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

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

excuse me, must cheer you on. Yay Osumare! EEE! Eustace the pacifist! Someone else remembers that he's still going to have a bunch of ingrained!

My brain is currently trying to decide who gets to have this conversation:

Telmarine courtier : 'your majesty, you should be aware that someone has been spreading vile rumours of lying with the more bestial Narnians.' (the rumours are about Edmund)
_insert pevensie here_ :'Oh, really?'
Telmarine courtier : 'Your majesty, you do not understand the seriousness of the situation, it is against all the laws of man -'
Pevensie : And perhaps you should remember that you are now subject to Narnian law and practice, as is everyone in this country.'
Telmarine courtier : 'I know the law of equality amongst races, but this is - to lie with the cloven-footed -'
Pevensie : 'During our previous reign my sister Lucy's consort was a faun. Would you like to tell her this?'

Still trying to decide which sibling he's talking to, because it makes a difference in emotional reaction. Dammit. Oh god, the sheer bloody headaches I'm going to have from Narnians vs. Telmarines alone...

You're so right in that Caspian's court was still probably mostly human.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Eustace thinks he knows the Pevensies. HE HAS NO IDEA. Especially Peter and Edmund and Susan and Lucy...okay, all of them, whatever. Peter because he has himself all confused over whether Peter was crazy before he went to war or not, and Susan because he's never seen Susan as Queen Susan Heartsbane -- Susan! His cousin Susan! Killing people! -- and Edmund because he thinks the Edmund he knew on the Dawn Treader is the same person as King Edmund Silvertongue, and he's never seen Edmund and Peter interacting the way they usually do, and Lucy -- well, here we are with Lucy Stoneheart, baby. QUEEN LUCY. Bring it on, seriously. (Also, the age thing is hilarious, you have no idea how much this cracks me up. Although it does make me want to hit Lewis over the head a couple times.)

Osumare gets blamed for everything. He may have been the one to deflower Peter, but he didn't teach him everything! Peter's lovers got named off somewhere...

*snort* Probably Susan or Peter, and chances are it's Peter, because the Telmarines are pretty misogynistic and Peter is the Voice of Authority, and I kind of bet they still have problems with the concept of multiple kings.

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

Why noooooot? *whines like Eustace* *realises perhaps this is not the best way to convince you* *smiles sheepishly*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Because all the Pevencest is going to be implied and not outright stated! Perhaps the rest of the snark will make it in, though.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

*Is amused*

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

Eustace crack me up. He has no idea who his cousins are, does he?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

No. No, he really doesn't. He thinks he does -- but he's so, so wrong.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

oh, the schizo. Has Eustace ever seen Susan ever being more than the perfectly turned-out party girl? And then you get the hard-faced cool warrior queen who's calmly doing full-on guerilla fighter.

Lucy : sweet, perpetually slightly naive optimist (I presume she played mostly useless in your VotD? CS Lewis. STABBITY.) who wants to be a nurse because she want to help people, still the baby of the family when he knew her. And then he meets the still perpetually cheery girl who's slitting throats as she whistles a happy tune and says 'well of course he's going to kill him, what did you think he was going to do?' Plus the filthy jokes about peter's sex life. She's the one who tends to go 'Osumare. :cough: Osumare.' (was osumare an on-off thing throughout the years or just a brief affair?)

Edmund : Well, he knew him as organised and calm and the one who tends to keep a cool head, but... Edmund was still in civvy street mode. Not to mention PC film! Edmund is already a hundred times more competent than book! VotD Edmund. It doesn't quite prepare you for Edmund Silvertongue.

Oh yeah. So many bloody problems. There's the fight in the army camp, it's still disturbing me that it's the Calormenes of all people who understand them and know how to handle them best.

[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...

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

OMG ILU THAT IS AMAZINGLY HILARIOUS. XD

....And I'm a little confused with this bit of your 'verse where Edmund is getting shot at. Meta, please?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Finally, seven years of fannish one liners have paid off... *grin*

Edmund, with the army (National Service, which continued going on after the end of the war for men), was stationed in Malaya (http://britains-smallwars.com/malaya/index.html) in 1948-49 (I'm not sure exactly when he got shipped back home; I have to check what the policies are for injuries). So was Peter, with the RAF. I don't actually know everything that happened, but Edmund got shot, and Peter happened to be on the ground at Edmund's base when they brought him in. I think we can say this ended badly; we know these two. It'll come up more later in the story, hopefully.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Hahha, nice.

It had better come up later. I WANT TO SEE THE POLISHED VERSION. Also, *points up*, is this going to end up in Dust? I seriously hope so. :D After Edmund wakes up, o' course.

[franceica.livejournal.com]

Now! This is too good to be not there! Even just for the sibling snark and Eustace confusion.

Oh Eustace. He doesn't know the people around him at all. And he's going to be either confused, dumbfounded, frightened, exasperated, freak out, or all of them. I have to say my sympathy goes to him. *cough*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Peter and Edmund's war experience in Burma and Malaya will be referenced in "Dust", yes. And the above may or may not end up in "Dust" -- well, parts of it, anyway, I'm keeping the incest to subtext and not text. *grin*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

We shall see what kind of wacky circumstances these kids get up to. Although you know me and my sibling snark; I loves it muchly.

Eustace is going to be so, so confused, because he thinks he knows the Pevensies -- but he really doesn't. At all. AT ALL.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Referenced only? *Sigh* Well, one day, I hope to see a more fleshed out version.

Subtext is good. :D

[franceica.livejournal.com]

This is going to be fun. Wacky circumstances and sibling snark will always be fun!

he thinks he knows the Pevensies -- but he really doesn't.

*nods* He has no idea. Or maybe he does. I mean know the Pevensies. He just doesn't know High King Peter Bittersteel, King Edmund Silvertongue, Queen Susan Heartsbane and Queen Lucy Stoneheart. He knows their Pevensie masks. He just doesn't know what actually lie beneath. *snickers*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Too much research! The closest we will get to fleshed out is that we may, and I say may, get a flashback -- but that's dependent on me doing a Peter POV, and I'm not sure if I'm doing one or not.

Everybody loves subtext!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Although. I should probably figure out what the hell is going on; that might be a plus.

And Eustace thinks he knows Edmund and Lucy at least because he saw them on the Dawn Treader -- but those were controlled circumstances, and they weren't in their element. This, Narnia, wars and treachery and conquest -- this is what they were made for and what they know inside and out. And as for Peter and Susan -- he knows Lieutenant Peter Pevensies, the quiet, cocky RAF pilot who drinks too much and doesn't talk to people. He knows Susan, who's always a little too made up and whose laugh is always a little too hard; he knows the girl who walked away from Narnia, or the girl he thinks walked away from Narnia.

Now that's going to be a shock.

[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?