marie antoinette would throw a fit

[bedlamsbard]

I spend far too much time in this fandom thinking about clothes.

*frowns*

And it's not like checking the movies does all that much good, because one also notes that fashion changes over a fifteen year span, and what we see in the movies tends to be from about the same year, two-year, maybe three-year span -- the Pevensies still have to be able to fit into the clothes that are stored away, which dates them back more than a decade after they left Narnia. Which means that nine years later, in Dust, they'd be wearing something different (chances are, something more "adult", because the tailors in Narnia probably aren't going to be making something very revealing for young Queen Susan at this point in time).

And, okay, yes, fashion drift -- chances are that Narnia gets Archenlander fashions about half a year to a year after Archenland gets them, which means that Narnia tends to be constantly out of fashion. (Seeing as Archenland is the closest all-human country, not counting my lovely warring western states.) Especially since, at least during the first five years or so, Narnia doesn't exactly have a lot of humans. (Later, though, when the nobleborn refugees start coming in, then we get probably get Narnia developing her own fashions. But not at first.)

(I kind of want the missing sccene from PC where Lucy and Susan bitch about wearing clothes fifteen years out of fashion and Edmund dryly points out that, hey, so thirteen hundred years ago. And Peter just kind of blinks and looks like he missed the entire conversation.)

Whoa. Why does Susan have her bow unstrung in her quiver and her bow strung in her hand in this picture? ADAMSON. I DO NOT APPROVE. *checks movie* Okay, that error isn't in the movie, just the picture. AND STILL. Really, Susan should be carrying about fifty more arrows in her quiver, considering how fast she goes through them in combat.

I kind of want to write a Susan and Legolas archery contest. I fear it would not be pretty. (Except on that way shallow level of mine.) (Yes, I have been rewatching LotR. In the sense that I have been watching the fight scenes in FotR. Because. That is what I do when I want to get the salient points of movies. I watch the fight scenes. BECAUSE THEY ROCK. Although Narnia's battles are still better choreographed that LotR's, because in my head Peter is a better general than Theoden, Aragorn, or Denethor. Not that he did much generalling, just a lot of craziness.)

Wait, where was I? Clothes. Yes, clothes. Seriously, I have never spent as much time staring at clothes, weapons, and armor as I have for -- okay, I lie. Spaceforce. Except all of the above are prettier in Narnia than they are currently for the U.S. military. (Spaceforce, a.k.a. the War on Terrorism expands to outer space, because you know those aliens. Also, Bedlam spends far too much time on little details, like: do ABU blouses have zippers or buttons, and also, oh shit, would a pilot even wear ABUs? He'd wear a flightsuit, wouldn't he? But what if he's stationed on an aircraft carrier? Although at this point by aircraft carrier, we mean starcarrier, and yeah, I know, Navy and Marine gig, but technically speaking, space is a USAF thing, so hey, it's USAF, Navy, and Marine pilots on a Navy starcarrier with a Navy crew hauling around Marines and Army Rangers, because in my universe, the military is giving like that. Also, fifteen years into the war, Congress figured the Army should finally get to get out of the sandbox and into the stars and I'll stop talking now because y'all seriously don't care.)

Excuse me. I have to go write Susan seducing interrogating a Calormene soldier and then nearly getting herself killed. Why did I have to look up clothes? I had to go look up how canonically lowcut her dresses are.

...wait, I forgot it was winter. NEVER MIND. THAT WAS FOR NAUGHT. God, Bedlam, try and remember the details of your own story.

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[lyamainu.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

I love you.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I BLAME WETA.

[ghostrunner7.livejournal.com]

I love your crazy. Really I do. It keeps me warm on the long winter nights.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

It keeps me up on the long winter nights.

[ceirseach.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Oh god. Susan vs. Legolas at Helm's Deep? Please? With Susan the Sensible pointing out how ridiculous Gimli and Legolas keeping count is, and btw, shield != skateboard? And incidentally bringing down as many orcs as Legolas does, but, and this is the important thing, staying out of the way of the return fire.

If, that is, she doesn't get hustled off to the caves with all the other women by main force (hello, you're putting weapons in the hands of TEN YEAR OLD BOYS and DECREPIT MEN but not handing bows to the strong young women? yes, yes, i know, while the women and (very young) children survive you've got a chance that you'll survive as a nation rather than being all slaughtered, but. Stupid).

Plus, Peter/Aragorn. Definitely. And yes, Peter does have much more experience in generalling than Aragorn - Aragorn's accustomed to being a lone warrior, and he has to learn about being a leader to more than a small group over the course of the story. Aragorn learns from Peter?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Alas, going by what's said in "Ere Yet We Loose the Legions", Susan would not be at Helm's Deep. *is very sad* Lucy would be, though.

Peter and Aragorn, on the other hand, nearly kill each other. *grins*

[starsimpulse.livejournal.com]

LUCY/LEGOLAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why do i want to pevensies to sleep with EVERYONE? you and lass have given me a DISEASE. today i spent the entirety of work (all eight hours of it) mentally writing immortal!susan/william moseley and then immortal!susan/anna popplewell. which is alot of susan musing about how they are similar to her pevensies, except in all the ways that they are NOT. and skandar and georgie and will all find it slightly disconcerning that anna and susan have some of the same mannerisms, and sometimes they sigh or run thier hands through thier hair at the exact same time, and that they have the same favorite flavor of icecream, and they drink thier coffee the same way, and anna thinks that it's not like seeing your future self at all, it's more like meeting yourself from an alternate universe, and then there is sex. lots of it. so yeah, you have given me your 'thepevensiesneedtosleepwitheveryoneever' diease and i hear it is spreading.

also, i watched the first half of 'fellowship' today (brainwaves, bed!) and it made me inexplicibly happy. god, i've forgotten how much i LOVE those movies.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

LUCY/EOWYN. Also Eowyn's unrequited crush on Peter! And Lucy grins at her and says, "He won't notice, really. Fall for me instead."

Immortal!Susan is just my excuse to write crossovers with EVERYTHING EVER. Mmm, Tony Stark/Susan/Peter.

Peter/Buffy, on the other hand, would just be kind of terrifying.

[starsimpulse.livejournal.com]

LUCY/EOWYN. ACK. I NEED THIS.

OOOOOH. OR AN X-MEN CROSSOVER. SUSAN/LOGAN IS YUMMY.

sadly, i never got into buffy.

did you ever see 'new amsterdam'? susan/john is my immortal-crime-fighter OTP.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I did see New Amsterdam! John/Susan would probably be...kind of scary and kind of interesting. *considers*

And, of course, the inevitable Supernatural crossover, because the only pair of siblings out there crazier than the Winchesters are the Pevensies.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

I thought Dust was a spring fic.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

It is. It is very early spring and/or very late winter; there's still snow on the ground in the west, though not the east.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Remember, Narnian clothes are described as being both beautiful and *comfortable*, so I doubt the fashions change all that much. There's only so much you can do to keep clothes comfortable, while screwing around to be fashionable. Plus, given that there's comparatively few humans in Narnia, and fewer high-ranking ones, I doubt impressing anyone with fashion would matter too much. As long as the clothes were pretty, well-made, and fit right, it'd be good enough...and the more *Narnian* the styles, as opposed to copied from somebody else, the more trend-setting they'd be, or at least inform the viewers that these people don't care what you think.


I always thought the Narnians who packed up the royal chests must have put in several changes of clothes, from different stages of growth...sentimental. Otherwise, where the hell did Lucy's dress come from? She was much taller when she disappeared, and I doubt they have a field sewing kit on them so they could do a little handy hemming on the spot.


As for low-cut dresses, they could have those little camisole-ish under blouse thingies-and they could remove them if they needed to, couldn't they? Say, wear a long-sleeved, high-necked one for warmth, over a gown with a low-cut bodice...then slip it off and be sexy when required, for seduction purposes. Dunno if that's clear. *sighs*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Well, they got a bunch of high-ranking humans from somewhere -- according to HHB, anyway. *flaps hands* And people say I have no connection to book canon whatsoever.

None of them would have been the same size they were when they disappeared. (Actually, for that matter, it doesn't look too much like the boys' styles from the end of LWW match what they were wearing in PC, so there is that. I think, though I'm not sure, that it may be a slightly different style than what Aslan gave them in LWW too. And they're human; they have influences from outside Narnia as well, so there are going to be fashion changes.)