oh, narnia
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bedlamsbardFor some reason I kind of desperately want to write two things:
The Peter/Susan story that takes place immediately prior to Dust, back in England, and I will just copy and paste my comment to Lass, with editing for, uh, capitalization.
The night before Dust begins, back in England, where Susan's idiot boyfriend of the moment, who's a young RAF officer under Peter's command (I think we all know how well this is going to go, but Susan has a bad habit of dating Peter's men, literally and figuratively speaking), has High Classical Ideals, by which we means the Greeks, and who thinks that having your friends kidnap your sweetheart and present them to you is, like, the most romantic thing ever (the Greeks were screwed up, man). So he tells Susan to meet him at this RAF bar in London, and when she's, like, a block away from the bar, three of his friends try to grab her.
One does not try to grab Queen Susan of Narnia, even eight years after the last time someone called her Queen Susan and six years after she started pretending Narnia doesn't exist. because she will kick your ass. And does so, handily, and puts one of the three guys in the hospital when she slashes his face open with a broken beer bottle. It being an RAF bar, and it being the bar that the officers in Peter's unit frequent -- then Peter shows up, punches out a second guy, and then Susan nearly kills the third one. Then the idiot boyfriend shows up, wailing about what she's done and how he was going to propose to her, and oh my god, is she crazy? Serving with Peter was bad enough, but he'd thought she was normal, but he guesses that BLOOD WILL OUT. And Peter throws him up against a wall and puts a knife to his crotch, yelling at him, and Susan manages to pull Peter off, then she slaps the boyfriend around the face and tells him that they are over.
She makes Peter walk her to the bar, at which point they both drink heavily, and then she asks Peter to take her home and Peter says sure, of course, even though they haven't been close since she told him he was mentally unbalanced. He was supposed to meet Edmund, but he leaves a note, and then he takes Susan back to her flat. And then she cries into his shirt a little bit, and then Peter says very soothing things, and then she kisses him, and then they have sex.
And then the next morning Edmund wakes them up by breaking into Susan's flat when nobody answers the door, and he and Peter go off to the train station.
AND the other thing I really suddenly want to write is the flip side of "On a Summer Sunday", which is the next day or so when Edmund and Lune are supposed to be in negotiations. Suffice it to say that Edmund walks in, slams the arrow that nearly killed Susan into the table, drives Peter's longsword in after that, and tells Lune that if he doesn't acquiesce to the terms Narnia wants right the hell now, Peter's army is going to come over the border and raze Anvard to the ground and take Archenland for their own. And if Archenland thinks they can hold out on siege, no such luck: Narnia has the naval power to make sure that no foreign ship enters any Archenland port and no Archenlander ship leaves any port in the Great Eastern Ocean. And Narnia has the political sway to make sure that none of Archenland's other allies help, and that no merchants come over any of her borders. (Some of this is bluffing. Some of this is not.) And the stakes have just been raised: Archenland doesn't get an ell of Narnian land, it doesn't get any of the disputed land, it loses half its army and accepts a permanent Narnian embassy in Anvard at all times, it replies to anything Narnia asks of it, and Narnia takes Corin as ward/hostage.
Edmund is a very convincing negotiator, what can I say?
The Peter/Susan story that takes place immediately prior to Dust, back in England, and I will just copy and paste my comment to Lass, with editing for, uh, capitalization.
The night before Dust begins, back in England, where Susan's idiot boyfriend of the moment, who's a young RAF officer under Peter's command (I think we all know how well this is going to go, but Susan has a bad habit of dating Peter's men, literally and figuratively speaking), has High Classical Ideals, by which we means the Greeks, and who thinks that having your friends kidnap your sweetheart and present them to you is, like, the most romantic thing ever (the Greeks were screwed up, man). So he tells Susan to meet him at this RAF bar in London, and when she's, like, a block away from the bar, three of his friends try to grab her.
One does not try to grab Queen Susan of Narnia, even eight years after the last time someone called her Queen Susan and six years after she started pretending Narnia doesn't exist. because she will kick your ass. And does so, handily, and puts one of the three guys in the hospital when she slashes his face open with a broken beer bottle. It being an RAF bar, and it being the bar that the officers in Peter's unit frequent -- then Peter shows up, punches out a second guy, and then Susan nearly kills the third one. Then the idiot boyfriend shows up, wailing about what she's done and how he was going to propose to her, and oh my god, is she crazy? Serving with Peter was bad enough, but he'd thought she was normal, but he guesses that BLOOD WILL OUT. And Peter throws him up against a wall and puts a knife to his crotch, yelling at him, and Susan manages to pull Peter off, then she slaps the boyfriend around the face and tells him that they are over.
She makes Peter walk her to the bar, at which point they both drink heavily, and then she asks Peter to take her home and Peter says sure, of course, even though they haven't been close since she told him he was mentally unbalanced. He was supposed to meet Edmund, but he leaves a note, and then he takes Susan back to her flat. And then she cries into his shirt a little bit, and then Peter says very soothing things, and then she kisses him, and then they have sex.
And then the next morning Edmund wakes them up by breaking into Susan's flat when nobody answers the door, and he and Peter go off to the train station.
AND the other thing I really suddenly want to write is the flip side of "On a Summer Sunday", which is the next day or so when Edmund and Lune are supposed to be in negotiations. Suffice it to say that Edmund walks in, slams the arrow that nearly killed Susan into the table, drives Peter's longsword in after that, and tells Lune that if he doesn't acquiesce to the terms Narnia wants right the hell now, Peter's army is going to come over the border and raze Anvard to the ground and take Archenland for their own. And if Archenland thinks they can hold out on siege, no such luck: Narnia has the naval power to make sure that no foreign ship enters any Archenland port and no Archenlander ship leaves any port in the Great Eastern Ocean. And Narnia has the political sway to make sure that none of Archenland's other allies help, and that no merchants come over any of her borders. (Some of this is bluffing. Some of this is not.) And the stakes have just been raised: Archenland doesn't get an ell of Narnian land, it doesn't get any of the disputed land, it loses half its army and accepts a permanent Narnian embassy in Anvard at all times, it replies to anything Narnia asks of it, and Narnia takes Corin as ward/hostage.
Edmund is a very convincing negotiator, what can I say?
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Date: 2008-12-04 06:10 am (UTC)So awesome.
*flails*
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Date: 2008-12-04 06:12 am (UTC)but if it's only the next day, how exactly does he get the arrow that nearly killed susan and peter's longsword?
eitherway, BADASS PEVENSIES FTW!
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Date: 2008-12-04 06:18 am (UTC)Although. Not in the chapter I'm working on currently. *sigh*
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Date: 2008-12-04 06:20 am (UTC)He sent the initial message with a talking bird; the rest of it came a few hours later.
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Date: 2008-12-04 06:31 am (UTC)i initually thought it would be something like that, but i didn't realize they were so close, so i thought it would take longer to get the news. *shrug*
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Date: 2008-12-04 06:38 am (UTC)The Aerial Corps is, like, my favorite deus ex machina ever. AND YET. We have canonical precedent.
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Date: 2008-12-04 06:52 am (UTC)*draws little hearts around your name*
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Date: 2008-12-04 01:11 pm (UTC)Susan and Peter : the family that's psycho together, shags together. And Peter wasn't already *used* to Susan calling him mentally unbalanced when they were in Narnia previously?
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Date: 2008-12-04 01:18 pm (UTC)Considering if you can march all day and night at speed you can get an army from one end of the country to the other in a few days...
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Date: 2008-12-04 03:23 pm (UTC)Wait, I have a more logical reason for this, so far as Dust goes: if Narnia is all that much smaller, then it doesn't seem like it would make much sense for the Calormenes not to have subdued the rebel parts of the north and the west yet, considering the fact that the Calormenes have considerable experience with this sort of thing. I mean, I could probably be convinced otherwise, though. It would require me to rewatch LWW and PC and figure out which landmarks I can pick out, since the filmmakers occasionally thought of this. *blinks innocently*
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Date: 2008-12-04 04:25 pm (UTC)giggles
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Date: 2008-12-04 04:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-04 04:50 pm (UTC)Yes, well, when they were in Narnia previously, Susan wasn't calling him crazy because he was starting to believe his "delusions", she was calling him crazy because he was always trying to get himself killed for the greater glory of Narnia. The Pevensie breakup in the Warsverse was just a horrible mess that ended very badly for everyone involved -- Susan was really, really brutal, and Edmund and Lucy were brutal back, and Peter was in the hospital and pretty banged up and drugged up, so he doesn't know everything that went down, but he knows it was serious. (This was right after he started test-flying planes, and one of them crashed, and is also the time he had back surgery.)
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Date: 2008-12-04 04:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-04 07:06 pm (UTC)NEGOTIATION TACTICS. between your edmund's hardass military strategizing and my edmund's designs for total economic subjugation of all the lands and far-distant isles, we will RULE THE WORRRRRLD
archenlanders! speaking of which (sort of), i have reached new levels of gratuituousness, with our AU.
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Date: 2008-12-04 07:14 pm (UTC)except when giants are ordered to crush it out by some lion
ARCHENLAND. speaking of which, must bring archenland into dust. peter, tirian, and eustace are pretending to be archenlanders! this is going to go so badly because peter still harbors grudges from ten years of war with archenland.
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