because at this point, i'm curious what'll come up

[bedlamsbard]

Snagged from scarletts_awry. Fandom preference here is Narnia.

Name three fics you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return (and if inspired), I will attempt to write a snippet of one of them.

ETA: Snippets will be in a later post.

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[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

1) 'Merlin' fic.
2) Epic badfic (spelling and grammar optional)
3) Peter has no idea how to run a kingdom or win a battle. Wait, though, that could plausibly be right after LWW, while he's still learning the ropes and now I really wanna see your take on young!King!Peter! *puppy eyes*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

1. So the Narnia crossover doesn't count, then?
2. HA! I like my brain in one piece, thanks.
3. I have written young!Peter, actually! Said story just has not seen the light of the Internet because one, it has severe structual problems, and, two, I may have fucked with the Warsverse timeline since I wrote it, so now it's misplaced, timeline-wise. (This would be "Till Human Voices Wake Us", the story about Narnia's worst military loss in the entire Golden Age, where Peter got a third of his army and very nearly himself slaughtered. Here, I shall quote, and then I shall write you Merlin later.

“Silence!” he yells, when there’s nothing left but the screams. “SILENCE!” His voice cracks on the second syllable, which is neither kingly or general-like, and he curses himself silently and wishes for the day when his command voice will actually sound commanding, instead of a boy playing dress-up.

It takes a few minutes for the screams to die down to muffled sobs, and in those few minutes Peter hears his own breath torn from his throat, ragged and gasping and raw with fear he chokes down on. Someone relights one of the extinguished torches, and he’s suddenly aware of the mist before his eyes; he tugs off one gauntlet to wipe them clear. His fingers come away the almost-black of blood in faint torchlight, and wet.

“Your majesty?” his second says quietly.

“How many people have we lost?” Peter asks, because there’s no way that didn’t come with casualties. “How deep –”

His aides pass the question back through the army; as they do so, the mountain grumbles again over them and Peter forces down blind panic. There is still a part of him that screams, but I’m only a kid!

“No,” he whispers to himself. “No, you are the High King of Narnia, and by God you will act like it.”

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

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[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

dude, dude, screw the timeline, whatevs to the timeline, this fic is gooooooood shit.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

i may have figured out how to fix the structural problems, though. although they lead to completely different structural problems and also require me to write bits from susan and edmund's pov. i just don't want to throw all of peter's pov out there, you know? 'cause then it kind of feels like it's lacking something. like a story.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

structural problems like what? i thought all you needed to more to write was about edmund burning out the caves and everyone being all, "well that sucked," but they are kings and queens so they move on 'cos they've got a country to rule?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

well, i think i want to tell three separate stories: peter's, in the caves; susan's, when they're in the caves looking for the army; and edmund's, afterwards when peter's in his coma (this is when he burns out the caves). and maybe lucy as framing, when they bring her in to use her cordial on peter. problem is working it all together into one coherent whole. oh, and writing the other three parts. that bit's important too.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

bedlam: "BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!!"

oh you. <3

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

HORRIBLE DISEASE. no, because i can't just leave it the way it is, it feels incomplete. i don't know; this is the only idea i have. the other option is cutting out peter's pov entirely and telling the entire story from edmund's pov, so we never know exactly what went down in the caves, but i like the peter pov.