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[bedlamsbard]

...okay, Be Like Water is supposed to be going to a Peta/Caspian place, not a Peta/Edmund place. Or Peta/Caspian/Edmund. WHAT IS WITH THE CASUAL KISSING, PETA? I mean, you could at least extend it to Susan, here. (You guys have no idea how much subtext I lost because Susan treats Peta differently than Peter. I only realized it when I bumped up against a scene where I'd have Susan kiss Peter on the cheek but not Peta, and my fingers kind of stumbled over the keyboard. lassiterfics, I think you may have reset my default setting to "Subtext! Subtext everywhere! Pevencest! Subtext!")

I fear that Susan is not going to be down for the casual kissing in public, though, alas. Although it's not really public; the only other person in the hallway is Caspian, and he and Peta were just making out. Obviously her answer to Edmund walking in is to plant one on him.

Caspian? Very confused, as per usual. These are mixed signals he doesn't understand!



He falls asleep, or thinks he does, because the next thing he knows is Trumpkin shaking him awake. Caspian’s hand closes on his sword-hilt, the blade unsheathed across his lap, before he recognizes the dwarf, and he croaks, “Peta –”

From beside Trumpkin Queen Susan is all pale skin, dark hair, and big eyes; for some reason, in the pale light of early dawn, she looks surprisingly like her sister. “She’s alive,” she says, cradling Peta against her shoulder. “She’s lost a lot of blood. We have to get her back to Lucy now.”

Caspian can’t see what Lucy will be able to do for Peta, but getting her back to the How is a better option that leaving her here to die. He gets up slowly, every muscle in his body aching, and sheathes his sword before reaching for Peta.

Queen Susan gives him an alarmed look, but relinquishes her hold on her sister and lets Caspian lift her up in his arms, Peta’s head lolling slackly against his shoulder. It’s only Susan, Trumpkin, and two horses in the wood; Susan says, absently, “Thank Aslan, I was afraid –” and stops abruptly as she leans down to pick up Peta’s fallen sword, curling her long fingers around the hilt awkwardly.

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[starsimpulse.livejournal.com]

i, for one, am sooooooo down for peta/edmund or caspain/peta/edmund. though i'm more partial for peta/edmund. *shug* i also suscribe to peta-gives-out-free-kisses-to-everyone inclueding susan and lucy. on that note, let us all take a moment to mourn the loss of peta/susan subtext. because, seriously, they would be the hottest femmeslashy pairing ever. this sentence
Queen Susan is all pale skin, dark hair, and big eyes; for some reason, in the pale light of early dawn, she looks surprisingly like her sister
pretty much convinced me of it.
idk why. but seriously, just think about it. ohmygod. actually, i lied. peta/susan/lucy would be the hottest pairing ever. in fact, my brain exploded from the hottness, just thinking about it.

and... i totally just lost my train of thought. the snippet is lovely by the way. OH, SUSAN. *clutches* even with out the subtext, i'm really enjoying peta's and susan's relationship, which is saying alot because she's unconscious in this scene. and peta's caspain is so competant, i really like him.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

And this is supposed to be the OTP story, not the mess of subtext everywhere that Dust is. *facepalm* I know that there was Peta/Edmund on and off during the course of the Golden Age, and at this point, I would be highly surprised if there hadn't been Peta/Susan and Peta/Lucy. OH PEVENSIES.

The Peta/Susan relationship is kind of fascinating here, and I haven't quite figured out exactly why, because it's so different than the Peter/Susan relationship. It's much more CO/2IC than Warsverse Peter and Susan, where it tends to be Peter and Edmund in the CO/2IC positions. Here, I think, Edmund and Susan split it.

Caspian has to be competent; he's trying to impress a girl. *grin*

[lyamainu.livejournal.com]

Yay for threesomes!

Actually, one of these days I want a Caspian/Peta/Edmund/Lucy/Susan.

Maybe all at once, maybe not.

*sigh*

I remember a time (before Dune and Narnia) when 'cest and slash were BIG no-nos in my book.

WHERE HAS MY INNOCENCE GONE????

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

My innocence died out in HP. Which explains everything right there, really, if you know anything about HP fandom at all.

I will admit that there, uh, may be Peta/Peter/Warsverse!Edmund.

[lyamainu.livejournal.com]

See, I managed to avoid all that by staying firmly in the Harry/Ginny& Ron/Hermione camps.

:p

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Dippet/Giant Squid. I SAY NO MORE.

My OTPs were James/Sirius (THIS is where my love of doomed pairings came from, I think), Draco/Hermione (this was the first; it later changed), and Harry/Draco.

[lyamainu.livejournal.com]

Never much liked Draco/Hermione - I just never saw how they fit together. I did read the odd Draco/Ginny though.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE WELCOME

but i totally feel you on different character motivations in different arcs thing! i've been working on the calormen fic, and writing goldenage!susan through goldenage!edmund is weird. it's not the susan i usually write. edmund is critical and calculating, and develops his own agenda, and susan is... less womanly and more girlish? i also have a feeling bookverse!susan is influencing me somehow.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Things that screw with my head: writing Golden Age Peter&Edmund in Crosstree/Grail, writing PC era Petaverse Pevensies in Water (and the Petaverse is so different, you have no idea), writing LB era Pevensies in Dust, writing Golden Age Peter&Edmund and post-PC Caspian in Old Timber, writing post-LWW Golden Age Pevensies in Human Voices, and writing PC era Peter/Caspian in Legend. Which more or less covers the entire epoch right there. *twitches*

They're just all in such different places!

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

what is Legend? you're writing more peter/caspian?

oh, and thing. i was looking at crosstree/grail again today and since the beginning is edmund-heavy, maybe should we move the feast scene (one i wrote that starts with edmund observing morgana) to be part of the banquet in the middle scene?

what are your thoughts on crosstree grail's general state actually.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

"A Legend's Not a Legend Till It Ends", which is a horribly pretentious title, but it's the Peter POV of "Once More For the Ages."

I don't know, I think we need that particular observation fairly early, but I could be wrong.

It is in progress! *twitches* I'll try and get it to you tonight. I rewrote the Peter POV after the hunt to make it smoother and, uh, added about 300 words, but I'll get to the rest later.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

oh hey no rush, i was just curious about what you thought about the Big Picture.

man, i remember peter/caspian... those days are so long ago...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

sorry, i was, like, on my way out the door, so my observation came out vaguely panicked. er. i kind of feel that we need one of the "merlin" characters' povs earlier on, since the beginning is waited heavily towards narnia (because, uh, we are us). actually, i think we may want to weight the middle/end towards some neutrality, rather than straight peter/arthur conflict. more edmund there, maybe? i am kind of feeling an "edmund sneaks around" vibe. and i want a gaius pov, maybe.

*haunted expression* i am writing peta/caspian. it's at the forefront of my mind. shortly followed by peter/susan in dust.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

i agree with more 'merlin' POVs earlier on. more arthur, i think. maybe one after the first '+', and arthur can be like, "yeah have to go meet some kings from buttfuck nowhere whoopee NOT". or something, i dunno. flirting with morgana, or giving merlin a hard time. there's not so much arthur for a peter/arthur so far. i feel like i want peter and arthur sizing up each other more. and what's edmund going to do when he skulks around?

and i don't know what about edmund's morgana-observation-part we need early on that we can't move it to the banquet scene. also i feel that by that part, we've had enough contemplation and introduction and can just go straight in for more action. it would also keep the beginning from being so edmund-heavy. i expect this fic to not go over 20 pages, and 20 pages may even be a wee bit much.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

i kind of want gaius walking in on edmund waiting for him in his lab, but i don't know where that would be going.

i've got arthur pov now, but i'm not really sure where it's going. i may just stop in the middle of the scene and send it over. (hi. i am the worst co-writer ever. i stop and i stare and i twitch and i push it away from me in a flurry of pages! virtual pages, that is.)