well, maybe that first bit...

[bedlamsbard]

Lines I am not allowed to put in "Dust" just to freak Eustace out:

after an assassination attempt
Eustace: "You're insane! He's insane!"
Peter: "Someone just tried to kill me and I'm the crazy one? EDMUND."
Edmund: "Don't blame me! I've been in Malaya getting shot the past year!"
Eustace: "You just killed him!"
Edmund: "Yes, because that is what you do when your life is threatened. Assassination attempts are generally BAD. And your reflexes are getting slower, Pete. I remember when you would have got him before he got near enough to scratch up your face."
Peter: "Yeah, I guess not having people try and kill you in your bed on a daily basis can dull your edge. I notice you didn't notice, either."
Eustace, ranting: "This is what being in the army gets you! It makes you violent! You learned that in the war, didn't you?"
Edmund: "NO HE DID NOT. Trust me here."
Peter: "Actually I learned that particular move when I was a merc in Natare. That's also where I learned to do that thing with my tongue that you like."
Pevensie sibling of your choice: "Oh, really? I thought you learned that from Osumare Seaworth."
Eustace: *speechless*
Edmund: "I'd say something about situationally appropriate conversation, but I'm enjoying this too much."

Comments

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Nope. He's always seen the Susan of more beauty than brains. He may have heard the stories when he was on the Dawn Treader, but who believes stories, you know? It's hardest for him to think of Susan and Peter in Narnia because he's never actually seen them there. He can sort of concieve of Peter as a fighter, because, hello, Peter's in the RAF, but Susan? Doesn't have a friggin' clue. And here she is all, "You have been in an occupied country for five years and you haven't killed anyone? What is wrong with you?" Especially since Eustace and Jill are aware of Susan as drawing away from Narnia...

Well, not all that much went down in VotDT. *rolls eyes* Lucy, though -- Lucy's going to be interesting.

They all make filthy jokes about Peter's sex life. Lucy especially, though. Oh, Eustace is going to be SO CONFUSED. One wonders if he's ever going to get over the fact that Peter sleeps with men once he finds out...

Osumare, like most of Peter's lovers, was on and off over the years. He kind of failed at the stable relationship concept, what can I say? It's the reason his siblings laugh hysterically every time their mother wishes Peter would find a nice girl and settle down. Well, that and the girl part.

Huh, who else did Peter sleep with that I know of? Osumare we know, and then there's Aliecer Greyjoy, he's a Telmarine exile (Narnia actually has a lot of those). Eskil Sigurdsson was Edeny Yricsdottir's first mate (an Ansketts sailor). Darbhi Jahangir is the duke of Terebinthia. Raedwulf of Northhope is a clansman from the northwest area, up around giant country. *waves vaguely*

Nothing prepares you for Edmund Silvertongue.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

:tilts head: I can see that line being Narnia's Spanish Inquisition line.

I presume Peter sleeping with men is a complete bloody secret aside from his siblings? (as it would have been in the 40s anyway).

Going off to go battle large amounts of things and basically being completely nuts do preclude you getting into a stable relationship, one must admit.

:facepalm: My brain is trying to convince me that it would be a good idea to get Edmund to at least check out the Tisroc's fifth/fourth/ *spare* son who wants to be a scholar. Diplomatic overtures, that kind of thing. (I have no idea whether it'll get beyond that stage, and I doubt it'll get anywhere near courtship stage in nano. Plus Bacchus is still doing regular visits.) the problem is this would involve a conversation and the poor boy was raised on all the stories about the Pevensies. Trying to get him or any other Calormene into the same room as Edmund is an effort.

Calormene Ambassador : 'Look, Jerod, I've been at their court for a while now, they only kill traitors. He's not going to stab you for looking at him wrong.'
Jerod : 'How do you know he doesn't view me as a threat to the narnian throne? I could have done something I thought was innocent and it turns out that it means I'm inconvenient? This is Edmund the Just we're talking here!'
Ambassador : 'He's quite pleasant to talk to, really.'
Jerod : 'Spymasters are always pleasant to talk to! It's their job!'
Ambassador : 'Look, he wants to talk to you, do you *want* to be hunted down?'
Jerod : 'I thought father had made explicit instructions to tell you that we had absolutely no designs whatsoever -'
Ambassador : 'On Susan, and she's *married*. She can't get you.'
Jerod : 'Still not reassuring me!'

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, yeah. Although for some reason I really want to write the fic where Peter sleeps with half of London and then he and Edmund get in a really big fight. And this is Warsverse, so it ends in Peter/Edmund. And then I went, huh, wouldn't it be cool if I told this from the POV of one of the men Peter picks up? And then I went, BEDLAM. ACTUAL WRITING TO DO. Then I decided I really wanted to write Peter/Edwina.

*cough* Which I haven't been doing, by the way.

Peter's most stable relationship was with his wife the talking country...which is probably a bad sign, all told.

*snort*

Lucy has kindly informed that she and Tirian are going to be getting together at some point, and Eustace and Jill may or may not be sleeping together. Peter, Edmund, and Susan, on the other hand, were probably involved in various love affairs with each other, which have since been, you know, shot to pieces, but still...

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

LUCY. Do you have no *taste*?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

APPARENTLY NOT.

Well, you know her. She just wants to take care of stray lost puppies...

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

I despair.

Oh, one thing that I didn't get from the Dust post - how long had the Pevensies had been in Narnia when they broke Tirian out of jail? Had they already joined up with the Narnian encampment? And where did they find their weapons if Cair Paravel is under Calormene control?