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[bedlamsbard]

Oh, AWESOME. Looking back at LB to check such trivial details as how Jewel addresses Tirian, I find just how much stuff I've written (a.k.a. DEATH BY EXPOSITION) is contradicted by, you know, the actual text.

I, uh. I really like the backstory I came up with. *stares at ceiling* Perhaps Lantern Waste's location has changed in sixteen hundred years. (Also a wrong date, but hey, this one's understandable: he says two hundred years since Rilian died, so it could probably be three hundred years since PC, if Caspian reigned for ages and ages and Rilian ruled for an age and a half or so.)

(Tirian's eyes, apparently? BLUE. Not green, then. Although, heh, movieverse, which contradicts bookverse in about a million different ways.)

(Also, Tirian in the books? Even more of an idiot than Tirian in Dust. And I'm working damn hard to make Tirian actually competent, and no wonder.)

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[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Book!Tirian barely had any personality, actually...his function was to *be* the last king of Narnia. If he'd been tougher and stronger, then there would have been no "last battle", unless Aslan just stood up and said, "Fuck it, I'm done!" and rolled things up without any pretense at reason or necessity...er, almost like canon.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, lord, yes. I mean, that's how he's introduced. Lewis is all, "and this was the last of the kings of Narnia!"

I am giving my Tirian a personality if it kills me. Which it damn well may do.

Agh, I have sentient!Narnia in Dust because seriously, how else are people actually going to realize he's the High King? And now I feel like I'm just repeating "The Bone's Prayer," because it's basically the same thing without the torture. I mean, it's not, because it's Peter and not Edmund, but ARGH.