping like a hot potato, so Caspian stumbles over to Narnia Records, betrayed and dazed and robbed of his pop throne. PETER AND CASPIAN HAVE CREATIVE DIFFERENCES, but who better to help lead a stand against Telmarine Records than Caspian himself? So in the end Caspian's like "INDIE MUSIC 4EVA" and fights the good fight against the major label monopoly and it's very 'Empire Records'. THE END. I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF, I AM (maybe) SORRY.

How about any of these?
a) ARCTIC EXPLORER AU
b) MEIJI RESTORATION AU
c) LOLCAT AU

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And by "creative differences" we mean sex, yes? Possibly in a sound proof practice room, and then they make out on stage.

LOLCAT AU

*dies*

Arctic explorer! V. legitimate and all, I can do that without undue research for a SUMMARY. The Pevensies are a famous explorer family who disappeared way back when, mysteriously and without a trace, and everyone thinks that they died. With good cause, because, uh, it's the Arctic, and half the people who go up there die. (Driveby book rec: The Terror (http://www.amazon.com/Terror-Novel-Dan-Simmons/dp/0316017450/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222261147&sr=8-2), Dan Simmons. Read it, freeze to death, and be TERRIFIED.) And for a while there it's in vogue to talk about what could possibly have happened to the Pevensies, and some people blame Captain Peter Pevensie of HMS Navy for dragging his poor, impressionable sisters into it, and some people blame Susan and Lucy, because after all, everyone knows that a ship is no place for a woman! And neither is the Arctic. And so on and so forth and time passes and everyone forgets about the Pevensies, and then it is the twenty-first century and there are a few, "What happened to the Pevensie family?" type books -- ya know, the history books, and also, the historical novels, and one documentary, and a popular series of graphic novels, because there are women! And Peter and Edmund were young and impressionable, so they are a little more popular than, say, Franklin. Though somewhat less tragic, because there's no proof of any lead-caused madness or cannibalism.

THEN, Miraz's archaeology/grave robber team is digging around in the Arctic looking for something, v. beginning of National Treasure-like, and Miraz's bored nephew Caspian, who'd much rather be back in London with his iPod and an internet connection, wanders off, and goes missing, and falls into a snow cave, and gets punched in the face by Peter, who's a little startled. And he and Caspian roll around in the snow for a while before Edmund and Susan pull them apart, and then Caspian asks who the hell they are and why are they in the Arctic in the middle of nowhere? No one wants to be here! He doesn't want to be here! And Peter tells this story that involves magic somehow. Possibly there is a talking polar bear involved. But then Miraz finds them, because he can't just let his idiot nephew wander off and die in the snow now, can he? And then he gets v. excited, forgets all about his dig, and hauls the Pevensies back to London, where he plans to perform experiments on them and put them on tour and they're all over the news, which tends to make Peter curl his lip and go a little feral, although really, they're not adjusting all that badly. Then Miraz starts talking about going back to the Arctic and finding the Pevensies' secret hide-out and a way to market their experience, and then I think he tries to have Caspian killed because he knows things, and also Peter and Edmund in tragic accidents because they aren't tractable enough. (Not that the girls are either, but you know.) And Caspian finds out and absconds with the Pevensies and they all go on the run, and must go back to the Arctic to Miraz's original dig, because there is Something There! And Miraz follows them, and somehow they manage to trap him up there, possibly in an ice cave or a crevasse or maybe in the Pevensies' hideout, and then they all go back to the civilized world and live happily ever after except for the paparazzi, but eventually they lose interest in favor of Britney Spiers or something.

Also, Caspian and Peter have sex. Or something.

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I like how that comment both began and ended with Caspian and Peter having sex. ALL THINGS should start and end with Caspian and Peter having sex.

I <3 the idea of "what happened to the Pevensies?" type books. Embedded as a mystery in the hearts and minds of popular culture! They are like sasquatch. Maybe there's an X-Files episode about them.

Talking polar bear! I flashback to His Dark Materials. Have you read those books? Oh man are they ever full of adventure, SO FUN and as full of ideological soapboxing as the Narnia books.

(lucy: "i can has lion?"
of caspian: "saving ur kuntry -- ur doin it rong."
miraz: "im on yr regency, usurping ur throne."
peter: "FURIOUS PETER IS FURIOUS."
aslan: "da ultimate ceiling cat.")

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I DID NOT ANSWER THIS COMMENT. I FAIL.

Oh, His Dark Materials. *rolls eyes* Not my basket of fun, but yes, I've read 'em.

And you know there's a ridiculously bad TV series that has them finding, like, an inner earth or something. Lucy reads the summaries off Wikipedia to watch Peter squirm and Edmund roll his eyes.

*nods firmly* Yes. Yes they should. Pity I can NEVER GET THEM IN BED TOGETHER UNLESS PETER IS A GIRL.

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I AM LOATHE TO ADMIT THAT I WAS INDEED JUST A WEE BIT D:

i remember us saying that once school starts there would be no time for narnia. I HAVE SO FAR SEEN NO BEHAVIOR THAT SUPPORTS THIS.

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Narnia - werewolf AU.

I love your mind.

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OH MY GOD. Peter the pack leader! Edmund his loyal second in command! Caspian the lone wolf come sniffing around for a new pack! Possibly they are all at college or high school or something, and Caspian is the new transfer student, and Peter is ROTC, and there is fighting and I think I skipped over the plot parts and went straight for the shallow. Also, Susan is the one who tries to be normal and joins a sorority but isn't actually interested at all, and one time at a frat party she gets drunk and there is a date rape attempt and she kicks frat boy's ass, which is a little hard to explain to everyone else. Also, Lucy is still in high school, and a cheerleader and lacrosse player, but hangs out with the gamers a lot. Possibly she is Homecoming royalty. Also, wolf shenanigans somewhere. Possibility Miraz is a bounty hunter who's come looking for wolf pelts, which Caspian doesn't know.

Also, there is sex, somewhere.

*cough*

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Narnia

STARWARS AU

*tee hee*

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